Tag: Berlin Conference

• Contemporary Art Conversations: “In the Heart of the Lights,” by curator Simon Njami

  

  Curator, writer and art critic Simon Njami will be giving a keynote lecture on 17th February 2015 to launch a series of events at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry to accompany his current exhibition WIR SIND ALLE BERLINER: 1884-2014 – A Commemoration of the Berlin Congo Conference (on display at SAVVY Contemporary  in…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  January 30, 2015

  Africa, Contemporary Art, Curating, Europe, Germany

  1884, Ann Laura Stoler, Berlin Conference, Colonialism, Cultural memory, Curating Difficult Knowledge, Imperialism, Scramble for Africa, Simon Njami

• THE BERLIN CONFERENCE: How art deals with the carving of a continent (Exhibition Review: December 2014)

  The following article by art critic Elsa Guily (published online by Contemporary And (C&) magazine) reviews the exhibition ‘Wir sind alle Berliner: 1884-2014’ curated by Simon Njami (and displayed at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 15 November 2014 – 11 January 2015). Within this exhibition, the 12 featured artists –  Kader Attia, Theo Eshetu, Satch Hoyt, Cyrill Lachauer, Henrike Naumann, Katarina Zdjelar, Bili…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  December 17, 2014

  African Diaspora, Art – Politics, Contemporary Art, Exhibition Review, Germany

  Berlin, Berlin Conference, Elsa Guily, Mansour Ciss, Postcolonialism, Simon Njami, Wir sind alle Berliner