Jaan Toomik’s Dancers and the Shoe of Barberina
Blickwechsel: Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann / Rüstkammer
Two different forms of dance meet in the former audience chamber of Queen Carola. The shoe of the dancer Barbara Campanina shown here recalls evenings of entertainment at European courts. This context is embodied in the neighbouring ballroom which stands for order and ritual and references social dancing imbued with rules, hierarchies and courtly representation. This world is confronted with the video work by the Estonian artist Jaan Toomik.
- Exhibition Site Residenzschloss
- Dates 15/07/2026—19/10/2026
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Opening Hours
daily
10—17, Tuesday closed
- Admission Fees regular 18 €, reduced 13,50 €, pupils (under 20 years) 2 €, children up to school age free, groups (10 persons and more) 16 €
Bilder
Seit 1994
The artist, who started out as a painter, increasingly turned to video as an artistic means of expression beginning in 1994. His works, in which he often uses his own performances, centre around questions of memory and existence. Toomiks work “Dancers” from the year 1991 shows a group of dancers at the beach. From simple, repetitive movements, rhythm and reduced actions emerges a meditative structure which appears almost dreamlike. The apparent casualness of the recording along with the playfulness of the dance of this scene from leisure culture in everyday post-Soviet life create a counterweight to the strict representative expectations of a Baroque court. In the tension between the historical object and the contemporary video work, in the ballroom dance emerges as a form of living cultural memory and as a social practice in which traditions and memories commingle.
Blickwechsel series (change of perspective)
The Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann enters contemporary works into a dialogue with objects from the various museums of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, thus opening up new perspectives and levels of meaning for both the contemporary and the historical exhibits.
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