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Object Stories: Anna-Lisa Dieter and the Corals

Anna-Lisa Dieter is drawn to objects that tell more than they reveal at first glance. As curator of On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin, she developed the exhibition’s concept and narrative. Together with her colleagues on the curatorial team, she selected...

Object Stories: Lena Fließbach and the Rights for the Spree River

Lena Fließbach is particularly fascinated by exhibition objects that make social change visible. As she moves through On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin, the Humboldt Labor’s Curator for Outreach repeatedly finds herself drawn to two objects in particular: the protest posters...

Object Stories: Eileen Klingner and the Crayfish

From the series: “Object Stories: Meet the Team”   “These two crayfish always get me thinking,” says Eileen Klingner, pointing to two inconspicuous wet specimens in the section dedicated to river dwellers. As Curatorial and Management Assistant at the Humboldt...

5 Years of Humboldt Labor: One Anniversary, Many Perspectives

Humboldt Labor also marked the fifth anniversary of the Humboldt Forum with a special program bringing together science, art, and public engagement in many different ways. Throughout the day, visitors were invited to discover Humboldt Labor from a range of...

Beyond the Object: Exploring Water, Clay, and Collective Making with Dimitra Almpani-Lekka

In the On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin exhibit at Humboldt Labor, architect and researcher Dimitra Almpani-Lekka presents Cheimarros, a ceramic installation that explores how architecture might actively harvest, circulate, and share water within urban environments. Rather than proposing a finished...

Giving Materials a Second Life: The WasserGestalten Workshop

As the creator of WasserGestalten, the family workshop accompanying the exhibition On Water. WasserWissen in Berlin at the Humboldt Labor in the Humboldt Forum, artist Vitor  Garcia de Almeida invites children and their families to explore the relationship between water,...

Intervention on the GDR Art Holdings – A Student Research Project at the Humboldt Labor

In October 2024, the pop-up exhibition “Erziehung, Auftragskunst, ästhetischer Wille? Der DDR-Kunstbestand an der Humboldt-Universität” (Education, Commissioned Art, Aesthetic Will? The GDR Art Holdings at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) was held in the seminar room of the Humboldt Labor in cooperation...

The Humboldt Lab’s new website: Visual appearance as a formula

The Humboldt Lab combines science, exchange and the joy of experimentation – a concept that is aptly reflected in the lab’s new flexible visual identity. The special mixture of integration and independence led to the development of a visual design...

A Question of Perspective

Since its opening in July 2021, the exhibition After Nature in the Humboldt Lab has changed and evolved. In addition to new research stations and objects, new texts have been written by young people and students. With the help of...