ausstellung: beauty and the beholder

“What I am interested in is challenging the mainstream ideas of what is beautiful and what is acceptable.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Western standards of beauty have conquered, colonised the collective consciousness of the entire world. Now, in the twenty-first century, black artists present their own, sometimes more radical and subtle reflections on beauty – for our time. They show us how they perceive beauty, liberated from the beauty standards of the Western world and colonial times.