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In this exhibition, the Rupertinum presents the wittiest, most astonishing and most illuminating responses from Vaske\u2019s collection. In doing so, we learn: What triggers creativity? What drives our world forward? But also: creativity has two sides. For it is precisely those things that are actually intended to stifle inventiveness \u2013 such as censorship, bans or compromises \u2013 that sometimes give rise to the most ingenious ideas. In the audiovisual section of the exhibition, Hermann Vaske speaks with the greatest artists of our time: Marina Abramovi\u0107, Vivienne Westwood, David Hockney, Georg Baselitz, Bj\u00f6rk, Lilith Stangenberg, Blixa Bargeld, Jeff Koons, Zaha Hadid, Yoko Ono, Oliviero Toscani, Christo, Damien Hirst, Jim Jarmusch, Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel, Shirin Neshat, David Bowie and many more. He asks them: What sparks your creativity? And what stifles it? The answers revolve around themes such as spirituality, sex, money, fear, background and ambition \u2013 but also around censorship, self-censorship, bureaucracy and compromise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Are You Creative? By Hermann Vaske<\/strong><br>23.10.2026 \u2013 30.05.2027<br>Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum<br>Wiener-Philharmoniker-Gasse 9<br>5020 Salzburg<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumdermoderne.at\/\">www.museumdermoderne.at<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23.10.2026 \u2013 30.05.2027 For over 30 years, Hermann Vaske has been asking the world\u2019s most creative minds the same question: \u201cWhy Are You Creative?\u201d More than 1,000 people have replied \u2013 some with sentences, many with drawings or artefacts, some briefly, others at greater length, some very personally, others bizarrely. 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