Opening

Wind: The Architecture of a Death Camp | October 10, 2026 – January 24, 2027

On 10 October 2026, we are opening the second season of our exhbition Fractured Lifeworlds – Ovaherero and Nama Claims for Intergenerational Justice.

A spit of rock extending into the Atlantic was the first anchorage for European settlers in Namibia, and later became the first death camp of the 20th century.

Today, the German and Namibian governments support a major renewable energy project which will destroy the unmarked graves of victims of the genocide, and permanently alter the surroundings of the island, a site of mourning for the Nama and Ovaherero. The same winds that brought colonizers to southwest Africa, and which became an instrument of extermination on Shark Island, are set to underwrite Germany’s ‘green transition’ at the expense of Indigenous cultural heritage.