Pressemitteilung - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pressemitteilung - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Pressemitteilung
Berlin, September 9, 2010
Museumsinsel Berlin
Pergamonmuseum / Museum für Islamische Kunst
Location: Am Kupfergraben, 10117 Berlin
Vorsicht Glas! Fragile Art 700–2010
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September 10, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin
Generaldirektion
Presse, Kommunikation und
Sponsoring
Stauffenbergstraße 41
10785 Berlin
Opening on Thursday, September 9, 2010, 7 p.m.
Mschatta-Saal, Museum of Islamic Art
Speakers
Stefan Weber
Director of the Museum of Islamic Art
Miriam Kühn
Curator of the exhibition
Nadania Idriss
Partner of the exhibition, Galerie New Glass Art & Photography, Berlin
Presse, Kommunikation
und Sponsoring
Mechtild Kronenberg
kommunikation@
smb.spk-berlin.de
An exhibition presented by the Museum of Islamic Art - Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin in co-operation with the Galerie New Glass Art & Photography,
Berlin.
www.smb.museum
Presse
Anne Schäfer-Junker
presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Fon +49 (0)30 266 42 3402
Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 3409
This exhibition is held under the patronage of the German Commission for
UNESCO.
www.smb.museum/presse Glass fascinates with its transparency, its brilliance, its colourfulness as well as with
its contradictory characteristics malleability – solidity – fragility. These transregional
and timeless qualities of glass are at the centre of the exhibition “Vorsicht Glas!
Fragile Art 700–2010”. For the first time 61 glasses of the Museum of Islamic Art’s
collection and eight contemporary works of art from the gallery New Glass Art &
Photography are being exhibited side by side.
Since the invention of glass in the Middle East more than 4,000 years ago glass
artisans played a crucial role in the artistic and technical formation of this material.
After the Arab conquest in the 7th century, they preserved the regional techniques
of production and decoration, but at the same time added substantially to new
artistic and technical expressions. After a period of increased European influence,
emanating from 15th century Venice, modern Turkey has established itself as one
important centre not only for industrial glass production but also pioneering
contemporary glass art. “Vorsicht Glas! Fragile Art 700–2010” honours the rich
tradition of Middle Eastern glass artistry that has influenced European glass
workshops and western glass artists and still influences them today.
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The exhibition is structured into the themes colourfulness, transparency, brilliance,
fragility and décor. Those themes reveal 1,300 years of creative and multifaceted
glass design. The exhibition presents different glass production techniques and
retraces the paths of glasses from the producer to the consumer into the museum
and thus enables the visitor to experience these individual “biographies”. Moreover,
new interpretations of traditional production techniques and formal vocabularies by
contemporary glass artists are presented.
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Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin
Generaldirektion
Presse, Kommunikation und
Sponsoring
Stauffenbergstraße 41
10785 Berlin
Presse, Kommunikation
und Sponsoring
Mechtild Kronenberg
kommunikation@
smb.spk-berlin.de
www.smb.museum
The design to display the glass collection of the Museum in
contemporary glass sculptures had to cope with a limited budget
existing showcases from the exhibition space, which still contain
permanent exhibition. The main idea was to blow a new spirit
while integrating the existing permanent exhibition.
tandem with
and to reuse
pieces of the
to the space
The exhibition “Vorsicht Glas! Fragile Art 700–2010” with its 61 selected glass
objects offers the public a fascinating insight into the glass collection of Berlin’s
Museum of Islamic Art. Not only well-known objects from the museum’s permanent
exhibition are displayed in a new light, such as the colourful, email-painted “Polo
Rider Flask” or the transparent glass casket from Egypt, which imitates precious
rock crystal vessels used to transport relics to Europe. The majority of the exhibited
glasses have only been exhibited very seldom and are now presented for the first
time to the public in its colourfulness, its transparency, brilliance, fragility,
malleability – solidity.
