Exhibition
Franz Kafka. I’m a Cage in Search of a Bird

3 Exhibitions ‧ 3 Perspectives

Tue, 02.07.2024 -
Tue, 06.08.2024
Goethe-Gallery, Black Box Studio, Library

100 years have gone by since the passing of Franz Kafka on 3rd June 1924, yet readers all around the world still can’t get enough of this mysterious writer.

2024 marks the 100th anniversary of Kafka’s death, Goethe-Institut Hongkong and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic of Hong Kong takes this opportunity to reflect on Kafka’s life and his works through a comprehensive poster exhibition. A newly developed video game inviting players to enter the enigmatic literary world of Kafka will also be presented.
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The poster exhibitions:

1. Completely Kafka

For the Kafka anniversary year 2024, the Goethe-Institut, in cooperation with the Literaturhaus Stuttgart, is showing the poster exhibition Komplett Kafka. 

The exhibition is based on the comic biography Komplett Kafka by Nicolas Mahler and the exhibition concept of the Literaturhaus Stuttgart. 

Franz Kafka not only wrote prose, he was also passionate about drawing. His drawing once gave him ‘more satisfaction than anything else’. So what could be more fitting than to honour him with a comic biography to mark his anniversary? Especially one by Nicolas Mahler, who has a similarly minimalist drawing style? Mahler presents Kafka's life and works in an inimitably witty and pointed manner. (suhrkamp.de)

2. A Man of His and Our Time

A poster exhibition on Kafka with illustrations by the leading Czech illustrator Renáta Fučíková, complemented by texts and records of Kafka’s life written by Radek Malý, a celebrated poet, translator and Germanist from the Czech Republic.
 

3. Franz Kafka and Prague

Curated by the Franz Kafka Society of Prague, the poster exhibition “Franz Kafka and Prague” consists of photographs and documents featuring the connection between Franz Kafka and Prague, the city he lived in.

THE GAME - Playing Kafka

Although you did nothing wrong, you were arrested one morning. You arrived for work, but you don’t recognize your assistants. And your upbringing left you with a pervasive sense of guilt. Welcome to Playing Kafka, an adventure about the alienation of modern society as well as unresolved family issues. The game adapts three works of the famously absurdist writer and was created with leading Kafka experts.