Exhibition
The Recovery Plan
Oct 10, 2024
Opening of a solo research exhibition by our Villa Romana Fellow Tuli Mekondjo: Okaholo: Contract Labourers. Prisoners of War. Kriegsgefangene.
The project probes the negotiation of responsibility and witness in relation to colonial brutality. Meticulous textile hand craftings and the rituality of performative gestures veil and bind materials and images from the archive connected to German concentration camps in Namibia from the period of occupation of between 1884 and 1919. The project is an extension of the artist’s research carried out through her 2024 residency as recipient of the Villa Romana Prize, and is curated by Villa Romana as an institutional collaboration with The Recovery Plan/BHMF. This project is the 14th volume of The Recovery Plan’s platform Di Palo in Frasca, dedicated to an engagement with artists research as a facilitator of imagining and acting beyond the limitations of academically recognised notions of knowledge production.
The Villa Romana e.V. maintains the Villa Romana and the Villa Romana Prize.
The main sponsor is the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Other sponsors are the Deutsche Bank Foundation, the BAO Foundation as well as - project related - numerous private individuals, companies and foundations from all over the world.
This project is also supported by:
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