Gesprek
The European Museum – A Shared Colonial Past

Met Wiebke Ahrndt, Didier Houénoudé, Alicia Knock en Andrea Kieskamp

ma 12–10–2020
20:00 uur De Balie

Tickets What can European museums learn from each other in dealing with their shared colonial heritage? Together with international museum experts we investigate what the museum of the 21st century should look like and how they can help us understand our colonial past, in the context of the publication of three recent reports on restitutions (France, Germany, The Netherlands).

Online presentatie Advies Koloniale Collecties en Erkenning van Onrecht (7 oktober 2020):

This question has led to important debates throughout Europe, but so far this matter has only been a subject of national debates. In order to see what we can learn from each other we speak with representatives from different countries and actively link the previously isolated debates to a European level.

Speakers

• Wiebke Ahrndt is an ethnologist specialized in Meso-America studies and honorary professor at the University of Bremen. Since 2002 she is the director of the Übersee-Museum in Bremen and from 2011 until 2018 she was vice president of the German Museum Association.
   
• Didier Houénoudé is the Director of the National Institute of Crafts, Archaeology and Culture at the University of Abomey-Calavi, Bénin. He will share his vision on how European countries should deal with the esthetical value, as well as the political and ethical dimensions of this subject.
   
• Alicia Knock is a curator from Centre Pompidou in Paris, dealing with new exhibition and working formats, even questioning the museum itself. She is currently working on expanding the museum’s perspectives toward West Africa and Central Europe.
   
• Andrea Kieskamp is a Board Member for ICOM’s international Committee on Ethical Dilemma's.

De Balie i.s.m. het Institut Français des Pays-Bas en het Goethe Institut Niederlande.