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Mulberry town
Photographs, collages and plants in a pop-up exhibition at the Huguenot Museum Berlin
Seidenstillleben aus dem Projekt "Maulbeerbaumstadt"
© Eliz Opitz
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Seidenstillleben aus dem Projekt "Maulbeerbaumstadt"
© Lara Jessen
Silk is considered magnificent, exquisite and 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. Silk culture originated in China, where it was closely guarded as a secret for centuries before the knowledge and biological materials reached Europe via the Silk Road.
The Huguenots, who came to Berlin and Brandenburg as specialized experts and brought new processing methods with them, had a major influence on silk cultivation. Plantations of mulberry trees were established here in order to produce silk independently of imports. Some of the trees can still be found today 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 homage to baroque still lifes in order to visualize an enriching cultural transfer. The collages thematize the green contemporary witnesses and living monuments in Berlin, partly playfully with AI and partly documentarily mapping them. In vitro plants point to the future.
The works in the pop-up exhibition "Mulberry Tree City" at the Hugenottenmuseum Berlin were created with students from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the interdisciplinary, cross-university teaching, learning and research project "Agritecture".
The Huguenots, who came to Berlin and Brandenburg as specialized experts and brought new processing methods with them, had a major influence on silk cultivation. Plantations of mulberry trees were established here in order to produce silk independently of imports. Some of the trees can still be found today 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 homage to baroque still lifes in order to visualize an enriching cultural transfer. The collages thematize the green contemporary witnesses and living monuments in Berlin, partly playfully with AI and partly documentarily mapping them. In vitro plants point to the future.
The works in the pop-up exhibition "Mulberry Tree City" at the Hugenottenmuseum Berlin were created with students from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the interdisciplinary, cross-university teaching, learning and research project "Agritecture".
Runtime: Sat, 24/08/2024 to Sat, 12/10/2024
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
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
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