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Ab 17. September 2026 Sonderausstellung "r e t u r n - zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft ensteht ein anderer Ort"

[DE] Das Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum–Kulturen der Welt (Köln) setzt sich für eine interdisziplinäre, postkoloniale Erforschung seiner Sammlungen ein. Wir unterstützen den Dialog, den Wissensaustausch und die Kooperation mit Wissenschaftler*innen, Kurator*innen, Aktivist*innen, Künstler*innen und Akteur*innen der postmigrantischen Gesellschaft sowie mit den Nachkommen der Gesellschaften, aus denen die Sammlungen stammen.

[EN] The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum–Cultures of the World (Cologne, Germany) is committed to interdisciplinary postcolonial exploration of its collections. We support dialogue, knowledge exchange and cooperation with scholars, curators, activists, artists and actors of post-migrant society as well as with descendants of the societies from which the holdings originate.

13/10/2026

POESIE & GESPRÄCH: Sehnsucht nach meiner Stimme – Rom*nja lesen ihre Textproduktionen goes return

🗓️ 22. Oktober, 18–20 Uhr

Es erfordert Mut, eigene Texte vor einem unbekannten Publikum vorzutragen – und noch mehr Mut, sie in einer Sprache zu verfassen und zu lesen, die erst seit Kurzem erlernt wird. In den Texten geht es um persönliche Hoffnungen, Wünsche und Sorgen. Teilnehmer*innen eines Alphabetisierungskurses des Rom e.V. geben Einblicke in ihre Lebensrealitäten und eröffnen neue Perspektiven. Bevor sie jedoch längere Texte verfasst haben, starten sie mit haikus, einer japanischen Gedichtform, die kurze Sätze und eine bestimmte Silbenstruktur beinhaltet. Daraufhin folgten längere Prosatexte.

🫶🏼 Im Anschluss an die Lesung laden wir Euch zum Austausch und zur Reflexion ein.

☘️ Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung return in Kooperation mit dem Verein Rom e. V. im RJM statt.

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📸 Sead Memeti, Rom e.V.

✨Ermina Ameti liest auf Serbisch.

✨Osemwonyemwen Osifo liest auf Edo.

✨Selina Useini liest auf Romanes.

✨Nedjat Useini liest auf Romanes.

✨Śerife Redzepi liest auf Serbisch.

✨Adnan Mahmoud liest auf Kurdisch.

✨Ergjun Kananovski liest auf Mazedonisch.

✨Gjulsefa Kerimova liest auf Mazedonisch.

✨Meri Kananovska liest auf Mazedonisch.

✨Angelina Petrovska liest auf Serbisch.

13/10/2026

✨Melissa Peterson und Ava Della im RJM✨

Vor Kurzem waren Melissa Peterson und ihre Enkelin Ava Della aus Neah Bay, USA, bei uns im RJM. Melissa ist Meisterkorbflechterin und Weberin der Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx.

🛘Die Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx (Makah) leben am nordwestlichsten Punkt des heutigen zusammenhängenden Teils der Vereinigten Staaten. „Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx“ bedeutet „Menschen, die bei den Felsen und Möwen leben“.

✨ Der Begriff gehört zu einer Variante des Wakash, die bis 2002 in Neah Bay gesprochen wurd und heute von jungen Kwih-dich-chuh-ahtx in Sprachkursen neu erlernt und auf diese Weise lebendig erhalten wird.

Der häufig verwendete Name „Makah“, den ihnen benachbarte Gemeinschaften gaben, bedeutet „großzügig mit Nahrung“.

Gemeinsam haben sich Melissa und Ava Web- und Korbarbeiten aus ihrer Region, die um 1900 gesammelt wurden und ins RJM gelangten angeschaut.

Melissa war begeistert, feine alte Techniken in der RJM-Sammlung zu entdecken und nutzte die Gelegenheit, um sie dem RJM-Team und ihrer Enkelin Ava zu erklären, die ebenfalls dabei ist, Weberin zu werden.

🫶🏼 Mit etwas Glück dürfen wir Melissa im Herbst 2027 für einen längeren Aufenthalt wieder am RJM begrüßen.

