Fear appears to be booming (again). We cultivate, celebrate and instrumentalize it more than ever. It is obvious that the awareness of our era is not insignificantly characterized by the knowledge of the dangers from which we are constantly under threat: damage to the environment on an apocalyptic scale, religious fanaticism, drugs, terror, violence, economic crises and privacy risks. There is already talk of a renewed “age of fear”, like that proclaimed in the middle of the last century – in light of the Cold War and the nuclear threat that came with it. Reason enough to approach the phenomenon of fear in its omnipresence from various different perspectives. HELDENREIZER undertook an experiment and brought together for several days eight selected young artists and representatives of art history, musicology and philosophy in the Abbey of Weltenburg. In presentations, discussions and conversations, they explored in depth the levels, dimensions and mechanisms of fear and its role within the arts. The exhibition ANGST, comprising works from artists Alessandro Bostelmann, Andreana Dobreva, Sebastian Gallschütz, Sebastian Maas, Tom Messavilla, Tibor Pogonyi, Eunji Seo and Chen Yuhao, is a direct response to this singular event and the insights gained from it. With contributions by Hubertus Günther, Verena Bestle-Hofmann, Andrew Hopkins, Magdalena Zorn and Karsten Thiel.weiterlesen