Participating artists:Anna Sopova, snc, Ingmar Stange, Johann Bärenklau, Katharina Bayer, KseniaSova, Leila Brinkmann, Lucia-Charlotte Ott, Mahshid Mahboubifar,Marta Sundmann, Natalia Zaitseva, Sijo Choi Kim, Simón JaramilloVallejo, Valério de Araújo Silva, Su Yu Hsin, Yunseon Jeong.
Venue:SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden
Partner:Developed in exchange with the scientists of the Kupferstich-Kabinett, the Museum für Sächsische Volkskunst, the Albertinum Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, the Porzellansammlung, the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden, the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, the Rüstkammer, the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon, the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Pillnitz, the Skulpturensammlung ab 1800, the Provenienzforschung and the cross-sectional departments of the SKD.
What images represent processes in a museum? What does scientific practice look like before the opening of an exhibition? How does research practice become visible in the museum world? The exhibition "We show what we (don't) know - images as research" explores these questions as the result of a year-long cooperation with artists from the expanded cinema class at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in exchange with researchers from the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD). In the process, they record what is invisible at first glance and disappears behind the works.
Over the course of a year, various research workshops at the SKD opened their doors to the students in order to unravel stories on and from objects, to develop their own critical research approaches, to observe working methods, and to speculatively rethink object bodies. In the form of visual research in dialogue with scholarly work, objects, conversation notes, and encounters are illuminated from different perspectives in this regard.
Constellations between X-ray machines and restorers, objects and illuminators, stories of origin, paintings, sounds and examining hands come into focus. Film and photography are the primary media used for the analytical observation of research activities at the SKD, which otherwise recede behind museum glass.
Through visualizations of often invisible workspaces, the artistic works expand the understanding of museums as places of multiple knowledge processes and self-reflection. They capture visualities of thinking, examining, sorting, describing, discarding, combining, remembering, and insisting, and cast a backward glance at the institution and how it deals with its own history.
A cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, class expanded cinema, by Clemens von Wedemeyer and Mareike Bernien, with the research department at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
Curated by Anna-Lisa Reith, Research SKD.
Sponsored by MODEMO as part of the Transcultural Academy "Futures" 2023 at SKD. The public Assembly School of the Transcultural Academy will take place from November 8 to 11, 2023 at the Japanisches Palais.
