It's worth taking a look through the gate at the cemetery, which is much quieter than all the other parts of the Central Cemetery.
Victoria Coeln: 'The language of light offers the magnificent possibility of confronting the threatening, the shadows and the blurred, with the bright, the warm, the hopeful. Can the language of light transform antagonisms, tensions, memories, and even pain into beauty?'
"It's worth considering an aspect of Victoria Coeln's work that seems out of step with the times in current art discourse, yet possesses great relevance: beauty. Is art allowed to be beautiful today? Is beauty a value? 'I believe beauty gives one support, it protects or spares one,' writes Nobel laureate Herta Müller. For her, beauty is linked to democracy and freedom, while totalitarian systems misuse it as a danger and its deprivation as a medium of oppression: 'The ugly equality weighs on the soul, makes one apathetic and undemanding; that's what they wanted." "The state." This leads to a conclusion that is relevant today: art not only may be beautiful, it must be. A requirement that the Viennese Lichtblicke (Bright Spots) live up to on first, second, and subsequent glances." (Heike Sütter)