Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

2020, Sep 4 — Nov 30

In the 1920s, the historian of art and culture Aby Warburg (1866-1929) created his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne tracing recurring visual themes and patterns across time, from antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond to contemporary culture. His approach provides inspiration for today’s visually and digitally dominated world. At HKW all 63 panels of the Atlas will be recovered for the first time from Warburg’s original images.

To project

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A Kind of World War

A Film Essay by Anselm Franke & Erhard Schüttpelz English original version Premiere: Feb 23, 2021

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Interrogating the Atlas – Episode 1 (German)

With Claudia Wedepohl, Erhard Schüttpelz, Axel Heil, Roberto Ohrt German original version

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Interrogating the Atlas – Episode 3 (German, English)

With Steffen Haug, Roberto Ohrt, Giovanna Targia, Johannes von Müller, Tullio Viola Original version

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Interrogating the Atlas – Episode 2 (German)

With Axel Heil, Roberto Ohrt, Johannes von Müller, Erhard Schüttpelz, Claudia Wedepohl German original version

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Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne

The Original Exhibition, conference, publication Sep 4–Nov 01, 2020