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Digital Imaginaries – Africas in Production
Collective images can shape public perception of what Africa was, is and could become in the future. According to the postcolonial visionary Édouard Glissant (1928-2011), these different “Africas” can be described as a technological web of...
Chimurenga Chronic
A pan-African newspaper project In order to increase awareness of the art scenes and cultural debates in African countries, the Federal Cultural Foundation is cooperating with the art and cultural magazine “Chimurenga” for the first time as part of...
Signifying Ghosts
In seinem Werk „Marx‘ Gespenster“ entwickelt Jacques Derrida einen Diskurs des Gespenstischen, der eine mediale Figur des Dazwischen hervorbringt, „die eine Beziehung herstellt, ohne sich selbst fixieren zu lassen“. Das Projekt „Signifying Ghosts“...
Congo Stars
Like in many African countries, the contemporary art scene in the Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a dilemma with regard to how it is represented abroad. For decades, the global art market has defined Congolese art as “peinture populaire”....
TURN – Fund for artistic cooperation between Germany and African countries
In 2012, the Federal Cultural Foundation established the TURN – Fund for Artistic Cooperation between Germany and African Countries in order to encourage a wide range of German institutions to shift their focus on the artistic production and cultural...
Humboldt Lab Tanzania
In the historic heart of Berlin, curators are busy developing the new Humboldt Forum in the reconstructed Berlin Castle which features a unique combination of art, culture, education and science. The premises will also house the Ethnological Museum...
La nouvelle pensée noire / New black thinking
A “chefferie” is a political/administrative body which existed in numerous countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in pre-colonial times and still operates today according to its own rules alongside state organisations. A chefferie which can mean a group of...
More Aphrike
In her essay “Bye-Bye, Babar” (2005), the British author Taiye Selasi describes a new generation of cosmopolitans of African descent who feel as much at home in the metropolitan cities of Africa as they do in Europe or the United States. She calls...
Comédie?Humaine 21st
The East African country of Burundi has been entrenched in political crisis for years, marked by human rights violations, despotism and violent protests between opponents and supporters of the regime. How do people live from day to day in an...
Imagined Realities
For the project “Imagined Realities”, the Goethe Institut in Lagos invited the renowned Nigerian comics artist Laolu Senbanjo and the German author/illustrator Birgit Weyhe to develop a two-volume graphic novel. While Nigeria has a vibrant comics...