On Squat Monument (Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat) and its related museum's intervention at Research Workshop on Colonialism in Museum Schöneberg.

About the book:
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum examines efforts by European museums to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. A flurry of exhibitions and the overhaul of numerous large museums in the last decade signal that an emergent colonial memory culture is now reaching broader publics. Exhibitions pose the question of what Europeans owe to those they colonized.
Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence. At the same time, the book treats the museum as part of the racialized power relations that activists, academics, and artists have long protested against. This book asks whether museums have made the dream of activists, academics, and artists to build equitable futures more acceptable and more durable—or whether in packaging that dream for general audiences they curtail it. Confronting colonial violence, this book argues, pushes Europeans to face the histories of racism and urges them to envision antiracism at the global scale.

Katrin Sieg is Graf Goltz Professor and Director of the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University.

University of Michigan Press
Ann Arbor

Catalog of the exhibition Research Workshop on Colonialism in Museum Schöneberg with texts and images of the artistic intervention of Nathalie Anguezomo Mba Bikoro and Anaïs Héraud-Louisadat in the frame of their project Squat Monument.

Noemi Molitor, «Koloniale Musealisierung revisited: Squat Monument besetzt Erinnerung neu», in taz.plan, Jun 2016.