Under the curatorial guidance of Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel (Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art Rotterdam), the artists will be creating new works for the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Stiftung. They are to be representative positions of a comprehensive group exhibition that the curators have developed as a contribution to the Brussels Biennial 2008. The Biennial addresses different aspects of modernism and makes direct reference to the Brussels World’s Fair in 1958. The point of departure is the assumption that the end of the modern era is marked by a lack of any great inspiring narratives – in other words, knowledge and the resulting actions are no longer legitimized by great narratives but by the individual, who constructs his own frame of reference. This gives rise to a multitude of values and truths which are characteristic of the end of the modern age. For the exhibition at the Ursula Blickle Foundation, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Florian Waldvogel have selected two artists (Bircken/Denny) who explore the difference between narrative and scientific knowledge.