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This concept serves as an exercise in imagination that explores the potential and limits of empathy \u2013 drawing on the shared experience that we were all once children ourselves. In terms of spatial environment, scale and precariousness, the figure of the child embodies a state of being in which invisibility is often experienced with full force. Accordingly, in the exhibition, Tolia Astakhishvili focuses her attention on the experience of art itself, which unfolds through movement and touch and consciously breaks away from the conventions of museum presentation. The idea of the \u2018first encounter\u2019, as children experience it in their initial encounter with a phenomenon, forms the key to a new way of experiencing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tolia Astakhishvili &#8211; Figure of the Child<\/strong><br>20.06.2026 \u2013 01.11.2026<br>mumok<br>Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mumok.at\/\">www.mumok.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20.06.2026 \u2013 01.11.2026 The first solo museum exhibition by the Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili takes the \u2018figure of the child\u2019 as its starting point. In this context, the child represents a being of great intellectual and creative autonomy who is, at the same time, heavily dependent on other people. 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