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Afropollination
The world today is one in which people frequently oscillate between perceiving steadily increasing complexity and reverting to simplification, binary thinking, demarcation and populism. It is all the more important, therefore, that we embrace...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
