--- title: "Dekoloniale – what remains?!" date: 2024-09-30 last_modified: 2026-05-06T16:15:54+02:00 generated_at: 2026-05-29T11:05:58Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/dekoloniale-what-remains" description: "Decentralised exhibition at Various Locations in Berlin-Mitte" image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/keyvisual_300dpi19-1895x1920.jpg" language: "en-US" --- # Dekoloniale – what remains?! ### Decentralized exhibition **at Various Locations in Berlin-Mitte** ![]() ![](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/keyvisual_300dpi19.jpg) ![Zwei Personen auf einer Hebebühne hängen ein Transparent in ein Kirchenfenster](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2024_10_16_Nikolaikirche-49-min.jpg) ![Eine Frau sitzt auf einem Sockel, daneben steht auf Englisch: What is the Stadtmuseum of the Future? Are we decolonizing Berlin? Die Frau ](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NK_WasBleibt_Stadtmuseum_OanaPopaCostea_4.jpg) ![](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NK_WasBleibt_Stadtmuseum_OanaPopaCostea_5.jpg) ![Zwei Personen befinden sich in einer Videoprojektionsinstallation](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NK_WasBleibt_Stadtmuseum_OanaPopaCostea_2.jpg) ![Bildschirm in der Nikolaikirche auf dem Was bleibt?! steht](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NK_WasBleibt_Stadtmuseum_OanaPopaCostea_1.jpg) ![Eine Postkarte vom Stadtraum in einer Ausstellungsvitrine](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NK_WasBleibt_Stadtmuseum_OanaPopaCostea_6.jpg) - On November 14, 2024, the model project Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City and the Stadtmuseum Berlin will open their decentralized exhibition "Dekoloniale – what remains?!". It explores Berlin's centuries-long entanglement in the global history of slavery and colonialism and critically examines this violent past. **Location** Museum Nikolaikirche Nikolaikirchplatz 10178 Berlin **Opening Hours** daily | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (also on public holidays) **Special Closing Hours** see Info & Service **Free Admission** on September 13th and 14th **Admission** 7 euros (single ticket) | 15 euros (combi-ticket\*) | free admission (under 18 years or with reduction) \*Valid on two consecutive days for the Museum Ephraim-Palais, the Museum Nikolaikirche and the Museum Knoblauchhaus. **Free Admission** at the other exhibition venues in the "Afrikanisches Viertel", in the "Asiatisch-Pazifische Straßen" and in the underground station "Afrikanische Straße" in Berlin-Wedding The exhibition features three significant sites of coloniality in Berlin-Mitte: the Museum *Nikolaikirch*e, housing the tombs of colonial figures; the (post)colonial memorial that is the Afrikanisches Viertel \["African Quarter"\] and the "Asiatisch-Pazifischen Straßen" \["Asian-Pacific Streets"\] in Berlin-Wedding and the historical venue of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Wilhelmstraße 92. The exhibition goes beyond merely exposing the colonial racism embedded in these public spaces by overwriting it with the stories of resistance from African, Asian, and diasporic communities. > "Dekoloniale – what remains?!" concludes the inaugural phase of Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City. It poses the question: What does it mean to maintain a lasting, consistent memory? ## Exhibition locations ### Museum Nikolaikirche | 10178 Berlin The Museum Nikolaikirche hosts two exhibitions: "Colonial Ghosts – Resistant Spirits. Church, Colonialism, and Beyond" and "Inscribed. Colonialism, Museum, and Resistance". The group exhibition "Colonial Ghosts - Resistant Spirits. Church, Colonialism, and Beyond" features the *Dekoloniale Berlin Residents 2024* **Tonderai Koschke**, **Charlotte Ming**, **Percy Nii Nortey**, **Yangkun Shi**, and **Theresa Weber**. They are presenting site-specific artworks that explore the church’s entanglement with colonialism, religion, politics and the writing of Berlin's history by its citizens. Their art uses and re-appropriates Christian iconography and aesthetics. **Please note:** The residents also intervene at other venues of "Dekoloniale – what remains?!": Theresa Weber and Percy Nii Nortey at the historic site of the Berlin Conference at Wilhelmstraße 92 and Tonderai Koschke at the Afrikanische Straße subway station on the U6 line. The historical exhibition "Inscribed. Colonialism, Museum, and Resistance" at the Museum Nikolaikirche features eight short biographies. They tell the story of how colonialism and the slave trade are interwoven with the Nikolaikirche and the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin. And they tell the story of those who resisted and who, so far, have not been recognized in this place. The exhibition asks who is granted a perpetual place in European museums and churches and who is not. ### Wilhemstraße 92 | 10117 Berlin | Free Admission | 14.11. – 15.12.24 Window exhibition **“Remembrance. Apology. Reparation.”** **Contrary to previous plans, the exhibition at Wilhelmstraße 92 could unfortunately be shown until 15.12.24.