The Post/Colonial Museum

Anna Brus (Dr. phil.) is a staff member of the art history department of the University of Cologne and a curator. From 2012-2016 she was a DFG scholarship holder of the graduate program Locating Media at the University of Siegen with the project Colonial art in symmetrical perspective. Julius Lips and the Inversed Gaze. Her research focuses on the history of art history and ethnology, the history of collections and exhibitions in a post/colonial context, and global colonial and contemporary art.Michi Knecht is a professor for social and cultural anthropology, co-speaker of the interdisciplinary research platform Worlds of Contradiction (WoC) and co-founder of the BNCL, Bremen NatureCultures Lab at Bremen University. Her research focuses on the interconnections between knowledge practices and social forms. At the intersections of Anthropology and STS, she has investigated assisted reproductive technologies, political and religious movements, new forms of kinship, poverty and anonymity. Currently, she is rethinking problems of unrequited reciprocity in the context of object circulation under colonial rule and with post/colonial consequences and the history of object-extractivism.Juliana Ribeiro da Silva Bevilacqua (Dr.) is an associate professor and Queen's National Scholar in the Arts and Visual Culture of Africa and the African Diaspora at Queen's University. Her doctoral research at the University of Sao Paulo focused on the relationship between local chiefs and the Museu do Dundo during Angola's colonial era (1936-1961). She has done curatorial and research work in different museums in Brazil to explore and share African art and Afro-Brazilian art collections.Martin Zillinger (Prof. Dr.), teaches social and cultural anthropology with a focus on the anthropology of religion and media at the University of Cologne.