Exhibition from May 27 to September 01, 2024 (ground floor)
Vernissage on May 26, 2024, 6:00 pm

The exhibition "The Palace where fates get crossed" by Anna Borgman and Morten Stræde plays with the idea that Biesdorf Castle was actually once a castle.  It refers to the existing rooms of the late neoclassical villa, but gives them a new character between fictional history and real topicality. A mythological world populated with goddesses and mythical creatures is created.

The exhibition title refers to the book of the same name by Italian author Italo Calvino. The novel is set in a castle where strangers meet and tell each other their personal stories using the images of a tarot card game. The system of the card game creates structure and context for the stories. This mixture of an open set of rules and a clearly defined framework is one of the main inspirations for the exhibition project at Schloss Biesdorf.

A central component in Morten Stræde's oeuvre are references to concise works by earlier masters. In the exhibition, Stræde will show figurative sculptures, photographs and objects that combine historical quotations with contemporary elements. Morten Stræde sketches human existence in all its diversity, whether as a mud-throwing force of nature in "Mirror of Infinity" or as a sacred beauty in the photo series “Jardin, Garden, and Giardino Segreto".

Anna Borgman works primarily in the fields of installation, sculpture and photography. For this exhibition, she brings together mysteriously ambiguous, fairytale-like objects. Floor installations outline the life cycle of unknown creatures, fabric panels with heraldic motifs visualise the power structures often found in fairy tales.

The individual works in the exhibition can be put together in different ways to create new narratives, just like the tarot cards in Calvino's book.