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“Invisible Inventories, Installation, 2018”

"Invisible Inventories"
The Return to Wakanda

At the end of November 2019, the launch of the exhibition project "Invisible Inventories", which is supported by the Goethe-Institut, took place in Kenya. At the "Object Movement Dialogue #4" in the Nairobi National Museum, the role of local communities within the restitution debate was discussed. The Kenyan journalist Abigail Arunga was on site for "Goethe aktuell".

Protest has always been an element of German-language songs.

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German Protest Song
“I’m Going to Do Something”

For quite some time now social criticism has been an integral part of pop culture. German bands are famous for using words and music to combat social injustice. Might this, however, also have led to protest losing some of its political clout?

Gabi Ngcobo, curator 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Photo: Masimba Sasa

Gabi Ngcobo
“We are all postcolonial“

The appointed curator of the Berlin Biennale 2018, Gabi Ngcobo, speaks about postcolonialism and the importance of revisiting history.

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.

Artistic Encounters mit Thandi Sebe (Südafrika/Deutschland) und Tsitsi Dangarembga (Simbabwe) im Gespräch mit der Serienkuratorin Zukiswa Wanner. © Julian Manjahihi

Artistic encounters

The Artistic Encounters series brings together the work of two different artists in one space, at the same time. The artists who are part of performance series bring their individual art to the stage while speaking to that of the artist they are working with to create new work.

Contact Zones Nairobi

Through the Contact Zone book series, the Goethe-Institut has published 27 books, documenting the art practice of various local artists, art collectives, socially relevant topics as well as those reflecting on the history of the country and growth of the Kenyan art scene.

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"Invisible Inventories"
The Return to Wakanda