Please note: From Monday, 5 May up to and including Wednesday, 7 May and from Monday, 12 May up to and including Friday, 16 May 2025, the exhibition areas of the Ethnologisches Museum on the 2nd floor of the Humboldt Forum will be closed due to maintenance work. The exhibition areas will be open from Thursday, 8 May up to and including Sunday, 11 May 2025.
January to February 2024
Ifunanya Madufor is a writer and cultural scientist whose work engages with the spiritual symbols of the Igbo people of Nigeria. Within the scope of her research fellowship at the Ethnologisches Museum, Ifunanya has focussed on conducting a nuanced investigation into the spiritual meaning inherent in the Igbo artefacts held in the museum’s collection.
Ifunanya Madufor’s work has been awarded numerous grants and featured in institutional collaborative projects, such as the Leaky Archive Fellowship of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne in 2022 and the Liu Shiming Artist Grant in 2023. In addition to this, Ifunanya was also a recipient of the DAAD-MuseumsLab grant in 2023 and collaborated with the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the Nairobi National Museum. She is a guest curator at the Center for Memories in Enugu, Nigeria, where she curated the exhibition Odinani: Spirituality and Cosmology of the Igbo in cooperation with the Re-entanglements Project at the SOAS University of London.
This fellowship is supported by Künstlerhaus Bethanien, which provides a studio for artistic and scientific research.