Entrance to the special exhibition Songlines, holograms of traditional owners
© NMA / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Pressrelease | 16. June 2022
Opening of the exhibition Songlines and its supporting events at the Humboldt Forum
With the opening of the exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters, its accompanying programme of film screenings, discussions, guided tours and workshops will start tomorrow. Indigenous Australian representatives and artists featured in the exhibition are visiting the Humboldt Forum until 20 June 2022 and will provide a personal insight into various aspects of the exhibition and their artistic work. The 70th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and Germany was honoured at the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
The complete press release is available for download below.
Opening of the exhibition Songlines and its supporting events at the Humboldt Forum
Pressrelease | 16. June 2022
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Entrance to the special exhibition Songlines, holograms of traditional owners
© NMA / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
The artists Anawari and Jennifer Mitchel in front of figures of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Seven Sisters and Wati Nyiru, 2018, detail, figures of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Video projection in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
The Seven Sisters and Wati Nyiru, 2018, detail, sculptures by Tjanpi Desert Weavers
© Tjanpi Desert Weavers: “Seven Sisters und Wati Nyiru”, 2018, Detail, courtesy of NMA / © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: Nathan Mewett
The Seven Sisters and Wati Nyiru, 2018, detail, sculptures by Tjanpi Desert Weavers
© the artists / Tjanpi Desert Weavers / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: Nathan Mewett
Minyma Punu Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Tree-Women), 2018, figures of the Tjanpi Desert Weavers
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Visitors in front of the painting "Kungkarangkalpa – Seven Sisters", 2015, in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Visitors in the multimedia dome room of the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Video projection in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Visitor in front of the painting "Seven Sisters Songline", 1994, by Josephine Mick in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ceramics, 2016 in the special exhibition Songlines
© NMA / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Photo: Stefanie Loos
A performance of the Kungkarangkalpa: Seven Sisters songline inma (ceremony) at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra, 2013
© Image: National Museum of Australia
Artists from Tjanpi Desert Weavers let their tjanpi sisters fly, Papulankutja, Western Australia, 2015
© Image: Annieka Skinner, Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Martumili artists (l-r) Ngamaru Bidu, Kumpaya Girgirba and Ngalangka Nola Taylor standing in front of Yarrkalpa (Hunting Ground) near the Martumili Art Shed, Parnngurr, 2013
© Gabrielle Sullivan, Martumili Artists / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022
Anawari Inpiti Mitchell at the Tjanpi Desert Weavers camp at Papulankutja, Western Australia, 2015
© Image: Vicki Bosisto, Tjanpi Desert Weavers
Kata Tjuṯa (the Olgas), south-west of Alice Springs
© Christiane Keller, National Museum of Australia
Visitor stands in front of Minyipuru 2015 by Mulyatingki Marney, Martumili Artists
© the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: Nathan Mewett
Kungarangkalpa walka board by Malya Teamay, Maṟuku Arts
© the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: National Museum of Australia
Kuru Ala, 2013.0013.0001 (Vorderansicht)
© the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022, Image: National Museum of Australia