

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: OPENING: PETER KIRUSHA | Der Zauberberg Revisited
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 09:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Curator's Statement 
by Kirill Kobrin: 

At the height of summer, an utterly unremarkable young man set out from Hamburg, his native city, for Davos in the canton of Graubünden. He was going there for three weeks to visit someone. His name was Hans Castorp, and his destination was the Berghof tuberculosis sanatorium, where his cousin Joachim Ziemssen, a cavalry officer, was among the several dozen patients under the care of Hofrat Behrens and Dr. Krokowski. Those three weeks stretch into years — so many that Castorp loses count. He, too, becomes a patient. With a mixture of fascination and revulsion, he throws himself into the routine of the sanatorium’s inhabitants: eating a lot, drinking a lot, desiring a lot, and, above all, talking endlessly. In fact, Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg, 1924) consists almost entirely of conversation—for what else is there to do for a consumptive anticipating death? For yes, at the Berghof, they die. Many of them. Almost everyone.
 
The Magic Mountain is a novel about how idle talk reveals a fatal truth: the world itself is doomed. The characters are doomed and so too is the enchanted belle époque they embody. Europe’s death is born out of the endless dialogue of an international crowd of consumptives. Germans and French, Russians and Italians, Austrians and Dutch—people from every corner of the continent which, ten years after Hans’s arrival at Berghof, will explode into the Great War—talk, talk, talk, until they talk death itself into being. The harmless chatter of half-corpses ends in a battle scene: Hans Castorp, rifle in hand, in the mud, under fire. Years of “treatment” culminate in the collective slaughterhouse of war.
 
From the patients’ conversations, war itself is born. The illness lies not only in their lungs but in their minds. Diseased lungs cannot bear the breath of those overfed, overindulged, overarticulate men and women; war, too, is a disease of both lungs and minds. The most “advanced” science — that which sent tanks to the front, launched planes and zeppelins, and seared soldiers’ lungs with gas — was the same that had, on the eve of the Great War, invented the X-ray. The doctor proudly handed the patient an image of his lungs. “A portrait of the soul,” one of the novel’s characters remarks.
 
Pyotr Kiryusha has painted portraits of these people and portraits of the X-rays of their lungs. In the darkroom of illness and death, they hang above the beds where the heroes of The Magic Mountain lay for so many years, until many of them died. These portraits do not merely hang; they converse, in the languages spoken at Berghof: German, French, Russian. Yes, Russian — for among the sanatorium’s patients there were Russians too. Russia was part of Europe then, in that sense as well. They were seen as barbarians, but as “our barbarians,” since their lungs were also captured by the apparatus of Dr. Wilhelm Röntgen.
Pyotr Kiryusha returns to The Magic Mountain from the perspective of our own “sanatorium of Europe” (as Mikhail Maiatsky once called it), from within new-old conversations about purity and defilement, health and sickness. This exhibition is about the persistence of the disease of war; how, after a hundred years, it has gone nowhere. It lingers in the air we breathe, in the words we speak. “Only the chosen are ill,” Hans Castorp thought at first. “Only the unworthy are ill,” insisted the Italian Settembrini. By the end, all understand: “Everyone is ill.”
 
Pyotr Kiryusha has painted portraits of a universal illness.  
They are all so endearing, these figures — like us. And all of them are incurably ill.

Art producer: Alexander Bokser
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/riga/opening-peter-kirusha-|-der-zauberberg-revisited/200029503114450
- **Event Categories**: exhibitions, health-wellness, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 42

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Riga
- **state**: RI
- **country**: Latvia
- **location**: Lāčplēša iela 48, Riga, Latvia
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- **long**: 24.1283
- **full address**: Lāčplēša iela 48, Riga, Latvia

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- **organizer**: Maxim Boxer Gallery (https://allevents.in/org/maxim-boxer-gallery/26527077)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Lāčplēša iela 48, Riga, Latvia
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Maxim Boxer Gallery
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** exhibitions, health-wellness, art
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