Video Tours by Humboldt University Students

Taking a free and experimental approach, students from the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt University of Berlin developed and produced video tours as part of a seminar led by Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle, held in conjunction with the current exhibition Unicorn: The Mythical Beast in Art at the Museum Barberini.

Each video tour is based on a pair of selected works from the exhibition. Through their comparative analysis, these pairings offer distinctive insights and observations on the unicorn. The varied media, geographical origins, and historical contexts of the works, as well as the wide formal diversity of their representations, open up multiple perspectives from which to explore the unicorn’s poetic, symbolic, religious, natural-historical, and political meanings. The aim of the five- to ten-minute video tours was to translate art-historical inquiry into a format of mediation designed for a broader audience. In addition to engaging closely with the objects themselves, the students focused on critically reflecting upon digital forms of art mediation and on the question of how such formats can be explored in individual and diverse ways.

The video tours by Lydia Annone, Luis Valentin Beyer, Alice Böhme, Daria Felix, Stella-Marie Anouk Fintelmann, Amélie Luise Fischer, Lina-Marie Huckshold, Emma Jander, Leonor Maria, Johna d’Aguiar, Lotte Kammer, Julika Krügel, Robin Lange, Ekaterina Ruban, Bettina Schuler, Muriel Helene Seidler, and Celina Spitzer range from freely spoken guided walks through the museum to artistic film essays.