2025
audio walk (40min)
The audio work invites visitors to move their bodies in the garden of the Georg Kolbe Museum and encounter the Tänzerinnen-Brunnen (1922). Approaching the fountain by Georg Kolbe with an audio description – including the surrounding museum and the situated position of the narrator – the context of Kolbes work is discussed.
As a contemporary reaction to the complex legacy of modern art, questions are raised about the potential impact on the institutional framework of museums today.
How can we remember and resist together? How can we reject the systems of categorization and hierarchization of human life that are reflected in the representation of Black people in the fountain and that also led to the murder of Heinrich Stahl in a concentration camp?
How can we remember and at the same time recognize that these systems continue to be embedded in all areas of economic, social and cultural life and are being perpetuated and maintained?
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How could the museum, the space around the fountain, be expanded and become more welcoming?
The work is available in the audio guide of the Georg Kolbe Museum within the Bloomberg Connects app.
Consultation audio description: Annika Jakobs
Photos: Camilo Castiblanco / Georg Kolbe Museum