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healing. Life in Balance

Alice Pawlik and Dr. Mona Suhrbier (eds.): 256 pages, Publisher: Kerber

Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins (ed.): 86 pages, in German and English available at the Museum.
ISBN 978-3-947902-21-7 7,00

GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds

Matthias Claudius Hofmann (ed.): 256 pages, edition in German and Englisch available. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG) 29,90

DAS MUSEUM VERLERNEN? Kolonialität und Vermittlung in ethnologischen Museen (Unlearning the Museum? Coloniality and Education in Ethnological Museums)

Volume 1: Nora Landkammer: Eine Analyse gegenwärtiger Diskurse in einem konfliktreichen Praxisfeld (An Analysis of Contemporary Discourses in a Conflict-Ridden Practice)
Volume 2: Praxen und Reflexionen kritischer Bildung und Wissensproduktion (Practices of and Reflections on Critical Education and the Production of Knowledge) Edited by Stephanie Endter, Nora Landkammer, Karin Schneider
ISBN Band 1: 978-3-937624-71-6
ISBN Band 2: 978-3-937624-72-3

Vienna: Zaglossus, 2021
Order via: 24,95

BOUGHT. COLLECTED. LOOTED?

Historisches Museum Frankfurt (ed.): 90 pages, softcover, available in Germand and English at the museum. Editor: Heinrich Editionen, ISBN 978-3-96320-024-3 (G), 978-3-96320-028-1 (Eng) 9,95

GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing

Alice Pawlik (ed.): ca. 240 pages, paper back, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from October 2018. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0491-0 (D), 978-3-7356-0492-7 (Eng) 29,90

ENTRE TERRA E MAR. Between Land and Sea. Transatlantic Art

Mona Suhrbier (ed.): 220 pages, bound, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from November 2017.
Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0393-7 (D), 978-3-7356-0394-4 (ENG) 28,00

THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking

Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Ch. Raabe (ed.): 255 pages, numerous coloured illustrations, softcover with flaps, bound, Available in bookstores and at the Weltkulturen Museum, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0268-8 29,95

A LABOUR OF LOVE.

Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo. (Hg.): 336 pages, softcover with flaps, bound, numerous illustrations, facsimile and photographs, bi-lingual in one volume: German and English. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0140-7 42,00

“Something about Africa” – Challenges Facing the Education at the Weltkulturen Museum

Stephanie Endter und Carolin Rothmund (ed.): 222 pages, numerous colour illustrations, facsimile and Photographs, softcover, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0137-7 In German. 27,00

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Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins (ed.): 86 pages, in German and English available at the Museum.
ISBN 978-3-947902-21-7
€7,00

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This magazine is part of the International Inventories Programme, a collaboration between The Nest Collective, SHIFT, the Goethe-Institut Kenya, the National Museums of Kenya, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne and the Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt am Main.

Published in English and in German by iwalewabooks (Bayreuth/Johannesburg) and Kwani (Nairobi), the contributions from IIP members and Kenyan museum professionals and practitioners critically reflect museum and restitution politics but also the limits of the cooperation between African and Europeans museums. Besides conversations, essays and texts that accompany the artworks in the exhibition with the same title, the publication also contains a number of object biographies written by different authors that provide unique perspectives on the very same objects.

The zine supports the decolonising approach of the project by providing perspectives yet underrepresented in international discussions and aims to contribute to the debate on colonial histories that are inscribed in collections and museums.

It is published in the context of “Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums”, an exhibition project by the International Inventories Programme.

Participating artists and researchers
Jim Chuchu, Julia Friedel, Njeri Gachihi, Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Sam Hopkins, Lydia Nafula, Leonie Neumann, Njoki Ngumi, Marian Nur Goni, Philemon Nyamanga, George Juma Ondeng’, Simon Rittmeier, with the support of Leonie Chima Emeka, Niklas Obermann and Jane Pauline Waithera

Project management
Anisha Soff, Goethe-Institut Kenia
Project coordination
Sheila Akwany

Die Ausstellung International Inventories ist eine Ko-Produktion des International Inventories Programme, Akoia & Company Ltd (02/2020-02/2021) und Lynnet Ngigi (02/2021-04/2021).

International Inventories Programme c/o the Cultural Heritage Department National Museums of Kenya Corporate Headquarters P. O. Box 40658 - 00100 Nairobi, Kenya https://www.inventoriesprogramme.org/
Editors
Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins
Editorial board
Frauke Gathof, Sam Hopkins, Leonie Neumann, Marian Nur Goni, Philemon Nyamanga, Niklas Obermann, Anisha Soff, mit Unterstützung von Lukas Heger
Publication coordination
Niklas Obermann
Translation
Michaela Dudley
Final proofreading
George Salt, Sascha Bühler
Publisher
iwalewabooks (Bayreuth, Johannesburg) & Kwani Trust (Nairobi), 2021 iwalewabooks.com Serie: zines by iwalewabooks
Graphic Design
mind the gap! design, Frankfurt am Main
Printer
Holzer Druck und Medien Druckerei und Zeitungsverlag GmbH + Co. KG, Weiler im Allgäu
Details
86 pages, numerous colored illustrations, 29,5 x 24 cm
Typeface: Cheltenham, Sofia
Paper: Munken Print White

© Texts and images: the authors. With the exception of page 4 Studio Propolis; 7-9 Joseph K. Barasa; 19, 23, 31 Peter Wolff, Weltkulturen Museum; 28 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; 61–63 Philemon Nyamanga; 69, 75 Marion Mennicken, Rheinisches Bildarchiv; 70/71 Rainer Wolfsberger, Museum Rietberg; 73 private property.