Goethe-Institut returns with photography exhibition

One of Germany’s most important Museums, the Essen-based Museum Folkwang is exhibiting parts of its photography archive for the first time in Africa. The exhibition will feature images from Folkwang’s collection by Rolf Gillhausen, Germaine Krull, Robert Lebeck, Malick Sidibé and Wolfgang Weber as well as images by renowned Nigerian photographer J.D. Ojeikhere and archive materials of the Federal Ministry of Information, Nigeria. “Voyage/Retour” explores intercultural relations between Africa and Europe from the 1920s to 1970s and is sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office. Venue is Goethe-Institut and the exhibition which is already on will end on December 1, 2013. Entry into the event is free.