Humboldt Lab Dahlem

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The Humboldt Lab Dahlem was a pilot project for the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. As an "experimental rehearsal stage" it served in preparation for the museum exhibitions in the future Humboldt Forum in particular. The lab was a project of the Federal Cultural Foundation and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and ran from 2012 to 2015.

concept

The Humboldt Lab Dahlem ran parallel to the plans to move the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art on the way to the Humboldt Forum. As a temporary experimental format, it tried to approach new exhibition and museum formats through specific questions and experimental methods.

In particular, the museum curators, designers, artists and scientists involved were asked to move beyond their established roles in museum processes and to gain new experiences in a playful and practice-oriented manner in order to share them with the professional world, but also with the public.

The results were shown in Dahlem from March 2013 to October 2015. Around 30 projects were implemented, in which the public could participate in seven "rehearsal stages" in the Dahlem museums .

chosen projects

In “Game of Thrones”, the artists Konstantin Grcic , Kirstine Roepstorff, Simon Starling and Zhao Zhao deal with the artistic staging of a Chinese imperial throne from the collection of the Museum of Asian Art ( Kangxi era , 1662–1722). They each realized their own spatial and object contexts in which they positioned replicas of the throne or changed the replicas in the form of sculptural works.

"[Open] Secrets" wanted to find out how to deal with sacred objects in museums. With the Berlin studio TheGreenEyl, exhibition concepts were developed that showed sacred objects or did not show them if they were not made visible in their original method in a profane context.

In "Yuken Teruya: On Okinawa", the Okinawa- born artist Yuken Teruya added everyday objects, clothing and media documents from 1885 to the present to the Okinawa collection that has been in the Ethnological Museum since 1884. This collection has been added to the Ethnological Museum to complement the original collection, and presents a glimpse of Okinawa's history as told by the people themselves. He also processed the objects and narratives of the two collections in a tanmono using the traditional bingata technique, which was then processed as a kimono and also became part of the museum's collections.

Web links

Project archive [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Institutions - Humboldt Forum - About the Humboldt Forum - Humboldt Lab Dahlem. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  2. ^ National Museums in Berlin: National Museums in Berlin: Museums & Institutions - Humboldt Forum - About the Humboldt Forum - Humboldt Lab Dahlem. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  3. ^ Teaser - Humboldt Forum. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  4. ^ Project description - Humboldt Forum. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  5. ^ Teaser - Humboldt Forum. Retrieved January 16, 2020 .