Unser Afrika (Our Africa)

Unser Afrika (2015) offers a perspective not previously seen in art on colonialism: the worldview of the perpetrators. It is set in the ill-fated former colony of German Southwest-Africa (now Namibia), site of the first genocide of the 20th century. Created on location in Namibia, the work reveals the entanglements of white supremacy, colonialism and genocide. In Unser Afrika, supremacy emerges not “only” as a cynical pretext for exploitation, but also as a utopian vision of racial dominance.

The work premiered as an official state event in Hamburg in June 2018 and is held by the collections of the Übersee-Museum in Bremen, Linden Museum in Stuttgart, the German Military History Museum in Dresden, Gösta Serlachius Museum of Art in Finland and the House of European History in Brussels.

  • Die Ankunft (The Landing)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Besitznahme (Taking Possession)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Appell (Roll Call)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Im Felde (In the Field)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • “Nur einen Schluck, Kamerad!” (“Just a Sip, Kamerad!”)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Die Unerbittlichen (The Inexorable)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Schambock (Sjambok)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Patrouille (Patrol)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Reiterdenkmal (Rider Monument)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Bei der Felsenkirche in Lüderitz (At the Rock Church in Lüderitz)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Am Woermann-Haus in Swakopmund (At the Woermann House in Swakopmund)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Dame mit Ginsterkatze (Lady with Genet)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Die Lesehalle von Lüderitz (At the Reading Room of Lüderitz)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Fremdkörper (Alien Body)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Am Hansa-Haus in Lüderitz (At the Hansa House in Lüderitz)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Gutsherrin und Weiber, Schloss Duwisib (Lady of the Manor and Native Womenfolk, Duwisib Castle)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Dämmerung, Schloss Duwisib (Dusk, Duwisib Castle)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Endstation (End of the Line)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Die zweite und letzte Generation (The Second and Last Generation)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Im Hause eines Vorarbeiters (Foreman’s House)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Schule in Kolmanskop (School in Kolmanskop)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Sternenlicht (Starlight)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. of 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Engelchen (Little Angel)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Am Swakopmunder Massengrab (At the Swakopmund Mass Grave)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Am Grabe des Leutnants von Stauffenberg in Okahandja (At the Grave of Lt. von Stauffenberg in Okahandja)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm
  • Der Swakopmunder Kniefall (Paying Homage to the Herero Killed in the Swakopmund Concentration Camps)
    Archival digital pigment print, ed. 5 + 2 A.P., 101cm x 76cm