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African Futures
“If you want to have any idea of the world that is coming, the world ahead of us, look at Africa!”, says Cameroonian writer and intellectual Achille Mbembe. From Lagos to Nairobi to Johannesburg, the continent is giving answers to global questions of...
A Labour of Love
The Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt/Main has been collecting contemporary African art since 1974; its collection now comprises some 3,000 artworks. The exhibition “A Labour of Love” featured South African works from this collection along with...
Crumbling Through Powdery Air
In her exhibition “Crumbling Through Powdery Air”, Otobong Nkanga (*1974 in Kano, Nigeria) probed and reflected on the multifaceted historic and contemporary phenomena related to the extraction and production of sparkling substances, and thereby...
Aller et Retour
In the project “Aller et Retour”, the transnational performance group Hajusom collaborated with young performers from the Centre de Formation et Recherche en Arts Vivants (CFRAV) in Ouagadougou on a production examining the images and views of Europe...
Dance Dialogues Africa
There are a large number of new dance-artistic works coming from the African continent featuring a broad range of aesthetic approaches. While many young artists are settling in Europe because of more favourable production conditions, new dance...
Dancer Dialogues Africa | Tanzhaus NRW 2014 (PDF, 396.12 KB - opens in a new window)
Layout 1 FR 21.3. – SA 5.4.2014 BAMAKO BIELEFELD JOHANNESBURG MÜNSTER KISANGANI MAPUTO TUNIS DRESDEN DÜSSELDORF HAMBURG Dance Dialogues Africa macht die Energie, künstlerische Vielfalt und Aktua- lität des zeitgenössischen afrikanischen Tanzes...
Africa in Solitude
Since 1990 the Akademie Schloss Solitude has supported over 1,000 young artists in the fields of architecture, fine arts, performing arts, design, literature, music/sound and video/film/new media, and in so doing, has built up a worldwide network of...
Arbeit. Sinn und Sorge
Die Ausstellung "Arbeit. Sinn und Sorge" bildete den Schlusspunkt des Programms "Arbeit in Zukunft" der Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Seit 2006 wurden im Rahmen dieses Programms zahlreiche Theater-, Performance- und Filmprojekte, Lesungen und...
Africa Conference
Germany will commemorate the 130th anniversary of the Berlin Conference in 2015. At the invitation of the German imperial chancellor Bismarck, representatives from 14 nations met in Berlin where they signed the so-called “Congo Act” which provided...
Afritecture
We in Europe know very little about contemporary architecture in African countries. An exhibition headed by three German architectural historians at the Munich Pinakothek der Moderne aimed to change this. A number of African countries are currently...