Memory Movers

Why do we actually collect all the images and objects, documents, stories and poems that are stored in archives? And what do they mean to us at a time when wars and totalitarian tendencies are unbalancing social structures in many parts of the world and ecological crises are on the rise?

In Memory Movers at the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, the Berlin-based artist duo Böhler & Orendt present an expansive installation with over a hundred archival documents from more than 50 archives. Using various technical means and aesthetic references to video games, Hollywood blockbusters and Greek mythology, they have developed a kind of interactive spatial narrative.

In front of three dark tunnel entrances, new and historic cars, bicycles, handcarts, mopeds, ice-cream vans and other vehicles wind and jam their way across the exhibition hall. They are heavily laden with boxes filled with archive objects from a wide variety of times and contexts, which the artist duo have selected for the exhibition. Photographic evidence of the anti-nuclear waste protests in Gorleben can be found alongside works by Hannah Höch, Kurt Schwitters and Marcel Duchamp or a Circus Roncalli Playmobil set.

Special digital audio guides whisper funny, touching, poetic and philosophical thoughts about the exhibits.

Last edited on 06.06.2025