Museum of Shadows
With Thomas Thiel, director
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 a 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 experiential spaces.
Director Thomas Thiel will guide you through these rooms on Sunday, May 26 at 4 pm
Without registration. Ticket included in admission fee. In German spoken language
Diango Hernández, Il museo delle ombre, 2009, Contemporary Collection, MGKSiegen, permanent loan Circle of Friends, installation view © Diango Hernández, photo: Michael Wagener