Photographs, collages and plants in a pop-up exhibition at the Huguenot Museum Berlin
Silk is considered magnificent, exquisite, desirable - a myth that spans cultures and times. The legendary silk thread is produced from the cocoons of the Bombyx mori caterpillar, which eats the leaves of the mulberry tree. The cocoons are boiled, unwound and made into cloth for clothing and interior design.
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Seidenstillleben aus dem Projekt "Maulbeerbaumstadt"
Seidenstillleben aus dem Projekt "Maulbeerbaumstadt"
Silk culture originated in China and was kept a closely guarded secret there for centuries before the knowledge, including biological materials, reached Europe via the Silk Road.
The Huguenots, who came to Berlin and Brandenburg as specialized professionals and brought new processing methods with them, had a major influence on silk cultivation. Mulberry plantations were established here in order to produce silk independently of imports.
Some of the trees still stand near churches or former Huguenot institutions, such as a 300-year-old mulberry tree next to the former French Hospital near Friedrichstrasse.
Silk scarf, mulberry tree leaf and Huguenot cross:
The photographs in the exhibition visualize silk as a journey through time and a homage to baroque still lifes in order to visualize an enriching cultural transfer. The collages address the green contemporary witnesses and living monuments in Berlin, partly playfully using AI and partly in a documentary mapping style. In vitro plants point to the future.
The works in the pop-up exhibition "Mulberry Tree City" in the Huguenot Museum in Berlin were created with students from the Berlin University of Technology and the Humboldt University of Berlin in the interdisciplinary, cross-university teaching, learning and research project "Agritecture".
Additional information
Price: €6.00
Reduced price: €4.00
Reduced price info: Single Admission under 18 years free
Pupils and students in supervised school lessons pay 2.50 euros per person
