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Handle with Care – Eine Ausstellung über Erzählungen, Gefühle und Perspektiven aus der Migrationsgesellschaft

The fourth and final DOMiDLabs exhibition is coming!

Pride, joy, nostalgia, but also sadness, melancholy and anger: sometimes it's objects, sometimes situations, sometimes stories that can suddenly trigger intense feelings - both positive and negative.

Based on the DOMiD collection and with a focus on the migration museum being created in Cologne-Kalk, the fourth DOMiDLab brought together people from urban society (new and former DOMiDLab participants), the exhibition designers from Studio Quack, Deniz Weberas co-curator and the DOMiD project team to work on the following questions: How can objects and stories that trigger strong emotions - both positive and negative - be sensitively displayed in an exhibition? How can a museum be designed that captures emotions, responds to them and gives them space?

The result of the collective, participatory work is Handle with Care – Eine Ausstellung über Erzählungen, Gefühle und Perspektiven aus der Migrationsgesellschaft. The exhibition is dedicated to different migration stories and the feelings associated with them. "Handle with Care" offers space for your own emotions and invites you to share your own perspectives and react to what is shown.

The exhibition can be seen from 12.10.2024 in the project rooms GOLD+BETON and Geimende Köln.

Handle with Care is written in large black letters in the middle against a pink, cloudy background. To the right is the subtitle Eine Ausstellung über Erzählungen, Gefühle und Perspektiven aus der Migrationsgesellschaft.  The Lab #04 logo can be seen at the top right. At the top left is the exhibition date 12.10. to 28.11.24 and the exhibition venue GOLD+BETON and Gemeinde Köln, Ebertplatzpassage Köln.

Duration: 12.10. - 28.11.2024

Exhibition Opening: Friday, 11.10.2024, 6 pm to 9 pm

Exhibition venue: GOLD+BETON and Gemeinde Köln, Ebertplatzpassage, Cologne

Opening Hours
Mon - Fri: 4 pm to 8 pm
Sat - Sun: 1 pm to 8 pm

Private group tours (max. 15 participants) on request at labs@domid.org

Admission and participation in events free of charge

Program

#1 Friday, 11.10.24, 6pm – 9pm | Exhibition Opening

Exhibition Venue: GOLD+BETON and Gemeinde Köln, Ebertplatzpassage, 50668 Cologne

#2 Sunday, 20.10.24, 2:30pm | Guided tour in the exhibition Handle with Care

Meeting point: GOLD+BETON, please register until 18.10.2024 at labs@domid.org (max. 15 participants)

Staff from of the DOMiDLabs project will guide you through the exhibition. Participation in the event is free of charge.

#3 Saturday, 02.11.24, 7pm - 2am | Museumsnacht Köln

Location: GOLD + BETON and Gemeinde Köln, Ebertplatzpassage, Cologne

07:00 pm - 02:00 am: Büro für museale Beschwerden (Office for Museum Complaints) – Is there something that you've always wanted to tell museums? As part of the exhibition “Handle with Care”, you have the chance to express your complaints. At the not quite official Büro für museale Beschwerden, all complaints submitted are accepted, taken seriously - and perhaps processed! Because: We at DOMiD are founding a migration museum and would like to learn from your experiences in order to make it better - yes, ideal! We look forward to your complaints!

07:30 pm: Guided tour – The DOMiDLabs team will guide you through the participatory exhibition at GOLD+BETON and Gemeinde Köln. (45 minutes)

22:00 pm: Guided tour – The DOMiDLabs team will guide you through the participatory exhibition at GOLD+BETON and Gemeinde Köln. (45 minutes)

All information about the Museumsnacht Köln can be found here.

Trigger Warning! Sensitive Objects and Topics in a Multi-Perspective Exhibition

In its exhibitions and programs, DOMiD deals with topics such as racism, war, flight and persecution. The objects on display and the stories told require both a critical and sensitive approach.

Over the years, the DOMiD team members have experienced a wide range of reactions themselves and in discussions with exhibition visitors and workshop participants. Sometimes it was objects, sometimes situations, sometimes topics, sometimes stories that suddenly triggered intense emotions.

In this context, Lab #04 “Trigger Warning” posed the following questions: How can objects and stories that trigger strong feelings be sensitively displayed in an exhibition? Where do we encounter these feelings, with which senses do we experience them? How can we capture feelings, react to them, give them space? How can we as a museum find a creative and spatial way of dealing with them?

In the project DOMiDLabs: Labs for Participatory Museum Design, different people come together in four labs. Their common goal is to develop design concepts based on various topics that will help the Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration in Germany (DOMiD) to establish a multifaceted migration museum in Cologne-Kalk. The DOMiDLabs project is being funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation from 2021 to 2024.

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