About the Interview

From June 18 to 20, 2021, the choreographer Yolanda Gutiérrez organized the performance DECOLONYCITIES between the cities of Kigali and Hamburg together with MARKK. Five artists from Rwanda were invited to Hamburg for the project to deal with the colonial past anchored in public space on the basis of artistic research.

What is the colonial past between Kigali and Hamburg? How is this story archived - inside and outside the museum? The project operates at the interface between dance and visual arts and enables an unusual change of perspective.

As part of DECOLONYCITIES KIGALI-HAMBURG, the Rwandan illustrator Dolph Banza set up his studio in the space between the MARKK in order to interact with historical Rwandan objects. In the style of the earlier draftswomen at the museum, whose work is dedicated to the exhibition "Excellent: Women Inventors", he interprets this historical profession in a contemporary decolonizing way.