Power Cage Exhibition

Power Cage

22.11. – 07.12.19

STATE Studio, Hauptstr. 3, 10827 Berlin Schöneberg, U7 Kleistpark

The invention of the aquarium by the Naturalist Jeanne Villepreux-Power in 1832 brought the sea into the living rooms of the bourgeoisie and made the previously mysterious and uncanny underwater worlds observable. For the interdisciplinary exhibition POWER CAGE, fifteen artists were inspired by this groundbreaking invention and channeled Jeanne Villepreux-Power’s Œvre into sound aquariums, imaginary underwater worlds, flickering video chambers and artificial biospheres.

With Sandra Babing, Sabine Ercklentz, Christina Ertl-Shirley, Katharina Ludwig, Uta Neumann, Felicity Mangan, Ioana Vreme Moser, Mira O‘Brien, Claudia Reiche, Billy Roisz, Tomoko Sauvage, Anouschka Trocker, Antje Vowinckel und Mara Wagenführ and Ruth Waldeyer.

In addition, the public can become researchers themselves through several workshops on biosphere construction, cyanotype photography and mollusk drawing. A lecture by the author Mareike Vennen will shed light on the cultural history of aquariums (followed by audience discussion).

The exhibition will be open daily from 12:00 – 19:00 until 07 Dec (gallery closed on 6 Dec). In thirteen positions the work of Jeanne Villepreux-Power will be illuminated from an artistic perspective.

On a lecture evening (28.11.) moderated by Jutta Person, the author Mareike Vennen will shed light on the cultural history of aquariums and the art historian Silke Förschler will discuss the common lives of animals and humans (with public discussion).

Funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
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