12/10/2026

💥WHAT’S ON this week in return

October 14 – October 21 🔗 r- e-t-u-r-n.net 📸 Jörn Neumann

✨14 October✨
🎞️Choreo-Performance & Film Screening with hn.lyonga
⏱️6 – 8 pm

✨ 15 October✨
🧶 Werkstatt return - Weaving Connects with Kristina Hopp
⏱️2 – 5 pm I Werkstatt return

🙌🏽 Sensing Loss - Uni Köln goes r e t u r n: 60 Minutes AnthroLab! with Alice von Bieberstein
⏱️ 4:30 – 5:30 pm I stage

🎤 Talk & Exchange: Looking at Whites with Anna Brus
⏱️ 6:30 - 8 pm I stage

✨ 16 October✨
💕Safe Space: Afrotreff meets r e t u r n
⏱️ 7 pm

✨18 October✨
🧶Workshop Weaving Connects with Kristina Hopp
⏱️ 2 - 4 pm I Werkstatt return

🐆The Cheetah’ Return
⏱️3:30 – 4:30 pm

✨21 October✨
🫶🏼Theatre premiere MER HAM BUT – WE ARE MANY
⏱️ 7:30 – 9 pm I stage

🙌🏽 Choreo-Performance & Film Screening with hn.lyonga hn. lyonga
⏱️ 14 October I 6 – 8 pm

🎞️ A collective viewing of “sometimes, I roam”, an 11-minute short film in which five siblings speak speculatively, marking moments of interruption in their lives.

A shared gathering around a table: we break bread, lean towards one another, share, talk and reflect on the meaning of return.

🫶🏼 Together, we write a small manifesto — asking how to neighbour, how to return, and how to be together. The manifesto will remain part of the exhibition return.

Come, watch, eat, talk and leave something behind.

🔗r-e-t-u-r-n.net I Link in Bio! 📸 Mirko Lux

🧶 Werkstatt return - Weaving Connects with Kristina Hopp ⏱️ 15 October I 2 – 5 pm I Werkstatt return

Every Thursday the return workshop is supervised by Kristina Hopp. Come along, get creative and try your hand at weaving. Kristina is there to support you if you like.

✨ Weaving is one of the most widespread techniques in human history. In return, it becomes a collective practice.
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You can contribute to a shared woven work that grows and changes over the course of the exhibition. Individual threads are connected, existing connections can be extended, or new ones can be tied. In this way, the collective act of weaving takes up a question that runs throughout the exhibition: How can something new emerge from separation and f

08/10/2026

TODAY IT’S THURSDAY!!

And that means full program in our exhibition return! Join us! Weave with Kristina Hopp, listen to or taste a Sorbian Wedding Soup and talk with artist in the return exhibition!

08/10/2026

TODAY it’s Thursday!
And that means full program in our exhibition return!

07/10/2026

LOOKING AT WHITES – FROM THE JULIUS LIPS COLLECTION with Anna Brus

💥 15 October, 6:30 pm, return stage, 🔗r-e-t-u-r-n.net

“All it takes to caricature an oppressor is to portray him exactly as he is.” - Julius Lips, 1937

For one evening, six rarely shown sculptures will come out of storage and return to view.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Julius Lips (1895–1950), then director of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, assembled an extraordinary collection: representations of Europeans made by people living under European colonial rule.

Suddenly, Europeans become the ones being looked at: colonisers, missionaries and traders – observed and represented by those upon whom Europe had directed its colonial gaze.

Forced to leave Germany by the National Socialists, Lips went into exile in the United States, where he published his research in 1937 under the provocative title The Savage Hits Back.

✨ In the context of r e t u r n, we join Anna Brus, a specialist on Julius Lips and his collection, in looking closely at six sculptures that are rarely shown to the public.

Here, the gaze returns. It hits back. And it hits the museum itself – its history of collecting, looking and classifying.

What do we see when those who were made the objects of the European gaze look back?

🙌🏽 Join us!

06/10/2026

🫶🏼What a beautiful first Kölntag in our special exhibition return on 1 October.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who stopped by, joined us, and made the day so special. Our hearts are full. 💕

🙌🏽 And there is so much more to come! Take a look at our extensive accompanying programme. We want to share this space with you—to meet, exchange, discover, and experience it together.

✨ Our next Kölntag is on 5 November. Mark your calendar—we can’t wait to welcome you back! ✨

📸 Jörn Neumann

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🌸Special thanks: Elena TIVANE· Nange Ruba Charina KOJO the cook 👨🏿‍🍳 🇬🇭 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 In-Haus e.V. @ Kristina Hopp Global South Studies Center Nanette Snoep .marius operative.space Die Kistenmacherei

05/10/2026

💥WALK & TALK — Come along, join us, listen and share.

IN ENGLISH
October 11, 4 pm
November 5, 6 pm
December 5, 4 pm

IN GERMAN
October 29, 6 pm
November 21, 4 pm
December 3, 6 pm

✨ Come along for a walk through r e t u r n ... with Yasmin (in English) or Victoria (in German), Victoria Xiang-Rui Ruhe who have both been working on the exhibition r e t u r n. . . .

🙌🏽 The Walk & Talk is an invitation to experience the exhibition together as a group. We want to listen, to receive, to perceive and maybe also resist. Film, sound, light installations… the warmth from a kitchen, a stage that thinks out loud. We walk through the exhibition together. No fixed route, no finished answers.

