Participating artists:Artist: Qusay Awad, Zina Dayoub, Esraa Dayrwan, Nagham Hammoush, Haneen Choir, KIM/ILLI, Mirjam Kroker, Ossama Shalgheen, Fronte Violeta & Martha Kiss Perrone
Curators: Juness Beshir, Raphael Bruning, Iana Gaponenko, Hanna Gebert, Elena Grimbs, Ammar Hatem, Alem Kolbus, Victoria Langmann, Amelie Lill, Clarissa Aidar Oliveira, Helene Otto, Alexandra Trost, Ulrike Riebel, Rebekka Rinner, Anastasia Shestak, Miriam Trostorf, Theresa Weber
opening hours:daily 10 am - 6 pm, closed on Mondays. Free of charge
Venue:SKD: Japanisches Palais
Palaisplatz 11
01097 Dresden
Partner:A cooperation between the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, the Museum of Ethnology Dresden and the American University of Beirut, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Opening, 25.04.2024
6 pm
Performance "Damascus Room: The Path of Water" by Salmo Albatal in the exhibition "Dialogue among guests" in the Damascus Room
7 pm
Welcome: Barbara Höffer, Museum of Ethnology Dresden
Introductory words by the participants of the Master's program Cultures of the Curatorial, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig
8 pm
Music & get together
The participants of the Master's program Cultures of the Curatorial at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig were invited by the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony to take part in an intervention within the permanent presentation “Dialogue among Guests” in the Damaskuszimmer.
The Damaskuszimmer - a restored reception room that was brought to Germany from Syria at the end of the 19th century - is thematized as a present-day exhibition object and as a carrier of visible and invisible traces of histor(ies). The obvious patterns, such as the elaborate ornamentation of the painted interior walls, were taken as a starting point to focus on the implicit patterns that emerge: those of showing, interpreting and mediating. The participants trace these patterns in the intervention with contemporary artistic positions.
