Vernissage - The Back Of The Treasure

Welcome:
Janine Wolter, Bezirkstadträtin für Bildung, Kultur und Sport
Yolanda Kaddu-Mulindwa, Galerieleiterin

Introduction:
Jiaxing CHAO, Kuratorin

Lecture:
Natalia Zagorska-Thomas, Künstlerin

Nowadays, the cabinet of curiosities has become outdated and is no longer adequate for addressing the diversity and interconnectedness of contemporary art. It represented a quasi-cognitive state of the era, in which various objects were continuously accumulated from their initially chaotic state and organized into typologies.
In exploring these questions, the intriguing piece titled Throne of the Grand Mogul (the Treasure) by Johann Melchior Dinglinger from the Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden is especially notable. Founded by Augustus the strong of Poland and Saxony in 1723, this legendary collection is renowned for its unparalleled wealth of treasures.
Under the influence of its patronage ruler, this extraordinary piece displays an opulent installation on the front, while its backside features an imaginary Orientalist scene executed in a coarse technique, its unintentional eloquence demonstrates how the painter explored the virtual and the real.

The 48 Stunden Neukölln art and culture festival opens in Körnerpark at 7 pm.