The exhibition presents performances, multimedia video installations, photo collages and historical photographs that deal with the complexity of Germany’s and Namibia’s entangled history. Using the museum’s photographic holdings from the German colonial period in Namibia as a starting point, the artists Vitjitua Ndjiharine, Nicola Brandt and Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja and the historian Ulrike Peters approach the shadows and continuities of colonial (visual) histories from different perspectives. The focus is on questioning the colonial gaze, genocide and the polyphony of memory cultures.
A collaboration between the University of Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zimmerer and the Museum am Rothenbaum, with the support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation. The exhibition is funded by the Elbkulturfonds of the Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media.
