Since 14 August 2025, 15 posters depicting monuments from European cities have been hanging on the construction fence at the harbour promenade in Flensburg to spark discussions about a monument to commemorate colonial history in Flensburg as well.
Sybille Bauriedl and Inken Carstensen-Egwuom have written a text for Ulrike Bergermann about colonial monuments, contested memory politics and the white way of seeing.
In an article published in 2024 in the journal sub\urban (German only), Sybille Bauriedl (European University Flensburg) and Linda Pasch (University of Bonn) look at postcolonial maps. The article examines the extent to which the maps combine decolonial politics of memory with a critical reflection on map production and the power of maps.
From August 13th to October 31st 2022, a total of 103 artistically designed globes were put on public display in seven cities across the UK to commemorate Britain's involvement in the transatlantic enslavement trade. The blog post reports on the action and explains what Flensburg has to do with it.
'Cuating the Discomfort' is an intervention at the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow that critically explores post/colonial power relations in museums. A report on the intervention and why we in Flensburg are inspired by it.
The project Sønderjylland-Schleswig Colonial aims to collect and communicate the colonial references in the region between Eider and Königsau. On the site there is, among other things, a map with colonial memorials in the region.
I AM QUEEN MARY is an art project by artists La Vaughn Belle (US Virgin Islands) and Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark), which was inaugurated as a temporary sculpture in Copenhagen on 31 March 2018. As Flensburg profited and actively participated in Danish colonialism, I AM QUEEN MARY also raises questions for Flensburg.