How can art help us tell polyphonic stories? What stories are concealed in historical photographs? And how have contemporary artists revealed these narratives? With A Kind of Paradise, Museum Rietberg presents a group exhibition that is the first to comprehensively explore this phenomenon in global contemporary art. Internationally acclaimed artists from and members of diasporas of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Oceania have engaged with colonial-era visual material. Their works – poetic, critical, and visionary – explore how such images define identity, history, and a sense of belonging, and how they may be reinterpreted. These works reveal a healing power that transcends historical specificities and can touch us all.
Participating artists (in alphabetical order): Sammy Baloji (DR Congo), Raphaël Barontini (France), Mary Enoch Elizabeth Baxter (United States), Daniel Boyd (Australia), Andrea Chung (United States), Omar Victor Diop (Senegal) & Lee Shulman (United Kingdom), Sasha Huber (Switzerland), Yuki Kihara (Samoa), Cédric Kouamé (Côte d’Ivoire), Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnam), Dimakatso Mathopa (South Africa), Tuli Mekondjo (Namibia), Tshepiso Moropa (South Africa), Aline Motta (Brazil), Frida Orupabo (Norway), Rosana Paulino (Brazil), Wendy Red Star (United States), David Shongo (DR Congo), Zenaéca Singh (South Africa).
Today
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Admission
CHF 18 / CHF 14 reduced