Iwalewahaus

The house provides space for lectures, conferences, concerts, film screenings and readings and is a vivid forum for artists, researchers, students of African studies and the interested public.

The focus of the research is contemporary art, popular culture, the media - especially photography - as well as African modernity and museology.

The following projects are part of the research: Africa Screams – Das Böse in Kino, Kunst und Kult (2004); Black Paris (2006); Hidden Pages, Stolen Bodies (2009); Piga Picha!

[1] Iwalewahaus maintains a collection of modern and contemporary visual arts from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Area that is unique within Germany.

The main focus of the collection is Nigeria, but there are equally important artworks from Sudan, Mozambique, Tanzania, DR Congo, Haiti, India, Papua New Guinea and Australia.

After Wendl was offered a chair at the Free University of Berlin Iwalewahaus has been directed by Ulf Vierke and Nadine Siegert as Deputy Director since 2010.

[1] From 1981 until the end of 2013 the domicile of Iwalewahaus was a former mint ("Markgräfliche Münze"), a sandstone building protected as an historic monument from the 18th century.