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museen DAHlem
– museum füR AsIAtIscHe Kunst
The Goddess Durga Mahishasuramardini (detail), North India, around 300AD © Museum für Asiatische Kunst SMB. Photograph: Iris Papadopoulos
The East Asian art collection and the Collection
of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art combine
to form one of the most important collections
worldwide of art from the Asian cultural sphere,
dating from the 4th millennium BC to the current
day.
special and visiting exhibitions
Ai Weiwei, Tea House, 2009
The Tea House is an iconic work by China’s most
famous living concept artist, Ai Weiwei (born in
1957 in Beijing). It consists of 378 cubes and 54
prisms of compressed Pu’er tea, surrounded by a
lawn of scattered tea. The combination of extreme
simplicity and massive presence, made only more
intense by the scent from the raw material, creates
both sensory poetry and conceptual inspiration.
• Continuity and Change – Images and Objects
from Modern and Pre-modern Japan
• Actors‘ Masks from Osaka
• Ducks on the Pond: Flowers and Birds in
Chinese Painting
• Holy Mountains, Lofty Peaks: Mythical Lands
capes in 20th Century Chinese Painting
• kashmir in 19th Century Photography
Programme for families (in German)
6.00–10.00 pm
Bagh-chal und Co.: South Asian Variants on the
European Fox and Geese Game,
with Britta Schneider
Between Cape Comorin and East Tibet there are
numerous variants on the European »Fox and
Goose« strategy game. Visitors turn into goateating
tigers, elephant-riders or a monk struggling
against local princes – the workshop offers the
opportunity to play and to make your own game
board.
6.00–10.00 pm
Chinese Calligraphy with Brushes and Ink,
with Anna Hagdorn and Matthias Nothacker
Calligraphy has as great a significance as
painting in East Asia. The management of the
lines and the form of the characters are not only
an expression of different aesthetic concepts, but
Ai Weiwei, Tea House
(detail), 2009. Compressed
Pu’er tea, on loan from
Dieter und Si Rosenkranz.
© Museum für Asiatische
Kunst SMB. Photograph:
Jürgen Liepe
give evidence of the writer’s personality. Brushes,
ink and rubbing stones are available for visitors
to try out their own Chinese characters under the
guidance of experts.
Guided tours (in German)
6.00 pm
Invitation to Veneration of Buddha: The Stupa
Gate from Sanchi
Guided tour for the blind and partially sighted,
with Anja Winter
7.00 pm
Indian Worlds of the Gods
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