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Interview with Antonia Voit & Karen Pontopiddan by Nina Moog
EXHIBITION MUC/ Schmuck
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Collaboration by Münchner Stadtmuseum and Akademie der Bildende Künste
Impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Münchner Stadtmuseum has been sitting in shuttered darkness, patiently waiting for visitors since last November. The forced closure did not stop the museum from carrying on with MUC/Schmuck, an exhibition created in tandem with the students in Professor Karin Pontoppidan’s class at Munich’s Akademie der Bildende Künste. Important historical themes like ‘flora and fauna’, ‘portraits’, ‘the spiral’, and more were selected for the students to explore from a contemporary vantage point. The inspiration of such thematic archetypes has resulted in some surprising new jewellery pieces from the students, which are further illuminated by their more traditional museum counterparts. With the hope that the Statdmuseum can reopen its doors soon, Current Obsession felt it important to shed some light on this joint project while we’re waiting. The following interview with Münchner Stadtmuseum curator Antonia Voit and Prof. Karen Pontoppidan reveals how both students and the curators reflected on the past to create a fresh, contemporary show. In the context of our current historical moment, rife with fresh challenges, Pontoppidan’s belief that the exhibition should be seen as an object-based analysis of postmodernity gains special relevance.
Interviews were carried out separately, in both German and English. They were combined and shortened for this feature.
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