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The interdisciplinary festival “BLACK LAND, RED LAND – RESTITUTE” critically examines museum and institutional dispositifs and approaches selected artefacts and narratives from the “holdings” of the Egyptian Museums in Berlin, Germany and Turin, Italy artistically and discursively. The approaches developed in the team and with artists will be shared and discussed with the audience over four days in December, from 21 December to 28 December 2023 at silent green, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Palais am Festungsgraben and in public space.
The imperial scientific expeditions to Egypt in the 19th century served the European exploration of the African continent, both in terms of documenting and surveying the country as well as acquiring cultural entities. The expeditions took place in the context of the colonial campaigns of conquest from the 16th century onwards and transferred their own forms of …
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Image above: Statue of Sakhmet (2023). Photo Lutz Knospe 4
