Special exhibitions
Preview
From May 7 to August 30
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT
When objects disappear from a museum’s collection, traces remain: catalog entries, inventory numbers, classification systems. They mark what is gone – but do not replace it. What is missing lingers in the archive as a specter. WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT displays no objects from the RJM’s holdings. The exhibition by curator & artist Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen turns the gaze toward what is no longer there – and asks what these absences reveal about the museum, its history, and its structures of power.
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Special exhibitions
The large exhibition hall is used for a wide variety of special exhibitions and exciting programmes.
Point of Focus
In the Point of Focus (Blickpunkt) exhibition area, we shed new and critical light on our own collection in close cooperation with the communities of origin.
Art intervention
To enliven our permanent exhibition, which opened in 2010, with new approaches and ideas, we regularly conduct “art interventions” – large and small, realised by invited artists, students, associations or by ourselves.