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Afropollination
Afropollination
Creating together
Creating together - Publication Turn2 Labs in Nairobi, Dakar and Tunis
Laboratoire Kontempo - Kinzonzi
The project “Laboratoire Kontempo” (LabKontempo, for short) was established by the Congolese-German duo Mukenge/Schellhammer in Kinshasa in 2019 and has organised a festival there every year since, headed by both artists. As a transnational duo,...
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...
Invisible Inventories
Ethnological museums in many European countries are actively involved in the public debate on the restitution of cultural assets acquired during the colonial period. Benedicte Savoy’s and Felwine Sarr’s report in November 2018 and the Berlin...
Hereroland
As a port city of trade and commerce, Hamburg played a central role in German colonial history between 1884 and 1918. A majority of German settlers and colonial soldiers embarked on their journey to Africa via Hamburg. These included 15,000 soldiers...
TURN2 – Artistic Co-Creation between Germany and african countries
In 2012 the Federal Cultural Foundation launched the TURN Fund for Artistic Collaboration between Germany and African countries . Over the past eight years, the programme has awarded 12 million euros to fund 101 joint international artistic and...
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...
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”....