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Book Synopsis
One hundred years after the founding of the Ecole Coloniale Superieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flaneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia. With contributions by Pieter Boons, Sandrine Colard, Filip De Boeck, Bas De Roo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Sorana Munsya & Leonard Pongo, Herman Van Goethem, Sara Weyns, Nabilla Ait Daoud Participating artists: Sammy Baloji, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Maurice Mbikayi, Jean Katambayi, KinAct Collective, Simone Leigh, Hank Willis Thomas, Zahia Rahmani, Ibrahim Mahama, Angela Ferreira, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sven Augustijnen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Elisabetta Benassi, Pelagie Gbaguidi Free ebooks English/Dutch and French available

Trade Review

In de denkbeeldige stad Congoville worden de materiële en immateriële sporen van de beeldvorming, denk- en geheugenbeelden van deze veelgelaagde geschiedenis uitgediept. De impuls voor de tentoonstelling was historisch onderzoek naar de voormalige Koloniale Hogeschool Middelheim, die aan het gelijknamige museumpark grenst. Het museum werd opgericht toen de hogeschool, waar de toekomstige koloniale elite opgeleid werd, nog actief was. Het gefundeerde zelfonderzoek naar dit koloniale en imperialistische verleden, waarvan de rijke catalogus met nieuwe kennisproductie eveneens blijk geeft, is een essentieel onderdeel van het streven naar dekolonisatie.
Merel Van Tilburg, Editie 213 september-oktober 2021


The exhibition catalogue of Congoville offers a striking example of a postcolonial inventory jointly undertaken by artists, curators and critics. Invented by the curator Sandrine Colard, the very title of the exhibition, which took place in the former premises of the Ecole des Administrateurs Coloniaux, refers to an inventory of the traces of Belgium’s imperialist past in the country’s geography. The works by the fifteen invited artists are exhibited alongside a major archival project, and fully embrace these specifications.

Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Autumn/Winter 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85502


Le catalogue de l’exposition Congoville offre ainsi le saisissant exemple d’un travail d’inventaire postcolonial, conjointement pris en charge par des artistes, des curateurs et des critiques. Inventé par sa commissaire Sandrine Colard, le titre même de l’exposition, sise dans les anciens locaux de l’Ecole des Administrateurs coloniaux, désigne l’inventaire des traces d’un passé impérialiste dans le paysage belge. Jouxtant un important travail d’archives, les œuvres des quinze artistes sollicités embrassent pleinement ce cahier des charges.

Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Automne/hiver 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85509



Table of Contents

ESSAYS

Forewords

Introduction

Sandrine Colard
Congoville: A Black Flâneur’s Path through a Post-Colonial City

Filip De Boeck
Congoville–Putuville: Mirroring Models and Beyond in the (Post)Colonial World

Nadia Yala Kisukidi
In Congoville, the “Belgian-Negros” Never Saw the Light of Day: Travelling (Back) in Time

Bas De Roo
Masters in Colonization? The Colonial College of Antwerp and Its Legacies (1920-1960)

Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo
Congolese Resistance to Belgian Africa? The Colonial College of Antwerp (1920-1960)

EXHIBITION

About the Artists

Artist Interviews

Postface

About the authors

Colophon

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ESSAYS

Woord vooraf

Inleiding

Sandrine Colard
Congoville: een zwarte flâneur op pad door een postkoloniale stad

Filip De Boeck
Congoville–Putuville: voorbij de spiegelbeelden in de (post)koloniale wereld

Nadia Yala Kisukidi
In Congoville zagen de ‘Belgo-Negers’ nooit het daglicht: een (terug)reis in de tijd

Bas De Roo
Masters in de kolonisatie? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen en zijn erfenissen (1920-2020)

Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo
Congolese weerstand tegen Belgisch Afrika? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen (1920-1960)

