Exhibits

The Africa Centre and the Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery in London presented the 53 Echoes of Zaire exhibition, a collection of paintings by the late Congolese artists T. Kalema, C. Mutombo, B. Ilunga, Ndaie, and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, the featured artist in the show.

All of the works were created in the late 1970s, less than a decade after Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, gained its independence from Belgium.

With immersive scenography and numerous multimedia devices, this committed exhibition confronts the public with their own representations. At the crossroads of anthropology, biology, economics, sociology and history, and based on the latest discoveries, it examines the phenomena of racialisation and demonstrates that racism is a social construct.

The National Museum's new exhibition about Denmark's colonial history in the West Indies, India, West Africa and Greenland is not about trade, commodities and resources but about people. We meet the West Indian rebel Queen Mary, the Gold Coast slave trader Ludvig Rømer, the Greenlandic prophet Habakuk, the enslaved West Indian Franciscus, and many more. People who embody dramatic stories of loss, divided families, fear and violence. But also hope, broken chains and the power of uprising.

The Deutsches Historisches Museum is dealing for the first time with various aspects of German colonialism in an exhibition with more than 500 objects. Although the German Empire was one of the major European colonial powers, only in recent years has Germany‘s colonial past found its way into public consciousness to a significant degree. The exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum examines the colonial ideology, which was founded in the belief of a European superiority.

The exhibition focuses on a forgotten aspect of the colonial war in the Dutch East Indies: the influence of the Dutch military intelligence services on how the Dutch media reported on the conflict. The exhibition casts a different light on the colonial war and shows the power and impact of photography and film. The official image of the war on Java and Sumatra aimed at manipulating public opinion. Without images of violence there seemed to be no war.

Tate Britain presents a major exhibition of art associated with the British Empire from the 16th century to the present day. Featuring a vast array of objects from collections across Britain, including maps, flags, paintings, photographs, sculptures and artefacts, the exhibition examines how the histories of the British Empire have shaped art past and present. Contemporary works within the exhibition suggest that the ramifications of the Empire are far from over.

McIntosh Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Rehab Nazzal. The show is based on Nazzal’s year-long research in the occupied West Bank and features an array of works that engage gallery-goers through sight, hearing and smell. In this multi-media exhibition, social commentary and critique intersect with expressive response to the severe realities in the conflict zone, and offers a space where critical inquiry as well as reflection may take place.

The show "Veiled, Unveiled! The Headscarf" at Vienna's Weltmuseum (World Museum) puts headscarf diversity on display. "The goal of the exhibition is to reveal the transformations that the headscarf has undergone and that have been forgotten, repressed or those that are simply unknown," Steinmann said.

Countless archives in the Netherlands and other countries have been consulted, leading to the discovery of numerous previously unknown photographs. Unlike in most countires occupied by the Nazis, many of these photographs have been preserved. The exhibition of these photographs is curated by the NIOD and the event is a collaborative venture between the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, the NIOD, and the Topographie des Terrors in Berlin, where the exhibition will be on view from the autumn of 2019.

For nearly 250 years Denmark was a colonial power in the West Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. 2017 marks the centenary of the sale of the West Indies to the United States and a number of museums in and around Copenhagen have used this occasion to shed light on Denmark’s colonial past. Delve into the enlightening and diverse exhibitions. At The Workers Museum the colonial history of Denmark is used as the point of departure for a broader exhibition on human enslavement.