Multidisciplinary Exchange

THE KETCHUP-BOAT – Stranded Cargo – A Restitution Reconsidered

In collaboration with sculptor Hannes Brunner and students from the teaching initiative “Art as a Means of Historical Inquiry”

Project Teaser:

A fishing boat lies on a meadow by the sea. On board: hundreds of expired ketchup bottles, remnants of European overproduction – exported, forgotten, and abandoned. The boat is located on the Majuro Atoll, Marshall Islands, a former German colony from which countless cultural artifacts were removed over a century ago, which are now disappearing into European collections. We take the initiative an exhibit:

The Ketchup Boat from the Marshall Islands – A Restitution Reconsidered.

Academic framing by Jonas Rüegg: “Ozeanien als Ausblick auf das Anthropozän“