… a world in which coloniality no longer has a place. © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Andreas König editorial Editorial 4 6 min read Instrumentalisation of Critique © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Oleg Romanko / Shutterstock Introduction – The Instrumentalisation of Critique 3 min read llustration »BLNtoo« © Postcard project by Aki Makita (graphics) and Agnes Tam (concept) Common Sense 3 min read Andréas Lang: Nachtigal Falls, Cameroon 2012. River landscape with the Nachtigal Falls, named after the explorer Gustav Nachtigal, who took possession of Cameroon as a colony for the German Empire in 1884. The image is part of the project “Cameroon and Kongo. A search of traces and Phantom Geography” in which Andréas Lang researched on the history of his great-grandfather and German colonialism. The figure on the back is deliberately reminiscent of a painting by C.D. Friedrich and thus also thematises the visual appropriation of a landscape by the photographer. © Andréas Lang / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 Wounds are a source of new responsibility 4 9 min read Aepycerosmelampusschiillings 2021 © Nuno Silas Metamorphosis 3 min read Installation "Indignation" by Justine Gaga in the module "Colonial Entanglements: The Cameroon Grasslands" of the Ethnological Museum © Justine Gaga / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Foto: Stefanie Loos Unlike All Other Empires – The Instrumentalization of Critique in the Humboldt Forum 11 12 min read The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991) © Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991 / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2022; dou_ble_you / flickr, CC BY-ND The institution is hungry 5 min read © “death in the land of opulent dreams” by Wan wo Layir (13th January 2022) The Palace We Go to Die In: From Punitive Expeditions to Punitive Exhibitions 25 35 min read Colonialities of the History of the Site SITE SPECIFICS event ‘Brandenburg's Colonialism in West Africa’ on November 23, 2023 with Gabriele Leschke and Alfred Hagemann © Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / David von Becker debate Brandenburg’s Colonialism in West Africa 1 5 min read Contemporary caricature of Kaiser Wilhelm II by Jean Veber in the French journal Le Rire of November 26th, 1898. © Private Collection / Stefano Bianchetti / Bridgeman Images Talk The Kaiser, the Berlin Palace and German Colonialism 3 49 min read Modul „Schaumagazin Afrika. Objektaneignung und Afrika-Illusionen“ des Ethnologischen Museums im Humboldt Forum © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Foto: Stefanie Loos article On Greatness. The question of the gaze in Germany 3 26 min read Talk What do the Humboldt Forum partners say? 1 12 min read