Made in Germany? Busch Hall Conversations: Eric Otieno Sumba

In the lead up to the exhibition "Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation," exhibition curators hosted live conversations on Instagram with artists, scholars, curators, and writers exploring the narratives around nation, race, gender, and identity in German art.

In this installment of Busch Hall Conversations, writer, editor, art critic, and political economist Eric Otieno Sumba joins curatorial fellow Lauren Hanson to discuss his perspective on recent exhibitions of contemporary art in Germany, focusing on those that reassess how post-1945 art histories have ignored colonial legacies and obscured the afterlives of Nazi Germany.

Busch Hall Conversations, named for the historic site of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Adolphus Busch Hall, launched in February 2021. The series created an online forum to reimagine German art and national identity. The ensuing conversations informed the 2024 exhibition “Made in Germany?,” on view at the Harvard Art Museums September 13, 2024 through January 5, 2025.

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