Black History Month at BERLIN GLOBAL: A critical journey through colonial map worlds with Patricia Vester
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Children: Children and young people under 18: free
The event is free of charge. You only need a valid ticket for the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition.
Room War and WELTSTUDIO at BERLIN GLOBAL
3h
The school wall map “Germany’s Colonies” (1937) hangs in the room War of the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition. It was used in classrooms from the mid-1930s and shows how wars were prepared in schools. Colonial revisionist demands and aggressive National Socialist propaganda will soon be less present and visible in the exhibition space.
During this year’s “Black History Month”, illustrator and intervention designer Patricia Vester worked with interested visitors to develop new perspectives on how maps are handled.
Patricia Vester explored ways of approaching historical map material sensitively and invited visitors to join her on this journey. The result is a visual, critical exploration of school maps and teaching materials from German publishing history. Themes include fears and claims to space, scanned cities, digital wandering and travelling as a Black German.
In this event, she presents the outcomes, talks about the collective design process and shows the short film created during the project.
The film documentation also serves as a freely accessible resource for teachers to use in the classroom.
About the artist
Patricia Vester
Patricia Vester is an illustrator, intervention designer, activist, curator, process facilitator and museum consultant on colonial contexts and museum practice, as well as a developer of anti-discrimination approaches to art and cultural education. She was born in Germany to a German mother and a Ghanaian father. Her interest lies in colonial traces and the lack of spaces for addressing them. She seeks dialogue on possible educational formats and creates comics and graphic novels as workbooks. Her work can be found in institutions such as the Museum Utopie und Alltag, Stadtmuseum Cottbus, Museen Stade, Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and the Brandenburg Museum für Zukunft, Gegenwart und Geschichte.Info & Service
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Christmas holidays, New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day
Wed | 24.12.2025 | closed
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Fri | 26.12.2025 | 12 noon – 6 pm
Tue | 30.12.2025 | 10:30 am – 6:30 pm
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Thu | 01.01.2026 | 12 noon – 6 pm
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10178 Berlin
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