ExhibitionApril 30, 2021
Museum of Democracy
From April 17 to June 13 at the Museum Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK), the exhibition "Museum of Democracy" can be visited in person or virtually.
The "Museum of Democracy" was inspired by a failed project of President Sebastian Piñera, canceled in December 2019. Its objective is to "examine, in a non-linear and historical-fictional way, the gradual process of 'erosion' or 'emptying' of the concept of 'democracy and its institutions, having Latin America as a reference for our collection." This fictitious institution aims to preserve, exhibit, and mediate the concept of democracy as if it were a phenomenon of the past or an endangered species.
The museum's current presentation is divided into three conceptual chapters:
1) Kiosk Plaza
2) Department of Opportunisms and Opportunities
3) Office of Dreams
The mission of the Museum of Democracy is to reflect on aesthetic independence and political co-dependence, from the pre-Columbian past, the Bolivarian liberating cries to the triumph of 'societies of control' (Gilles Deleuze).
In collaboration with artists, theorists, activists, museologists, and other actors, the museum presents a collection of 23 works, with which it seeks to preserve, interpret and exhibit different remains of the memory of a post-democratic society. In the museography of the Plaza del Kiosco, one can find videos, books, publications, a program based on forms of knowledge production that extends into talks, video projections, performances, readings, and workshops.
These are presented for three months at nGbK, online, and in the public space. Generating connections between historical and theoretical research material in a transdisciplinary dramaturgy, a hybrid between analog and digital, public and exhibition space, real and fiction, and we observe events of recent history and the present of Latin America, echo and mirror of global realities.
Artists in exhibition: Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil/Germany), Gustavo Artigas (Mexico/Canada), Arts of the Working Class (Germany), Marylin Boror Bor (Guatemala), Andressa Cantergiani (Brazil), Victor de la Rocque (Brazil), Andrés Durán (Chile), Valeria Fahrenkrog & MITKUNSTZENTRALE (Chile/Germany), Galería CIMA (Chile), Manuela García Aldana (Colombia/Germany), Zoltan Kunckel (Venezuela/Hungary), Jaime Lauriano (Brazil/Portugal), Cheril Linett (Chile), Julia Mensch (Argentina/Germany), Ana María Millán (Colombia/Germany), Marcela Moraga & Salvemos el río Renaico (Chile/Germany), UU./Cuba), Michael Wesely (Germany), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (Brazil/Japan/ Norway).
Artistic contributions to the program of events: Ana Alenso (Venezuela), Marilyn Boror Bor & VOCES de Guatemala in Berlin (Guatemala/Germany), Sara Buraya Boned (Spain), Cora Hegewald & Erik Göngrich (Germany), Fernando Llanos (Mexico), Eva-Christina Meier (Germany), Grace Passô (Brazil).
For more information and to visit it: https://ngbk.de/de/show/496/museo-de-la-democracia
The "Museum of Democracy" was inspired by a failed project of President Sebastian Piñera, canceled in December 2019. Its objective is to "examine, in a non-linear and historical-fictional way, the gradual process of 'erosion' or 'emptying' of the concept of 'democracy and its institutions, having Latin America as a reference for our collection." This fictitious institution aims to preserve, exhibit, and mediate the concept of democracy as if it were a phenomenon of the past or an endangered species.
The museum's current presentation is divided into three conceptual chapters:
1) Kiosk Plaza
2) Department of Opportunisms and Opportunities
3) Office of Dreams
The mission of the Museum of Democracy is to reflect on aesthetic independence and political co-dependence, from the pre-Columbian past, the Bolivarian liberating cries to the triumph of 'societies of control' (Gilles Deleuze).
In collaboration with artists, theorists, activists, museologists, and other actors, the museum presents a collection of 23 works, with which it seeks to preserve, interpret and exhibit different remains of the memory of a post-democratic society. In the museography of the Plaza del Kiosco, one can find videos, books, publications, a program based on forms of knowledge production that extends into talks, video projections, performances, readings, and workshops.
These are presented for three months at nGbK, online, and in the public space. Generating connections between historical and theoretical research material in a transdisciplinary dramaturgy, a hybrid between analog and digital, public and exhibition space, real and fiction, and we observe events of recent history and the present of Latin America, echo and mirror of global realities.
Artists in exhibition: Maria Thereza Alves (Brazil/Germany), Gustavo Artigas (Mexico/Canada), Arts of the Working Class (Germany), Marylin Boror Bor (Guatemala), Andressa Cantergiani (Brazil), Victor de la Rocque (Brazil), Andrés Durán (Chile), Valeria Fahrenkrog & MITKUNSTZENTRALE (Chile/Germany), Galería CIMA (Chile), Manuela García Aldana (Colombia/Germany), Zoltan Kunckel (Venezuela/Hungary), Jaime Lauriano (Brazil/Portugal), Cheril Linett (Chile), Julia Mensch (Argentina/Germany), Ana María Millán (Colombia/Germany), Marcela Moraga & Salvemos el río Renaico (Chile/Germany), UU./Cuba), Michael Wesely (Germany), Kiyoshi Yamamoto (Brazil/Japan/ Norway).
Artistic contributions to the program of events: Ana Alenso (Venezuela), Marilyn Boror Bor & VOCES de Guatemala in Berlin (Guatemala/Germany), Sara Buraya Boned (Spain), Cora Hegewald & Erik Göngrich (Germany), Fernando Llanos (Mexico), Eva-Christina Meier (Germany), Grace Passô (Brazil).
For more information and to visit it: https://ngbk.de/de/show/496/museo-de-la-democracia
