Δ “RED IN FOCUS”

Theme related guided tour with Oliver Hahn (research assistent Oceania collection)

In many cultures, the colour red plays a significant role in the way people see the world, whether it is painted on their bodies for beautification and protection, or serves as a sacred colour, or features in the material culture. Consequently, it is a colour that also appears in many different sections of the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”. 

Oliver Hahn guides through the exhibiton. He investigates the meaning of red as a colour in various cultures by looking at case studies from the Amazon region, New Guinea and Polynesia.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ PENULTIMATE CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”

At the end of the exhibition, 30-minute short curators’ guided tours invite you to discover it.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT provides an opportunity to see or hear things from (potentially) unfamiliar perspectives. Combining objects from the collection with five artistic responses to the matter, the exhibition takes a critical stance to colonialism and its consequences, which are still felt today.

During a walk through the exhibition, the curators talk about the thematic focuses and how they approached them as curators.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€3 / €1.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ LAST CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”

At the end of the exhibition, 30-minute short curators’ guided tours invite you to discover it.

HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT provides an opportunity to see or hear things from (potentially) unfamiliar perspectives. Combining objects from the collection with five artistic responses to the matter, the exhibition takes a critical stance to colonialism and its consequences, which are still felt today.

During a walk through the exhibition, the curators talk about the thematic focuses and how they approached them as curators.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€3 / €1.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ “WHAT IS REMEMBERED …” ARTIST TALK (ONLINE)

with the artist and filmmaker Kitso Lynn Lelliott, Julia Albrecht, one of the curators of the exhibtion “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”, and the Frankfurt galerist Sakhile Matlhare from the art gallery Sakhile&Me

Kitso Lynn Lelliott talks about the background of her video  “What is remembered… not only the footprints but the water too” (Video, 4:29 Min., Johannesburg, South Africa, 2013 ), which was presented as part of the exhibition “HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. From Being Rendered Invisible and Becoming Visible”. She will also share some insight into her other video/installation projects. Kitso Lynn Lelliott lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.

The work “What is remembered…” which is shown in the exhibition is part of the video installation Transatlantic Saudades, which was created during an artist residency in Brazil. In her work, Lelliott examines the relationship between knowledge, power and memory. What knowledge is preserved and what or whose knowledge and traces are erased in the process? The idea of memory is used as a vehicle through which to connect the personal experiential with broader historical narratives.

Kitso Lynn Lelliott‘s work has been shown at film festivals and exhibited in galleries and museum shows around the world including the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

We will watch the Video “What is remembered… not only the footprints but the water too” at the beginning of the talk.

The Zoom talk will be held in English.

Free
Please register via E-Mail

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Δ ONLINE GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with sign language interpreter Christopher Moeller and with Severine Meier

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Using various objects from the exhibition, Severine Meier shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved. Sign language interpreter Christopher Moeller will be translating.

Zoom lecture and talk

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

Free of charge
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with Severine Meier

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Touring the exhibition, Severine Meier shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ LIVE WORKSHOP FOR ADULTS

Experiencing the “blue wonder”: workshop on dyeing with indigo

Using leaves from the indigo plant to create a blue dye is an ancient cultural technique which has been probably known about since the third century BCE. As late as the nineteenth century, indigo was one of the most important substances for dyeing textiles. This “colour from India” has played a significant role in many different places – whether it was expanding the British empire or in the dispute among blueprint dyers in Europe. Parallel to the invention of riveted trousers, synthetic indigo was successfully produced around 1870; when the two were combined the result was blue jeans.

After visiting the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds” we will take the fabrics that participants have brought along and dye them indigo blue, in the process observing the change in colour from yellow to blue that occurs in contact with the air.

To ensure a wide range of patterns we will prepare our textiles before they are dyed, using batik and tie-dye techniques. The course includes background information that will serve as the basis for a conversation on batik, reserve techniques and indigo dyeing, along with a critical (post-)colonial classification of these cultural techniques. 

Please bring along fabrics, items of clothing or thread from natural fibres such as wool, cotton or linen, possibly hemp (maximum of 500–600 grams)

€ 21 / reduced € 10.50
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ VISUAL WORKS BY THE AVIM

Curators’ talk in the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

Tomi Bartole (co-curator) in conversation with Matthias Claudius Hofmann (Oceania curator and curator of the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”). In English.

Two rooms in the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds” present contemporary paintings from the village of Avim in Papua New Guinea, which were commissioned by anthropologist Tomi Bartole while he was conducting field research there in 2019. These contemporary paintings correspond to historical paintings on sago palm sheaths which were acquired in Avim during the 1961 Sepik expedition and have since been part of the Oceania collection at the Weltkulturen Museum.

Both the historical and contemporary paintings show mythical motifs that relate the story of the Avim, while they are also being viewed as the spirits with whom Avim people interact. The Avim use the paintings and their powerful colours to pass on their sacred knowledge to the next generation. The works are visible proof that despite years of missionary work and cultural change, the aesthetic concepts and mythical motifs of the pre-Christian era have been preserved, and these are expressed in stunning visual form in the paintings.

The conversation will concern the way in which the paintings were produced during Tomi Bartole’s field research, the cooperation and joint development of the subject matter in the exhibition, and the history of the relationship between the Avim and the Weltkulturen Museum, which extends back to 1961 and has now been revived by Bartole through this research.  

Dr. Tomi Bartole is an anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among the Avim people of Papua New Guinea in 2013/2014 and 2019. His research interests concern rituals and ethnological issues about religion and politics.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with Berit Mohr

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Touring the exhibition, Berit Mohr shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.

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Δ LIVE WORKSHOP FOR CHILDREN

“Sometimes I dream in colours”

Whether it’s cherry red, curry yellow or sky blue, colours can give us a taste for something, attract our attention or warn us of dangers. So how do we actually communicate with colours? And what role do they play in our everyday lives?

In this workshop we will look around the exhibition “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds” and capture our experiences in a colour collage.

For children from 6 years old.
€6
Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ ***FULLY BOOKED*** CURATORS’ GUIDED TOUR

“GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour Coding Worlds”

with curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann (curator Oceania)

Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

Using various objects from the exhibition, curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann and co-curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski show how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

During a tour of the exhibition, the curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

Please register via the booking button “TERMIN BUCHEN”. The number of participants is limited to ten people.

€7 / €3.50
Costs of the tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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