Presse
Anne Schäfer-Junker
presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Fon +49 (0)30 266 42 3402
Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 3409
The museum’s objects are being exhibited side by side with eight works of art by
contemporary glass artists, represented by the gallery New Glass Art &
Photography, Berlin. The selected works by artists from Lebanon and Turkey
illustrate their use of this material as a means of expression. Thus they clearly
www.smb.museum/presse distinguish themselves from the industrial mass production, but also from the
upmarket glass handcraft. These works are accompanied by works of North
American and Australian artists who have been inspired by the artistic traditions of
the Middle East.
Participating Artists:
The Bee Kingdom, Canada (Ryan Marsh Fairweather, Timothy Belliveau, Phillip
Bandura)
Scott Chaseling, Australia/Germany
Marya Kazoun, Lebanon
Felekşan Onar, Turkey
Boyd Sugiki, USA
Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
sind eine Einrichtung der
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Pressemitteilung
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Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin
Generaldirektion
Presse, Kommunikation und
Sponsoring
Stauffenbergstraße 41
10785 Berlin
Presse, Kommunikation
und Sponsoring
Mechtild Kronenberg
kommunikation@
smb.spk-berlin.de
www.smb.museum
Exhibition Team:
Academic concept and research:
Andrea Becker, Sara Beuster, Gisela Helmecke, Nadania Idriss, Jens Kröger, Miriam
Kühn, Katharina Müller
Management:
Miriam Kühn
Exhibition design:
Youssef Khoury
Conservatorial supervision:
Sara Beuster, Jutta-Maria Schwed
Exhibition Catalogue:
The exhibition catalogue is published by Edition Minerva, Munich.
Edited by Miriam Kühn
with Andrea Becker and Jens Kröger
with further contributions by Sara Beuster, Gisela Helmecke, Nadania Idriss, Hans
Georg Majer, Katharina Müller, Boaz Paz.
This catalogue is published as volume 1 of the series „Die Sammlungen des
Museums für Islamische Kunst“.
ISBN-13: 978-3938832691: 144 pages. Price at the book store: 19,80 Euro
Additionally a postcard booklet is published.
Lecture Series:
On the occasion of the temporary exhibition a lecture series is scheduled from
2010.09.23 – 2010.10.14. Thursdays at 7 PM the glass artists Scott Chaseling,
Berlin (2010.09.23) and The Bee Kingdom, Calgary (2010.10.07) report on their
current works as well as Professor Dr. Julian Henderson, University of
www.smb.museum/presse Nottingham/UK (39.09.2010) and Dr. Andrea Becker, German Research Foundation
(14.10.2010) on current research results.
Presse
Anne Schäfer-Junker
presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Fon +49 (0)30 266 42 3402
Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 3409
Venues and further information:
http://freunde-islamische-kunst-pergamonmuseum.de/
With the support of:
Barakat Trust
Glashütte Lamberts
TOTAL Deutschland GmbH
Freunde des Museums für Islamische Kunst im Pergamonmuseum e.V.
Weingut Theo Schütte
Joe Media:Group
The Glass Furnace
Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
sind eine Einrichtung der
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Pressemitteilung
Venue:
Pergamonmuseum
Entrance:
Am Kupfergraben 5
10117 Berlin
Besucherinformation: +49(0)30/2090 5577
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Staatliche Museen
zu Berlin
Generaldirektion
Presse, Kommunikation und
Sponsoring
Stauffenbergstraße 41
10785 Berlin
Presse, Kommunikation
und Sponsoring
Mechtild Kronenberg
kommunikation@
smb.spk-berlin.de
www.smb.museum
Presse
Anne Schäfer-Junker
presse@smb.spk-berlin.de
Fon +49 (0)30 266 42 3402
Fax +49 (0)30 266 42 3409
www.smb.museum/presse
Die Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
sind eine Einrichtung der
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Opening Hours:
Monday to Sunday 10–18
Thursday 10–22
www.smb.museum
Contact:
Museum of Islamic Art
Bodestraße 1–3
10178 Berlin
isl@smb.spk-berlin.de
Phone: +49(0)30/2090 5401