"The introduction of an anti-racist perspective in the museum dismantles, deconstructs and displaces colonial ideas."

The artist Ana Paula dos Santos studied cultural anthropology and human geography. She is currently an art student at the Städelschule. In her latest work "Deconstructing a place in the Sun" she uses photographs and installations to address colonial and exoticizing ideas about Brazil. Her gaze breaks with the colonial idealization of what was commonly described as a “place in the sun” during the German colonial period.
 

"I participated as a co-curator in the intervention track to take a place in this white space."

Aanchel Kapoor is a social pedagogue and completed the interdisciplinary Master's program Migration and Diversity at Kiel University in 2021. As a project-coordinating specialist at the Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Mädchen*arbeit, she is currently focusing on intersectional girls' work.

"It's time to raise our voices and take our place at the big table and participate."

Gladys Burk is co-founder of PendaKenia e.V., founding member of the AG MDO and city councillor of Griesheim Darmstadt Dieburg. At the municipal level, she campaigns against racism, the circumcision of women and for more diversity. Her son is Benjamin Burk.

"Intersectional racism-critical interventions can contribute to developing a critical awareness of the dominance relationships, which can also manifest themselves in cultural spaces such as museums in exhibited objects."

The political scientist and European ethnologist Dr. Halil Can works as a freelance political educator, court facilitator and mediator and as a research associate at the Technical University of Berlin on the Berlin Police Study. Migration, power inequality, intersectional discrimination/racism, empowerment and power sharing are among his main topics.
 

"As a visitor to museums, I have often had the experience of not being taken seriously with my racism-critical perspective."

Kaja works in the field of political education and, in the context of art and museums, critically deals with colonial viewing habits and demands of marginalized perspectives.

"If museums really aim to address modern (urban) society as a whole, raising awareness of racist and discriminatory images, language and structures must become a matter of course."


Luisa Benzinger worked as a curatorial assistant on the "Change of View" project. She is studying political science and curatorial studies for her master's degree and is concerned with German politics of remembrance, postcolonial theory and the practice of contemporary positions in cultural history museums.
 

"Anti-racist perspectives mean not only an addition to Eurocentric knowledge, but also access."

Mariama Koller lives and studies in Frankfurt. In her studies in Moving Cultures (MA), she mainly deals with Anglophone and Francophone postcolonial literature and the topics of migration and diaspora. As a curatorial assistant at the HMF, she worked from 2020 to 2021 on the topics of criticism of racism and diversity.
 

"It is important to develop an awareness of blind spots within a society."

Marie Antoinette N'gouan is currently studying Social and Cultural Anthropology (MA) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt, with a particular research interest in the forms of social inequality and their intersectionality. She supported the "Changes of View" project as curatorial assistant.

"Museums are places of collective memory in which the sovereignty of interpretation can be negotiated today. These negotiations must be conducted together with marginalized voices so that our plural society becomes a visible part of our history."

Puneh Henning is a curator and art educator with a focus on diversity and migration issues. She curated the participatory intervention track through the museum's permanent historical exhibition: Change of View – Tracing Racism. From 2018 to 2022 she is/was agent of the program "360° - Fund for cultures of the new urban society" of the German Federal Cultural Foundation at the Historical Museum Frankfurt and supports the museum in diversification at personnel, program and audience level. In intersectional teams she works/worked on various participatory exhibition projects and events on post-migrant and post-colonial cultures of remembrance.
 

"Museums are among the great institutions of knowledge production and transfer. As such, they should have the task of reflecting the stories, perspectives and knowledge of the entire population in all their diversity and complexity in a way that is critical of discrimination and with little barrier."

As an activist and artist from Frankfurt, Xinan Pandan deals with topics of mental health, criticism of racism and queer feminism on an intersectional level. Xinan Pandan creates spaces and events for queer BIPoC to enable exchange, networking, healing and artistic expression.

"I hope that through my intervention the "antique" will not only be looked at, but argued about."
 
Liu Xue studied painting at the Sichuan Art Academy in China and free painting at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Since graduating as a master student of Christa Näher, he has been working as a freelance artist and dealing with anti-Asian racism.