Cultures of the Curatorial: Under the same sky. Patterns and other beings (25.04.-03.11.2024)

The finissage of the exhibition intervention “Under One Sky - Of Patterns and Other Beings” will take place on November 3. In two workshops, guests and participants of the “Cultures of the Curatorial” course will have the opportunity to work together on a project.

Program for the finissage:

15:00 -16:00
“Common Unity in Displacement”, workshop with the artist Qusay Awad

16:00 - 17:45
Play session “Playful Beings // Playful Beings” with the artist Ehab Assadi

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.