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.