This is not a guided tour but an invitation to everyone to join, listen and share.

🍬 Afterwards, the conversation can continue in the Baraza, the Homefood Cantine of the exhibition, over food and drinks.

Come along!

🔗 r-e-t-u-r-n.net. 📸 Jörn Neumann

02/10/2026

WHAT’S ON in r e t u r n
3–10 October 🔗 r-e-t-u-r-n.net

✨3 October✨
📖 Book Launch & Exchange: Persian in the Suitcase with Tahmineh Rostami
⏱️ 2 - 3:30 pm I return stage

🙌🏽 FREUDESTREIK! – Performance by InterFemme* e.V.
⏱️ 4 - 6 pm

✨4 October✨
Guided Tour for families
⏱️ 11 am – 12 pm

✨8 October✨

🧶 Workshop return – Weaving Connects
⏱️ 2 - 5 pm

🫂Sensing Loss – Uni Köln goes r e t u r n: 60 Minutes with Simone Pfeifer
⏱️ 4:30–5:30 pm

🥣Granite Soup and Egg Custard
Workshop with Karolina Krawcec [Karoline Schneider] – Collective Feminist Cooking and Sorbian Cultures
⏱️ 5 - 8 pm

✨10 October✨
🎶Concert: Classic with José Navarro-Silberstein
⏱️ 5 - 7 pm

📚Book Launch & Exchange: Persian in the Suitcase with Tahmineh Rostami Tahmineh Rostami
⏱️ 3 October | 2 – 3:30 pm | return stage

At the heart of the event is the launch of Tahmineh Rostami’s new book, Persian in the Suitcase. Exploring heritage language, multilingualism, memory, and belonging, the book reflects on how migrant families carry language and cultural experiences across generations.

This is more than a conventional book launch. It is an intimate afternoon of reading, personal storytelling and conversation, offering space to reflect on what we inherit, what we carry with us, and how language can connect generations, places and identities.

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FREUDESTREIK! – A Performance by InterFemme e.V.*
⏱️ 3 October | 4 – 6 pm

The crises are real. We’re going on strike anyway. War, the climate crisis, rising rents, constant stress, bad news every few minutes. We read it, we feel it – and sometimes we no longer know what to do with the fear, the anger and the exhaustion.

That’s exactly what FREUDESTREIK is about. In our performance, we strike against what crises do to us: exhaustion, powerlessness, the endless pressure to keep functioning, and the quiet rules that tell us what a “good life” is supposed to look like.

Come by and join the joyful strike! InterFemme* e.V

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🫶🏼 Guided Tour for families
⏱️ 4 October | 11 am – 12 pm

What makes people leave their homes – or return to them? And where do you truly feel at home? In this guided tour, we explore thes

29/09/2026

🎬✨ Choreo-Performance & Film Screening with hn.lyonga hn. lyonga

Wed, 14 Oct | 18:00–20:00

Join us for an evening of film, food, conversation and collective reflection.

🎞️ A collective viewing of “sometimes, I roam”, an 11-minute short film in which five siblings speak speculatively, marking moments of interruption in their lives.

🙌🏽 A shared gathering around a table: we break bread, lean towards one another, share, talk and reflect on the meaning of return.

✍🏽 Together, we write a small manifesto — asking how to neighbour, how to return, and how to be together.

The manifesto will remain part of the exhibition return.

🔥 Come, watch, eat, talk and leave something behind.

🔗 r-e-t-u-r-n.net

Link in Bio!

📸 All visual poem stills, “sometimes, i roam”, hn. lyonga & Markus Posse

hn. lyonga hn. lyonga is a Black, Q***r, interdisciplinary artist. He was born and raised in rural Cameroon and today lives and works in Berlin.

His work is the work of gathering words and neighbours. His work looks at migration.

Those journeys born of dispossession and yet marked by invention that continue to shape the lives of the colonised, themarginalised.

He is a neighbor, and always a student. lyonga sits among the members of BARAZANI.berlin – Forum Kolonialismus und Widerstand, Black Artists NRW and the Field Narratives collective, where the work is remembering and refusing, where rural biographies, ancestral speech, and cross-continental intimacies find new forms.

He was formerly the neighbour in residence at the Gropius Bau, Berlin and a Human Machine Fellow at E-Werk Lückenwalde and Akademie Der Künste, Berlin.

©️ Mirko Lux

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Öffnungszeiten

Dienstag	10:00 - 18:00
Mittwoch	10:00 - 18:00
Donnerstag	10:00 - 20:00
Freitag	10:00 - 18:00
Samstag	10:00 - 18:00
Sonntag	10:00 - 18:00

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