Museum of Shadows
Welcome adress and introduction
Christian Spies, Peter Paul Rubens Foundation
Thomas Thiel, Director MGKSiegen
Afterwards DJ set by Altuu starting at 9pm
Free admission
Museum of Shadows (Il museo delle ombre) is the title of a spatial installation developed by Rubens Prize winner Diango Hernández in 2009 for his exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen. Personal experiences of his youth in Cuba, the feeling of darkness, fear and speechlessness, manifest themselves in a collection of bizarre shadow objects.
Based on this work, the exhibition brings together further works from the MGKSiegen collections, which bring light and shadow into the rooms of the MGKSiegen. In addition to photography, slide projection, video, drawing and sculpture, the works on display primarily combine the medium of light. Artificial light becomes the carrier of social, political and cultural stories, but also of individual world views. The selected works illuminate the museum from within and thus create special spaces for experience.
Museum of Shadows, Design: Tim+Tim, Berlin