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Join us on Friday 17 April!
Dive into the exhibition’s powerful questions about colonial legacies and their lasting impact in today’s world. Through guided tours, artistic interventions, and shared experiences, the galleries come alive as spaces of encounter, memory, and exchange.
From moving performances by La Candidate, DJ JOKI and Ilda Vaz, to hands-on block printing with Indikon, guided tours in the exhibition space, and East African – inspired refreshments by Utamu Collective, this opening is more than a launch — it’s an invitation to gather, reflect, and engage together.
Event line-up
DJ JOKI — DJ set, 18:30 - 23:00, First floor “Graffiti Room”
JOKI’s DJ set offers a musical journey shaped by diasporic influences. Starting with atmospheric sounds and gradually building toward a more festive energy, the set creates a shared sonic space that accompanies the evening’s activities and invites visitors to linger, connect, and celebrate together.
La Candidate – Coming back to voice, 18:30 and 19:15, pop-up performative intervention outside museum on stairs, Fables Room, Graffiti Room, cafeteria.
A series of pop-up performances unfolding across different spaces of the exhibition, La Candidate brings together seven reconstructed public speeches delivered over the past decade by migrant women activists. Rooted in lived experience, the performance traces recent struggles for regularisation and visibility, foregrounding collective voice, political agency, and feminist resistance in public space.
Postcolonial? guided tours, 19:30 - 21:30, exhibition galleries, duration - 30 minutes.
Discover the deep historical ties between colonialism and racism in this 30-minute guided tour. Through a selection of compelling artworks and objects, the tour uncovers how colonial expansion moulded political, economic, and social systems - structures that continue to influence power, wealth, and inequality today. Book via the Postcolonial? page on the museum website.
Indikon – Block Printing Workshop, 19:30 - 21:30, Fables Room, no registration needed, workshop language: English. Duration approximately 30 minutes.
Inspired by the traditional Indian technique of block printing, this hands-on workshop invites participants to experiment with printing on paper and textile. Visitors can also contribute to a collective installation by hanging their printed creations. Accompanied by visuals on the history of the practice, the workshop connects craft, storytelling, and collective making.
Ilda Vaz – Vocal Performance, 20:00 - 21:30, exhibition galleries.
At the end of each guided tour, Ilda Vaz will perform a traditional song in the galleries. These intimate vocal moments offer pauses for reflection, weaving ancestral memory and embodied knowledge into the exhibition experience.
Utamu Collective – Refreshments, 18:30 - 23:00,VIP Room and Cafeteria.
Utamu Collective curates the evening’s refreshments, offering East African – inspired fusion food and drinks. Their presence brings a convivial dimension to the opening, combining hospitality with cultural connection.
Practical information
- No registration required – free entry. Please book in advance for guided tours.
- All visitors and bags will be subject to airport-style security checks before entry