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New Exhibition – Weaving Together Worlds

Saturday, 21. June 2025 bis Sunday, 14. September 2025

Opening: Saturday June 21 at 6 p.m.

Lisbeth

Exhibition with April Camlin and the Perlen Museum Berlin

The exhibition „Weaving Together Worlds” brings together the work of San Francisco based weaver and artist, April Camlin, with a historic collection of beaded funerary wreaths from the Perlen Museum Berlin. What role did embodied and collective practices such as beading, weaving and singing play in cultures of mourning 150 years ago? What can we learn from them today? How do people in mourning find community? Is it possible to “weave together worlds”?

Beaded funerary wreaths dating from late 19th and early 20th century Europe are presented in LISBETH´s Café space and Reading Room. This tradition of handmade wreaths, which were placed on graves each year on All Saints‘ Day and served as winter decorations until fresh flowers returned in spring, was banned in Germany in 1930. As a result, beaded funerary wreaths have fallen into oblivion and are rarely seen today.

April Camlin has created a woven room and sound installation in LISBETHs Guard House, inviting visitors into a meditative environment dedicated to the liminal space between worlds. In a sound piece created in collaboration with the Davis Threshold Singers, a local end-of-life choir, she weaves together memory, emotion and sensory experience.

 

This exhibition was made possible through a grant from the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation.

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