Weavers of Life
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| 10 EUR / reduced 5 EUR plus exhibition admission |
| Please book your ticket in advance online or at the ticket office in the foyer. |
| Ethnologisches Museum, 2nd floor and Museum für Asiatische Kunst, 3rd floor |
| Duration: 90 min |
| 16 years and older |
| German |
| max. 25 persons |
| Belongs to: Ethnological Collections and Asian Art |
In a dialogue-based tour, art historian and ancient American specialist Carolina Pretell and cultural scientist Romina Tello invite you to focus on female perspectives in exhibits from the American, Oceanic, African, and Asian collections at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst:
Throughout human history, women in different cultures have been understood as bearers of relationships, knowledge, and vitality. As goddesses, priestesses, healers, and midwives — as guardians of life — they shape the social, religious, and political fabric of their communities.
How are these ideas reflected in cultural heritage? And how has the female body been interpreted as a source of life, power, and transformation?
The exhibitions offer impressive examples of female creativity and its forms of expression in different times and cultures, which the mediators will guide you through.
Participants
Romina Tello Astudillo de Beer was born in Huancayo, Peru. As a cultural scientist and ethnologist, she focuses on the cultural and social constellations of the ancient Andean world. Her academic work centers on decolonization processes in Latin American regions and research into the provenance of pre-Columbian cultural artifacts. Since 2021, she has been working in linguistic and cultural mediation in the field of social integration. She currently works as a freelance educator for the Ethnologisches Museum at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Carolina Pretell, born and raised in Argentina, studied Fine Arts in Argentina and Art History/Ancient American Studies in Berlin. She works as a freelance educator for the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.