The Museum is open 12:00 – 20:00
Cinema is closed now
The Museum is open 12:00 – 20:00
Cinema is closed now
Performance
The Fable of the Bees
Admission
Free admission made possible by the Audi brand.
Location
Workshop space C
Event as part of the exhibition
The Cynics Republic – Plac Defilad
Sergei Tcherepnin 2024
In his famous Fable of the Bees, 18th century philosopher Bernard Mandeville described a community of bees to expound his thesis that it is not individual virtue that serves the common good, but rather vices, pleasure and decadence. His scandalous proposition led to a lasting controversy that influenced philosophers and economists (both supporters and detractors of Mandeville) including Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes.
By Pamelia Stickney, Elisabeth Flunger, Philipp Quehenberger, Artjom Astrov, Michaela Kisling, on a libretto by Pierre Bal-Blan.