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Curvature of Events. Baroque. Romanticism. Video
Many contemporary art exhibitions in African countries are developed by German or European curators from an ethnographic perspective. The project “Curvature of Events. Baroque. Romanticism. Video” reverses this perspective. In cooperation with the...
Crumbling Through Powdery Air
In her exhibition “Crumbling Through Powdery Air”, Otobong Nkanga (*1974 in Kano, Nigeria) probed and reflected on the multifaceted historic and contemporary phenomena related to the extraction and production of sparkling substances, and thereby...
Urban Africa - My future in 2020
The pop musicians of African metropolitan cities and townships are among the continent’s most celebrated stars. Be it Kwaito, Uptempo, Rap or HipHop, their music touches the masses and is an expression of everyday life in Africa. The artists address...
Africa in Solitude
Since 1990 the Akademie Schloss Solitude has supported over 1,000 young artists in the fields of architecture, fine arts, performing arts, design, literature, music/sound and video/film/new media, and in so doing, has built up a worldwide network of...
Dance Dialogues Africa
There are a large number of new dance-artistic works coming from the African continent featuring a broad range of aesthetic approaches. While many young artists are settling in Europe because of more favourable production conditions, new dance...
Africa Conference
Germany will commemorate the 130th anniversary of the Berlin Conference in 2015. At the invitation of the German imperial chancellor Bismarck, representatives from 14 nations met in Berlin where they signed the so-called “Congo Act” which provided...
Afritecture
We in Europe know very little about contemporary architecture in African countries. An exhibition headed by three German architectural historians at the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne aimed to change this. A number of African countries are currently...
in arbeit / w toku / en construction / lavori in corso
According to the participants of Cinéma copains, "If working society is in a crisis today, then it's primarily because economic thinking has been applied to every area of human activity. There is nothing more absurd than to expect solutions from a...
Visions of Labor
World trade has become globalised. International networks are increasingly becoming the domain of production and communication. In light of these developments, it seems that the efforts of nationally-minded unions and workers' associations are...
The 100,000 euro job
What do today's youth think of their parents' background? What do they dream of becoming? What is more important to them - money, a career, self-realization, or a combination of all these things? In light of the rapid changes taking place in the work...