in 2017 jonathan fein curated the exhibition beyond compare and berlin's botha museum. it juxtaposed to european mostly christian influenced art with works of art from africa posing a fundamental question are we still seeing the world through a colonial lens when for instance we regard christian cult object as art but perceive african art as cult objects. can the humble form question and change such perceptions. many curators have spent decades working on these topics of social justice and provenance and working with source communities wanted from the beginning to make that the topic of the exhibition. over. so this is the pedestal we're going to be putting. the throne from the kingdom. of mark boal object it brings to a point a lot of the sort of questions that people have about the colonial era. the man do ye new throne was a birthday present from the joy in cameroon to kaiser vilhelm the 2nd a genuine royal gift or a payment of tribute to the colonial power i always thought it was a gift to the kaiser is that not the story well it is that it's gifts are complicated w

on how to handle objects from the problematic german colonial era and what is now in the media jonathan fein initiated a project to study their provenance together with namibian institutions. this critical engagement with collection pieces that may be burdened with colonial violence is intended to take the discussion in a different direction and exhibition in the humble forum will give an insight into the joint research process we enter into cooperation with the museums association of namibia and the national museum of never to be a and we asked them to choose the partners and they sent a fantastic group of scholars of cultural heritage officers of artists to berlin who worked with us close to a year about the collection here in berlin and talking about it and understanding it. i'm a fashion designer clothing technologist i studied in germany this is why the fashion design community thought that i was the person to actually sent to berlin a while history and fashion ysabel hot rock rock all and all the timeline of the european timeline but nothing about africa it's about time that we start r

in 2017 jonathan fein curated the exhibition beyond compare and berlin's botha museum. it juxtaposed to european mostly christian influenced art with works of art from africa posing a fundamental question are we still seeing the world through a colonial lens when for instance we regard christian cult object as art perceived african art as cult objects. can the humble form question and change such perceptions. many curators have spent decades working on these topics of social justice and provenance and working with source communities wanted from the beginning to make that the topic of the exhibition. so this is the pedestal we're going to be putting. the throne from the kingdom or a marketable object it brings to a point a lot of the sort of questions that people have about the colonial era. the man do yet a new throne was a birthday present from the king joy in cameroon to kaiser vilhelm the 2nd a genuine royal gift or a payment of tribute to the colonial power i always thought it was a gift to the kaiser is that not the story well it is but it's gifts are complicated w