Leerstellen. Ausstellen – Objekte aus Tansania und das koloniale Archiv

Abstract

Collaborative exhibitions in ethnological museums, as happening currently in the Humboldt Forum, will be more and more common. Collaborative means working together with so called source communities, the descendants of the original owners of the displayed objects. An artist from Nagaland, India co curated the Naga exhibition. A group of Native Americans were part oft the curatorial team of the Omaha (Umonhon ) exhibition. Indigenous people express their experience with the violence imposed on them by the white intruders. In the Islam exhibition Berlin Islamic community members of different denominations got the occasion of curating their specific showcase in the exhibition. The Tansania exhibition is focussing on decolonialization of the objects. The perspective of the Tanzanian curators concentrates on the colonial context, the rassist attitude of the German colonial power and the history of violence which was imposed on the local population.