DECOLONYCITIES Kigali - Hamburg is a project that acts at the interface between dance and visual arts and sets a process of decolonization in motion. It's about a change of perspective that artistically allows us to approach this topic differently. What is the colonial past between Kigali and Hamburg? How is this story archived - inside and outside the museum? The MARKK in Hamburg is on the one hand a place of performance and at the same time the center of these questions.

From June 18 to 20, 2021, the choreographer Yolanda Gutiérrez and the MARKK Museum will organize the performance DECOLONYCITIES between the city of Kigali and Hamburg. For the project, five artists from the former German colony of Rwanda were invited to Hamburg in order to deal with the colonial past anchored in public space on the basis of artistic on-site research.

Time: June 18-20, 2021

Location: in MARKK and other public places in Hamburg

Opening: Friday, June 18, 2021 at 3 p.m.

Further performances on Saturday, June 19 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. and on Sunday, June 20, 2021 at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

With Dolph Banza

As part of DECOLONYCITIES KIGALI-HAMBURG, a project by Yolanda Gutiérrez, the Rwandan illustrator Dolph Banza will set up his studio in the space between the MARKK in order to interact with objects. In the style of the previous draftswomen at the museum, whose work is dedicated to the permanent exhibition “Excellent: Women Inventors”, he interprets this historical profession in a contemporary decolonizing way. Dolph Banza will be performing in his “studio” until June 5, 2021 be visible.