Spirituality: An Exploration through Dialogue

Ifunanya Madufor is a writer and cultural scientist. Her work has been honoured by various grants and institutional collaborations, such as the “Leaky Archive Fellowship” at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne in 2022 and the “Lui Shimming Art Grant” in 2023. Ifunanya Madufor also received a DAAD grant as a MuseumsLab fellow in 2023 and collaborated with both the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the National Museum of Kenya. She is a guest curator at the “Centre for Memories” in Enugu, Nigeria, where she recently organised the exhibition “Odinani: Igbo Spirituality and Cosmology” in collaboration with the “Re-entanglements Project” at SOAS University of London. She received the Goethe-Institut 2021 fellowship “Cosmologies of the South”, which she used to produce a documentary film on the nature of the Igbo cosmological system. As a current research fellow at the Ethnologisches Museum as part of “The Collaborative Museum” (CoMuse) project from January to February 2024, Ifunanya’s investigation focuses on the nuanced exploration of the spiritual meaning and utilitarian functions inherent in the Igbo artefacts in the museum’s collection.

Temidayo Oyeniran is an artist and a transdisciplinary curator focusing on African art. He engages with museum collections and seeks new ways to find and communicate the meanings and stories within them. His artistic work incorporates multi-layered experiences and images based on spirituality and culture.

As part of the DURCHLÜFTEN festival, the Berlin based DJ, author and music lover Ben Olayinka has performed several DJ sets, which got the Schlüterhof dancing. His mission is to constantly send new variations of Afrobeat, disco, house and soul out into the world. Most recently, he teamed up with Cameroonian artist Blick Bassy to present the SPÄTI within the scope of his production BIKUTSI 3000.