Sensitive Objects and Topics in a Multi-Perspective Exhibition
In its exhibitions and programs, DOMiD deals with topics such as racism, war, flight and persecution. The objects on display and the stories told require both a critical and sensitive approach. Over the years, the DOMiD team members have experienced a wide range of reactions themselves and in discussions with exhibition visitors and workshop participants. Sadness, nostalgia, anger, shame, but also pride, melancholy and joy: sometimes it was objects, sometimes situations, sometimes topics, sometimes stories that suddenly triggered intense emotions - both positive and negative.
With focus on our nationwide migration museum being created in Cologne-Kalk, Lab #04 "Caution Trigger" poses the following questions: How can objects and stories that trigger strong feelings be sensitively displayed in an exhibition? Where do we encounter these feelings, with which senses do we experience them? How can we capture feelings, react to them, give them space? How can we as a museum find a creative and spacious way of dealing with them?
As the DOMiDLabs team, we dream of a space that, in the best case scenario, shows us what we long for in a society: A little more compassion.
Deniz Weber is the curator of Lab #04 and Studio Quack is responsible for the design and construction of the final exhibition.
Deniz Weber
Photo: Laurenz Bostedt
Deniz Weber is an art director and concept developer. In his work, he combines design and social aspects to create new synergies. In the past, he was responsible for the conception and realization of the participatory art and culture strategy of the HANGAR1 project. Supported by the Fonds Soziokultur, HANGAR1 was a platform for encounters and civic engagement at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. He has also realized projects for the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, the Berlin art laboratory S 27, the Zentrum für Aktion, Kultur und Kommunikation (zakk) and the Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf. As the founder of the multi-local collective _thek, Deniz Weber has been creating temporary, modular "spaces for exchange" at various locations and on various occasions since 2016 and, together with a team, launched the non-profit project Solidari_thek. Deniz Weber lives in Cologne.
Studio Quack – Bricolage é Urbanisme
The collaborative workstructure Studio Quack – with Pauli Muszi, Jan-Philipp Neuer and Thomas Quack – works at the intersection of art, design and architecture. Their profession is temporary installations, interventions in public space, graphic and exhibition design. They are focused on the experiment and a sustainable use of materials. These materials are reused or leftovers. Depending on the location and the task, the approach, the object and the materials change. Studio Quack works throughout Europe with artists, architects, artisans, and institutions on human scale projects which are deeply rooted in the local condition of changing both the original character of the place and the perspective of the spectator.
