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26 June, Making memories visible: photographs, archives and migration histories in the West and East Germany

Photographs preserve memories, form narratives, convey ideologies and shape the perception of history. Archives contain organised knowledge that provides orientation but also legitimises and supports power. The archives of the present are closely linked to future knowledge by collecting what can be known about the present in the future. But what happens when certain images and perspectives disappear from the archive, have to be found first or never find their way in? How were and are photographs and other objects used to describe migration, (cultural) identity and social developments or to render them visible in the first place? What counter-perspectives are necessary to tell stories of migration from the perspective of migrants themselves?

This panel brings together experts from various disciplines, fields of research and curatorial practice to discuss the politics of images, archiving and the handling of marginalised photographic collections. The focus will be on questions of institutionalisation, standardisation and instrumentalization, with a particular focus on the migration histories of West and East Germany, and the afterlives of photographic images and collections. At the same time, we will talk about the responsibility archives bear in a democratic society and discuss the challenges of long-term archiving, physical and digital accessibility and new approaches to mediation.

The workshop is a collaboration between the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect and the Central Institute for Art History in Munich (ZI).

 

 

Programme:

18:30 – 20:00

Welcome and introduction

Burcu Dogramaci (gd:c, Munich) & Franziska Lampe (ZI, Munich)

 

Speakers

Isabel Enzenbach (De-Zentralbild / Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam): L/Ost? Private Bilder ostdeutscher Migrationserfahrungen

Manuel Gogos (Freier Kurator & Autor, Bonn): Doppelbelichtung: Fremdbilder, Selbstbilder

Vida Bakondy (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien): Die anderen Bilder sehen. Jovan Ritopečkis Fotoarchiv der Migration

 

Joint discussion

 

Location: Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect

Date: Thursday, 26 June 2025

Time: 18:30

Concept: Burcu Dogramaci (global dis:connect) and Franziska Lampe (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)

Please register here by 17 June. The programme can be found here.