08 March Invite to `Verweilen`: Slow Art Workshop with a Berlin Goddess

https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/goettinnen-und-gattinnen/

The `Berlin Goddess` is just one of the pale and yet colourfully pigmented Godly statues you may visit at the current exhibition on `Goddesses and Wifes`. Almost 2 meter high, this female statue was discovered in the Greek city of Olympus in 1923 by a group of international archeologists. Her origin dates back to around 540 B.C. presumably holding a poppy fruit capsus in one hand … if it is a `she`: `… her hair is braided in the form of scalloped waves, and tied behind the ears as a double-fillet below the neck`… (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Goddess).

Having been rescued at the end of World War II in 1945, the Berlin Goddess become the property of Soviet authorities, ending up at Pergamon Museum, among others. In GDR times, she must have continued to travel a lot over the centuries, enduring further transports for exhibits in Moscow and St.Petersburg, among others.

So today, for March 08 2025 celebrating International Women`s Day, the workshop invited us Berliners to linger around for in-depth observation, to spend time getting to know the Berlin Goddess, and only her. Thank You, dear slow art experts, this was courageously and softly inspiring, we will come back more often, again and again!