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23/8/2007

Simone Mangos

Museum fur Fotografie, Berlin

The Ideology of Memory

In 1998, Simone Mangos began to research the grounds of the former ministerial gardens in Berlin, and to follow the development of the debate about the memorial for the murdered jews of Europe which was to be erected on the site. Her works on this topic look at the various stages of the memorial’s genesis, as well as the many controversies surrounding it.

In the exhibition at the Museum for Photography, Simone Mangos shows photographic works from her research. The large size of the central exhibition hall, the Kaisersaal, has inspired her to develop an installation which transfers a geophysical photo and the plans of an earlier building on the memorial site into the war-damaged space of the Kaisersaal. Reconstructed from archive shelves found in the museum, the installation creates a form of passage through the ruins of the Kaisersaal into history.

"The Ideology of Memory” makes a proposal for our way of dealing with memory: what do we select for commemoration, which form do we give our memories, and which results has our selection on the understanding of the past?

The exhibition is supported by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Since June 2004, the Museum für Fotografie (Museum for Photography) is part of the Kunstbibliothek (Art Library), situated under the same roof as the Helmut Newton Foundation at Jebensstraße 2 opposite the Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten.

The aim is to bring together the many different aspects of the photography found in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) in one single exhibition, research and documentation centre. Since summer 2004, the premises are re-build in serveral stages. In addition to exhibition galleries and archives, there will be a study and reading room with reference library, a restoration workshop and a education section with a photographic laboratory for demonstration purposes.

Image: without title, from the serie "So macht die Shoah richtig Spass" 2007 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2007

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