The German-speaking world’s foremost museum for Black culture, popular music, and history - now also in Austria! 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 Austrian 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, Dalia Ahmed, Anta Helena Recke, Ellias Hampe, Frieder Blume RESEARCH & AUDIO GUIDE Tmnit Ghide MEDIATION & SOCIAL MEDIA EDITING mirabella paidamwoyo* dziruni ARTISTIC PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT Lisa Gehring CORPORATE DESIGN Justus Gelberg EXHIBITION DESIGN und.studio (Jonas Maria Droste, Simon Stanislawski) VIDEO EDITING Simon Schultz 3D DESIGN & ANIMATION Sondi FRIENDS OF THE ÖMSUBM Jolanda Erdkraut PHOTOS Eric Asamoah, Johannes Stoll, Justus Gelberg