Δ Benin. The collection at the Weltkulturen Museum. Retrospective. Part 1

Objects from the Kingdom of Benin (Nigeria) occupy a central role in the debate on the restitution of cultural property. The collection of the Weltkulturen Museum also contains over fifty objects made of metal, wood and ivory from the Kingdom of Benin (Nigeria). When and under what circumstances did they enter the collection of what was then known as the Völkermuseum?

A research project into provenance funded by the German Lost Art Foundation has been conducted at the Frankfurt museum in order to address these questions, exploring the complex ownership status behind these objects. While the first exhibition will showcase the objects in the collection and provide insight into research, the second exhibition will focus on various artistic and scholarly perspectives from Nigeria and the Diaspora.

Part 1:
20 July – 24 September 2023
Opening: Wednesday, 19 July, 7pm

Part 2:
11 October - 31 December 2023
Opening: Tuesday, 10 October, 7pm

Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
Admission free 

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Δ healing. Life in Balance

How to live? In one’s own body with its personal and collective history? With the environment, the spiritual world, in global togetherness? How can crises be overcome? And can balance be found? How to stay or become healthy? And how to be content? How can healing succeed?  

For many, the fragility of living conditions was apparent long before the COVID-19 pandemic. This fragility did and does affect almost all areas of life – health, work, politics, the economy, social cohesion. The global crisis and the associated search for balance is common to people around the world. Many established views are now being questioned. Indigenous societies, activists, environmental organisations, and the younger generation everywhere find that their ideas, expectations and critiques of contemporary living are increasingly converging. The exhibition healing. Life in Balance presents multi-perspective narratives as well as works (of art) with transformative power. In these poetic, philosophical, and multimedia artistic works, international partners from the arts, sciences and medicine present their own, personal stories, as well as their perspectives and strategies for resolving crises, establishing new equilibriums, and finding answers for a future of global coexistence.  

THE ARTISTS: 

Marina Abramović

La Vaughn Belle

Elena Bernabè

Roberta Carvalho

Alejandro Durán

Marco Del Fiol

Ayrson Heráclito

Feliciano Lana

Naziha Mestaoui

Michael O’Neill

Roldán Pinedo

Further participants:
Pablo César Amaringo, Giminez Menezes Basilio, Karin Bervoets, Coral Gardeners, Magnus Døvigen, Kerstin Kleemann, Marion Marquardt, Elena Mori, Thiago Lopes da Costa Oliveira, Harry Pinedo, Andrea Scholz, Ingo Schulz, Felix Schwarz, Valdette Ribeiro da Silva, Zu Campos as well as other artists from indigenous communities who are not known by name

1. Exhibition publication
   The comprehensive publication to accompany the exhibition – also called healing. Life in Balance – includes a number of illustrations and photographs. The publication deepens and expands on the themes of the exhibition in interdisciplinary articles, and includes personal conversations with the artists on the subject of healing. Further thematic focuses have been developed from the museum’s collection. These diverse perspectives are brought together and expanded on with contributions from national and international academics and activists. The publication offers a multi-layered and diverse compilation of possibilities for shaping postcolonial global togetherness and for a healthy life in balance.
   
   Participants:
   Karin Bervoets, Wade Davis, Magnus Døvigen, Mariana K. Leal Ferreira, Nildo José Miguel Fontes, Friederike Georg, Margrit Jütte, Kerstin Kleemann, Fenton Lutunatabua, Angeline Makore, Marion Marquardt, Larissa Lacerda Menendez, Mark Münzel, Alice Pawlik, Clifford Saron, Volker Scheid, Jens Soentgen, Mona Suhrbier
   
   The German and the English editions are published by Kerber.
2. Curators
   Dr. Mona B. Suhrbier (Curator, Americas and Deputy Director)
   
   Alice Pawlik (Curator, Visual Anthropology)
3. Location and opening hours
   Weltkulturen  Museum
   Schaumainkai 29
   60594 Frankfurt
   
   Opening hours  
   Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays
   Wed: 11am-8pm
   Thur-Sun: 11am-6pm 
4. Admission fees
   €7 / reduced €3.50
   Free admission for children and young adults up to 18 years of age.

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