From May 7 to August 30
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT
What is missing tells its own history.
When objects disappear from a museum’s collection, traces remain: catalog entries, inventory numbers, classification systems. They mark what is gone – but do not replace it. What is missing lingers in the archive as a specter.
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT displays no objects from the RJM’s holdings. The exhibition by curator and artist Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen turns the gaze toward what is no longer there and asks what these absences reveal about the museum, its history, and its structures of power.
more about this exhibition
https://rautenstrauch-joest-museum.de/WE-ARE-WHAT-WE-ARE-NOT
When objects disappear from a museum’s collection, traces remain: catalog entries, inventory numbers, classification systems. They mark what is gone – but do not replace it. What is missing lingers in the archive as a specter.
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT displays no objects from the RJM’s holdings. The exhibition by curator and artist Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen turns the gaze toward what is no longer there and asks what these absences reveal about the museum, its history, and its structures of power.
more about this exhibition
https://rautenstrauch-joest-museum.de/WE-ARE-WHAT-WE-ARE-NOT