I had the pleasure to be part of the jury for the Rimowa Design Prize 2025. As a mentor, I accompanied Jonas Krämer (Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen) and his project “Compath”. His smart wearable supports people with dementia in navigating everyday life safely – with reminders, orientation aids, and an emergency system. The Rimowa…

We are happy to announce the launch of the TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE. It is a digital platform looking at questions of decolonial knowledge production. Starting with objects from the collection of European and African Museums, we are fanning out a polyphonic universe of knowledge: objects are thus made to speak and serve as door openers. The…

For the catalogue of the exhibition Proper Love, featuring works by Ghanaian artist Amoako Boafo at the Belvedere in Vienna, I contributed an essay titled: “Style Narratives of Black Self-Empowerment. On the Significance of Clothing in Amoako Boafo’s Portraits.” In this I explore how clothing functions as a powerful tool of Black self-empowerment in Boafo’s portraiture. Through…

I will be teaching as a guest professor this winter semester at the Staedelschule art school in Frankfurt. In the seminar, we will focus on Appropriation Art, a practice that raises fundamental questions about originality, authorship and the connection between art and culture through the deliberate appropriation and reinterpretation of existing works. It originated in…

Eclectic Affinities brings the extensive work of the artist Hamid Zénati, who was born in Constantine (Algeria) in 1944 and died in Munich in 2022, into dialogue with various objects from the collection of the Museum Angewandte Kunst. With his all-over stencil technique, Zénati developed a distinct formal language and created compositions that were both playful…

TALKING OBJECTS ARCHIVE is a digital platform for decolonial knowledge production that will be launched in December 2024. The archive, developed together with African Digital Heritage, is interested in poly-perspectivity and plural knowledge systems breaking with European epistemologies and schools of thought. Starting with objects compiled from collections of European and African Museums the archive…

24.3.24 – 28.7.24 With: Elsa M’Bala, Fatou Kandé Senghor, Caroline Gueye, Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro, Ibrahima Thiam, Viyé Diba, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Uriel Orlow, baobab création, C& Center of Unfinished Business This group exhibition developed in Dakar offers a fresh perspective on the past and creates spaces for alternative forms of knowledge and knowledge transfer.…

Wie die Debatten der letzten Jahre deutlich gemacht haben, können Restitutionen nicht einfach als die Rückgabe geplünderter Objekte verstanden werden. Sie geschehen im gegenwärtigen politischen Kontext und entfalten sich im Verhältnis zu vielschichtigen historischen Zusammenhängen, die sie nie ungeschehen machen können. Diesem Geflecht von Machtverhältnissen, in dem der Anspruch auf kulturelles Erbe verhandelt wird, widmet…

Pleased to announce Dr. Mahret Kupka will be the mentor for the “CtD” Young Scholar Museum Fellowship program this February. She will lead a mentorship session with the fellows and facilitate the object biographies workshop. During this workshop, participating fellows are invited to reflect on a creative and imagined biography of objects selected from the…

Ré-imaginer le passé is more than just the two exhibitions in Dakar and Berlin—it is a long-term research journey, spanning several months. Guided by a participatory approach, a team of German and Senegalese curators brings together curious minds and visionary artists to explore our past and future. The project addresses the question of whether a reinterpretation…