TalkThursday, 26 November 2026, 6 PMSimon Mraz, art historian, curator and long-time director of the Austrian Cultural Forum in Moscow, discusses how the Russian art scene has changed over the past decades.
A man vanishes. Left behind are billions, unanswered questions, traces leading to intelligence services, and a face that has travelled around the world.
The exhibition approaches the figure of Jan Marsalek not through the classic wanted poster, but through a play with identity, disguise and projection. Its starting point is one of the most spectacular corporate scandals in recent European history: the collapse of Wirecard and the disappearance of its former board member Jan Marsalek. Since then, the manager has become an almost fictional figure. He is wanted internationally, he is the subject of espionage investigations, and he is a projection screen for ever-new stories about where he might be, who he might be and whom he might be connected to.
This is where the works begin.