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Alicja Kwade’s sculpture “Goldelse” (2021) can be seen in the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie from August 13, 2024. The 160 kg gilded bronze figure refers in form and content to the statue of Victoria, the goddess of victory, on Berlin’s Victory Column in Tiergarten, which Berliners call “Goldelse”.
Alicja Kwade (born 1979) created the sculpture “Goldelse” (2021) with the help of scanning technology photo-trigonometry and a 3D model in order to be as close as possible to the Victoria of the Berlin Victory Column (1864-1873) created by Friedrich Drake. Kwade removed the statue’s traditional symbols of power, such as her wings, the laurel wreath she holds in her raised right hand, the staff from her left with the Iron Cross and the eagle helmet. Without military equipment and martial gestures, Kwade’s Victoria has lowered her arms in contrast to the original. Kwade has adapted the size of the goddess of victory, who has been brought down to the ground, to human …
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Image above: Alicja Kwade, Goldelse, 2021 © Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Image credit: Photograph by Roman März.
