{"id":136030,"date":"2024-09-06T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/programm\/termin\/other-en\/festival-of-lights-2024-136030\/"},"modified":"2024-10-01T08:41:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T06:41:46","slug":"festival-of-lights-2024","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/film-video-en\/festival-of-lights-2024-136030\/","title":{"rendered":"Festival of Lights 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Loved, hated, admired and disappeared: Where the Humboldt Forum stands today was once the Palace of the Republic. 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the CyberR\u00e4uber are opening their Palace of Memories to all visitors to the Festival of Lights on the east fa\u00e7ade of the Humboldt Forum.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Celebrating Freedom: On 7 October 1989, the leaders of the GDR celebrated the 40th anniversary of the workers\u2018 and peasants\u2019 state with international guests in the Palace of the Republic. On the other side of the Spree, many citizens protested and demanded more freedom. On 23 August 1990, the first and last freely elected parliament of the GDR passed a resolution in the Volkskammer<\/span> hall of the palace to \u2018accede to the scope of the Basic Law\u2019, in other words to restore German unity. A short time later, the palace was closed due to asbestos contamination and demolished in 2006.<\/p>\n

The Palace of the Republic will reappear for the Festival of Lights 2024 \u2013 as video art on the east fa\u00e7ade of the Humboldt Forum, which has been open on the site of the Palace of the Republic since 2021. The fa\u00e7ade opens onto images of a palace, but did it really look like this? What shape was the glass flower in the foyer? How many green plants grew around the columns? Where did the famous globe lights hang? And who celebrated in the Great Hall? The projection Palace of Memory<\/a><\/em> by the media artist duo CyberR\u00e4uber is best experienced from the very meadow on the Spree where the citizens protested 35 years ago. It is an extension of the mixed reality experience<\/a>, which will run until February 2025 alongside the exhibition Blown Away. The Palace of the Republic<\/a><\/em>at the Humboldt Forum until February 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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