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Yvette Mutumba

Yvette Mutumba

has been the research curator for Africa at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main since March 2012. Mutumba is furthermore co-initiator of the Online-Magazine Contemporary And (C&). She studied Art History and History at the Freie Universität in Berlin and holds a PhD from Birkbeck, University of London. Her dissertation focussed on questions regarding the representation of art from Africa and the Diaspora in the German context from the 1960s to 2011. She has published numerous texts on issues concerning visual arts from African perspectives. From 2006 to 2012 she has initiated and advised projects in cooperation with institutions such as the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart and the German Foreign Office.

Bibliography
  • anthropology
  • activism
  • colonialism
  • museum
  • curatorial practice
  • Africa
  • photography
  • cultural studies
  • collection
  • exhibition
  • archive
  • ethnology
  • body
  • trade
  • contemporary art