The German-speaking world’s foremost museum for Black culture, popular music, and history! It houses a comprehensive archive of records, magazines, autographs, and memorabilia, all exhibited in a lively environment for the communication and discussion of Black history.
The constantly growing multimedia collection archives documents of the biographies and artistic work of Black entertainers and musicians in the German-speaking entertainment industry, from the 1920s to the early 2010s. When grouped together, they achieve a new visibility.
This recontextualization of the collection makes the previous frameworks of reception in a white German majority society graspable and nameable as stereotypical forms of representation. The historical survey uncovers continuities manifested in the projection of traits that are opposed to the myth of a rational, enlightened, and progressive culture. Less explicit but clearer than ever are the stars’ tried and true methods of subversion in how they staged themselves.
DIRECTION & CURATORIAL MANAGEMENT Joana Tischkau, Anta Helena Recke, Ellias Hampe, Frieder Blume CORPORATE DESIGN Justus Gelberg EXHIBITION DESIGN und.studio (Jonas Droste, Simon Stanislawski) RESEARCH & ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Nuray Demir, Jan Gehmlich, Charly Hampe, Leonie Kopineck, Katharina Linnepe, Yannick Alassane Niang, Simon Schultz, Gernot Seelinger, Dargelos Kersten, Anton Peitersen, Clara Reiner, Özlem Türkan, Manu Washaus, Philipp Wegener ARTISTIC PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring PHOTOS Hannah Aders, Soume, Dorothea Tuch
2020
With the kind support of the EOTO Archive.
A production by Tischkau & Hampe GbR. In artistic collaboration with Frieder Blume and Anta Helena Recke. In co-production with the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, the Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin. Supported by the Kulturamt Frankfurt am Main, Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., and the Senate Department for Culture and Europe of the State of Berlin.
In 2022, the DMSUBM opened an Austrian offshoot (ÖMSUBM) at Belvedere 21. Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Wiener Festwochen and as part of the 2022 summer festival at Kampnagel in Hamburg. The Hamburg version was supported and supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media and the program “Frei_Fläche: Raum für kreative Zwischennutzung” of the Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft, the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Funding for Theater, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, as well as the cultural and arts ministries of the federal states, the Rudolf Augstein Foundation, and the Hamburgische Kulturstiftung.
A permanent archive in Berlin is currently in the works.
