Palace of Memory
Mixed reality installation
Sat, 15 June 2024 – Sun, 16 February 2025
| 3 Euro |
| 12 years and older |
| English, German |
| Accessible for wheelchairs |
| Special Exhibition 1, Ground Floor |
| Opening hours Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun: 10:30 am – 6:30 pm Tue: closed |
The Palace of the Republic still exists today as a memory and history in the minds of many people. But memories are unreliable, incomplete and sometimes romanticised. They change over time. New images and narratives emerge.
The CyberRäuber are showing the “Palace of Memory” at the Humboldt Forum:The installation invites visitors to discover it on several levels: an expansive video projection of visual worlds on three screens transports them to the centre of a palace universe. A photo table provides an insight into the individual images. And in a 20-minute mixed reality experience for a maximum of 10 people at a time, real and generated palace objects enter into a dialogue.
Marcel Karnapke and Björn Lengers (Cyber Räuber) have been working together on art in digital space as CyberRäuber since 2016. With an “arguably unique mix of affinity for technology, pioneering spirit, pragmatism and love of theater” (Theater der Zeit), they create productions and projects that are driven by a great curiosity about the creative possibilities of technology and are shown in galleries, municipal theaters and at international festivals.
Gitti Scherer, born in Bad Aibling, studied stage and costume design at the Dresden University of Fine Arts. She has lived in Berlin and Stuttgart since 2001 and works as a scenographer and exhibition designer for theatres, museums and cultural institutions.
In the field of theatre, she has worked with directors Nurkan Erpulat, Elina Finkel, Carolin Pinkos and Simone Sterr for, among others: Deutsches Theater Berlin, Maxim Gorki Theatre Berlin and Burgtheater Vienna. The joint work with Nurkan Erpulat at the Gorki Theatre was awarded the Friedrich Luft Prize 2023. For the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, she regularly develops spatial concepts for festivals and workshops such as the Theatertreffen der Jugend and the Tanztreffen der Jugend.
In the field of exhibitions, her focus is on an interactive-performative approach. She has designed exhibitions for the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, the Kindermuseum Frankfurt am Main and the Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Potsdam, as well as visitor areas in the Gropius Bau and the Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin.
For the Humboldt Forum in 2022, she designed the exhibition and performance space for “VINYAGO – Dance beyond colonial biographies” for the Asedeva collective from Tanzania. She also designed the spatial installations for the digital and analogue opening of the Humboldt Forum in 2020 and 2021.