{"id":143542,"date":"2025-02-04T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/laufzeitangebot\/other-en\/bilder-von-behinderung-143542\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:48:09","slug":"bilder-von-behinderung","status":"publish","type":"event-period","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/laufzeitangebot\/installation-en\/bilder-von-behinderung-143542\/","title":{"rendered":"Images of Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The figure of disability checks out of the asylum, the sick house, and the hospital to take up residence in the art gallery, the museum, and the public square.\u201d<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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These words by the American cultural scientist Tobin Siebers resonate in a contradictory way in the collection created a century earlier by Hans W\u00fcrtz (1875-1958). In the midst of the political turmoil and cultural productivity of the Weimar Republic, the then director of education at the Oskar-Helene-Heim in Berlin compiled what is probably the most extensive collection of pictures and art depicting disabled people known.<\/p>\n

As part of an international research project, the collection archived in exile in Prague has been digitised and catalogued. The exhibition at the Humboldt Labor provides an insight into this extraordinary collection, which consists primarily \u2013 but not exclusively \u2013 of reproductions. Without ignoring the unusual concepts that the collector developed with regard to disability, the exhibition shows selected pictures and statuettes and places them in new contexts.<\/p>\n

The intervention is located in the seminar room of the Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, behind the exhibition \u2018After Nature\u2019 on the first floor of the Humboldt Forum.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Opening of the exhibition on Wednesday, 19 March 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 a.m.: Welcome and introduction (Dr Sebastian Pampuch, Prof Dr Oliver Musenberg, Prof Dr Simon Mckeown)<\/p>\n

11:30 a.m.: \u2018We see what we think\u2019 (Udo Sierck, librarian, lecturer and publicist)<\/p>\n

12:00 p.m.: Impulse (Dr Inga Scharf da Silva, artist and cultural anthropologist)<\/p>\n

In the presence of the artist Tim Petersen (Thikwa Werkstatt)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Guided tours with the curators<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thursday, 27.03.2025, 13:00: Guided tour with curator Prof. Dr Oliver Musenberg<\/p>\n

Saturday, 29.03.2025, 15:00: Guided tour with curator Dr Sebastian Pampuch<\/p>\n

The guided tours are free of charge, a ticket is not required. Meeting point: In front of the Humboldt Lab, first floor of the Humboldt Forum.<\/p>\n

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