ANN: Yaëlle Biro – African Arts’ Secondary Market. Market Definition and Networks in the Early 20th century (Forum Kunst & Markt, TU Berlin; recorded online lecture now available)
The first two decades of the 20th century constitute a pivotal art historical moment for the reception of African arts in the West. It continues today to largely define the discourses constructed around African objects…
ANN: Lecture Series – Forum Kunst und Markt / Center for Art Market Studies (TU Berlin / online, 9 May-27 Jun 2022; in English and German)
African Arts’ Secondary Market. Market Definition and Networks in the Early 20th Century PROGRAMME: VIDEO // KuK TU Berlin YouTubeDr. Nicolas Galley, ZürichNFTs and Other Techs in Times of Crisis. New Digital Art…
CONF: Pioneers of African Contemporary Art / Pionniers de l’art africain contemporain (INHA, Paris, 11&12 April 2022)
At the invitation of the National Institute of Art History, Riason Naidoo offers a meeting dedicated to the pioneering figures of contemporary African art. Designed as conversations with multiple voices, this symposium will…
CONF: Looking Forward, Looking Back – Itinerant artists between African and German-speaking countries, 1950s to 1970s (online / Universität Zürich, 16-17 Dec 2021)
The symposium aims to launch international research about itinerant artists who travelled between various African and German-speaking countries from the 1950s to the 1970s. It seeks to collate and analyse multiple transcultural exchanges between…
ANN: Parcours d’objets : La mise en place d’un marché des arts africains en contexte colonial (video of a seminar at the INHA Paris, 23 Sept 2021; in French)
Session d’ouverture de la seconde année du séminaire de parcours d’objets sur les études de provenances des collections d’art « extra-occidental ». Nous attachant tout d’abord au contexte colonial d’acquisition des objets africains…
ANN: Presentation of the Project “Digital Benin” (in English), (DZK & CARMAH / online, 11 Oct 2021, 6pm CEST)
Digital Benin (digital-benin.org) will digitally unite the globally dispersed works of art from the Kingdom of Benin and as an unparalleled forum of knowledge, it will bring together object data and related documentation…
CFP: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research (Vitromusée Romont, Switzerland 15 Sep 2022)
Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research Provenance research is not only a central field of museum activity, but has also increasingly become the focus of academic research. The topic…
CONF: Decolonizing Heritage – The Return of Cultural Objects to Africa : An International Law Perspective (Centre universitaire du droit de l’art, Univ. of Geneva; 23-24 Sept 2021)
Depuis la déclaration faite à Ouagadougou en 2017 par le Président Emmanuel Macron, pour qui les biens culturels doivent être restitués aux Etats africains victimes de la colonisation, les musées européens ont dû réévaluer…
STIP: External Collaborators: Material Migrations (Gerda Henkel Foundation)
The research project “Material Migrations: Mamluk Metalwork across Afro-Eurasia,” funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation and co-directed by Gertrude Aba Mansah Eyifa-Dzidzienyo (University of Ghana), Jacopo Gnisci (University College London), Vera-Simone Schulz (Kunsthistorisches Institut…