Artists

Groupshow

Press release

How can art help us tell polyphonic stories? What stories are concealed in historical photographs? And how have contemporary artists revealed these narratives? With A Kind of Paradise, Museum Rietberg presents a group exhibition that is the first to comprehensively explore this phenomenon in global contemporary art. Internationally acclaimed artists from and members of diasporas of Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Oceania have engaged with colonial-era visual material. Their works – poetic, critical, and visionary – explore how such images define identity, history, and a sense of belonging, and how they may be reinterpreted. These works reveal a healing power that transcends historical specificities and can touch us all.