Restitution

Africa Depot at Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, 2015. Photo: Marion Benoit.

C& x Académie des Traces

Examiner les traces dé/coloniales à travers les collections coloniales

En collaboration avec l'Académie des Traces, sept jeunes chercheurs et professionnels des musées explorent les traces de l'héritage colonial.

Still from Dahomey by Matt Diop.

Restitution

Tracing the Then and Now of Restitution Through Mati Diop’s Documentary Fantasy Dahomey

Can the French restitution of some of Benin’s royal treasures constitute a new beginning? Mati Diop’s new film, Dahomey, delves this question.

Installation View

The BENIN BRONZES Roundtables

La restitution des bronzes du Bénin : patrimoine du passé ou une voie vers l’avenir ?

Agwu Enekwachi a récemment participé à une table ronde organisée à Abuja sur la mobilisation et les actions en faveur de la restitution promise.

Elisia Nghidishange, Ancestor Caller, 2020.  15. Triennial Kleinplastik Fellbach, 2022, Photo: Peter Hartung

Installation View

15th Triennial of Small Sculpture Fellbach

The Triennale curated by Elke aus dem Moore brings together more than 50 artists from all over the world to look at the the vitality of things.

Adjaye Associates has designed the Edo Museum of West African Art

La restitution des bronzes du Bénin

Perspectives nigérianes

L’Allemagne devrait restituer les bronzes du Bénin au cours de l’année 2022, nous…

Installation View

Invisible Inventories

Absent Figures: The Difficult Questions Restitution Raises

Being asked to call something an object can be troubling, as evidenced in…

Installation view of a exhibition at the new Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Maya Varichon

Museum for Black Civilisation Dakar

Restitution Alone is Not the Answer

Looking at the histories and contemporary cultures of Black people in a global…

Unvergleichlich: Kunst aus Afrika im Bode-Museum (Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum), Installation view © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Débat sur l'art pillé

L’Allemagne révèle Premiers grand axes relatifs au traitement des biens de collection issus de contextes coloniaux

Après le rapport important sur la nécessité de restituer le patrimoine culturel africain…

Rajkamal Kahlon. Altered cover of Die Völker Der Erde, by Kurt Lampert, 2017. Ink and gouache on bookcovers. Courtesy the artist.

The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage

108 Pages On The Restitution Of Looted Art From Africa

The report commissioned by French President Emmanuel Macron is out today