»Musée sentimental de l'ours de Berlin«

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Musée sentimental de l’ours de Berlin« is an attempt at erecting a temporary museum dedicated to the Berlin Bear. The effort lays no claim to completion or that it follows any particular grand narrative, but rather—entirely in keeping with its role model, Marie-Louise Plessen and Daniel Spoerri’s Musée Sentimental—seeks to link small individual stories with emotional values.
These stories have different points of departure. The various artistic works in the exhibition address the heraldry of the city’s coat of arms and history as well as the bears’ current absence, and are an active contribution to the design of the exhibition displays.
In addition to the artistic works, the exhibition also presents a large number of objects and ephemera that delve into the history of the city’s bears in the Zwinger and the representative function they’ve performed for the city over the past 80 years. These include a window with the heraldic animal from the Rotes Rathaus, various ways in which the bears have been perceived in children’s books and toys, objects of everyday life from the Zwinger, and physical traces of the bears themselves.
The exhibition’s aim is to develop a special form for approaching the history of the Bärenzwinger that is also closely interwoven with the history of the city of Berlin. The format emerges from the architecture and history of the location and pursues various paths.

05/03/2020 7–10 pm
Artist' Talk with Nschotschi Haslinger und Anna Virnich
 
18/03/2020 7-10 pm
TheorieMittwoch with Philipp Kleinmichel
 
24/04/2020 7-10 pm
»Der Bärenzwinger zwischen den Staatssystemen (1937–1995)«
Lecture by  Marie-Christin Krüger

04/04/2020 + 05/04/2020
Child-Workshop »Bärengefühle« with Laura Ameln
11 am - 1 pm (ages 5–8) und 11 am - 1 pm  (ages 9–13)

01/ – 03/05/2020
Gallery Weekend Special

Exhibition & Events curated by
Jan Tappe und Julia Pomeranzewa
Ulrike Riebel und Hauke Zießler