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Exhibiting the Congo
Both museums and art galleries have engaged with the history of slavery and colonialism in the Congo Free State. In different ways these institutions have grappled with representing this complex history. This collection contains examples of exhibitions that have been shaped by the history and legacy of colonial violence in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Importantly some of these exhibitions also showcase the extraordinary art and culture of Congolese people in the past and the present.
'When harmony goes to hell'. Congo Dialogues: Alice Seeley Harris and Sammy Baloji, Rivington Place, London (16 January - 7 March 2014)
Autograph ABP presents a rarely seen archive dating from 1904, created by English missionary Alice Seeley Harris in the Congo Free State. These pioneering photographs publicly exposed the violent consequences of human rights abuses at the turn of the century, and are exhibited alongside newly…
53 echoes of Zaire: Popular Painting from Lubumbashi Democratic Republic of Congo, Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery, London (27 May – 30 June 2015)
Popular Painting is a genre traceable to the 1920s, which chronicles contemporary social and political realities in Congo (then Zaïre). This art movement remains very little known outside the continent. Scholars have dedicated their research activities to Popular Painting. They often knew the main…
Keeping the Past Alive, UCL Anthropology Foyer (October 2015 - December 2015)
Keeping the Past Alive is a partnership between University College London's Ethnography Collection and Congo Great Lakes Initiative. The exhibition reflects the stories that Congolese community members share as and how they interact with objects, either personal, provocative or relational. It is…
Carriers of Culture: Women, Food and Power from the Congo Basin, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University (October 2016 – March 2017)
Exploring the role of women and food from the Congo basin in the past and today, MAA’s first exhibition in our rebranded spotlight gallery is co-curated with the Congo Great Lakes Initiative.
Brutal Exposure, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool (24 January 2015 - 7 June 2015)
This haunting exhibition documented the exploitation and brutality experienced by Congolese people under the control of Leopold II of Belgium in the 1900s. The photographs, by missionary Alice Seeley Harris, were at the time a radical and significant shift in the representation and understanding of…