The colonial occupation of the Kingdom of Benin by British troops in February 1897 marked the end…
With the exhibition “Hey Hamburg, do you know Duala Manga Bell?” the MARKK engages the topics of racism…
The exhibition was created in 2006 in cooperation with a German-Balinese community and gives an insight into the…
Banana leaves reflect the sunshine, tropical vegetation grows in the background and a small party seeks refuge under…
The Ancient Egyptian Collection comprises 800 objects. Excavations by the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) around the Pyramids…
The museum takes a look back in order to look forward and presents a selection of the things…
On the islands of the South Pacific, mask performances were a central feature of social life in the…
Meeting houses, wharenui, have a central place in the life of the Māori. They serve the community as…
In the treasure chambers and the Inca Gallery there are archaeological treasures from 4000 years of cultural history…
The long-term cooperation between the Museum am Rothenbaum and the National Folk Museum of Korea has generated a…
The starting point of the exhibition “Archive of Experiences” is a photo album from 1868 associated with the…
With “Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance,” the MARKK presents its Aby Warburg Collection for the first time in…
Over a period of a thousand years, Chinese girls had their feet bound to keep them as small…
The world-famous Tibeto-Buddhist monastery of Alchi lies at 3,500 meters in the Himalayan province of Ladakh (Northwest India)….
The Biological Agricultural Institute Amani, founded in 1902, was a German model project in the Tanzanian Usambara Highlands….
In the special exhibition “Colour Meets Map” the Museum am Rothenbaum presents the results of an innovative research…
The exhibition “Distinguished: Women Artists of the Inventory” takes a look behind the scenes of the museum during…
![Detail, video installation of Lisa Reihana In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17, colour, sound, several people, bank of a lake](https://markk-hamburg.de/files/media/2020/01/in-Pursuit-of-Venus-infected-2015-17_UltraHD_32mins_┬®_Lisa-Reihana_detail-340x346.jpg "Detail of the video installation of Lisa Reihana In Pursuit of Venus [infected], 2015–17 – © Lisa Reihana, Artprojects NZ, New Zealand at Venice")
Lisa Reihana is among the most relevant contemporary artists from the Pacific. Her work in Pursuit of Venus…
In eight subject areas, the exhibition looks into diverse forms of cultural expression of the Native Americans in…
The exhibition presents performances, multimedia video installations, photo collages and historical photographs that deal with the complexity of…
Magnificent fabrics and ikat weavings made of silk, tea and “wild apples” found their way to Europe on…
An exhibition focussing on the writing culture of the Toba Batak has been jointly curated by the Centre…
Beginning on October 23rd, sound recordings of prisoners of war from the First World War will be rendered…
On the way to the development of colour photography, the technique of hand-colouring black and white photographs was…