A research and art project by the Goethe-Institut Angola
In collaboration with Angolan artists Mussunda N’Zombo and Bruno Fonseca, the Goethe-Institut Angola has been searching for the past two years for traces of little-known chapters of German colonial presence in Angola.
Image gallery
Zitadelle
Drawing on reports and testimonies from German plantation owners who resided in Angola until 1975, we present a universe of diplomatic documents, interviews with former workers, archival finds, films, family testimonies from descendants still living in Angola, and contemporary performance photographs.
This targeted emigration to Angola never involved an explicit territorial claim, but was directly and indirectly promoted by the German Colonial School in Witzenhausen, secret agreements between England and Germany, corporate headquarters, colonial associations, and even West German postwar policy.
The exhibition presents this chapter of German-Angolan history from multiple perspectives and gives voice to a wide variety of voices.
Artist Mussunda N’Zombo will present a performance at the opening—in the presence of photographer Bruno Fonseca and eyewitnesses.
Concept: Mussunda N’Zombo, Bruno Fonseca, Julia Schreiner, Ngoi Salucombo, and Sarah Mfuende
