Object Biographies and Museums: 100 X Congo in Antwerp, Exhibition at the Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 October 2020 - 12 September 2021
The Museum aan de Stroom (MAS) in Antwerp, Belgium, opened the doors of its long-anticipated exhibition, 100 X Congo, on 3 October 2020, highlighting the presence of a Congolese art collection that has been owned by the city for a hundred years (1920-2020). Tackling the often uneasy history of how these things ended up in museums in the colonial ‘motherland’, this exhibition signals a step forwards in museology in Belgium, away from mere aestheticism of Congolese and, by extension, African arts, towards, in contrast, a focus on provenance, context and cultural importance.
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Museum & Society, Vol 19, Iss 3, Pp 395-409 (2021) |
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University of Leicester
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Schlagwörter: | art / anthropology / museology / democratic republic of congo (drc) / belgium / Museums. Collectors and collecting / AM1-501 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28971166 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v19i3.3783 |