SCREEN at Bode Museum, Berlin (DE)
30.11.2023 -03.03.2024
Curated by Cäcilia Fluck and Daniel Milnes.
Architectural design in collaboration with
Loukis Menelaou.
A special exhibition by the Skulpturensammlungund Museumfür Byzantinische Kunst, StaatlicheMuseen zu Berlin. Museumfür ByzantinischeKunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
[...] The starting point of the exhibition at the Bode-Museum is an 18th-century iconostasis from the collection. As a dividing element ina Christian Orthodox church in Cyprus, the iconostasis once framed a series of depictions of saints and was positioned to conceal the sanctuary from the congregation in the nave. In this new work, Polyviou traces the extraordinary journey the iconostasis has made from the Mediterranean island to its present location within the Bode-Museum (currently featured in the exhibition Klartext, in room072/073). SCREEN explores how history can betold in new ways, using immersive digital media to create alternative and more poetic means of experiencing the stories connected with the object. [...]