Reviews & research (selected)

2024

Bayron van Wyk, ‘Contested Statues: A Review Of “Man Of War: Leave My House” At The Goethe-Institut, Windhoek’, Stimulus Responded, no. Space: Colony (n.d.).

Julia Rensing, ‘Histories and Landscapes Embodied: Counter-Memorial and Embodied Strategies in Namibia and Beyond, a Case Study’, in Curating Transcultural Spaces, ed. Sarah Hegenbart (Bloomsbury, 2024).

2023

Martha Mukaiwa, ‘Brandt on Fire at ICTAF’, The Namibian, 24 February 2023, https://namibian.com.na/brandt-on-fire-at-ictaf/.

Paul Wilson, ‘Remembering the Herero-Nama Genocide in Namibia’, African Arts 56, no. 1 (Spring 2023): 62–81.

2022

Martha Mukaiwa, ‘Artists Consider New Memorials and Inclusive Futures’, The Namibian, 29 November 2022, https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?page=archive-read&id=6226171.

Renzo Baas, ‘Review: Nicola Brandt, Landscapes between Then and Now. Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Performance and Video Art, Abingdon, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020’, Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture 31 (20 May 2022): 141–43.

2021

Fabian Lehmann, Postkoloniale Gegenbilder: Künstlerische Reflexionen des Erinnerns an den deutschen Kolonialismus in Namibia (Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021).

Leonie March, ‘Wir wollen nur Gerechtigkeit’: Völkermord – Die deutsche Kolonialvergangenheit prägt Namibia bis heute. Doch von einer Aufarbeitung ist das Land weit entfernt – ebenso wie Deutschland. Spiegel Geschichte, Der deutsche Kolonialismus. Die verdrängten Verbrechen in Afrika, China und im Pazifik

2020

Martha Mukaiwa, ‘Namibian Landscapes,’ The Namibian, 12 June 2020

Dag Henrichson, ‘Whose Land is This?,’ The Namibian, 18 May 2020

2019

Fabian Lehmann, ‘A place of eclectic remembrance. The former German concentration camp on Namibia’s Shark Island.̕  Journal of Namibian Studies: History Politics Culture, 26, 29-50. Retrieved from https://namibian-studies.com/index.php/JNS/article/view/8434

Hannah Ryggen: New Land, exh. cat., Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim

2018

Leonie March, ‘Kunstprojekt zur Aufarbeitung deutscher Kolonialgeschichte, Bruch eines Tabus’, Deutschlandfunk Kultur (online)

Sara Rosen, ‘An Unsettling Visual Trip through Namibia’s Past: Living Memorials’, Huck Magazine

Denise Lim, ‘What the Landscape Recalls’, Art Africa (online)

Kea Wienand, ‘Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte als Thema postkolonialer Kunst̕, Iwalewahaus,University of Bayreuth, Germany

2017                

Fabian Lehmann, ‘A Place of Eclectic Remembrance: Visiting Luderitz’s Shark Island today’, paper, ECAS 7, Basel

2016

Kunst Einer Jungen Generation, exh. cat., Museum Würth, (Künzelsau: Swiridoff, 2016)

‘Nos quatre coups de coeur de la foire d’art contemporain Africa in AKAA, à Paris’ in Le Monde (Afrique) Online, 11 November 2016

Susan Middleton, ‘Beelde wat in lae spreek’, Rapport, (Johannesburg, South Africa), 11 November 2016

2015

Elisa Schaar, ‘Unrecounted: Historical Amnesia in Germany and Namibia: Exhibition Reviews’, ARTMargins Online, 6 November 2015

Pascale Viscardy, ‘Théâtre Postcolonial: Biennale Internationale d’art de Venise 56e’in L’ Art Même #66 (Brussels: Ministère de la Communauté française), 16–17

Reinhart Kößler, Namibia and Germany: Negotiating the Past (Namibia: UNAM Press, 2015)

Mattia Fumanti, ‘Review: Nicola Brandt, Director. Indifference. 2014.’, African Studies Review, 58 (2015): 289–91.

2014

Eberhard Hofmann, ‘Herbe Schönheiten zwischen Lagen gruseliger Erinnerung’,  Allgemeine Zeitung, August 2014

Hendrik Ehlers, ‘Analogie der Amnesie funktioniert’, Allgemeine Zeitung, August 2014

2013

Land Matters in Art, exh. cat., (Windhoek: National Art Gallery of Namibia and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, GIZ, GmbH on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, 2013)

2011

Personal Geography, exh. cat. (Rome: Punctum Editions, 2011)