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INTERCULTURALITY

Date:
Wed 01.03.2023 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Location:
Neue Nationalgalerie
Offer:
Talk | Lecture / Adults

Yvette Mutumba in conversation with Lisa Hörstmann and Monica Juneja

Embedded historically in the respective social conditions, the collection of the Nationalgalerie also has its limitations. Thus, the collection contains mainly works created in Germany and by men. To provide a critical impetus addressing these gaps, works by international women artists have been included via loans, among them the painter Irma Stern. Her expressionist work stands between cultures, because she spent her childhood and youth alternately in South Africa and Germany. In the 1910s Stern studied art in Berlin and Weimar, cultivated a close friendship with Max Pechstein and became a member of the Novembergruppe. In 1920 she returned to Cape Town, where she lived until her death. How should her works be interpreted? Do we find in her paintings an exotic, transfigured image of Africa or a realistic one? Did Irma Stern, as a white artist, portray her black models respectfully or did she use racist stereotypes? The question of which intercultural dialogues Stern's work opens up will be discussed by art historians Lisa Hörstmann, research assistant at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Monica Juneja, professor of Global Art History at the University of Heidelberg, and Yvette Mutumba, co-founder and director of the platform Contemporary And (C&).

 

The events will take place as part of a lecture series from September 2022 to June 2023, on the first Wednesday of each month at 7 pm. Unless otherwise noted, the events will be held in German.
Afterwards, the exhibition can be visited until 10 pm.

Participation in the lecture and admission to the exhibition are free of charge. 
Online booking required.


The event series is made possible by the Ferdinand-Möller-Stiftung, Berlin.