Points of View

The exhibition experiments with different approaches from art and science to provide a complex view of the German colonial period in the Bismarck Archipelago.
On display are installations and collages by artist and scholar Lisa Hilli from Melbourne, audiovisual histories of Melanesian workers and their mediators in Papua New Guinea as well as texts by historian Tobias Goebel from Bremen based on current research. Lisa Hilli, with her biographical-familial relationship to the Tolai people – the largest ethnic community in the eastern province East New Britain in Papua New Guinea – has a different view and asks different questions.

Lisa Hilli and Tobias Goebel have been exchanging ideas about the difficult legacy of the German colonial era in the Western Pacific since 2018. Most recently, they worked closely together on a research project about the North German Lloyd at the German Maritime Museum.

The exhibition was created in close collaboration with the German Maritime Museum – Leibniz Institute for Maritime History (DSM).