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Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
The special exhibition Religious Energy comes at a time when the public perception of religion and faith has undergone a great change. The role of faith in modern society and the relationship between religion and democracy are issues that confront individual believers, the various faith communities, and society as a whole. The exhibition examines the phenomenon of religion from three perspectives:
– How do religions appear in today’s society, and how do believers see the society around them?
– What holds religious communities together, and what are they like on the inside?
– How do the faithful experience their relationships to God, to gods, or to what they believe in, and what is it like to live without such relationships?
About 300 historic-cultural objects, art pieces and religious objects from international lenders illustrate the history and current issues, similarities and differences of religions. Opinions and point of views about current religious questions of believers and non-believers can be selected from numerous monitors in the exhibition. In addition different computer animations explain facts, terms and statistics around the theme religion.
The exhibition can be seen until the 5th June 2011 in Dresden.
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
After a construction time of almost six years the Albertinum in Dresden has been reopened. The building, which contains the New Masters Picture Gallery and the Sculpture Collection, had to be repaired and rebuild after the catastrophic flood of 2002.
Volker Staab, a Berlin architect, achieved the transformation of the flood trauma, which swashed into the depots of the Albertinum, into an architectural solution. He spanned the former inner court with a 76 m long steel construction and put there the huge depots – hence from the basement into a height of seventeen meters. The whole contorted house gained with this procedure a new centre and clarity.
In addition to these building measurements the concept was changed. With the move-out of the Green Vault and the Coin Collection to the Royal Palace the Albertinum now solely shows art from the Romantic up to the presence. The new exhibition rooms are shared by the New Masters Picture Gallery and the Sculpture Collection with paintings from Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter as well as sculptures from Baroque to the 21st century.
The Albertinum opens daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Entrance fee 8 Euros, with discount 6 Euros. Free entrance for children under 16.
(K. Michael)
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
All around the world the porcelain with the crossed swords is known, manufactured for 300 years in MeiĂźen. With two exhibitions Saxony celebrates the founding of the MeiĂźen Porcelain Manufacture 300 years ago. On the Albrechtsburg in MeiĂźen one can see the show “The Philosopher’s Stone” displayed on 1600 sqm exhibition space. The historic building served as the home of the porcelain manufacture from 1710 to 1863 with up to 800 employees.
Furthermore in the Japanese Palais in Dresden opened the exhibition “Triumph of the Blue Swords”. It unites about 800 precious porcelains, amongst them vases, coffee services, chocolate cups and tobacco tins. The exhibits provide the visitors an overview of the time between Baroque and Biedermeier. Next to the inventories of the Dresden State of Art Collections there are also national and foreign items on loan.
On 23rd January 1710 Augustus the Strong proclaimed in a decree the founding of the porcelain manufacture. For a long time porcelain had to be imported expensively from China. The alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682-1719) succeeded in producing the European Porcelain – the “White Gold”.
(K. Michael)
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Thanks to their taste of fashion, collecting passion and aspiration after princely presentation of power the artistic prince electors of Saxony created from the 16th to 19th century an oriental treasure room. The so called “Turkish Chamber” presents on 750 m² about 600 objects such as costumes, showy weapons and exquisite oriental equestrian accoutrements, precious materials and Ottoman tents.
All exhibits are connected to fascinating stories which you could come to know after a tour with DresdenWalks. This new permanent exhibition situated in the Royal Palace utilizes the latest exhibition techniques and creates a special atmosphere, which turns your visit into an unique experience.
(K. Michael)
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Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Barely one artist has been hailed as Tizian for his portraits. The Venetian Renaissance painter (around 1488 – 1576) was in demand all over Europe: emperor, princes, aristocrats, and rich clients acted as a model for him. The “Lady in White” is one of the most graceful but also one of the most mysterious paintings. This studio exhibition is devoted to the restoration of Tizian’s “Lady in White” and will explain difficult working steps of the conservator as well as painting techniques of the artist.
In addition to this special exhibition there is now an extensive Cranach presentation. Lucas Cranach was one of the most important German painter und graphic artist of the Renaissance. Dresden owns the biggest body of his paintings worldwide, which can be enjoyed now for several months. This exhibition shows all the essential works of Cranach the Elder and the Younger.
The collection will be taken over by a Vermeer exhibition in September.
(K. Michael)
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
This presentation, designed by the artist and his wife, contains in particular works, which were created within a strong controversy with Dresden and its history. The strength of choice is the thematic emphasis – not seen like this before and different from other survey exhibitions.
In central position in the Semper Gallery, in the Gobelin Hall, two big groups of works will be shown from the oeuvre of Georg Baselitz from 18th January to 27th February 2010.
The main work about the German history absorbs a defining event, not only in the memory of the artist: the destruction of Dresden and the in a fire apotheosis flashing end of the Second World War.
Attached to this exhibition core are presented in the adjacent rooms paintings and drawings such as “Evening Meal in Dresden” and “The Bridge Ghost’s Supper”. They show as well the reference of Baselitz to the Christian picture tradition as his artistic role models, among others Edvard Munch and the artists of the BRÜCKE.
(K. Michael)
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
Not only Dresden has to offer a lot during the winter months, but also the palaces and landscapes in its surroundings. Thus, the hunting lodge of Augustus the Strong provides besides a charming landscape, the paradise in a nutshell (little pheasant castle), a permanent exhibition about the courtly hunt now also a show about the German-Czech cult film “Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella”.
The Baroque palace served in the 1970s as a festal film set of the popular fairytale film. The show illuminates not only the magical backgrounds of the Cinderella story, but also presents original historical costumes and requisites. Therefore, first a tour with DresdenWalks in Dresden and afterwards up to a Baroque fairytale world.
(K. Michael)
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
The terracotta army from the grave of the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang Di comes to Dresden. The world famous warriors will be quartered in the Dresden Power Station “Kraftwerk Mitte”. From 21st November 2009 to June 2010 the exhibition will be presented.
This museum army consists of 180 life-sized terracotta figures – infantrymen, generals, officers and archers as well as eight horses. On a scale of 1:10 also a thousand soldiers are arranged on a battle field. Even though these are only reproductions they already impressed hundreds of thousands of visitors in four German cities.
(K. Michael)
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Sunday, November 8th, 2009
13th Festival For Computer Based Art Dresden
For all visitors of Dresden and our DresdenWalks guests as well, the festival for computer based art CYNEART takes place from 26th November to 6th December.
Within this event insights into the interdisciplinary and intercultural ways of thinking and working will be given. Furthermore new forms of cross-border communication and co-operation will be presented in the Festspielhaus Hellerau.
A multitude of events in the form of concerts, video and performance installations as well as computer games all aim to make the audience join in and experiment with the offered media environments for themselves.
(K. Michael)
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
The Japanese Palais presents this special exhibition on an area of 800 sq.m. with an overview of the different cultural landscapes in Amazonia. It thematises not only the origins and distinctivness but also the current situation of the natives of Amazonia. The exhibits come explicitly from Saxon collections. Next to cultural witnesses of long lost tribal cultures one can see pieces of tribes which were contacted for the first time just a few years ago. One basic concern of the exhibition is to point out that the preservation of the cultural diversity is very important, since the many small tribal cultures of the Amazonia also belong to the cultural heritage of humankind. 29th April 2009 to 27th March 2010
(K. Michael)
www.voelkerkunde-dresden.de
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