[in Spanish] The exhibition "Hotel of the Plundered Artifact" at the National Museum of Anthropology in Madrid reinterprets the history of the colonizers in Africa through the collections, with care and new ways of listening.
This special exhibition is dedicated to a long-overlooked collecting practice: The collection of objects by Catholic and Protestant missionary societies – primarily during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
How do we trace the origin of collections? What new insights can be gleaned from these provenances? And what should become of such collections, within and beyond museum walls?
The opening of Kader Attia’s latest exhibition J’accuse could not be more perfectly timed. After Mati Diop’s Dahomey won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale in February, restitution is now firmly back in the headlines.
How did Geneva live through the colonial period? In what ways was the Ethnography Museum a major cultural actor in the colonial context? What is the future of the collections held there? Can we understand today the real identity of an object, sometimes centuries after it entered the Genevan museum collections?
