Die Stimme der Berge - La voz de la montaña

In the organizer's words:

Opening of the artistic intervention La voz de la montaña with Yorleny Cardozo Peña

Yorleny Cardozo Peña is a Colombian artist and art educator who is developing the artistic intervention La voz de la montaña for the exhibition at the Ethnologisches Museum as part of her research fellowship in Berlin.

This is part of the collaborative educational project Schutzwesen - Die Superkräfte der Natur and aims to convey sustainable ecological awareness to children in Berlin and Colombia. A central aspect is the empowerment of children not to feel powerless against climate change and species extinction, but to strengthen their own "superpowers".

"The statues made of volcanic rock in the San Agustín Archaeological Park have animal features such as claws, fangs or wings. They not only represent the characteristics of nature, but also reflect its strength, protection and power. The realization of the magnificence in living beings has stayed with me and I have started to collect insects, seeds and leaves from the forest where the statues live. In my way of working, science and artistic associations go hand in hand. The workshop raises awareness of environmental protection, the preservation of cultural heritage and the importance of protecting forests as a complex ecosystem." - Yorleny Cardozo Peña

Cooperation project of education and mediation between the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH) and the Ethnological Museum.

Yorleny Cardozo Peña completed her Master's degree in Fine Arts at the Universidad del Cauca in 2012. She is currently studying for a Master's degree in Cultural Management and Museology and works as a mediator at the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (ICANH). In her work, she traces the collective memory of the communities around Pitalito, capturing people, cultures and their relationships with plants and animals through drawings and paintings, in nature and while traveling.

Yorleny Cardozo Peña is a CoMuse Fellow at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in February and March 2025.

CoMuse - The Collaborative Museum is an initiative of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst that aims to develop multi-perspective approaches to collection-based research and to test new formats for collaborative processes in order to sustainably intensify the decolonization and diversification of museum practice.

The CoMuse Fellowship program is supported by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which provides a studio for artistic and scientific research.

- free of charge

- Duration: 90 min

- Language: German, Spanish

- Mechanical arena in the foyer, staircase foyer room 210