The theme of the "Doppelgaenger" or the double is being talked about since post modern philosophy. Even though this discussion has been complemented by social, political and historical thought models, nothing has changed the aesthetically highly explosive finding: The theme of the "Doppelgaenger" or the double preoccupies many young artists; the phenomenon of the duality of the world or the polymorphism of the ego is an important issue of their work. The exhibition double trouble proves the emotional charge and personal vehemence linked to or triggered by this subject. The exhibited works reflect this aesthetically highly productive and psychologically as dramatic engagement with the double of the ego and the world. They appear in media and pop culture just as they orginally appeared in human thought. Thereby the highly personal and intimate relation of the exhibits with the double troubles demonstrates that the theme of the "Deppelgaenger" is not only a social theme, but first and foremost an existential one. The double troubles reveal self reflections in postmodern times.

The general finding states: If the subject is not identical with itself, if it breaks into a multitude of parts and fragments, then what used to be defined as identity and personality, as the self and self image, splits up as well. Then, all of a sudden, smaller or bigger decentralisations or displacemnts of identitiy emerge hardly noticeable at first, yet unmistakable side by side with the dominating ego. At first one does not recognise oneself; then the substance of what could still be recognised also disappears and finally the self recognising subject as such fades. Facets of its own ego and splits of its personality suddenly surround the subject, no longer identical with it self. Amidst all these "Doppelgaenger" the doubles of its identity the subject or "nobject" finds itself in a bewildered situation. Surrounded by the mirrors of its ego, made available by media and pop culture alike, the difference between the self and the other, the ego and the world is lost: Is it me or is it not? The subject seems to be condemned forever to err around in the maze of mirrors of its own self.

Should there be a whole lot of trouble awaiting the double, this situation may look rather unsatisfactory from a culturally pessimitic point of view. However, it remains important to treat the aesthetic phenomenon as such and not to confuse it with social or political phenomena. Moreover, the themes of self loss in love and pain as well as the topic of childhood and myths prove that the fragmentation of the ego is not entirely a novel theme. The loss of one's face, the self discovery or recreation of one's self in the other are themes which philosophy and art have long been involved with. "Doppelgaenger" and "Wiedergaenger" capture art and thought which can no longer be separated from contemporary art in an equally disturbing yet attractive way.