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Miracle of the Prairie
The artists’ collective zeitraumexit asked the question: What function does art have in the current political landscape? What kind of cultural organisation does an urban society need and want? This project was a radical, short-term experiment which...
Dance Congress
The Dance Congress, organized four times already by the Federal Cultural Foundation, shall receive funding in the future as a cultural institution of excellence. The last Dance Congress was scheduled in 2016 in Hannover and continued to be held every...
Theatertreffen 2018
The Berlin Theatertreffen is truly an Olympic event of German-language theatre. In accordance with its statutes, the festival invites the ten most remarkable theatre productions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Berlin in May every year. The...
2. Civic theatre festival
In view of the increasing prevalence of participative theatre forms in recent years, a debate about their aesthetic qualities appears timelier than ever. Above all, the question of whether their work will be regarded as a relevant art form in the...
Aging of synthetic bonding agents on murals
One hundred years ago, German scientists discovered Buddhist murals dating from the 5th to 12th centuries AD along the northern Silk Road in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (Uiguria) and brought them back to Berlin. These cave murals, now in the...
Umbrian panel paintings – Conservation and presentation
The Lindenau Museum in Altenburg owns 180 early Italian panel paintings, making it one of the most significant collections of such rare works in the world. The collection includes 27 Umbrian panels, including two by Pietro Perugino from the high...
Historic keyboard instruments in the collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar
The Klassik Stiftung Weimar has begun extensive conservation work on historic keyboard instruments dating between 1790 and 1850 – four fortepianos and a table piano - which paradigmatically demonstrate how the art of piano-making developed through...
Conservation of historic anatomical collections
The Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt owns extremely rare collections of anatomical and histological specimens. The KUR project conserved its Comparative Anatomy, Embryology and Histology Collections and...
ILKAR – Integrated solutions for the preservation, archiving and conservation of endangered magnetic tapes and cylinders
The music archive at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin owns a unique collection of traditional music from regions all around the world. The collection contains more than 30,000 wax cylinder records and almost 10,000 original field recordings on a...
Preserving a chapter of German photographic history 1945 - 1960
The German Photographic Library at the Saxon State and University Library in Dresden (SLUB) maintains an important photo archive of German art and cultural history. The KUR project aimed to preserve and publish all 68,000 film negatives which...
