Exhibition View , © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
Inés Doujak: “Witches”, Exhibition View , © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
Culture and Arts Museum of Migrant Workers: Installation of the museum , Exhibition View , © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
Exhibition view, © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch
León Ferrari: 1492 - 1992. Quinto Centenario de la Conquista , Installation; shelf with more than 130 bottles and objects , © Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Photo: Sebastian Bolesch

Exhibition

The Potosí Principle

How Can We Sing the Song of the Lord in an Alien Land?

Fri, Oct 8, 2010–Sun, Jan 2, 2011
Fri, Oct 8, 2010
11 am
Admission: 5 € / 3 €
Sat, Oct 9, 2010
11 am
Admission: 5 € / 3 €
Sun, Oct 10, 2010
11 am
Admission: 5 € / 3 €
Mon, Oct 11, 2010
11 am
Admission: 5 € / 3 €
Wed, Oct 13, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Oct 14, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Oct 15, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Oct 16, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Oct 17, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Oct 18, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Oct 20, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Oct 21, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Oct 22, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Oct 23, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Oct 24, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Oct 25, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Oct 27, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Oct 28, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Oct 29, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Oct 30, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Oct 31, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Nov 1, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Nov 3, 2010
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Thu, Nov 4, 2010
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Fri, Nov 5, 2010
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Sat, Nov 6, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Nov 7, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Nov 8, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Nov 10, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Nov 11, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Nov 12, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Nov 13, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Nov 14, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Nov 15, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Nov 17, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Nov 18, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Nov 19, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Nov 20, 2010
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Sun, Nov 21, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Nov 22, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Nov 24, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Nov 25, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Nov 26, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Nov 27, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Nov 28, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Nov 29, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Dec 3, 2010
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Sat, Dec 4, 2010
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Sun, Dec 5, 2010
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Mon, Dec 6, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Dec 8, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Dec 9, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Dec 10, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Dec 11, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Dec 12, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Dec 13, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Dec 15, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Dec 16, 2010
11 am
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Fri, Dec 17, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Dec 18, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Dec 19, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Dec 20, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Dec 22, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Dec 23, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Dec 25, 2010
11 am
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Sun, Dec 26, 2010
11 am
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Mon, Dec 27, 2010
11 am
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Wed, Dec 29, 2010
11 am
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Thu, Dec 30, 2010
11 am
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Sat, Jan 1, 2011
11 am
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Sun, Jan 2, 2011
11 am
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The Potosí Principle

At the beginning of the 17th Century, Potosí was one of the largest cities in the world - comparable to London or Paris. During the Spanish colonial rule, enormous quantities of silver were shipped from Potosí to Europe, thus giving the early capitalist system a tremendous push, and initiating the start of the modern era.

During the Counter-Reformation, this dynamic triggered a mass production of images, not only in Spain, but also in the Viceroyalty of Peru. The exhibition “The Potosí Principle” traces the circulation of money and art, which developed during that period. A selection of images from the “Andean Baroque” enters into dialogue with contemporary works of art which make reference to the present: whether it is the migrant workers in China who made the economic miracle there possible, or the economic power Dubai, which - with the help of cultural managers from Europe - seeks to reinvent itself as an art metropolis.The tour of the exhibition projects a kaleidoscope of a globalized society in which the principle of exploitation is still as prevalent as it was in the early days of modernity.

Curators: Alice Creischer (Berlin), Max Jorge Hinderer (Berlin / Santa Cruz de la Sierra), Andreas Siekmann (Berlin)

With works and contributions by:
Sonia Abián (Barcelona/Posadas), Anna Artaker (Vienna), Monika Baer (Berlin), Quirin Bäumler (Berlin), Christian von Borries (Berlin), Matthijs de Bruijne (Amsterdam/Beijing), Chto delat (Moscow/St. Petersburg), Culture and Arts Museum of Migrant Workers (Beijing), CVA/TIPPA (London), Stephan Dillemuth (München)/Konstanze Schmitt (Berlin), Ines Doujak (Vienna), Elvira Espejo (La Paz), Marcelo Expósito (Barcelona/Buenos Aires), Harun Farocki (Berlin), León Ferrari (Buenos Aires), María Galindo/Mujeres Creando (La Paz), Isaías Griñolo (Huelva), Luis Guaraní (La Paz), Sally Gutiérrez Dewar (Madrid), Zhao Liang (Beijing), Rogelio López Cuenca (Barcelona), Eduardo Molinari (Buenos Aires), PRPC (Plataforma de Reflexión sobre Políticas Culturales, Sevilla), David Riff/Dmitry Gutov (Moscow), Territorio Doméstico (Madrid), The Long Memory of Cocaine research group (La Paz/London/Berlin)

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The exhibtion ist accompanied by the catalogue "The Potosí Principle" (Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2010)