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Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Exterior of the HKW building (all photos used are from the author’s personal archive) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/fefe7f56-606f-4024-a127-9bbeb7810174/5E6734A2-81A3-40C3-919B-0B447EE51FED.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Right: Félix Vallotton, Soldats sénégalais au camp de Mailly (1917), oil on canvas, 55.2 × 66 cm, reproduction (original 46 × 55 cm). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/65d689e1-3e8a-4ad8-a814-6e3232fc5d4a/75CF6662-82DE-4C29-8416-442A77B64DEB.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Architectural design of the exhibition section titled "Thematic Resonances + Perspectives" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/b84e42d2-b498-484f-b984-a6e31aaeb326/780D4AB8-20C5-47E3-8CB9-C54C7354B345.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Daniel Lind-Ramos, Re-inventario de la desmemoria (2026), metal tube, coconut shell, wooden boxes, small cloth bags, textile, wooden barrel, plastic, nurse’s cap, army bag, boots, binoculars, burlap sack, rope, cooking pot, trumpet, machetes, 267 × 244 × 244 cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/7aa7f57b-4a92-4bb5-b7ef-074455f95ff8/8B9B88BB-C8E2-4683-9B6D-37EC872DB900.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Pélagie Gbaguidi, The Architecture of Courage (2026), wood, fabric, 7 structures, each 200 × 85 cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/783fa53d-c8b3-4581-ab38-b30ee793ee25/A35D6EB2-70CB-4A99-A447-B8714237F6D5.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Mónica de Miranda, The Spell Stone (2026), 4-channel video installation, video, wood, dimensions variable, Portuguese with En/Ger subs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/c27a083c-ee96-4522-8c86-702f904f40d8/11F707B8-A365-4AF8-8230-A407580CD23B.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Because No One Living Will Listen / Người Sống Chẳng Ai Nghe (2023), video still. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/9c94614d-e089-4952-9c96-faba376d28b3/9CCCAB70-E687-4886-952D-8E4BC267CCA7.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out Left: El Hadji Sy, Untitled (2019), installation, 4 door paintings, acrylic on wood, frame, each c.205 × 80 × 3.5 cm. Right: Binta Diaw, 1.12.44-1 - Édition 1/3 (2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/9c5a0cfd-22c8-4b7f-8b59-68603db6f317/9DF30951-AB96-4140-AF67-B6CA384EF10A.jpeg Publications and Reviews - Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations - From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde - The Forgotten Soldiers Who Freed Europe (Berlin, 21. 03. 2026 – 14. 06. 2026 ) - Make it stand out In the front: Dior Thiam, Tata (2026), acrylic, charcoal, glue, and wax-print on canvas, cotton thread, wood, clay, 360 × 140 × 140 cm. In the back: Slavs and Turks, Reverse Dschihad (Russian) (2015), screenprint on polished steel, 244 × 122 × 0.1 cm; Reverse Dschihad (Tatar) (2015), screenprint on polished steel, 244 × 122 × 0.1 cm; Reverse Dschihad (Urdu) (2015), screenprint on polished steel, 244 × 122 × 0.1 cm; Reverse Dschihad (Arabic) (2015), screenprint on polished steel, 244 × 122 × 0.1 cm. https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/se47eqgdbppth5parany4b2g06ilmz monthly 0.5 2026-03-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/0556616f-febb-4cf5-b1ee-710dc84ee122/Fig+1+Wybie+2025+08+23.jpg Publications and Reviews - Exhibition Review Wybielanie / ‘Bleaching’ at National Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw - Make it stand out Fig .1: Bleached out stories: Looking towards the exhibition entrance © Patrick Laviolette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1df820de-e4ad-4b03-8ccf-1519296a7b00/Fig+2.jpg Publications and Reviews - Exhibition Review Wybielanie / ‘Bleaching’ at National Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/eb775e2e-ee81-4b9c-90e4-1c797adf1ebf/Fig+3+Little+People+C_McKay+Wybie++2025+08+23.jpg Publications and Reviews - Exhibition Review Wybielanie / ‘Bleaching’ at National Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw - Make it stand out Fig. 3: ‘The Little Peoples’ (1919) poem by Claude McKay © Patrick Laviolette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/fbf45b1d-c665-4ebc-af68-d6df5198f098/Fig+5+Wybie++timeline+2025+08+23.jpg Publications and Reviews - Exhibition Review Wybielanie / ‘Bleaching’ at National Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw - Make it stand out Fig. 5: Display cases, mounted photos and NEM’s timeline [1947-2024] © Patrick Laviolette https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1774258724148-3YLMWUR7VQ5G5AZ2IF7Y/Fig+6+a+Wybie++2025+08+23.jpg Publications and Reviews - Exhibition Review Wybielanie / ‘Bleaching’ at National Ethnographic Museum of Warsaw - Figs 6a. 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Review of the newly opened permanent exhibition of Asian art at the National Gallery Prague © Jakub Přecechtěl, National Gallery Prague https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/decolonizing-central-europe-czech-art-and-the-question-of-colonial-innocence monthly 0.5 2026-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1768821605708-8AKEHI3XHTPL5TZ92ZXM/showCoverImage.jpg Publications and Reviews - Decolonizing Central Europe: Czech Art and the Question of ‘Colonial Innocence’ https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/in-search-of-a-mission-reflections-on-the-museum-of-world-culture-and-ethnography-in-the-21st-century monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764246177060-JZ6U389T8WIBWKFJCBKN/Figure+1.