POST-COLONIAL METROPOLIS HAMBURG
ON THE TRAIL OF (NEO)COLONIAL REALITIES
EXHIBITION 21 JUNE -14 JULY 2011
HAMBURG UNIVERSITY
PFERDESTALL FOYER, ALLENDE-PLATZ 1
The metropolis Hamburg presents itself with charm and open to the world. This image is contradicted by the city’s colonial and racist past, as well as its post-colonial present. Exploitation, structural hierarchies and racism are closely connected with our colonial past. The structures of society , the use of language or the topographies of a city are not coincidental!
In the exhibition historical developments will be linked with our present-day reality. We will be searching for traces of (neo)colonialism in Hamburg, as well as in our own constructions of identity.
