08 March Invite to `Verweilen`: Slow Art Workshop with a Berlin Goddess
https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/goettinnen-und-gattinnen/
source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenstatue_mit_Granatapfel#/media/Datei:Berlin_Goddess-Altes_Museum.jpg
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 became the property of Soviet authorities, ending up at Pergamon Museum, among others. In GDR times, she must have traveled a lot over the centuries, enduring further transports for exhibits in Moscow and St.Petersburg, among others.
Celebrating International Women`s Day on March 08, 2025, in Berlin, invited us Berliners to linger around for in-depth observation, spending time to get to know the Berlin Goddess, and only her. Thank You, dear slow art experts at this workshop at Altes Museum Berlin! It was courageously and softly inspiring, we will come back more often, again and again!
There is quite a lot to DO here in Berlin at grey and somewhat cold November days, such as visiting one of the many museums like the New National Gallery, or the new ´museum of exile` at Anhalter Bahnhof under Herta Mueller`s patronage, see https://stiftung-exilmuseum.berlin/en.
