Δ EXHIBITION TOUR

Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?

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.

Further information about the exhibition here.

Follow us on Social Media @Weltkulturen.Museum with #GreyIsTheNewPink

€7 / €3,50. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ SENIORTOUR

7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ SPECIAL TOUR

“Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow – A Contemporary View on Historical Pictures”
With Leonie Neumann (research assistant Visual Anthropology)

Which images document age? How can age be portrayed in a historical and contemporary way? Which insights do films, videos and artworks provide on the processes of ageing?

The Weltkulturen Museum houses a wide-ranging collection of ethnographical images and films, systematically established since its foundation in 1987 thanks to donations, estates bestowed on it, and above all by constant acquisitions from scientists, photographers, journalists and travelers.

The exhibition tour will contextualize historical images from the Weltkulturen Museum’s image collection in relation to ageing and connect it to current visual statements from all over the world. This “photo story” will be complemented by artistic photo works in the exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK.

7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ EXHIBITION TOUR

Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?

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.

Further information about the exhibition here.

Follow us on Social Media @Weltkulturen.Museum with #GreyIsTheNewPink

€7 / €3,50. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

schließen

Δ EXHIBITION TOUR

Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?

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.

Further information about the exhibition here.

Follow us on Social Media @Weltkulturen.Museum with #GreyIsTheNewPink

€7 / €3,50. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

schließen

Δ EXHIBITION TOUR

Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?

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.

Further information about the exhibition here.

Follow us on Social Media @Weltkulturen.Museum with #GreyIsTheNewPink

€7 / €3,50. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ CONSERVATOR'S GUIDED TOUR

“Preserving the old: Anti-ageing in the museum”

How is a 100-year-old skull restored? How do you transport a four-metre-long Baining mask into the exhibition? And how do you preserve the bright hues of colourful feathers?

Mareike Mehlis answers these and other questions in a fascinating insight into the work of conservators and methods to slow the process of things ageing. Mehlis is conservator at the Weltkulturen Museum and completed her studies in “Conservation and Restoration of Archaeological, Ethnological and Artistic Objects” in Stuttgart with a diploma in restoration.

7€ / 3,50€. Costs of tour included in admission fee.
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ MATINEETOUR

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?

Every last Sunday, at  11am, we offer a Matinee Tour, which addresses  parents or grandparents and their children or grandchildren. While the older visitors are guided through our exhibition GREY IS THE NEW PINK, the younger visitors can enjoy fairytales from all over the world. Older readers will read to our younger 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

schließen

Δ EXHIBITION TOUR

Who is old – where and when? Can we meet the ‘challenge of ageing’ optimistically? And what potential lies slumbering in the process of aging?

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.

Further information about the exhibition here.

Follow us on Social Media @Weltkulturen.Museum with #GreyIsTheNewPink

€7 / €3,50. Costs of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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