Two exhibtions featuring contemporary artistic positions expand the perspective on a transcultural and relational understanding of kinship within the framework of Family Matters.
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Bildausschnitt von Meryl McMasters Fotoarbeit Time's Gravity, 2015
The curators introduce you to local and international artists who reflect on belonging beyond blood ties or standardized images of family promoted by the state.
While Nothing as Our Ground foregrounds interpersonal relationships that arise from shared experiences of precarious living conditions and practices of everyday solidarity, Making Kin focuses in particular on relational ontologies, and (material) entanglements between humans, the land and other living beings.
With resilience, sensitivity, and humour, the artists show in their works how diverse and contradictory relationships that cross generations and borders and go beyond rigid, exclusionary family models are lived and recreated.
PARTICIPANTS
The exhibition was curated by: Kerstin Pinther, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art in Global Context & Ute Marxreiter, Research Associate for Education and Outreach, Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
- The tour is free of charge. A Humboldt Forum ticket is required for the exhibition.
- Price: €14.00 / €7.00
- Location: Museum of Asian Art, 3rd floor
- Language: German
