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CURRENT EVENTS
The Swedish government has decided to receive the collections of the Marionette museum as a donation, a successful end of a long struggle to reopen the world collections to the audience and handle them with the required knowledge. This knowledge will be transferred to a new generation of curators by museum founder Michael Meschke and its long-time curator Elisabeth Beijer Meschke.
The reopening of the museum is planned for spring 2010 on the premises of the National Stockholm Music Museum.
Marionettes created by Michael Meschke. Photo: Michael Kersten
Video artist and mime Helene Berg continuously experiments with chromaky-post-production procedures on selected figures. With her special technique, she transforms immobile objects into new, surprising movements and choreographical drama. The result may be an alternative to the traditional way of presenting puppet theatre.
Both Michael Kersten and Helene Berg will participate in future exhibitions.
Exhibition and other activities
2006 September through November, BERLIN : Puppentheater-Museum Berlin "Crossing borders, one hundred faces by Michael Meschke, German-Swedish puppeteer", at the occasion of the artist's 75th birthday
2006 December, PATRAS, Greece, European Capital of Culture 2006, "Puppets of the World ", seminars, workshops
2007 January - February: journey to BURMA and THAILAND in search of threatened traditions. August through November BANGKOK, teaching at Thammasat University, Michael Meschke theatre direction, Elisabeth Beijer Meschke stage design.
2008 September through January 2008 LUND, "China Year" at Kulturen i Lund, "Strings from the Middle Kingdom", the Asian collections of the museum
Always available: Photo exhibition he collection of giant photographs of Meschke´s puppets taken by Swiss photographer Michael Kersten.