{"data":{"page":{"__typename":"ElementalPage","title":"Resistances: On Dealing with Racism in Bern","menuTitle":"Resistances: On Dealing with Racism in Bern","metaImage":{"width":1184,"height":1776,"src":"https:\/\/cms.bhm.ch\/assets\/BHM-LAB\/2021_0428_12352200.jpg","alt":"2021 0428 12352200","orientation":"1","focusPointX":0,"focusPointY":0,"id":"381","__typename":"Image"},"metaDescription":null,"content":null,"isPermantExhibition":false,"useElementsMenu":false,"elementalArea":{"elements":[{"__typename":"Text","id":"679","title":" The exhibition by the collective \u201cDas Wandbild muss weg!\u201d","showTitle":true,"anchor":"section-679","menuTitle":null,"showInMenus":false,"variant":"sm","htmlText":"

25.4.2024\u20131.6.2025 <\/strong><\/p>\n

A for ape, G for goose, L for lamb \u2013 in 1949, two artists created an alphabet mural comprising 24\u202ftiles for the Wylergut\u202fschoolhouse on behalf of the City\u202fof\u202fBern. Among this ABC of animal and nature themes were three\u202fdepictions of non-white people. On the mural, C stood for Chinese, I for the Indigenous Person of America and N for the Black person \u2013 conveying a colonial, racist view of the world.<\/p>\n

In 2019, an anti-racist collective criticised the fact that this mural remained on display in a school without being challenged. This prompted the City\u202fof\u202fBern to launch a competition to decide the mural\u2019s fate \u2013 won by the association \u201cThe\u202fMural\u202fMust\u202fGo!\u201d following its proposal to remove the piece and transfer it to the Bernisches\u202fHistorisches\u202fMuseum. Removal of the mural has been the subject of divisive debate in Bern ever since.<\/p>\n

The museum will adopt the historical mural in spring 2024, opening the way for the debate that society demands. As a guest curator, the association will be staging an accompanying exhibition to reflect the multifaceted discussions around the mural and about how to deal with it. In addition, enduring colonial patterns and structural racism will be contextualised in the present. The exhibition will give food for thought for the public discourse about how we as a society want to deal with this cultural heritage from the colonial era.<\/p>\n

News of the collaboration will be posted here.<\/p>\n

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You can find the press release published on April 11, 2023 here (in German).<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","button":{"__typename":"Link","id":"0","label":null,"isExternal":null,"href":""}},{"__typename":"Accordion","id":"924","title":"Partners","showTitle":true,"anchor":"section-924","menuTitle":null,"showInMenus":false,"variant":null,"items":{"nodes":[{"title":"SKKG Stiftung f\u00fcr Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte","text":"
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