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The House of the Falling Bones
The project “The House of the Falling Bones. Hansel and Gretel with the Hottentots”, organised by HDHK GbH, is a joint project by the bands Khoi Khonnexion (Cape Town) and Kante (Hamburg) about “migrated” fairy tales, animism and the decolonisation...
Flight and Migration from African Perspectives
Flight and migration are among the most pressing and controversial topics of our times. In Germany, European viewpoints are often the most prominent in political and artistic debates, while African perspectives often fall to the wayside. This is...
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...
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...
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”....
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...
Shifting Realities
The map of the dance world is expanding at an unprecedented speed. Contemporary dance has become more globalised and its aesthetics more multifaceted. In order to reflect this development, the project “Shifting Realities” facilitated encounter and...
Talking about Sahel
Since Muammar al-Gaddafi was overthrown in 2011 during the Arab Spring uprisings in Libya, the Sahel region has struggled to regain stability. It has become the scene of assassinations and hostage-takings, a centre of the weapons and drug trade, and...
Künstliche Tatsachen / Artificial Facts
Kunsthaus Dresden - Municipal Gallery for Contemporary Art launched a trans-national research, art and exhibition project "Artificial Facts", in conjunction with a group of artists, ethnologists, historians and curators from South Africa, Benin and...
