Past events
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What does this artwork mean? How did it come to Germany? What function does this object fulfil for the community?
In the East and West Wings, which will be open fully for the first time, visitors meet long-term (work) partners from Benin (Nigeria), Bolivia, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Nagaland (India), Namibia, Tanzania, the US and the diverse community of Berlin on 17 and 18 September. In conversation with representatives of small and large museums, indigenous educational institutions and organisations, artists and scientists, it is about the past and future of the artworks and things, their significance for the places of origin, stories of loss and meeting again, and also about creative and artistic processes of reappropriation and circulation as well as controversies, wishes and plans. The collaboration with partners has made a decisive impression on the concept and implementation of the exhibitions in the Ethnologisches Museum und Museum für Asiatische Kunst in recent years and will continue to determine the work with the collections.
In 45-minute talks, you can put your questions to the experts. The events take place within the exhibitions. You can get a detailed overview of who is speaking, when and where, on site in the Humboldt Forum.
The experts will speak in different languages. There will be people on site who will help to translate.

17 September 2022

12.00

  • Room 209; Enotie Paul Ogbebor; Nigeria, exhibition talk about the Benin presentation.
  • Room 208; Kuyujani López; Venezuela; film talk “In eigener Regie” (Ye’kwana, Venezuela)
  • Room 306; the Sufi Center Rabbaniyya; Germany; The Legacy of Mawlana
    The Sufi Center Rabbaniyya welcomes visitors to the opening of the exhibition with a rich program of Sufi wisdom, traditional dhikr meditation, sacred music and spinning dervishes.

13.00

  • Room 311; Peera Panarut; Thailand/Germany; “Hidden Treasures – The Berlin Collection of Thai Manuscripts”, An exhibition talk about behind-the-scenes research at the museum.
  • Room 202; Mariela Nagle; Germany; talk about children’s books in the family trail

14.00

  • Room 208; Kuyujani López; Venezuela; film talk “Medacha. The First Shaman of the Ye’kwana.”
  • Room 201; Daniela Kratzsch, Sean Young, Germany, Canada; talk about the exhibition Ts’uu – Cedar

15.00

  • Room 209; Victor E. Ehikhamenor and Taiye Stephanie Idahor; Nigeria; Artist Talk
  • Room 215; Donica Nandie; Papua New Guinea; Film Talk
  • Room 306; Berlin Muslim women from the German Islam Academy; Germany; They talk about their faith, with music and possibly calligraphy
  • Listening-room, 2nd Floor; Audiovisual Installation “The Burning Bush. Ukrainians in Times of Resistance” Olha Kolomyyets, Maria Oneshchak, Natalia Rybka-Parkhomenko, Yaroslav Krysko

16.00

  • Room 204; Frank Salomon, Alejandro José Chu Barrera; USA, Peru; exhibition talk
  • Room 309; Lanunungsang Imchatsung Imchen, Amit Mahanti; India; talk about the exhibition Naga Land
  • Room 318 ; Jun Ura, Takuo Nakamura, Naoki Sakai, Munehisa (Sokyu) Nara, Nobukko Socho Sugai-Baumgarten; Japan, Germany; exhibition talk and tea gathering

17.00

  • Room 208; Kuyujani López, Dulfredo Emjayumi Torres Rodriguez; Venezuela; exhibition talk about the Amazon presentation (roundhouse, Ye’kwana objects).
  • Room 207; Marina Castillo Deball; Mexico, Germany; Artist Talk about her artwork “Codex Humbloldt Fragment 1 / Codex Azoyú 2 Reverso”, mural made of terracotta tiles
  • Room 203; Wynema Morris, Pierre Elmer Merrick, Barbara Jo McKillip-Erixon, Michael Thomas Berger, Vanessa Dawn Hamilton, Isha Marie Morris, Tracy Lynn Mitchell; USA; Talk about the exhibition Against the Current
  • Room 214; Roberto Manhães Reis, Carlos da Silva Pinto; Brazil; film talk
  • Room 320; Xu Jian; China; exhibition talk on objects from a colonial context

