Viktor Wynd

Viktor Wynd is an artist, author, lecturer, impresario and committee member of The London Institute of 'Pataphysics.

As an artist, Wynd created The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History in London's East End, a strange reinterpretation of a Renaissance Wunderkabinnet, stuffed with two headed lambs, fiji mermaids, unicorns, taxidermy, dodo bones, erotica, old master etchings, surrealist, occult & outsider artworks and celebrity poo the museum has featured in a BBC4 documentary on Cabinets of Curiosity and is ranked 28 out 1237 speciality museums in London on trip advisor In 2005 he had an exhibition entitled 'Structures of The Sublime; Towards a Greater Understanding of Chaos at Ingalls & Associates in Miami featuring drawings and video In 2007 he had another exhibition in Miami,called, in reference to Goethe, 'The Sorrows of Young Wynd' based around a waxwork figure of himself hanging by a noose from the middle of the gallery surrounded by a cloud of tropical butterflies and many other images of him committing suicide

As an impresario he founded The Last Tuesday Society with David Piper in 2003 reinterpreting Gunter Grass's Onion Cellar Nightclub from The Tin Drum with 'Loss; an Evening of Exquisite Misery' where guests would dress in decaying beauty, be fined £1 for smiling, chop onions and cry whilst being entertained by the saddest music in the world he went on to put on Halloween parties in London for many thousands of guests often with literary themes and other over the top parties such as his masked balls The Animal Party at The Old Vic tunnels where people were told to 'Dress Like a Beast Dance Like a Beast and a festival Wyndstock held at Houghton Hall in Norfolk He also runs what may be londons longest running literary salon with over 500 events in the last ten years

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