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A Voyage to Cythera

Aya Ben Ron

29.04. – 09.09.2012

curator: Galit Eilat

Medizinhistorisches Museum Berlin

opening: 28.04. 2012 | 7 pm.

In a lyrical journey through the permanent exhibition of the Berlin Museum the show by Aya Ben Ron will refer to the famous poem Un Voyage à Cythère (“A Voyage to Cythera”) by Charles Baudelaire. The last should be read as a thematic reversal of Antoine Watteaus three paintings Pèlerinage à l’île de Cythère („Embarkation to Cythera“). Beside numerous texts and sound installations ten artworks will be integrated into the permanent exhibition. They are responding to certain items on display, but also on historic events at the Charité in Berlin as a hospital, a university and a museum. The main intention is to show human experience in its wholeness, wherefore the artist reintegrates/reintroduces missing, psychological, emotional and social aspects to the existing narratives.

Accompanying Program, April-September 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012, 3-6 pm | Workshop “Ethics & Aesthetics”
Saturday, June 2, 2012, 5 pm | Artist Talk during the “2012 Science Night” with Aya Ben Ron
Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 5 pm | Artist Talk with Aya Ben Ron

The events will take place at the Berlin Medical Historical Museum, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin

All events will be in English. In case of questions in connection to the program, please contact Dr. Christina Thesing | ct@schir.net