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 1: Installation shot of gallery of the exhibition Emil Holub, Náprstek Museum Prague. 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Photo: Weltmuseum, Vienna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764246560827-6JJF0FXA2KZWGVZX6ADY/Figure+5.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 5: Front cover of Susan Vogel, ed., Art / Artifact (New York, 1989) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764246649809-XIJKPO2VADGD8KGNMN8P/Figure+7.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 7: Installation shot of the gallery of Oceania, Musée Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris. Photo: M. 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Rampley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764239830172-J2XJUNWQFGYWWCF4PNOA/Figure+9.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 9: Callimachus (attributed). The grave stele of Hegeso (ca 410-400 BCE). Photo: National Archaeological Museum, Athens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764239901137-JNDN7XUMJRF54JSL4DCN/Figure+10.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 10: Main gallery of the Museum of Anthropology & Archaeology, Cambridge. Photo: M. Rampley.  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764239901108-3Q0KAJFV2PYDKEDW2BVX/Figure+11.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 11: Main gallery of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. Photo: Pitt Rivers Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764239960679-BE176Q11IAJDIH8L2ACU/Figure+12.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 12: Hawaiian feathered cape (‘ahu’ula) (early 20th century). Photo: M. Rampley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1764239960659-0VNS98IVEDO2TYTGG8XI/Figure+13.jpeg Publications and Reviews - In Search of a Mission: Reflections on the Museum of World Culture and Ethnography in the 21st Century - Figure 13: Kalupani Landgraf, Ho‘oheihei (2024). Photo: M. 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Rampley https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/introducing-our-external-collaborator-irene-appeaning-addo-on-postcolonial-architecture-urban-inequality-and-ghana-czechoslovakia-collaboration-in-the-1960s monthly 0.5 2026-03-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1760528744061-P432ETVWIQLIYQCITMRW/IMG_4526.webp Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1760528507807-BLLFHFBVJQR2D4VSXW77/IMG_20190423_150009%2B%282%29%2B%281%29.webp Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/36122f24-c786-484e-8d75-d1e4deb0d56d/Figure+1%3A+Abandoned+structures+of+Bonsa+Tyre+Factory.+%28Source%3A+Graphic+Online%2C+May+2017%29 Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  - Make it stand out Figure 1: Abandoned structures of Bonsa Tyre Factory. (Source: Graphic Online, May 2017) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/2e5fe3b6-0db7-41e8-872c-974c82d1f442/Figure+2%3A+Maxwell+Fry+and+Jane+Drew.+Mfantsipin+School%2C+Cape+Coast+%281947%29.+%28Source%3A+V%26A+Museum%29 Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  - Make it stand out Figure 2: Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew. Mfantsipin School, Cape Coast (1947). (Source: V&A Museum) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/51809306-82ec-4bc2-b3af-8d207ce49d3f/Figure+3%3A+%C3%82ngela+Ferreira.+Angela+Miriam+Makeba%E2%80%99s+house+in+Guinea-Bissau+%282019%29.+%28Source%3A+Culturgest%2C+Porto%29 Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/691b08d3-1328-4bbe-9f3f-5a0250872f52/Figure+3%3A+%C3%82ngela+Ferreira.+Angela+Miriam+Makeba%E2%80%99s+house+in+Guinea-Bissau+%282019%29.+%28Source%3A+Culturgest%2C+Porto%29 Publications and Reviews - Introducing our external collaborator Irene Appeaning Addo: On postcolonial architecture, urban inequality, and Ghana-Czechoslovakia collaboration in the 1960s  - Make it stand out Figure 3: Ângela Ferreira. Angela Miriam Makeba’s house in Guinea-Bissau (2019). (Source: Culturgest, Porto) https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/decolonizing-central-europe-czech-art-and-thequestion-of-colonial-innocence monthly 0.5 2025-08-18 https://globalczechs.cz/publications-and-reviews/rollova-colonialism-in-objects-/-der-kolonialismus-in-den-dingen-at-munichs-museum-of-the-five-continents monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6807955bce2d24775f8175ad/1751966704030-9N51O6CI7TZ4XN64GP1S/03+kopfaufsatzmaske_der-kolonialismus-in-den-dingen.jpg Publications and Reviews - Colonialism in Objects / Der Kolonialismus in den Dingen at Munich's Museum of the Five Continents  - Anito (ancestor figure) © Museum Fünf Kontinente. Photo: Nicolai Kästner Luzon Island (Philippines). Before 1878. Wood, cowry, coix seeds. 59 × 11 × 19 cm. Provenance: Heinrich Rothdauscher, Inv. Nr. 93-89. © Museum Fünf Kontinente. 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