Innovative Forms
of Memory Culture

(12 April 2021)
11 April 2021 marked the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. To remember the horrors of National Socialist rule, the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, is showing the “Disappearing Wall” on Theaterplatz in Weimar. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier commemorated the victims.

Germany is often seen as a model for how to confront a nation’s history. However, rather than looking only at the results of Germany’s reckoning with its past, it is more instructive to understand the process that led to the current situation.

Cheyenne Concepcion describes her project concerning the border constructions between U.S. and Mexico as looking outwards, towards the broader spatial conditions negotiated by borders.

Future places of remembrance should be based on the wishes of those affected. To do this, we need flexible designs that change as people change, as Ulf Aminde describes.

Ada Pinkston reflects on past, present and future of memory works in the U.S. and places her project LandMarked in this context.

Alisha Wormsley’s There are Black People in the Future is inspired by afro-futurist artists and writers who highlight the need for Black people to claim their place.

Recent media reports and events featuring our fellows and partners.