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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...
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“...
The Nose
The short story “The Nose” (1836) about Major Kov and his nose by Nikolai Gogol is believed to be the first surrealistic work of Russian prose, published years before surrealism made its debut as a European movement. The grotesque parable and the...
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...
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...
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...
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”....
