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KINSHASA Collection
Despite the precarious living conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the ongoing armed conflicts in the eastern half of the country, the capital of Kinshasa has established itself as one of the leading fashion metropolises on the...
Acting Archives
The project “Acting Archives” offers an interdisciplinary platform of exchange and collaboration between Ethiopian, German and international artists and theorists on the subject of artistic research and archiving. The project included two symposia...
Mambo Moto Moto
The Rudolstadt Dance & Folk Fest (TFF) in Thuringia is Germany’s largest and most famous world music festival. The 2014 TFF festival, titled “Mambo Moto Moto – Music from Tanzania”, presented the latest trends in the urban music scenes of Dar es...
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...
Afropean Mimicry & Mockery in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts
... in Theatre, Performance & Visual Arts Mimicry and mockery form a common thread which runs through centuries of African-European encounter. Appropriation and segregation, demonisation and exaggeration, affirmation and over-affirmation all have a...
Polyversal Souls in Ghana
The central aim of “Polyversal Souls in Ghana” is to develop a new composition and establish a temporary German-Ghanaian orchestra called “Polyversal Souls”, conducted by Max Weissenfeldt. Weissenfeldt is a highly acclaimed percussionist and a...
The Choreonauts
The Bremen-based dance company “steptext dance project” is developing a new project titled “THE CHOREONAUTS”, in which three internationally renowned choreographers from South Africa, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast will collaborate with three German...
Sisters in African Cinema
In recent years, women from African countries have started numerous film projects, established production companies and casting agencies and organised film festivals – from the Ivory Coast to Nigeria and all the way to Zimbabwe. In effect, they are...
Visionary Archive
"Visionary Archive" was a collaborative translocal experiment: Phases and facets of African cinema were researched in five localities. For this project, five archives with very different backgrounds teamed up to develop new presentation forms for...
Contemporary Photography in Bamako and Dakar
Contemporary photography from Mali and Senegal has drawn increasing attention from the international art world since the 1990s. Especially vibrant scenes have developed in the metropolitan cities of Dakar and Bamako where numerous photographers are...
