Re: Guestlist Wedding Procession

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Address Schloßstraße 1a, Berlin
Tags Sculpture exhibitions, Jugendstil
Venue's website www.broehan-museum.de

Re: Guestlist Wedding Procession is a critical examination of a major work of Berlin Art Nouveau porcelain and explores current questions about the decolonization of museums, with the so-called Wedding Procession as an example. The project focuses on the Wedding Procession, a multi-figure porcelain centerpiece designed by sculptor Adolf Amberg in 1904 and sculpted at the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin (KPM). The design is associated with the wedding of the last German Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Arts-and-crafts objects are rarely associated with the colonial perception at the time of their creation at a first glance. Detached from its holistic composition, individual figures of the wedding procession are viewed critically in terms of discrimination, and stereotypical modes of representation are questioned and examined. A video work created especially for the project deals with the ambivalent object.

Over the course of two semesters, eleven students from the HTW’s master’s program in museum management and communication dealt with current issues of discrimination-critical curating and the multi-layered question “To show or not to show?”

Students involved: Danae Y. Diettrich, Layla Fetzer, Ida A. Heuer, Henry Kühnapfel, Ulrike Kuschel, Eda Nakıboğlu, Lisa A. Pichler, Franziska Schlüter, Tim D. Simon, Nina Szkółka, Anna Warsinke.

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