Artists and Repatriations

What role do artists play in the repatriation of looted cultural property to the communities of origin?

Portrait of a woman

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.

We have invited artist and researcher, professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll to talk about the artistic strategies of museopiracy, counter-appropriation, and collaboration.

Her talk will focus on how these strategies operate in different contexts within her new, ERC-funded project "REPATRIATES: Artistic Research in Museums and Communities in the process of Repatriation from Europe".

By studying long-term responses to repatriation, this research project offers different models of property, law, museology, cosmology, and epistemology that travel with returned belongings. 

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is a researcher at the Central European University in Vienna. She is also an artist and draws on her experience of accompanying the return of artefacts from museums to the communities of origin. As an activist for Indigenous knowledge and decolonial movements, she has applied her practice as a writer and filmmaker in long-term artistic-research projects.

For any inquiries, please contact Dr. Anna Mossolova.

Published Feb. 20, 2023 2:34 PM - Last modified Feb. 20, 2023 3:33 PM