Exhibitions

“Afromayores” is an audiovisual project coordinated by Lucía Asué Mbomío Rubio, Laurent Leger Adame, and José Oyono Ngalo that aims to increase the visibility of African and Afro-descendant individuals over 65 years of age in Spain. The project’s objective is to acknowledge their existence, elucidate their history, and valorise their experiences, celebrating their legacy, knowledge, contributions, and struggles. It is one of the numerous artistic initiatives associated with the Conciencia Afro association and its Afro-centric cultural centre, Espacio Afro, in Madrid.
From 15 October to 15 December 2024 the photographic exhibition “Afromayores” will be displayed at the premises of RTG Contradiction Studies (Grazer Str. 2, Bremen). The exhibition comprises portraits captured by photographer Laurent Leger Adame, and images from the personal archives of the persons represented. The exhibition is supplemented by a series of video interviews accessible via YouTube through QR codes.
The exhibition will commence with a vernissage on 15 October 2024, at 6:00 PM, featuring Laurent Leger Adame, who will discuss the project’s conception, motivation and aim (in English).

In the summer and fall of 1989, thousands of citizens left the GDR in an attempt to emigrate to West Germany via the West German representations in Budapest, Prague and Warsaw. The dissatisfaction of the people in the GDR was great at the time and led to an unprecedented wave of refugees. The escape story of these people is part of the “East German Autumn” of 1989, which led to the opening of the Berlin Wall and the German-German border.

This exhibition is dedicated to a group of 13 people whose escape led them to Palais Lobkowitz, the seat of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague, and tells their story.

These contemporary witnesses – photographed by Manja Herrmann – look back from today on the conditions in the GDR, their escape route and their stay in the West German embassy and reflect on the influences of their escape story on their current life situation. The result is an exhibition that looks back from the present to the events of summer and fall 1989 and recalls a decisive chapter not only in German-German but also in European history.

In einem Seminar der Frankoromanistik haben sich Studierende mit der französisch-sprachigen Literatur aus Kanada mit einem besonderen Blick auf die Rolle des Nordens auseinandergesetzt. Das Ergebnis? Die Literatur aus Kanada ist vielfältig, kommt aus ganz unterschiedlichen Gebieten und überrascht mit ihrer Kreativität und Diversität an Themen.

In Kooperation mit der SuUB ist daraus eine Ausstellung entstanden, bei der einige Werke aus dem Bestand der Bibliothek gezeigt werden: eine hervorragende Gelegenheit, um mehr über dieses Land zu erfahren, das definitiv mehr als nur „einige Morgen Schnee“ zu bieten hat.