Δ COMBINED GUIDED TOUR IN THE EXHIBITIONS “A LABOUR OF LOVE” AND “LUKIM GEN”

With Berit Mohr (Cultural Anthropologist and Costume Designer)

In parallel to the exhibition A LABOUR OF LOVE, which showcases works by black South African artists from the 1980s, the exhibition “LUKIM GEN ­- A RETROSPECTIVE. Art and Independence in Papua New Guinea” is now looking at a particular era in the art of Papua New Guinea. While the South African artists had to struggle against apartheid and repression, the artists in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s and 1970s were driven by a particular mood of political optimism. As self-government became established in the country, a debate broke out in the 1960s over how to evolve an all-embracing cultural policy. Just like the South African works in the main building, the prints, drawings and paintings on show in the Weltkulturen Labor also represent one of the key areas in the museum’s contemporary art collection.

A LABOUR OF LOVE

LUKIM GEN - A RETROSPECTIVE

In German
€8.50 / reduced €4
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ READING AND CONVERSATION

“Is the Rainbow Nation dead? Challenges facing the writer in post-Mandela South Africa”

With Fred Khumalo (writer and journalist, Johannesburg) and Prof. Frank Schulze-Engler (literary/cultural scholar, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Fred Khumalo will read from his work “Devil With Blue Eyes…” followed by a conversation on the state of contemporary writing and literature in post-Mandela South Africa with Prof. Schulze-Engler.

Fred Khumalo is an award-winning writer, columnist and reporter as well as the Insight and Opinion Editor of the Sunday Times. His autobiographical novel “Touch My Blood” (2011) is a story of his coming of age in a township in South Africa during the 1980’s.

Frank Schulze-Engler is professor of New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at the Institute of English and American Studies at Goethe University. He is specialized in South African literature and joint project leader of the collaborative research project “Africa’s Asian Options” (AFRASO) since 2012.

In English
€5 / reduced €2.50
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “LUKIM GEN”

With Dr. Eva Ch. Raabe (curator Oceania and acting director, Weltkulturen Museum)

Curator Dr. Eva Raabe discusses the emergence of an urban art scene in Papua New Guinea. She offers an insight into her work in the anthropology of art with artists in Port Moresby and Madang, and invites her audience to explore the visual traditions of Papua New Guinea, past and present. A comparison of contemporary works and ethnographic artefacts from the museum’s New Guinea collection casts a special light on their aesthetic connections and origins.

In German
€3 / reduced €1.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Labor and Green Room, Schaumainkai 35

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Δ CURATOR’S GUIDED TOUR “A LABOUR OF LOVE”

With Dr. Yvette Mutumba (co-curator of the exhibition and curator Africa, Weltkulturen Museum)

Dr. Yvette Mutumba offers an insight into the origins of the exhibition and the significance of the museum’s collection of contemporary South African art acquired in 1986. In this process, she explores new readings and interpretations of the works to cast a more differentiated light on their historical contexts. By questioning and critiquing a purely political localisation, she opens up new perspectives to show their relevance both to art history and to human experience.

In German
€7 / reduced €3.50
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

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Δ PACIFIC FORUM TALK

“Matrilineal kinship at sea and at land on Buka, Bougainville”

With Dr. Katharina Schneider (Institute of Anthropology, Heidelberg University)

Guests are invited to the following talks of the Pacific Forum in collaboration with the Weltkulturen Museum.

In German
€5 / reduced €2.50
Weltkulturen Labor, Schaumainkai 37

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Δ COMBINED GUIDED TOUR IN THE EXHIBITIONS “A LABOUR OF LOVE” AND “LUKIM GEN”

With Berit Mohr (cultural anthropologist and costume designer)

In parallel to the exhibition A LABOUR OF LOVE, which showcases works by black South African artists from the 1980s, the exhibition “LUKIM GEN ­- A RETROSPECTIVE. Art and Independence in Papua New Guinea” is now looking at a particular era in the art of Papua New Guinea. While the South African artists had to struggle against apartheid and repression, the artists in Papua New Guinea in the 1960s and 1970s were driven by a particular mood of political optimism. As self-government became established in the country, a debate broke out in the 1960s over how to evolve an all-embracing cultural policy. Just like the South African works in the main building, the prints, drawings and paintings on show in the Weltkulturen Labor also represent one of the key areas in the museum’s contemporary art collection.

A LABOUR OF LOVE

LUKIM GEN - A RETROSPECTIVE

In German
€8.50 / reduced €4
Cost of tour included in admission fee
Weltkulturen Museum, Schaumainkai 29

schließen