April 2021

  • Wednesday, 7. April 2021 - 10:00
    VIRTUAL EXHIBITION MEET UP WITH THE NEST COLLECTIVE
    “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums”
    Δ VIRTUAL EXHIBITION MEET UP WITH THE NEST COLLECTIVE

    A first look into the exhibition “Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums” in Nairobi

    How can we make Kenyan cultural assets that are possessed by institutions in the Global North accessible to present-day Kenyan society. This question is addressed by the International Inventories Programme, which brings together Kenyan and European artists and scholars.

    The core aim of the project is to develop a database of all Kenyan objects in European and North American museums. A visualisation of this database will now be presented along with further scholarly and artistic contributions to the project in the exhibition “Invisible Inventories”, held at the three participating museums.

    The works include explorations of specific Kenyan objects from the collections of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum and the Weltkulturen Museum, as well as the ways in which these objects are culturally interlinked, and how in each case they were appropriated by museums in the Global North. Rather than focusing on concrete issues about restitution there is an emphasis on creating a forum for investigating individual objects at an intellectual and emotional level. The exhibition also deals with the psychological and political consequences of the loss or absence of certain objects from the society in which they were created.



    Virtual tour live on Instagram: @thisisthenest

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  • Thursday, 8. April 2021 - 19:30 - 20:30
    ONLINE CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR
    “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds”
    Δ ***Fully booked*** ONLINE CURATOR'S GUIDED TOUR

    “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds”

    with curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann (curator Oceania) and co-curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski (curator Southeast Asia)

    Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

    Using various objects from the exhibition, curator Matthias Claudius Hofmann and co-curator Vanessa von Gliszczynski show how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

    Zoom lecture and talk.






    Free of charge.
    Please book in advance until 8th April, 12 pm:

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  • Thursday, 22. April 2021 - 19:30 - 20:30
    ***Fully booked*** ONLINE GUIDED TOUR
    “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds”
    Δ ***Fully booked*** ONLINE GUIDED TOUR

    “GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds”

    with Oliver Hahn, research assistant

    Our world is full of colour, but do all cultures see it in the same way? While the scientific basis for perception is identical for everyone, light waves can’t really explain how we name our impressions of colour, the number (and kind) of categories we divide these colours into, or the meanings and associations we ascribe to them.

    Using various objects from the exhibition, Oliver Hahn shows how perception of colour sometimes differs enormously depending on the language and culture involved.

    Zoom lecture and talk.





    Free of charge.
    Please book in advance until 22nd April, 12 pm:

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