in detail
The new permanent exhibition is arranged in four large groups, starting with an introduction to aspects of the African history of art, followed by figures, performance and design.
It makes clear that art from Africa has its own art-historical development, which the Western world failed to understand or recognise for a long time. African art was instead regarded as primitive - a stigma based on the ideology of the colonial age.
Beyond that the exhibition points out that art from Africa, in addition to its religious significance, had a multiplicity of functions in African societies.
These masterpieces could previously be seen at the exhibition "Art from Africa" in Brazil in 2003/2004. That exhibition attracted more than a million visitors, and won two awards.
Admission
Standard: 6 EUR
Reduced / Ermäßigt: 3 EUR
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