Exhibiting Entanglements -CRAFTE at the Museum

In 2026, CRAFTE will launch an exhibition on Berlin, The Divided City and its Afro-Asian inhabitants.

 

This will be a first-of-its-kind event (in an art space as well as a digital format). The city of Berlin has long been a theme as well as a strategic location for exhibitions on divided (German) lives in East/West Germany (one illustrious example: https://zzf-potsdam.de/de/veranstaltungen/sonderausstellung-ost-berlin-die-halbe-hauptstadt-0.)  

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More recently, it has become a hub for public discussions on commemoration cultures in the city and   decoloniality, particularly focusing on Germany’s colonial past (for e.g. Dekoloniale: Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt https://www.dekoloniale.de, Berlin Postkolonial e.V.). Some very recent exhibitions (2024) such as Echoes der Brüderländer, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin and Revolutionary Romances at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD), have specifically brought histories of the GDR’s internationalism(s), the state's relations with socialist ‘brother’ countries and the experiences/biographies of actors from these countries to the fore (https://www.hkw.de/programme/echos-der-bruderlaender, https://albertinum.skd.museum/en/ausstellungen/revolutionary-romances/).

 

CRAFTE’s exhibition will expand this new ambit of research to include actors from African and Asian countries beyond the usual suspects i.e. not only those falling within the GDR ‘solidarity’ contexts (for e.g. Angola, Mozambique, Vietnam etc.) but also actors from other African and Asian states in both West and East Berlin.

 

Archival Research and planning are already on.  Please return to this page for latest updates.