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Beyoncé in a scene from her visual album “Black is King”

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Frankly ... Berlin
Pop feminism: greetings from the other side of self-empowerment

Do Beyoncé and Netflix feminism really liberate us? And if so, who is this “we”? Our Berlin columnist Margarita Tsomou has written a feminist manifesto in the seclusion of the lockdown. Because everything is closed outside, she takes us into her world of thoughts today

Decolonisation – Ghanaian artist El Anatsui

Photo (detail): © El Anatsui

Exploring Visual Cultures – A Transnational Project
Decolonisation of Art Education?

Teacher training in art education at German universities is faced with a dilemma: Instruction is seldom diverse and rarely influenced by non-European perspectives. An interview with the project manager of “Exploring Visual Cultures” Professor Ernst Wagner, Academy of Fine Arts Munich.

Culture
What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

The symbolic shedding of culture was commonplace. When Pope Pius XI organized his exposition, boxes upon boxes were shipped to Rome. The content of these boxes were objects, together with comprehensive notes on their attendant histories and how they had been acquired.

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Kenya

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Latitude

The Goethe-Institut invites experts and creatives worldwide to exchange ideas on colonial power relations, their consequences and, above all, how to dismantle them: in discourses, interviews, opinion articles and art projects. For a decolonized and non-racial world.

Invisible Inventories

Through contemporary artworks and academic research, the artists and scholars involved in the exhibition project approach the question of how to make objects—which currently reside in institutions within the global North—present again in contemporary Kenya.

Sustainability in Kenya

The Goethe-Institut Kenya explores the current state of environmentalism in Kenya.

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Frankly ... Berlin
Pop feminism: greetings from the other side of self-empowerment

Exploring Visual Cultures – A Transnational Project
Decolonisation of Art Education?

Culture
What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

ProjectsTopics and Projects of Goethe-Institut in Kenya

Latitude

Invisible Inventories

Sustainability in Kenya

Rautenstrauch-Joest-MuseumInvisible Inventories

TrainingGetvico24

Frankly ... Berlin Pop feminism: greetings from the other side of self-empowerment​

Exploring Visual Cultures – A Transnational Project Decolonisation of Art Education?

Culture What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?

Latitude

Invisible Inventories

Sustainability in Kenya

Frankly ... Berlin
Pop feminism: greetings from the other side of self-empowerment

Exploring Visual Cultures – A Transnational Project
Decolonisation of Art Education?

Culture
What did a Meru bride wear to her wedding?