24 June – 29 October 2023
This summer, #kunsthalrotterdam, in #collaboration with #museumboijmans Van Beuningen, will be presenting Acknowledge Rebuild – Wunderkammers of Rotterdam’s Colonial Past this summer. This ‘total installation’ curated by the artist patricia kaersenhout on the occasion of the Slavery Memorial Year, will feature interventions by five emerging artists. In an associative way, historical objects from various museum collections and archives in the city of #rotterdam are linked to contemporary artworks. In addition, family properties and personal stories of #rotterdam residents illustrate the legacy of the city's slavery history. This will result in a surprising perspective on the colonial past of #rotterdam, which is largely unknown, and its continued effects on our present-day lives.
The total installation Acknowledge Rebuild is inspired by European Wunderkammers, also known as cabinets of curiosities. Popular during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they are seen as the predecessors of modern-day museums. Wunderkammers served as treasure-chambers for exotic and wonderous objects, such as taxidermied animals, shells, paintings, and scientific instruments; all collected at a time of increasing contacts with faraway places. These objects refer to the national pride, military glory, and economic prosperity that marked that era, and have thus contributed to the current Western perspective on the world and its position in it. Hidden behind the objects, however, are themes like war, poverty, racism, human trafficking, and forced labour.
Featuring works by five emerging artists
In the exhibition, patricia kaersenhout inverts that perspective and presents the dominant, Western culture as a curiosity. She researches why it is so difficult for us to engage in a discussion about the negative aspects of colonialism. The emerging artists Bouba Dola, Tommy van der Loo, Devika Chotoe, Aqueene Wilson, Ada M. Patterson will be creating new works as interventions for this art installation and writer and anthropologist Gloria Wekker writes poems. They will challenge the audience to look at our colonial past and the history of slavery from a new perspective.
Personal stories about impact colonialism
In a hyper-diverse city like #rotterdam, one in eight residents has an ancestor who was enslaved. With the presentation of family properties and personal stories of residents of #rotterdam related to the colonial past, collected in #collaboration with Verhalenhuis Belvedère, the exhibition encourages further reflection. These stories and objects are exhibited in cabinets that are painted by artist DOMINIQUE. The cabinets are auctioned after the exhibition and the proceeds are donated to the Comité Van Ver Gekomen. The installation at #kunsthalrotterdam shows that racism will continue to be felt in the present and future of the city. After all, the colonial and slavery past is a shared past, not just about descendants of enslaved people, but about all of us.
Collaboration
Acknowledge Rebuild is a #collaboration of #kunsthalrotterdam and #museumboijmans Van Beuningen.
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