A part of the memoir of our guest scholar Gina Athena Ulysse and her Open Gate in the Archives project – a posthumous visual conversation between the multimedia project, VooDooDoll, and the late German photographer Leonore Mau.
Read it here
Book Launch of A Year and A Day. Leonore Mau and Haiti / Un an et un jour. Leonore Mau et Haïti
On 16th December 1990: Jean-Bertrand Aristide is elected president with over 67% of the vote in the first democratic elections in Haiti’s history. 35 year later we warmly invite you to the 📚 book launch of A Year and A Day. Leonore Mau and Haiti / Un an et un jour. Leonore Mau et Haïti
The book is the outcome of the SNSF-research project Conflict and Cooperation, which was based at the chair of Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster at the University of Zurich and will hopefully now find its way into many hands.
Edited by Dora Imhof, Gina Athena Ulysse, U5
Contributions by Yveline Alexis, Kyrah Malika Daniels, Nathalie David, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Hans Fässler, Sasha Huber, Zainabu Jallo, Erol Josué, Dora Imhof, Sabine Lamour, Kettly Mars, Christopher Nixon, Katherine Smith, Gina Athena Ulysse, U5
When? 📆 Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 6-8pm
Where? 🌬️Rooftop 8.C02, Wind Tunnel, ZHdK,Toni-Areal, Zurich (🧤The Wind Tunnel is not heated, so dress warmly.)
“OUT OF FOCUS” Exhibition Lenbachhaus, Munich
“OUT OF FOCUS”, Leonore Mau and Haiti, –
The upcoming exhibition at the Lenbachhaus is an artistic development of the research project “Out of Focus” by Dora Imhof and the artists’ collective U5 at the University of Zurich. Together with the cultural anthropologist and artist Gina Athena Ulysse, the artist and filmmaker Madafi Pierre, the houngan (priest), musician, and director general of the Bureau National d’Ethnologie in Port-au-Prince Erol Josué, and other scholars and artists, the exhibition develops a dialogical, critical, and productive approach to Mau’s images. The photographs will be shown at the Lenbachhaus in a multimedia, sensual environment. An essential component is an event program (during the exhibition period) in which the previous dialogues in and with the public are continued through performances and discussions. “Out of Focus” is a collaborative examination of Leonore Mau’s photographs taken in Haiti. The exhibition seeks a decolonial approach to these images and asks how working with this archive can contribute to changing the image of Haiti, which is still characterized by stereotypes today.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive four-language publication edited by Dora Imhof, Gina Athena Ulysse, and U5, published by Hatje Cantz.
Cooperation partners: S. Fischer Foundation, bpk-Bildagentur, Berlin
With generous support of Förderverein Lenbachhaus e.V.