Family is never just private: Contemporary artists and four Hohenzollern electresses open up hidden family histories at the Humboldt Forum

How might care and community be imagined beyond standardized images of family? Three new exhibitions—Nothing as Our Ground, Making Kin, and All Under Heaven—present works by renowned international contemporary artists including Sunil Gupta, Haegue Yang, and Jane Jin Kaisen. Shown at the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, these exhibitions create new spaces for negotiating relationships and kinship across cultures, histories, and generations.On the third floor of the Humboldt Forum, four historical electresses move into the dynastic display. Life-sized portraits of Hohenzollern women from different centuries are positioned alongside the monumental statues of the Brandenburg electors. This intervention, titled Relevant to the System: Women in Ruling Families, breaks open the male-dominated self-representation of the dynasty.

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