Has Europe lost its soul?
Painter and writer Haralampi G. Oroschakoff talks to Patrik Baab about the loss of culture, meaning and spiritual depth in an increasingly self-referential Western world.
Oroschakoff, who lives in Vienna and has exhibited worldwide – in New York, Paris, Venice, Baku and South America – sees the West in a phase of civilisational exhaustion.
He talks about the decline of European culture, the return of authoritarian tendencies, the war in Ukraine as a cultural rupture, and artistic responsibility in an age of moral nihilism.
“We only talk to ourselves anymore – civilisation has become a brand.”
A compelling conversation about art, history, religion, power and the question.