** Wilhelmstraße 92 is where – 140 years ago – the Berlin Conference in 1884/85 took place in the Reich Chancellery. It was at this conference where the colonial powers negotiated the (further) division and exploitation of Africa and Germany established itself as a colonial power. Today, the historical site of the perpetrators is home to the office of *Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City*. The exhibition “Remembrance. Apology. Reparation.” is dedicated to the history of the conference and African resistance to the implementation of its resolutions. It tells of the long-standing commitment of civil society to a central anti-colonial place of learning and remembrance in Berlin and of the significance that colonialism still has today. Wilhelmstraße 92 also features site-specific artworks by artists-in-residence Theresa Weber and Percy Nii Nortey. ### "Afrikanisches Viertel" \["African Quarter"\] | 13351 Berlin and "Asiatisch-Pazifische Straßen" \["Asian-Pacific Streets"\] | 13353 Berlin | Free Admission **Photo exhibition and memorial steles: “Paths of Remembrance”** The inauguration of Maji-Maji-Allee and Anna-Mungunda-Allee in August 2024, marked the change of Germany's largest colonial quarter, the "Afrikanisches Viertel" ["African Quarter"] in the Wedding district, to the first anti-colonial quarter. No other place in Germany is home to as many tributes to anti-colonial resistance fighters. We owe this transformation of the district to decades of activism by individuals and initiatives. These activists and initiatives are now being honored with a city-wide photo exhibition and at community centers. **Photo exhibition:** ****Galerie Wedding**** until 31 August 2025 Adresse: [Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 Berlin](https://maps.app.goo.gl/uWQzv7j2PtGpFGkF8) Opening hours: Tue – Sun | 12 a.m. – 7 p.m. **Poster display:** AfricAvenir e.V. Address: [Kameruner Str. 1, 13351 Berlin](https://www.google.com/maps/place//data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x47a8504bb5b8cead:0x4646c97840d82769?sa=X&ved=1t:8290&ictx=111) Additionally, there will be memorial steles installed in the Wedding district. At **Cornelius-Fredericks-Straße**, **Manga-Bell-Platz**, **Anna-Mungunda-Allee**, and **Maji-Maji-Allee**, the new namesakes of these streets will be made known. At **Pekinger Platz**, **Kiautschoustraße**, and **Samoastraße**, reference is made to the colonial context of the street names and supplemented by anti-colonial counter-narratives. The memorial steles bring African, Asian, and diasporic memories into a historical context by means of alternative forms of commemoration. The content and formats of the “Paths of Remembrance” exhibition were developed in a participatory process. Dekoloniale resident **Tonderai Koschke** intervenes at the **Afrikanische Straße subway station** on the U6 line. ## Dekoloniale Berlin Residents - [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dekoloniale_Berlin_Residents-2-300x214.png)](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/dekoloniale-berlin-residents) ## Programme *Dekoloniale – what remains?!* is a joint project by Berlin Postkolonial e.V., Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. and the *Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland* (ISD-Bund e.V.), the learning and remembrance space *Kolonialismus Erinnern* \[Remembering Colonialism\], and the *Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin* in the context of the model project *Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City*. The project is funded by the *Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt* \[Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion\] and the *Kulturstiftung des Bundes* \[German Federal Cultural Foundation\]. [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/BePoLogo-e1726486608425-300x86.jpg)](https://www.berlin-postkolonial.de/) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/crop_original_bp1540942457_RZ_Logo_RGB-Pfade-300x300.png)](https://eoto-archiv.de/) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ISD-LogoSchriftzug-4c-300x60.jpg)](https://isdonline.de/) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/EWSB_logo_Kugeln-links_web-300x194.jpg)](https://eineweltstadt.berlin/) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Logo_KSB_SW-300x123.jpg)](https://www.kulturstiftung-des-bundes.de/en) [ ![](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/b_sen_kugz_logo_de_h_pt_4c-300x50.png)](https://www.berlin.de/sen/kultgz/) ## Find out more - [ ![Eine Wortmarke auf der in schwarzer Schrift vor weißem Hintergrund und roten Slash-Zeichen folgende Begriffe zu lesen sind: Dekoloniale, Erinnerungskultur in der Stadt, Memory Culture in the City, Culture de la Mémoire dans la Ville](https://stiftung-stadtmuseum-berlin.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/dekoloniale_keyvisual-300x144.jpg) ### Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City From 2020 to 2024, the ‘Dekoloniale’ project will carry out a programme of research, exhibitions and events on the subject of colonialism and the post-colonial present, supported by civil society organisations and cultural institutions in the state of Berlin. Using the example of Berlin - the administrative and economic centre of Wilhelmine imperial policy - it shows which traces and inscriptions of colonialism remain in the urban space into the 21st century. 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