Black Feminism at the Iwalewahaus: Seeing African Feminisms Anew
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Black Feminism at the Iwalewahaus: A Curatorial Tour with Natasha A. Kelly
On Thursday, November 26, 2026, Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly will lead a tour of the exhibition Beyond the Sweet and Obvious: African Feminisms Refracted at the Iwalewahaus of the University of Bayreuth. The 45-minute tour begins at 6:00 PM and provides an informed access to African and Black feminisms, artistic research, and new perspectives on the collection.
An Exhibition as an Invitation to Change Perspectives
The exhibition curated by Natasha A. Kelly examines how African feminisms change the perception of art, history, and society. It starts with the demand from Nigerian artist Colette Omogbai for a new perspective on art from 1965. From this impulse, the collection of the Iwalewahaus is rewritten and placed in dialogue with questions of memory, visibility, and future.
Curatorial Work Examination and Cultural Education
The tour combines art historical contextualization with social analysis. The focus is on artistic practices that question established knowledge orders, make marginalized experiences visible, and create connections between past, present, and future. The atmosphere of the exhibition invites concentrated examination of the works, in which spatial effects, materials, visual languages, and transnational contexts gain significance equally.
Natasha A. Kelly: Research, Art, and Black Feminism
Natasha A. Kelly works as a communication scientist, sociologist, author, curator, and multimedia artist. Her research and artistic practice focus on Black German history, Black feminism, and Afrofuturism. In her work, she combines scientific analysis with aesthetic experience and social intervention.
From the Exhibition to the Film Program
The tour lasts 45 minutes. Following this, at 7:00 PM, Natasha A. Kelly's documentary film Milli’s Awakening from 2018 will be shown. The film deals with the depiction of Black women through the white male gaze and responds to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's painting Sleeping Milli. The connection between the exhibition, film, and conversation expands the artistic experience by adding a media and memory-political dimension.
This tour offers art enthusiasts an intensive encounter with contemporary exhibition practice, African feminisms, and the collection of the Iwalewahaus. For those who experience art as an aesthetic experience and as a space for critical reflection, new perspectives on body, history, power, and self-determination can be discovered here. A visit is particularly recommended for anyone wishing to connect cultural education, contemporary art, and socially engaged curating.
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