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Wednesday, 3. April 2019 - 11:00
∇ SENIORTOUR
“GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing”
Seniortour for our older visitors
With Tobias BrendgenΔ SENIOR TOUR“GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Age(ing)”
Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?
On every first Wednesday in a month, at 11am, there will be an exhibition tour for older citizens, who require longer breaks during the tour. At certain stations in the exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK there will be possibilities to take a break or sit down for a while. The guides will adapt to the pace of the visitors.
Projections for global demographic trends are forecasting an increase in the world’s older population. The process of growing older is not just important for each individual, but has implications for the social and cultural spheres. Yet each generation ages differently. And when can we actually talk of someone as ‘old’ at all? Even if the visible biological aging processes are the same the world over, each culture has its differences in defining ‘age’. There is no universally valid definition of when ‘old age’ starts. So who is old – where and when?
GREY IS THE NEW PINK presents diverse ideas and models of ‘age(ing)’ from the perspective of cultural studies and the visual arts, as well as personal and individual experience. Like fragments in a lifetime’s memories, the exhibition combines into an anthology of aging the individual ways of dealing with such topics as lifestyle, love and sexuality, transmission of knowledge, longevity, illness, health, and death.
In the exhibition ‘age(ing)’ is explored internationally in photographs, videos, literature, drawings, as well as large-scale and multimedia installations and performances both in the work of scientists, artists and poets, as well as younger and older people from the general population. Numerous exhibits from the from the Weltkulturen Museum’s Africa, Americas, South East Asia, Oceania, Visual Anthropology collections and the library broaden the view of the subject.
7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
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Wednesday, 3. April 2019 - 18:00
∇ DANCE TOUR
“GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Age(ing)”
With the Ü60 dance club,
Petra Lehr (choreographer, Frankfurt)
and Christiane Lüder (accordeonist, Darmstadt)Δ DANCE TOURDance Tour in the exhibition “GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Age(ing)”
GREY IS THE NEW PINK reflects a new feeling for life which includes self-confident physical expression, especially as we age. Choreographer Petra Lehr and the Ü60 dance club from the Tanzplattform Rhein-Main take you on an unusual dance tour through the exhibition. Diverse facets of ageing, from love and wisdom to illness and death, are translated into performative choreographies accompanied by music by accordeonist Christiane Lüder. Inspired by the topics in the exhibition and the dancers’ own personal experiences, the feelings and hopes associated with maturing and ageing are performed and represented in movement.
Petra Lehr works as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor and is the founder of the co.lab.tanztheater (dance theater) in Frankfurt. She went to the Leonard Pitt School of Mime and Mask Theater (San Francisco), to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center (New York).
Christiane Lüder studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover and, among other activities, teaches at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. Some examples of her projects are her intense work with Tango Nuevo, performances and premieres of contemporary composers.
7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
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Sunday, 7. April 2019 - 15:00
∇ SPECIAL TOUR
“Maturing, Ageing, Dying”
With Mona SuhrbierΔ SPECIAL TOUR
Feather headdress. Kayapó-Xikrin, Amazonia, Brazil. Collected 1988. Collection Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Wolfgang Günzel.
“Maturing, Ageing, Dying”
Are the course of life and its development processes only a biological phenomenon? Or are the processes of maturing, ageing and dying also controlled by social and cultural concepts?
Mona Suhrbier, curator of the America collection at the Weltkulturen Museum, guides through the current exhbition GREY IS THE NEW PINK on the trails of ageing.
7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29
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Sunday, 7. April 2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
∇ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR
“Me on my 100th birthday”
Children sketch comics about their futureΔ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR“Me on my 100th birthday”
Children sketch comics about their futureHow do you imagine your 100th birthday? Who will be celebrating with you - and what presents wil lyou receive? What wil your world look like in a hundred years? After a short visit to the exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK, each of the children draws their own comic depicting their life in the future.
For children aged eight and above. €6. No registration required
Weltkulturen Vermittlung, Schaumainkai 29
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Wednesday, 10. April 2019 - 19:00
∇ EXHIBITION OPENING
“COLLECTION AS NARRATIVE - Wanzke's Artistic Journey Around the World”Δ EXHIBITION OPENING“COLLECTION AS NARRATIVE - Wanzke's Artistic Journey Around the World”
With the objects they collect, museums and collectors create narratives. While travelling around the world in 2016/17, Frankfurt artist Reinhard Wanzke collected 50 artworks. These could hardly be more diverse: They range from an abstract painting by Ugandan artist WASWAD to a 3D graffiti by Australian street artist Screw7oose and a hand-painted ceramic by the artist Wang Hongjun from China. In the Weltkulturen Labor, the entire collection compiled in seven stages, will be on exhibit for the first time, providing insight into the collector’s unique and personal experiences.
Curated by Reinhard Wanzke. Weltkulturen Museum: Julia Friedel (curator Africa)
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Sunday, 14. April 2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
∇ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR
“The Crocodile’s Bite – Tattoos and other signs of maturity”
With Severine MeierΔ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR
Children print T-shirts in the workshop. Photo: Weltkulturen Museum
“The Crocodile’s Bite – Tattoos and other signs of maturity”
What does it mean to enter new phases of life, and how do we celebrate these transitions? Are there any particular objects which accompany us when making the transition into a new phase?
Starting off with selected objects from Samoa and Papua New Guinea, which we discover in the exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK, we find out about our personal symbols of transition and print them on t-shirts or bags.
For children aged eight and above. €9 including materials. No registration required
Weltkulturen Vermittlung, Schaumainkai 29
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Saturday, 27. April 2019 - 15:00 to 17:00
∇ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR
“Satourday: Researching and Sketching”Δ WORKSHOP WITH EXHIBITION TOUR
Workshop in the exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK at the Weltkulturen Museum. Photo: Salar Baygan 2018
For over 100 years, the Weltkulturen Museum has been a home for research. But what do anthropologist actually research? What tools and instruments are needed today to see the world with ‘different eyes’?
We follow the footsteps of cultural researchers and take a journey of discovery through the museum. Remember to pack lots of imagination for the trip!
For families with children aged seven and above. Free. Registration required.
Weltkulturen Vermittlung, Schaumainkai 29
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