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Tuesday, 14. January 2014 - 19:00
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“Displaying the Colonial: On the Presentation of Colonial Collections in the Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, and the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam”
Sonja Mohr (Universität zu Köln)Δ TALK“Displaying the Colonial: On the Presentation of Colonial Collections in the Museum Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, and the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam”
Sonja Mohr (Universität zu Köln)Large parts of the world’s ethnographic collections were assembled during the colonial era. For a long time, however, there was little interest in the circumstances under which these objects entered the museums. Exhibitions and studies on museum collections were usually concerned with the objects’ meanings in their contexts of origin – few asked about the contexts of the collections’ formation or the individual backgrounds and motivations of the collectors. It was only in the 1980s that scholarly interest in these aspects of collecting began to grow.
To find out whether these patterns are still reflected in the permanent exhibitions of museums today, Sonja Mohr analyses the Museum Nasional Indonesia in Jakarta and the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. The two case studies are of particular interest because Indonesia and the Netherlands have diametrically opposite perspectives on their shared history: that of the people who were colonised, and that of the former colonial masters. Do these divergent viewpoints mean that colonial collecting is addressed differently in the exhibitions of the two museums?
In German
€5 / reduced €3.50
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37
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Wednesday, 15. January 2014 - 19:00
∇ EXHIBITION OPENING
FOREIGN EXCHANGE (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger)Δ EXHIBITION OPENINGFOREIGN EXCHANGE
(or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)Until 4th January 2015
The exhibition “FOREIGN EXCHANGE (or the stories you wouldn’t tell a stranger)” raises critical questions around the scientific and educational remit of an ethnographic museum, highlighting its complex relationship to global trade. Objects from the collection and archival material are combined with new artistic research produced in the Labor by Peggy Buth, Minerva Cuevas, Luke Willis Thompson and David Weber-Krebs. Additional works by Marie Angeletti, Lothar Baumgarten, Benedikte Bjerre, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Clegg & Guttmann, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Armin Linke, Otobong Nkanga, Pushpamala N. and Olivier Richon.
The accompanying catalogue is published by diaphanes Verlag and includes texts and works by Peggy Buth, Minerva Cuevas, Gabriel Gbadamosi, David Lau, Tom McCarthy, Luke Willis Thompson and David Weber-Krebs, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Clegg & Guttmann, Armin Linke, Otobong Nkanga, plus dialogues with Bruce J. Altshuler, Kokou Azamede, Friedrich von Bose, Katrin Bucher Trantow, Marie-France Chevron, Patricia Falguières, Michael Fehr, Michael Graham-Stewart, Ros Gray, Charlotte Klonk, Karl-Heinz Kohl, Michael Kraus, Richard Kuba, Pramod Kumar KG, Antje Majewski, Markus Miessen, Renée Mussai, Michael Oppitz, Peter Osborne, Jan-Philipp Possmann, Ciraj Rassool, Markus Schindlbeck, Kate Sturge and Dorothée Weber-Bruls.
Weltkulturen Museum
Schaumainkai 29, 60594 Frankfurt
Tues – Sun, 11am – 6pm, Wed, 11am – 8pm
Entrance: € 7 / reduced € 3.50Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
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