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Lecture at the Galerie am kleinen Wannsee

As part of the 15th open studios in Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Anja Beecken is once again inviting visitors to her gallery and studio on the small Wannsee lake this November.


Works from the last 8 years will be on display over three floors, including many paintings from her visits to Africa.

This time the focus is on her many visits to African countries and her creative endeavours as a painter and architect. In a lecture, Anja Beecken reports on her creative moments while travelling in recent years, which have taken her to the most diverse countries and special cities in Africa.


She will talk about the world of colours from ancient Tunisia in ancient Karthargo, the purchase of naturally produced pigment colours from Essaouira. Morocco. She meets an architect in Burkina Faso, with whom she then decides to enter a competition for the new democratic parliament in the capital Ouagadougou.

She meets an architect in the old Cameroonian art metropolis of Fumban, whose great-great-aunt belonged to the Harem in the Sultan's palace in Fumban and was married to the famous King Njoya. He voluntarily submitted to the German colonial power, and the throne in the Humboldt Forum is a gift from him to the Germans. This architect guides her through his new museum building on the palace grounds. His sister visits her at the family plantation, which she runs, and also paints there. Anja Beecken shows some of her sketches from the sketchbooks from Namibia and Uganda.   And anyone who would like to see the connection between the pictures on the wall and the history of their creation is cordially invited to attend.   

Lecture duration: 1 hour each
Dates
November 2024
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