Renewed Bern Kunsthalle works to reframe Switzerland's history
The Art Newspaper
JUNE 19, 2025
In place of plastic, the Ghanaian artist enfolded the building in a material evocative of global labour and trade—jute sacks made in Southeast Asia and imported to Ghana for the transportation of cocoa beans to European markets. The history of the Kunsthalle has been a very Eurocentric, very white history,” she says.
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