A Change of Scenery – Migration and Furniture Since 1960

The exhibition “A Change of Scenery – Migration and Furniture since 1960” explores housing in a society of migration through the lens of aesthetic and social issues.

Migration always also means: furnishing a room, setting up a table, hanging a curtain—and thus creating a home in a foreign land.

Is there a visual history of migrant living that balances self-expression and external perception? Are there recurring objects and designs? Through an essayistic, polyphonic, and fragmentary narrative style, the exhibition brings together photographs, objects, and documents, artistic works, and literary voices. The focus is on Berlin, while also looking at other places of migration in Germany.

PROGRAM

6:00 p.m. | Opening Remarks

• Sophie Plagemann | Artistic Director, Stadtmuseum Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger | Curator, Capital Cultural Fund (HKF)

Followed by | Discussion

with guest curators Burcu Dogramaci and Manuel Gogos, as well as Aurora Rodonò, Curator of Migration History at the Stadtmuseum Berlin

8:00 p.m. | Concert

Ceren Bozkurt performs traditional Turkish folk music on the long-necked lute saz and on the guitar—in a modernized form and with her own artistic signature.

Meeting point: Salon (ground floor)