--- type: exposition title: Instructions for Happiness language: en url: "https://www.belvedere.at/en/instructions-happiness-0" --- # Instructions for Happiness ![Cast iron and bronze / Courtesy Socratis Socratous and The Breeder, Athens ](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/header_cropped_1920x480_fp/public/jart-images/_499086416201.jpg.webp?itok=HsL0wxmV) **Duration:** 8 July 2017 - 5 November 2017 **Instructions for happiness – an absurd promise? An exhibition at the 21er Haus sets out to explore this subjective, elusive feeling and scrutinizes conceptions of happiness.** *Instructions for Happiness* is dedicated to the personal pursuit of happiness. Using behavioural guidelines, the works of participating artists invite responses to simulated situations through the use of objects or by interacting with others – or simply provoke the processes of thought. Arrangements that vary in form and content mirror the diversity of perspectives that the artists – as much as society in general – hold towards being happy. Just as with interpersonal relationships, immediate encounters or everyday situations, happiness may also hide in appreciating the beauty of the little things. The exhibition reflects art’s impact on society and seeks the boundaries of what it can do. Visitors are invited to explore ideas of happiness and to thereby also find their own answers. With works by Anna-Sophie Berger, Keren Cytter, Heinrich Dunst, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Christian Falsnaes, Barbara Kapusta, Rallou Panagiotou, Angelo Plessas, Maruša Sagadin, Hans Schabus, Socratis Socratous, Jannis Varelas, Salvatore Viviano und Anna Witt Curated by Severin Dünser and Olympia Tzortzi. \#happiness21 ### [Belvedere 21](https://www.belvedere.at/en/visit/belvedere-21) **Opening hours:** Tuesday to Sunday, 11 am - 6 pm; Late Night: Thursday, 11 am - 9 pm **Address:** Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna ([Getting there]()) [Tickets](https://www.belvedere.at/en/tickets?location%5B0%5D=4) ## Impressions - ![Cast iron and bronze / Courtesy Socratis Socratous and The Breeder, Athens — Socratis Socratous, “Thank God I’m getting on a boat.”, 2017 — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416201_0.jpg.webp?itok=qpholLzf) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416200.jpg.webp?itok=BQy0SWJ2) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416199.jpg.webp?itok=Px-5SK62) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416198.jpg.webp?itok=z-9qqBBI) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Photo: eSeL.at, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086414836.jpg.webp?itok=MCs2XJEg) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416197.jpg.webp?itok=smwsPdFR) - ![17 Bierdeckel, Laserdruck / Courtesy Anna-Sophie Berger, Wien und New York — Anna-Sophie Berger, Build a house or knock it down, 2016 — Photo: eSeL.at, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086414838.jpg.webp?itok=GSVNEDqU) - ![Laser print / Courtesy Jannis Varelas, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien und The Breeder, Athen — Jannis Varelas, Untitled, 2017 — Photo: eSeL.at, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086414839.jpg.webp?itok=1gtP1rdz) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416196.jpg.webp?itok=qHa4mKCC) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416195.jpg.webp?itok=oI-NhBVv) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416193.jpg.webp?itok=zyyDwfIt) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416192.jpg.webp?itok=PvQOyRuO) - ![Instructions for Happiness — Exhibition View "Instructions for Happiness" — Photo: Johannes Stoll, © Belvedere, Vienna](https://www.belvedere.at/sites/default/files/styles/equal_height_slider_1x/public/jart-images/_499086416194.jpg.webp?itok=pN5gVqZq)