WIEN MUSEUM - Angelo Soliman

Angelo Soliman came to fame posthumously when being treated as object of science. However, he is also considered as the first successful migrant to Vienna.

"Soliman is the first non-European migrant in Vienna whose life is sufficiently well documented that we can discover something of him personally. Nonetheless, the borders between fact and anecdote remain fluid, and his life can be viewed from varying perspectives: Soliman as mere curiosity or successful immigrant, as eternal slave or rising member of the bourgeoisie, as role model or martyr." (Wien Museum)


29. September 2011 to 29. January 2012
Wien Museum Karlsplatz


Team: Holger Reichert, Eva Pell, Matthias Smycka, Alexander Wieser, Peter Gstach, Christian Waldhofer

Commissioned by Wien Museum