Around the World

"Weltreise. Forster – Humboldt – Chamisso – Ottinger" is the title of the Ulrike Ottinger exhibition that can be seen at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin from December 2, 2015 until February 27, 2016. But travelling with the world is equally one of the leitmotifs of Ottinger's cinematic work. As an "expediteur to the margins of our world's perception" (Christina Tilmann), someone who crosses boundaries between genres and categories, and a cinematic cartographer of regions both near and far and spaces real and imaginary, for her most recent exhibition project, Ottinger has set out on the trail of Adelbert von Chamisso in the northern Pacific. The visual worlds of this expedition form part of the Weltreise exhibition, as do travelogues, collections of notes, and artifacts from European research trips from the 18th and 19th century. To accompany the exhibition, we are presenting five works by Ulrike Ottinger as well as five journeys of discovery by other directors (from Chantal Akerman to Nikolaus Geyrhalter). The series will continue in January and February.