The Arbeitskreis Provenienzforschung e.V. (Association for Provenance Research) brings together over 600 international researchers and experts dedicated to researching the provenance of cultural objects. Our members work in collecting institutions (such as museums, libraries and archives), in the art trade, the legal system, in academia or as freelancers. The host for this year’s annual conference is the University of Bonn. The University of Bonn is one of the largest and most renowned teaching and research institutions in Germany. In summer 2019 it was named one of eleven German Excellence Universities. In the last years, Bonn has also established itself as a transdisciplinary centre in the fields of provenance research and restitution.
The 2025 conference will focus on transdisciplinary cooperation and its potential for provenance research. The aim is to bring together the various disciplines in which provenance research is practiced (art history, cultural and social anthropology, archaeology, history, law, mineralogy, palaeontology, zoology, botany, medicine, etc.), and to unite the various historical contexts of injustice (i.e. cultural and collection material from colonial contexts, cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution, and cultural property confiscation in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR), bringing them into productive dialogue. Alongside insights into current research, we expressly welcome contributions from origin communities and claimants, from the areas of power and dependency research, and from activists working in this field.
For additional information, visit: https://www.khi.uni-bonn.de/fpk/de/akbonn2025
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