{"id":25990,"date":"2025-09-25T11:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/?p=25990"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:36:19","slug":"decolonize-art-perspectives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/decolonize-art-perspectives\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonize\u2013art\u2013perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swiper\"><div id=\"swiper-69e802e7e0957\" class=\" swiper-container\"><div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nicholas-cropped-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div>          <div class=\"swiper-slide swiper-slide\"><div class=\"swiper-slide-content\">            <img src=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP_1268_Hopmann_copyright-Andrea-Preysing-1100x734.jpg\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n          <\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div><div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/<![CDATA[\n(function($, window) {\n\t$('#swiper-69e802e7e0957').swiper({\"pagination\":\".swiper-pagination\",\"paginationClickable\":true,\"nextButton\":\".swiper-button-next\",\"prevButton\":\".swiper-button-prev\",\"scrollbar\":false,\"loop\":true,\"before\":\"<div class=\\\"swiper\\\">\",\"after\":\"\",\"autoplay\":\"8000\"});\n})(jQuery, window)\n\/\/]]><\/div><\/script>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Image 1: Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #999999;\">Image 2: Suy Lan Hopmann, Photo: Andrea Preysing<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Decolonize&ndash;art&ndash;perspectives<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Talk with Suy Lan Hopmann &amp; Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya<br \/>\nIn cooperation with fluctoplasma festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 25 October 2025, 5 pm<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free admission<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In cooperation with the fluctoplasma festival, artist Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya and curator Suy Lan Hopmann will discuss institutional decolonisation processes. Together, they will reflect on the extent to which artistic strategies can contribute to the examination of colonial history, how colonial and decolonizing experiences can be expressed in aesthetic and structural approaches to work, and what is needed for institutions to not only take up decolonial practices in terms of content, but also to anchor them sustainably and structurally.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The starting point for the conversation is Nicholas Mboya&rsquo;s exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/kunsthaushamburg.de\/en\/nicholas-odhiambo-mboya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Utopia &ndash; Dystopia<\/em><\/a>. In his multimedia works, the Hamburg-based artist addresses socio-political realities in his home country of Kenya alongside experiences of the African diaspora in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be moderated by Lee Hielscher.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fluctoplasma.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fluctoplasma<\/a><\/span> festival will take place from 23 to 26 October 2025, using art to create a space for discourse and diversity &ndash; 96 hours for a diverse urban society.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"videocontainer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gespr&auml;ch zwischen Suy Lan Hopmann &amp; Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UwUymDmAzV8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Suy Lan Hopmann<\/strong> is a curator at the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin and works on memory culture(s), decolonisation, racism and migration, as well as gender and queerness. Previously, she was project officer for the decolonisation of Hamburg at the city&rsquo;s Ministry of Culture and curator for special projects and diversity at the Museum am Rothenbaum &ndash; Kulturen und K&uuml;nste der Welt (MARKK). She is a board member of ICOM Germany, a member of the ICOM Working Group Decolonisation and a trustee of filia.die frauenstiftung. She studied Chinese studies, gender studies and sociology and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Chinese Politics and Economics as well as at the Collaborative Research Centre 700 at Freie Universit&auml;t Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nicholas Odhiambo Mboya<\/strong> studied Fine Arts at the Mwangaza School of Fine Arts Kisumu and at the HFBK Hamburg. His works have been exhibited at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, JO (2025), at ICAT, Hamburg, DE (2024), in the Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, DE (2024), as part of the Fluctoplasma Festival, Hamburg, DE (2021), at the MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und K&uuml;nste der Welt, Hamburg, DE (2021), and at the Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, KE (2018). 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