The participants informed each other about their specific projects for the documenta fifteen summer school, giving a brief summary of the project according to the following guiding questions:

Call for participation

A transnational InSEA research group (with members from Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, Finland, USA and Ireland) asks for participation in a survey on  Diversity in Visual Art Education (DIVA): Visual Art Education and Global Understandings.

The...

The Koma figurines, donated to the Museum in 1989 through René David (Zürich), came from Northern Ghana that include Upper West, Upper East, and Northern Regions which were hitherto known as the northern territories or northern Ghana. The term Koma is perhaps limited to the Moagduri District (formerly...

Preliminary note: The reader is invited to enter this text as one would enter a beautiful and at the same time scholarly garden. A discursive reading would not do justice to the text. (Ed)

In addition to explaining the role of story and its representations in Persian painting...

One of the reasons Christianity thrived in Ghana (and Africa) was largely because, the traditional Ghanaian observed so much conformity between their traditional religious practices and the introduced Euro-Christian religion. Commonalities included the belief in reaching the Almighty God through...

The Tiriki are one of the Bantu – Luhya dialect speaking group mainly found in Western part of Kenya. The community is renowned for its adherence to indigenous cultural practices, even as other communities in Kenya abandoned their traditions and embraced modernity. One of the practices that is of...

The German sculptor Andreas Kuhnlein (* 1953) has countless solo exhibitions - from Korea to Canada, from Italy to Finland. But his art has its most intense effect in the village where he lives, Unterwössen, population approx. 3500, on the northern edge of the Alps in Germany. Kuhnlein was also born...

Curated by Yves Xavier Ndounda Ndongo

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L’expérience artistique parce que nourrie des péripéties de la vie donne forme à des supports d’identité et de mémoire capables d’immerger l’homme dans une continuité...

Curated by Constanze Kirchner, Johannes Kirschenmann and Nicola Pauli

This collection of artworks presents ten contributions of art education students of Augsburg University. Thereby, each piece relates to the topic by combining form and content aspects...

Curated by Ebenezer Acquah and Osuanyi Quaicoo Essel

The cultural landscape in Ghana reveals a host of ethnic groups and languages spoken and in different dialects, thus emphasizing the diverse sub-cultural groups in Ghana. The people currently living in Ghana...

Curated by Jane Otieno, Winnie Oyuko, Roy Kisielo and Mary Clare Kidenda

Kenya is a diverse country full of vibrant cultures from forty-three different tribes. It is known for its rich tradition of arts and crafts, record-breaking world athletes, its rich...

Curated by Avi Sooful, Carol Kühn and Gordon Froud

The South African submission for this exhibition is supported by three universities based in the Gauteng Province, namely, University of Pretoria, Tshwane University of Technology, and the University...