Guest Curators and Creative Directors Eline Jongsma and Kel O’Neill with Martine Gosselink, Director of the Mauritshuis

© Mauritshuis

PRESS RELEASE | 31 May 2024

XR-History Award for Loot. 10 stories

The XR-History Award 2024 by Körber Stiftung’s eCommemoration programme goes to Loot. 10 Stories by Jongsma + O’Neill. This prize honors creative XR projects that skillfully combine elements of narration, art, and history to foster critical reflection on historical discourses and memory. The exhibition was initiated and developed by the Mauritshuis in The Hague in partnership with guest curators and creative directors Jongsma + O’Neill, and realised in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It has since captivated audiences at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, where it can be seen until 26 January 2025.

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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