18.00

  • Seminar room 2; Sebastián van Doesburg; Netherlands; Lecture in English “The pictographic documentary record of Oaxaca as Cultural Patrimony; Stakeholders and meanings” followed by a guided tour of the exhibition
  • Room 211; Vicensia Shule, Amani Abeid, Josefine Apraku; Tanzania; discussion on the exhibition “Exhibiting.Omissions”.
  • Room 208; Diana Guzmán, Orlando Villegas, Aloisio Cabalzar, Damião Amaral Barbosa, Rogelino Azevedo; Colombia, Brazil; exhibition talk about the Amazon presentation (instruments from the Upper Rio Negro)
  • Room 309; Zubeni Lotha; India; exhibition talk with the curator of the exhibition Naga Land
  • Room 306; Shingo Ali Masuda, Claire Fontanille, Dhyana Vargas, Valentina Bellanova; Italy; musicians and dancers introduce to mystical Islam
  • Listening-room, 2nd Floor; Audiovisual Installation “The Burning Bush. Ukrainians in Times of Resistance” Olha Kolomyyets, Maria Oneshchak, Natalia Rybka-Parkhomenko, Yaroslav Krysko

19.00

  • Seminar Room 2; Stephen A. Kowalewski; USA; Lecture in English “Coixtlahuaca: The Land and the People, Past and Future”
  • Room 214; Ndapewoshali Ndahafa Ashipala, Esther Ulipamwe Goagoses, Boyson Ngondo, Golda Ha-Eiros, Nehoa Hilma Kautondokwa, Hertha Kauna Bukassa; Namibia; exhibition talk on collaborative research on and repatriation of objects to Namibia.
  • Room 201; Christopher John Michael Auchter, Gwaai Edenshaw, Jaalen Edenshaw, Canada; exhibition talk on collaborative research on objects from Canada’s Northwest Coast.

20.00

  • Seminar Room 2; Javier Urcid; USA; lecture in English “Ñuiñe (Mixtec) Writing: History and Society in NW Oaxaca (AD 400-800)” followed by a guided tour of the exhibition.
  • Room 202; Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas; Canada; Artist Talk

21:00

  • Room 204 ; Kristina Leko, Natalia Rodríguez Ramírez, Beatriz Rodríguez Flores, Maria Alejandra Alarcón Bautista; Germany; exhibition talk about a cooperation with the UdK (Kunst im Kontext)
  • Room 215; Martin Maden; Papua New Guinea; exhibition talk about the Luf-Boat

 

18 September 2022

10.00

  • Room 209; Josephine Abbe, Owens Patricia Eromosele, Phil Omodamwen; Nigeria; conversation about Benin presentation.
  • Room 203; Wynema Morris, Pierre Elmer Merrick, Barbara Jo McKillip-Erixon, Michael Thomas Berger, Vanessa Dawn Hamilton, Isha Marie Morris, Tracy Lynn Mitchell; USA; conversation about the exhibition Against the Current.
  • Room 216; Jean-Pierre Félix-Eyoum, Tina Moukodi; Italy, Cameroon; film talk, “In Your Own Direction” (Cameroon).
  • Room 315; Deepak Tolange; Nepal; film talk (religious practices in the Himalayas)
  • Room 309; young Shiites from the Dachverband Schiitischer Gemeinden Deutschlands (IGS) from Berlin ; Germany; they talk about their Islam in the room “Dimensions of Islam” and answer the questions of the visitors

11.00

  • Room 318; Jun Ura, Takuo Nakamura, Naoki Sakai, Munehisa (Sokyu) Nara, Nobukko Socho Sugai-Baumgarten; Japan, Germany; exhibition talk and tea gathering
  • Room 309; Syrians living in Berlin; Germany; Museum, Modernity and Memory – The Participatory Syria Project at the Ethnological Museum.
  • Since 2017, a group of Syrians living in Berlin have been researching the objects of the Ethnological Museum that originate from Syria. Here they present modern Syrian handicrafts from their private collection, tell visitors about its significance and their discoveries in the museum.

12.00

  • Room 208; Kaikutse, Neten Rama, Matthias Lewy, Balbina Lambos; Germany, Peru, Venezuela; exhibition talk on sound stories from Amazonia.
  • Room 201; Frank Collison, Josh Collison; Trevor Isaac, Canada; exhibition talk on collaborative research on objects from Canada’s Northwest Coast.
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