1 - Lange Nacht der Museen

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Front cover of Peter Tosh’s »Legalize It« (detail), 1976, Columbia Records. Photograph: Lee Jaffe, design: Andy Engel
The only hemp museum in Germany explores the
diverse uses of the plant and its significance for
different cultures across the world.
Permanent exhibition
The exhibition addresses cannibus genus from
various perspectives: its biological properties; growing,
harvesting and processing through history; its various
uses; its ritual significance in cultures across the
world and legal status as a narcotic.
special exhibition
Hemp in the Music of Various Cultures
The exhibition presents musical genres and styles
which are influenced by cannibus or its criminalisation.
Reggae is a Carribean example of the
sacral influence of marijuana on music; Greek
Rembetiko is much less well known, although it is
a European music style; many jazz songs centre
on the criminalisation of cannibus.
8.00 � 10.00 pm
Lecture (in German)
The musicologist Hans Cousto speaks on the Long
Night’s theme.
Music
Peter Simon will be filling the time between the
lectures with ethereal sitar sounds.
Refreshments
Hemp waffles and hemp tea
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Karl Goerlich, Aint no fun (detail), 2011
The gallery is dedicated to showing the diversity
of the contemporary art scene, complemented by
a programme of live performances, lectures and
film viewings.
exhibition
karl Goerlich and Claas Gutsche: The Golden
Curtain The display was conceived more as a
large joint installation than a classic exhibition,
bringing together new paintings by Goerlich and
murals by Gutsche specially developed for and
integrated into the gallery’s spaces. In Goerlich’s
works themes such as the origin and application
of power and violence play a significant role as
well as an engagement with colour, whilst Gutsche
uses black and white lino prints to convey the
abysses of the human psyche hidden under the
surface and behind the façade.
from 9.00 pm
Music
Dj Kiss Kiss, KK aka Karin Kruse
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