"Rituals" by Nnenna Onouha
Exhibition / Window Projection| Collective Forms of Care
- Price Free and open to the public.
- Part of series: Collective Forms of Care
By focusing on the experiences of Black and queer people, Rituals explores the concept of ‘care’ as an essential tool for community development and strength. Chronicling the care practices of three Black Berliners - Caritia, “a BDSM practitioner, domina and sex worker,” Lee a “gender-terrorist, yoga instructor” and Goitseone, “a pessimistic witch,” the film describes their respective experiences as Black bodies in the German health care system and demonstrates the ways in which Lee, Caritia, and Goitseone find healing for themselves and for others outside of this system.
This work is presented as part of the exhibition Collective Practices of Care, curated by Erandy Vergara Vargas. The exhibition brings together four works by artists from Germany, the Netherlands and Canada, displayed on our windows and library from 15 June to 6 September 2026. The works offer a constructive reflection on a hostile world, as well as an exploration of acts of solidarity and practices of care aimed at building communities.
Projections from sunset to 2 am, on the window screens of the Goethe-Institut (1626 St-Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 2T1). The works are also viewable on a screen in our library space during the Goethe-Institut’s opening hours:
from June 15 to July 5, 2026
from sunset to 2:00 a.m.
INSTITUTE OPENING HOURS
Monday: 5:30PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday and Thursday: 2:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Wednesday: 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM
Friday: 4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Artist
Nnenna Onuoha is a Ghanaian-Nigerian researcher, filmmaker and visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her research explores monumental silences surrounding the histories and afterlives of colonialism across West Africa, Europe and the United States, asking: How do we remember, which pasts do we choose to perform, and why? Her work has shown at the Museum Folkwang, the Museum of Modern Art Shanghai, and the Johannesburg Art Gallery and won awards at the XPOSED Queer Film Festival and the Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg. She has published chapters in: “Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin Ethnography,” “Censored? Conflicting Concepts of Cultural Heritage,”and “Owned by Others: A Map to Possession Island.” She is recipient of a 2023-4 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship, the 2023 Amadeu Antonio Foundation Prize and a 2024-5 Krupp Dissertation Fellowship. Nnenna is currently a binational doctoral candidate in Media Anthropology at Harvard University and Global History at the University of Potsdam, and a Research Associate in the Digital Provenance Lab at the Leuphana University Lüneburg.
Nnenna Onuoha
¨Artist
