Offene Ausstellung: »Masses« von Ed Atkins

In the Rangfoyer of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Admission is free.

Ed Atkins is attracted to the costumes from the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s collection in a special way: the masses of different fabrics in their dense array on sober clothes rails are like a compressed storehouse of stories and memories. Each individual item of clothing would tell its own story if it were taken down from the rack: about the opera in which it was used, about the people who wore it and about the dreams that it triggers in everyone who looks at it. For him, this analogue part of his installation forms the counterpart to his video installations, which stage fragments of stories from today’s flood of digital media images, some bizarre, some disturbing. This tension between costumes, opera stories and current films forms the narrative core of Ed Atkins‘ work as a visual and narrative artist – he is also a contributor to the libretto of Rebecca Saunders’ world premiere of LASH on 20 June 2025 on the stage of the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Ed Atkins is one of the most versatile British artists of his generation and has attracted international attention as a visual artist, author and filmmaker. Ed Atkins lives and works in Copenhagen. Recent institutional solo exhibitions include ‘Refuse’ at Tank, Shanghai (2022), ‘Get Life / Love’s Work’ at the New Museum, New York (2021) and exhibition

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Am 5. Januar 2025 von 11-13 Uhr (Letzter Einlass um 12.40 Uhr)
Am 2. Februar 2025 von 11-15 Uhr (Letzter Einlass 14.40 Uhr)
Am 2. März 2025 von 11-15 Uhr (Letzter Einlass 14.40 Uhr)
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