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Planetarium Hamburg is one of the world's oldest, and one of Europe's most visited. It is located in the former water tower, designed by Oskar Menzel and built between 1912 and 1915. However, it was only used as such until 1924, and subsequently converted into stars theater. Symbolically, water gave place to the sky. It is at the invitation of the Planetarium Hamburg in making, that the art historian Aby Warburg, together with his collaborators Gertrud Bing and Fritz Saxl, took upon a task of preparing an exhibition Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy. From his walks in the Stadtpark he wrote "The water tower in the city park seems to me to possess entirely unknown, and hitherto forcibly eclipsed, luminosity." He was working on it in the last years of his life, and the exhibition opened shortly after his death in 1930 with the inauguration of the Planetarium Hamburg.

In collaboration with its current director Björn Voss and his team, we exhibit the original exhibition Image Collection on the History of Astrology and Astronomy which was for long considered lost. It is curated by Uwe Fleckner and located in the spectacular Kesselsaal, which has been specially opened to the public for this occasion. The exhibition is part of the inauguration of the Stadtkuratorin project From the Cosmos to the Commons, with various contemporary positions orbiting both inside the building and across the Stadtpark. Some of the artworks can be also seen from the observation platform inscribed in the panoramic views of Hamburg.

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