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Basic Gesture | Visual Movement | Motif of the Beethoven ART TOUR

10 February 2026 | Johannes Gärtner (Dresden)

Basic Gesture | Visual Movement | Motif of the Beethoven ART TOUR 1796 | 2026
by Johannes Gärtner (Dresden)

  • How can I be a strong self in the storm of time? A Europe of strong individuals.
  • Freedom and Humanism / Humanity - possibly include Ulrike Geurreot?
  • Crossing boundaries.
  • Error culture - what can a resource-conserving error culture look like today?
  • What can, what may the individual do in society?
  • Violence to the Kingdom of Heaven – Freedom and Creativity – Prometheus
  • What does man choose?
  • What are Beethoven's ideals?
  • Want to have friends, not be or have teachers - do I want to participate or do I just want to confirm myself?
  • Freedom and Opportunism?
  • How does the idea speak to us?
  • Conditio humana told through Beethoven - the different gestures of the sonatas and symphonies
  • The Veiled Image of Saïs – what veil separates us from our ideals? Woe to him who lifts the veil of Europe without being ready for a togetherness of strong individuals.
  • Where do ideologies lead?
  • Wandering through time.
  • The musical fool - Beethoven's Parsifal story.
  • The individual against society. The self and its limits.
  • The consequences of his actions pale against the power of the search - what does the story tell: The results or the search?
  • The result: The laureate receives his prize for his search.
  • The self in the prison of internal and external constraints.
  • Beethoven managed to shift the resistance, through which a self is experienced, so far into the mind that it began to resonate within him. This is how his music was created.
  • Composing only as an inner process, free from external impressions – the foliage parallel to the blindness of Theresias. Beethoven as a deaf Theresias.
  • Nautilus as a spiral to the world – the tangible ear - Logo of the tour?
  • What standard do we use: quantity and measurability or quality and ideality? What opens up the world to us?
  • The tree of life from the Beethoven root: We navigate through fundamental human experiences through all four Beethoven seasons and show the search of the self in society for itself.
(Logo idea sketch | Copyright: Esteban von Wilhelm)