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Research Logs, Essays, Conversations tagged with decolonialism

Figure 3. Remy Jungerman, Bakru, 2007, wood, textile, paper, plastic and plant materials, 220 × 300 × 38 cm. Collection Wereldmuseum. © Remy Jungerman. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Wording Identities

Essays, Stedelijk Studies Masters 2025
by Olombi Bois
April 8, 2025
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Visiting Fellow: Tina Campt in conversation with Rolando Vázquez Melken

Visiting Fellow: Tina Campt

Conversations
by Tina Campt and Rolando Vázquez Melken
December 9, 2024
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Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, The 2nd of March 1962, Rangoon, Burma, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 210 cm x 405 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Reshaping the Politics of Visual Representation

Conversations
A conversation with Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Iris Kensmil, Edwin Nasr, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe and Vivian Ziherl
September 27, 2024
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Yvette Mutumba during the "10 Years Bathtub: Open for the Open" lecture series. 24 September 2022. Photo: Ernst van Deursen.

In Museums We Trust

Essays
by Yvette Mutumba
November 22, 2022
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On Things and Beings: The Affordances of Objects and Ways of Knowing

On Things and Beings: The Affordances of Objects and Ways of Knowing

Conversations
by Amanda Pinatih and Britte Sloothaak
November 14, 2022
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Black Lives Matter protest in Dam Square, Amsterdam on June 01, 2020. Photo by Mascha Tielemans available at The Black Archives.

Wake up and smell the coffee: El Dorado is right here in the Netherlands!

Essays, Surinamese School
by Bart Krieger
June 29, 2022
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Ekow Eshun interviewed by Amanda Pinatih

Race, Colonialism, and the Climate Crisis

Conversations, It’s our F-ing Backyard, It’s our F-ing Backyard - Part 1, Research Logs
What Artists and Designers Can Do. Ekow Eshun interviewed by Amanda Pinatih
May 18, 2022
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Art as Colonial Contact Zone

Art as Colonial Contact Zone

Essays, Kirchner and Nolde: Expressionism. Colonialism.
Essay by Paul Basu
March 29, 2022
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In a get-together recorded as a podcast (with video) in the new collection presentation of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, renowned cultural theorist Mieke Bal took part in a conversation about interdisciplinary research on the basis of the concepts of narratology, migratory aesthetics, and politics versus the political.

Looking at Art through Cultural Analysis: Mieke Bal

Conversations, Here for Now, Then and There, Research Logs
by Britte Sloothaak
March 9, 2022
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This still from IOU 4 USA depicts a square charcoal drawing held up by two hands. The drawing is of a frame from The Simpsons and shows an IOU note in Homer’s hands. The note reads: “DEAR USA I.O.U. LESS KANDERS SIGNED USA”.

Christine Sun Kim, IOU 4 USA, 2021

Research Logs, Sketches for the Future
by Fabienne Chiang
January 12, 2022
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The police officer examines the inside of her left middle finger. She is wearing a yellow hat with a silver police badge and a turquoise dress. Her fingernails are painted red. Her made-up face is partially covered by another hand, which is out of focus.

Ghita Skali, The Invaders, 2021

Sketches for the Future
by Fabienne Chiang
November 15, 2021
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The Power of the Everyday: Reflections on The Surinamese School exhibition

The Power of the Everyday: Reflections on The Surinamese School exhibition

Essays, Surinamese School
Essay by Chandra Frank
July 8, 2021
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HITO STEYERL I WILL SURVIVE Tentoonstelling — 29 jan t/m 12 jun 2022

In the artist’s words: Barricade

Research Logs, Tomorrow is a different day
by Esiri Erheriene-Essi
July 1, 2021
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Languages of Resistance and Protest in Dutch-Surinamese Painting

Languages of Resistance and Protest in Dutch-Surinamese Painting

Essays, Surinamese School
Essay by Oneika Russel
July 1, 2021
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Installation view exhibition Surinamese School. Painting from Paramaribo to Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2020-2021. Leo Glans, Cubist Portrait of a Woman, ca. 1936, oil on panel, 72 x 55 cm; Javan Woman, 1932, watercolor on paper, 58 x 44 cm; Portrait of a Woman, 1933-1934, oil on canvas, 100x 65 cm, all: Stichting kunstwerken Leo Glans. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij

Surinamese School: Reflections on History, Art, Decolonization and Cultural Identity

Essays, Surinamese School
Essay by Azu Nwagbogu 
June 24, 2021
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Journal Articles tagged with decolonialism

Figure 5. Contact sheet with views of the fair “Europe Against the Current” at Beurs van Berlage and the public on the Beursplein, 1989. Photo: Pieter Boersma.

Stedelijk Studies Journal Issue #14 Editorial

Issue #14: Amsterdam: Reconsidering the Transnational
by Elize Mazadiego and Daniel Ricardo Quiles
September 24, 2024
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Transnational Curatorial Practice: Amsterdam

Transnational Curatorial Practice: Amsterdam from 1970s

Issue #14: Amsterdam: Reconsidering the Transnational
An Online Conversation
September 24, 2024
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 Years

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 Years – Editorial

Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years
by Yvette Mutumba and Maurice Rummens
January 13, 2022
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After(-)Images: Problematizing Collections of Early Documentary Photography in the Art Museum

After(-)Images: Problematizing Collections of Early Documentary Photography in the Art Museum

Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years
by Fabienne Chiang
January 12, 2022
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Exhibition Surinamese School

Exhibiting Surinamese Histories of Art: Curatorial Approaches Towards Diversity

Issue #11 – The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at 125 years
by Oscar Ekkelboom
January 11, 2022
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From Fiction to Knowledge Unveiling histories in contemporary cultural institutions

From Fiction to Knowledge

Issue #11 - Addendum
by Deiara Kouto and Anne Bielig
January 11, 2022
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Cubism in Iran: Jalil Ziapour and the Fighting Rooster Association

Issue #09 - Modernism in Migration
By Katrin Nahidi
October 29, 2019
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Decolonial Aesthesis and the Museum: An Interview with Rolando Vázquez Melken

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality
By Rosa Wevers
June 5, 2019
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Temporality and Universalism in the Contemporary Ethnographic Museum: Two Collection Presentations at the Tropenmuseum

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality
By Luuk Vulkers
June 4, 2019
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Towards Mutuality in International Museum Cooperation: Reflections on a Swiss-Ugandan Cooperative Museum Project

Issue #08 - Towards a Museum of Mutuality
By Thomas Laely, Marc Meyer, Amon Mugume and Raphael Schwere
June 2, 2019
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Alike, but not the Same: The Reenactment of Lina Bo Bardi’s Display for the São Paulo Museum of Art (1968–2015)

Issue #05 - Curating the Collection
By Sabrina Moura
March 5, 2017
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For Whom Do We Write Exhibitions? Towards a Museum as Commons

Issue #04 - Between the Discursive and the Immersive
By Francesco Manacorda
June 9, 2016
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A Thought Never Unfolds in One Straight Line

Issue #04 - Between the Discursive and the Immersive
By Christel Vesters
June 9, 2016
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Recalcitrant Geographies: National Claims, Transnationalism, and the Institutionalization of Contemporary Art

Issue #01 - Collecting Geographies
By Kitty Zijlmans
November 25, 2014
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Revisiting Magiciens de la terre

Issue #01 - Collecting Geographies
By Annie Cohen-Solal
November 25, 2014
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