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Ho Tzu Nyen, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia: F for Fold, Detail, 2021, Image from artist's book (J for Jellyfish). © Image courtesy of the artist and Edouard Malingue Gallery
Exhibition
Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories
28 Nov 2021 – 3 Jul 2022
Regular hours
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
€14 standard admission / concessions €7
Address
- 50/51 Invalidenstr.
- Berlin
Berlin - 10557
- Germany
Travel Information
- S5 Hauptbahnhof
The exhibition addresses art’s relationship to political protest, historical trauma and social narratives from the 19th century to the present.
About
At a time when icebergs are melting faster than societies are reacting to this new reality, and the end of the world is more conceivable than the end of capitalism, the exhibition considers the climate and environment not only from an ecological standpoint but also from a social one.
In this context, Nation, Narration, Narcosis: Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories poses questions about the often brutal processes of nation-building, the role assigned to art in that process, and which hegemonic as well as alternative forms of community and accompanying narratives are conceivable and reflected in artworks. Based on Beuys’s concept of social sculpture, the exhibition reflects on the significance of “nation” contained in the name “National Gallery”, along with other concepts of connectedness, solidarity and individuality.
Works by more than fifty artists are on display, including Amanda Heng, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Arahmaiani, Ho Tzu Nyen, Käthe Kollwitz, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Marina Abramovic, Melati Suryodarmo, Tita Salina, Willem de Rooij and many others. An ongoing international collaborative project, the exhibition brings together for the first time artworks from the collections of the National Gallery of Indonesia, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Singapore Art Museum and the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Collecting Entanglements and Embodied Histories is a research dialogue initiated by the Goethe-Institut in 2017 and funded by it to date, between the participating curators and their selected collections at the National Gallery of Indonesia, the MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Singapore Art Museum. In the spirit of the shared collection, the exchange between the participating curators and institutions will continue in the future. The exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is accompanied by the Cluster of Excellence 2020 Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective.
