Photo: Maja Brand

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Nino is also an Assyriologist and Cuneiformist, that means she has studied ancient Mesopotamian history through cunieform texts written in Akkadian and Sumerian, now dead languages. Mesopotamia refers to a region in what is today Iraq, parts of Syria, Turkey, and Iran, with its heartland between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. It is among the first places where people began to settle in larger numbers (around 12.000 BC), where some of the first cities where built (5400 BC), and where writing – cuneiform – was invented. 

Through her curatorial research and work, Nino has especially explored the possibilities and challenges of exhibiting contemporary art together with ancient or historical objects. In this art talk, she will give us a brief introduction to Mesopotamian history, and how (and why) writing was invented. She will also tell us more about the questions and topics that the exhibition in the atrium reflects on (matters such as belonging, ownership, relationship and more) and tell us a little about her experience of creating this exhibition and the work of internationally acclaimed artist Michael Rakowitz, as it relates to this exhibition.