The Bastion Queen show depot with unwanted objects of the culture of remembrance was created when the Spandau Citadel took over two larger-than-life bronze horses - often referred to in the media as "Hitler's Horses" - from 1939.
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Toxic Objects – Ein Denkanstoß
One of the horses was placed in the 2021 museum "Unveiled. Berlin and its Monuments" museum in 2021, while the second was placed in the Bastion, which had been converted into a storage and exhibition space. Other unwanted monuments and sculptures were added by various Berlin cultural institutions in order to exhibit them here and tell their story instead of making them disappear.
In terms of content, the Schaudepot ties in with the permanent exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments", but it sees itself as an experimental exhibition space. Every year, new curators from the fields of science, art and education are invited to create a new perspective on the objects.
This year, an exhibition by students of museology B.A. (HTW Berlin) will be shown: As part of their practical semester, they developed an exhibition concept that was shown publicly for the first time at the university in 2024 - now it is being implemented with the original objects.
The students have dealt intensively with current questions about dealing with problematic - "toxic" - objects:
How to deal with National Socialist, colonialist and racist sculptures from the past? Show them? Contextualize? Intervene? The result is an exhibition on the process of these negotiations with video installations and displays. Explanatory, but not instructive, it invites visitors to express their thoughts and wishes on the subject of "Toxic Objects"!
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Dates
May 2025
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