Wandle auf Rosen und Vergissmeinnicht / Walk on Roses and Forgetmenots 

Braunschweig Landesmuseum, Germany, 2016

This exhibition was the result of a year long period of fieldwork in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. The show presented new works alongside objects from the museum's collection concerned with the understandings of desire and courtship. Some objects can represent not just historical desires, but contemporary ones too, highlighting our continuing fascination with the transparency of human sensuality, sexuality and ritual. 

The exhibition was the result of a year long period of fieldwork in the Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum. The show presented new works alongside objects from the museum’s collection, concerned with the understandings of folklore and courtship. The museum’s collection of folklore, contained many objects that had not been exhibited for many years. Objects were selected from this collection and presented alongside new works, installations and a peformance video that were created especially for the exhibition.

A catalogue of the exhibition was published in October 2016 with texts by Kirsten Bernhardt, Ingeborg Harms, Jasmin Meinold and Heike Pöppelmann. Wandle auf Rosen und Vergissmeinnicht / Walk on Roses and Forgetmenots, Braunschweigisches Landesmuseum, 88 pages, 2016. ISBN: 978-3927939806

[image credits: Anja Pröhle]