Taking part will be:
The initiator of the exhibition, Bazon Brock, has collected souvenirs from museum shops all over the world. Where a few years ago only entrance tickets and postcards of exhibits were sold, there is a cultural supermarket today. In view of their low funds hardly any museum is still able to do without this lucrative source of income.
The range of souvenirs includes candy portraits by Goethe and Schiller from the museums of Weimar, inflatable cushions with representations of Mona Lisa from the Louvre, and collections of brooches with motifs by Picasso, Chagall, and Warhol. There are no limits to imagination and "good taste." It doesn't matter if the one is considered as kitsch and the other as art. Planning the exhibition, Brock was not interested in this fluid transition, but was rather looking for the similarities of the objects with religious devotional pieces.
The parallel between an auction of clothes owned by Elvis Presley at Sotheby's in London and the medieval trade with relics has often been mentioned. The fact that today we also worship supposed autonomous works of art like religious symbols, and even attribute a devotional influence to their mere reproductions becomes obvious in this exhibition.
In view of the given occasion, the German Historical Museum will also start with the production of a series of "souvenirs". The beginning will be marked by three copies of small sculptures from its collections. They will be available from the end of March at the counter in the main entrance hall of the museum (or simply order on-line).
Free entrance
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