Rematriation - Feminist Perspectives on Restitution

Die Vortragsreihe Kunst-Forschung-Geschlecht ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe von Diversity, Equity, Inclusion.

Im Studienjahr 2026/27 liegt der Fokus auf dem Thema Rematriierung. Sie betrachtet Praktiken der Rematriierung als Herausforderung gegenüber kolonialen Logiken von Eigentum, Rückgabe und Wert, blickt dabei über symbolische Gesten und die Rückgabe kolonialer Objekte hinaus und setzt ihren Fokus auf Beziehungen zu Land, Vorfahren, Gemeinschaft und mehr-als-menschliche Verwandtschaften.

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Lectures

Verena Melgarejo Weinandt

Un_mögliche Rematriations – eine Verortung in Wien

Über Machtstrukturen in Museen, koloniale Fantasien und verweigerte Restitutionen

Rematriation fordert unser Verständnis von Restitution heraus. Performative und aktivistische Arbeiten machen die Gewalt kolonialer Machtverhältnisse in Archiven und Museen sichtbar. Sie verorten diese Verhältnisse auch in Wien und fragen nach verweigerten Rückgaben und den kolonialen Fantasien über indigene Menschen, die ihnen zugrunde liegen.

Monica Anegbeode

We Are Still Waiting

When Return Alone Is Not Enough

This lecture explores colonial restitution between the Congo and Belgium beyond the return of objects. Through case studies of human remains, sacred objects and community refusal, it examines how dignity restoration requires redistributing authority over how colonial harm is recognised and addressed. Ultimately, the challenge is transforming restitution from an act of transfer into relational repair.

Yrine Matchinda

Rematriation of Sacred Objects

Cameroonian Sacred Objects and the Ethics of Colonial Repair

What happens when sacred objects taken during colonial rule return home? This lecture explores rematriation as a process of relational, spiritual, and cultural repair. Drawing on research into Cameroonian sacred objects held in German museums, it asks how their return can restore relationships between communities, ancestors, memory, and cultural heritage.

Jamille Pinheiro Dias

Rematriating the Tupinambá Cloak

Women’s Knowledge and Collective Reactivation among the Tupinambá

This lecture examines rematriation among the Tupinambá de Olivença of Serra do Padeiro, Bahia, Brazil. Thinking through artist and researcher Glicéria Tupinambá’s visits to European museums holding Tupinambá heritage and her participation in the 2024 Venice Biennale, it discusses why repatriation alone is insufficient to provide the conditions that sustain the ancestral feather cloak as a living presence.

Claudia Holgado Chacón

Reactivating the Archive

Gender, Visual Memory and Collective Creation Through the Julia Chambi Archive

This lecture presents the ongoing work of the Julia Chambi Archive as a living territory of memory, restoration and intergenerational dialogue. The archive, an educational initiative based in Cusco, is dedicated to preserving, researching, and reactivating the visual legacy of Julia Chambi López, the first female photographer from the Andes region of Peru. By reactivating this legacy, we can symbolically repair the gendered and racialised exclusions embedded in the Andes’ institutional visual memory.

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