Restitutie in de praktijk: een artistieke benadering van de teruggave van voorouderlijke objecten

Datum: dinsdag 24 juni 2025
Tijd: 14:00-18:00 uur
Locatie: Kartini zaal van de UvA
Adres: Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX
Organisatie: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Voertaal: Engels, Spaans

Onderstaande tekst gaat door in het Engels.

The CHEco (Critical Heritage Ecologies) research initiative invites you to ‘Restitution in Practice: an Artistic Approach to the Return of Ancestral Objects’. Two members of the artistic collective Minga Prácticas Decoloniales will share their experiences and perspectives on the return of cultural objects held in European museums to their communities of origin in South America, with a particular focus on Colombia.

Focusing on their encounter with gold artifacts from the so-called Quimbaya Treasure—currently housed at the Museo de América in Madrid and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin—the artists explore how artistic practice can become a tool for reparation and reconnection. Drawing on the ritual and spiritual dimensions of Indigenous knowledge, they reflect on how art can help reweave the broken ties between objects, memory, and territory.

Speakers: Estefanía García Pineda and Edinson Quiñones

Moderator: María Suárez Caicedo

Registration

Please register by sending an email to m.p.suarezcaicedo@uva.nl