Opening of three new exhibitions
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| free admission |
| Staircase hall, 1st floor and exhibition rooms 3rd floor (301, 302, 304) |
| English |
Three new exhibitions at the Humboldt Forum offer unusual perspectives on history, art, and memory. They bring together Indigenous voices from Brazil, curatorial decisions behind the scenes of the museum, and contemporary artistic positions from Japan in a dynamic and thought-provoking dialogue. The opening event features conversations with curators and partners, exhibition tours, a performance by Takehito Koganezawa – and space for exchange.
Speakers at the opening include:
Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director of the Humboldt Forum, Alexis von Poser, deputy director of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, and for the individual exhibitions:
- Takehito Koganezawa. One on Two, Two from One: Takehito Koganezawa and Kerstin Pinther
- Conservation in Dialogue: Dulamjav Amarsaikhan and Leonie Kircher
- Feliciano Lana. The Story of White People: Stephen Hugh-Jones and Andrea Scholz
The brief conversations will be moderated by Han Song Hiltmann, Head of Programming at the Humboldt Forum Foundation.
Afterwards, all those involved in the exhibitions Conversation in Dialogue and Feliciano Lana. The Story of White People will be available to answer your questions in the exhibition spaces.
At 7:30 PM, Takehito Koganezawa’s performance One on Two, Two from One, with a duration of 29 minutes and 59 seconds, will take place in room 304. The performance is accompanied by jazz pianist Aki Takase.
The DJ for the evening is Samon Kawamura.
All three exhibitions will remain open until 10:00 PM.
Takehito Koganezawa (b. 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese artist who works at the intersection of drawing, video, installation, and performance. Through his conceptual and experimental approaches, he explores time, space, and the tension between the visible and the absent. His works often emerge through a spontaneous, fluid process, consciously resisting fixed ascriptions of meaning.
From 1999 to 2016, Koganezawa lived in Berlin, where he first approached the city’s urban texture not through language, but through affective observation. This approach has since served as a continuous source of inspiration for his artistic expression. His works have been shown internationally in group and solo exhibitions at biennials and triennials. Today, he lives and works in Hiroshima, yet returns to Berlin as part of the project The Collaborative Museum, where he developed new works in collaboration with students from weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. These new pieces enter into dialogue with existing works from the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst as well as newly created drawings and sculptures in the exhibition One into Two, Two out of One.
Aki Takase was born in Osaka in 1948 and studied music in Tokyo, Japan. Since 1978 she has given concerts and made recordings in the USA and Japan with Lester Bowie, Joe Henderson, John Zorn and others. In 1981 she gave her first European concert at the Jazzfest Berlin. From 1989 she played and directed the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra together with Alex von Schlippenbach, continued to give concerts worldwide and participated in recordings with Maria Joao, David Murray, N.H.Ø.Pedersen, Rudi Mahall, Louis Sclavis, Nils Wogram, Han Bennink, Daniel Erdmann and more. She was awarded the Berliner Zeitung Critics‘ Prize in 1999 and the SWR Jazz Prize in 2002. In 2004, she was awarded the German Record Critics‘ Prize of the Year for “Aki Takase plays Fats Waller”. In 2018 she was awarded the Berlin Jazz Prize and in 2021 she was awarded the German Jazz Prize (Piano and Keyboard Instruments). Aki Takase received the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize in 2021.
Dulamjav Amarsaikhan is an art historian and independent researcher from Mongolia. She has extensive experience of working in museum and cultural institutions in Mongolia, including the Zanabazar Fine Arts Museum and the Ministry of Culture. She received her MA in Buddhist Art History and Conservation from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023.
Stephen Hugh-Jones is Emeritus Research Associate at the Cambridge University Department of Social Anthropology, and a Fellow of King’s College. Following an early visit in 1964, he has spent a lifetime working with the Tukano peoples of the Colombian and Brazilian Vaupés. His publications have focussed on the peoples of Northwest Amazonia, with an emphasis on comparison within Amazonia and with Melanesia. Following his 1979 monograph The Palm and the Pleiades, on Barasana initiation rites, his publications have covered ritual, symbolism, mythology, shamanism, kinship, architecture, astronomy, barter, gift exchange, food, drugs, economic change, and ethno-education. He has also carried out research on books and printing in Tibet. With objects as an enduring interest, his recent work has explored indigenous forms of writing, Amazonian and Tibetan books, and the mythology and ritualisation of time.
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