TENTOONSTELLING

Over de kunstenaars

Interviews met de kunstenaars

Nabeschouwing

Over de auteurs

Colofon

Congoville: Contemporary Artists Tracing Colonial

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      Publisher: Leuven University Press
      Publication Date: 01/06/2021
      ISBN13: 9789462702363, 978-9462702363
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      Book Synopsis
      One hundred years after the founding of the Ecole Coloniale Superieure in Antwerp, the adjacent Middelheim Museum invites Sandrine Colard, researcher and curator, to conceive an exhibition that probes silenced histories of colonialism in a site-specific way. For Colard, the term Congoville encompasses the tangible and intangible urban traces of the colony, not on the African continent but in 21st-century Belgium: a school building, a park, imperial myths, and citizens of African descent. In the exhibition and this adjoining publication, the concept Congoville is the starting point for 15 contemporary artists to address colonial history and ponder its aftereffects as black flaneurs walking through a postcolonial city. Due to the multitude of perspectives and voices, this book is both a catalogue and a reference work comprised of artistic and academic contributions. Together, the participating artists and invited authors unfold the blueprint of Congoville, an imaginary city that still subconsciously affects us, but also encourages us to envision a decolonial utopia. With contributions by Pieter Boons, Sandrine Colard, Filip De Boeck, Bas De Roo, Nadia Yala Kisukidi, Sorana Munsya & Leonard Pongo, Herman Van Goethem, Sara Weyns, Nabilla Ait Daoud Participating artists: Sammy Baloji, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Maurice Mbikayi, Jean Katambayi, KinAct Collective, Simone Leigh, Hank Willis Thomas, Zahia Rahmani, Ibrahim Mahama, Angela Ferreira, Kapwani Kiwanga, Sven Augustijnen, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Elisabetta Benassi, Pelagie Gbaguidi Free ebooks English/Dutch and French available

      Trade Review

      In de denkbeeldige stad Congoville worden de materiële en immateriële sporen van de beeldvorming, denk- en geheugenbeelden van deze veelgelaagde geschiedenis uitgediept. De impuls voor de tentoonstelling was historisch onderzoek naar de voormalige Koloniale Hogeschool Middelheim, die aan het gelijknamige museumpark grenst. Het museum werd opgericht toen de hogeschool, waar de toekomstige koloniale elite opgeleid werd, nog actief was. Het gefundeerde zelfonderzoek naar dit koloniale en imperialistische verleden, waarvan de rijke catalogus met nieuwe kennisproductie eveneens blijk geeft, is een essentieel onderdeel van het streven naar dekolonisatie.
      Merel Van Tilburg, Editie 213 september-oktober 2021


      The exhibition catalogue of Congoville offers a striking example of a postcolonial inventory jointly undertaken by artists, curators and critics. Invented by the curator Sandrine Colard, the very title of the exhibition, which took place in the former premises of the Ecole des Administrateurs Coloniaux, refers to an inventory of the traces of Belgium’s imperialist past in the country’s geography. The works by the fifteen invited artists are exhibited alongside a major archival project, and fully embrace these specifications.

      Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Autumn/Winter 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85502


      Le catalogue de l’exposition Congoville offre ainsi le saisissant exemple d’un travail d’inventaire postcolonial, conjointement pris en charge par des artistes, des curateurs et des critiques. Inventé par sa commissaire Sandrine Colard, le titre même de l’exposition, sise dans les anciens locaux de l’Ecole des Administrateurs coloniaux, désigne l’inventaire des traces d’un passé impérialiste dans le paysage belge. Jouxtant un important travail d’archives, les œuvres des quinze artistes sollicités embrassent pleinement ce cahier des charges.

      Ninon Chavoz, Critique d’art, 57 | Automne/hiver 2021 https://journals.openedition.org/critiquedart/85509



      Table of Contents

      ESSAYS

      Forewords

      Introduction

      Sandrine Colard
      Congoville: A Black Flâneur’s Path through a Post-Colonial City

      Filip De Boeck
      Congoville–Putuville: Mirroring Models and Beyond in the (Post)Colonial World

      Nadia Yala Kisukidi
      In Congoville, the “Belgian-Negros” Never Saw the Light of Day: Travelling (Back) in Time

      Bas De Roo
      Masters in Colonization? The Colonial College of Antwerp and Its Legacies (1920-1960)

      Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo
      Congolese Resistance to Belgian Africa? The Colonial College of Antwerp (1920-1960)

      EXHIBITION

      About the Artists

      Artist Interviews

      Postface

      About the authors

      Colophon

      --------

      ESSAYS

      Woord vooraf

      Inleiding

      Sandrine Colard
      Congoville: een zwarte flâneur op pad door een postkoloniale stad

      Filip De Boeck
      Congoville–Putuville: voorbij de spiegelbeelden in de (post)koloniale wereld

      Nadia Yala Kisukidi
      In Congoville zagen de ‘Belgo-Negers’ nooit het daglicht: een (terug)reis in de tijd

      Bas De Roo
      Masters in de kolonisatie? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen en zijn erfenissen (1920-2020)

      Sorana Munsya & Léonard Pongo
      Congolese weerstand tegen Belgisch Afrika? De Koloniale Hogeschool van Antwerpen (1920-1960)

      TENTOONSTELLING

      Over de kunstenaars

      Interviews met de kunstenaars

      Nabeschouwing

      Over de auteurs

      Colofon

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