Loose Ends
Woven mats from the Marshall Islands are works of art with a wide range of uses as clothing,…
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UnBinding Bodies
Over a period of a thousand years, Chinese girls had their feet bound to keep them as small…
Archive of Experiences
The starting point of the exhibition “Archive of Experiences” is a photo album from 1868 associated with the…
Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance
With “Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance,” the MARKK presents its Aby Warburg Collection for the first time in…
Colour Meets Map
In the special exhibition “Colour Meets Map” the Museum am Rothenbaum presents the results of an innovative research…
Steppes & Silk Roads
Magnificent fabrics and ikat weavings made of silk, tea and “wild apples” found their way to Europe on…
Working on monochromes
On the way to the development of colour photography, the technique of hand-colouring black and white photographs was…
Alchi – Monastic Jewel in the Himalayas
The world-famous Tibeto-Buddhist monastery of Alchi lies at 3,500 meters in the Himalayan province of Ladakh (Northwest India)….
![Detail, video installation of Lisa Reihana In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17, colour, sound, several people, bank of a lake](https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/01/in-Pursuit-of-Venus-infected-2015-17_UltraHD_32mins_┬®_Lisa-Reihana_detail-340x346.jpg "Detail of the video installation of Lisa Reihana In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17 – © Lisa Reihana, Artprojects NZ, New Zealand at Venice")
In the shadow of Venus
Lisa Reihana is among the most relevant contemporary artists from the Pacific. Her work in Pursuit of Venus…
THE POWER Of WRITING
An exhibition focussing on the writing culture of the Toba Batak has been jointly curated by the Centre…
Amani
The Biological Agricultural Institute Amani, founded in 1902, was a German model project in the Tanzanian Usambara Highlands….
Distinguished: Women Artists of the Inventory
The exhibition “Distinguished: Women Artists of the Inventory” takes a look behind the scenes of the museum during…