In conjunction with the exhibition “A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography in Contemporary Art”

In this performance, Tuli Mekondjo transcends the collapsed time inherent to photography and delves into a deeper time, carried by the ancestral waves of death, memory, emergence, and rebirth.

Tuli Mekondjo (b. 1982, Kwanza-Sul, Angola) is a self-taught Namibian artist based in Windhoek, Namibia. Her multimedia works honor her forebears, fertility, and continuity, while commenting on gendered struggle, intergenerational trauma, and displacement. Drawing on colonial and wartime photographic archives, her practice explores Namibian history and identity politics. Spirituality increasingly plays a role in her work, and Mekondjo extends her textured media into performance. A recipient of the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program in 2022, she was also shortlisted for the Norval Sovereign Africa Art Prize 2022/23. She has exhibited in multiple exhibitions and art fairs, including in Belgium, Côte d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Namibia, Portugal, South Africa, the UK, and the USA. Her works are held in multiple international collections.

Image: Tuli Mekondjo photographed by Odeon Davis © Tuli Mekondjo

Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Location: Forecourt (in front of the museum’s main entrance)

Notes:

• Registration required
• Admission to the museum for the special exhibition “A Kind of Paradise” is not included in the reservation. The performance will only take place in good weather
• A decision on whether the event will go ahead will be announced on the website at least one day in advance