PRESS RELEASE | 19 March 2024

New Temporary Exhibition: Loot. 10 Stories

22 March 2024-26 January 2025

In the exhibition Loot . 10 Stories, initiated by the Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Humboldt Forum presents ten case studies focused on looted art across three historical epochs: the Napoleonic Wars, the colonial era, and Nazi Germany. All the objects on show have their own provenance stories, which here stand in for countless others. In an artistic intervention, guest curators and creative directors Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill bring these stories to life using videos, virtual reality, and texts, showing possible approaches to objects like these in the museum context. Some of these artefacts are from Berlin collections in the Stadtmuseum Berlin, the Ethnologisches Museum, and the Gipsformerei (Replica Workshop).

humboldtforum.org/loot-10-stories

PDF

Loot. 10 Stories
PRESS RELEASE I STIFTUNG HUMBOLDT FORUM IM BERLINER SCHLOSS
Download
Quotes Loot. 10 Stories
PRESS MATERIAL | STIFTUNG HUMBOLDT FORUM IM BERLINER SCHLOSS
Download
Press Kit Loot. 10 Stories
PRESS MATERIAL | STIFTUNG HUMBOLDT FORUM IM BERLINER SCHLOSS
Download

Images

Loot. 10 Stories. Exhibition view
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Mauritshuis in Den Haag, Jongsma + O’Neill / Photo: Alexander Schippel
Loot. 10 Stories. Exhibition view in the Humboldt Forum
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Mauritshuis in Den Haag, Jongsma + O’Neill / Foto: Alexander Schippel
Exhibition "Loot. 10 Stories"
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Mauritshuis in Den Haag, Jongsma + O’Neill / Foto: Alexander Schippel
Exhibition view in the Mauritshuis, The Hague
© Mauritshuis
Exhibition view in the Mauritshuis, The Hague
© Mauritshuis
Guest Curators and Creative Directors Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill with Martine Gosselink, Director of the Mauritshuis
© Mauritshuis
Still from the VR Quadriga on top of the Brandenburger Tor
© Jongsma + O’Neill
Horse Head from the Quadriga of the Brandenburger Tor, 1793
© Stadtmuseum Berlin, Michael Setzpfandt, Berlin
Still from the VR Rembrandt
© Jongsma + O’Neill
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait, 1669
© Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Paulus Potter: Cows Reflected in the Water, 1648
© Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Jan Mijtens: The Marriage of Friedrich Wilhelm, Elector of Brandenburg with Louise Henriette of Orange in 1646, 1646
© Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Jean-Manuel Salingue
Group of silver objects (cutlery, rattles, bracelets, scissors), looted from Jewish Families Berlin, Stadtmuseum Berlin
© Stadtmuseum Berlin, Dorin Alexandru Ionita, Berlin
Group of silver objects (cutlery, rattles, bracelets, scissors), looted from Jewish Families Berlin, Stadtmuseum Berlin
© Stadtmuseum Berlin, Dorin Alexandru Ionita, Berlin
France Commode, ca. 1750, Stadtmuseum Berlin
© Stadtmuseum Berlin, Dorin Alexandru Ionita, Berlin
Plaster cast of a Benin bronze from the exhibition "Kunst als Beute. 10 stories"
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei, Foto: Thomas Schelper
Plaster cast of a Benin bronze from the exhibition "Kunst als Beute. 10 stories"
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gipsformerei, Foto: Thomas Schelper
Digital 3D model of ‘Cannon of Kandy’
© Jongsma+O’Neill
Kris, ca. 1800-1850, Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ethnologisches Museum, Martin Franken
Decorated staff with female figure, Suriname, ca. 1900
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Foto: Claudia Obrocki
Video still from the documentary about the Surinamese staff
© Mauritshuis Den Haag, Jongsma + O’Neill