PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION) 

Monographs and catalogues 

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2017. Lieblingstücke. 36 Objekte des Monats. Bayreuth: iwalewabooks (with Katharina Fink).

• Siegert Nadine (ed.). 2017. Tracks and Traces of Violence. Representation and Memorialisation of Violence in Africa in Art, Literature and Anthropology. Münster: LIT (with BIGSAS workgroup Tracks and Traces of Violence).

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2017. Mashup the Archive. The Reader. Berlin: Revolver.

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2017. Art of Wagnis. Christoph Schlingensief’s Crossing of Wagner and Africa. Wien: Verlag für Moderne Kunst.

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2017. FAVT: Future Africa Visions in Time. Exhibition book. Nairobi: Contact Zone.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2016. (Re)mapping Luanda. Utopische und Nostalgische Zugänge zu  einem Bildarchiv. LIT Verlag.

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2015. Archive (Re)mix. Vues d’Afrique. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, with Maëline Le Lay and Dominique Malaquais.

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2013. GhostBusters II {Haunted by Heroes} – kara lynch & Délio Jasse. Exhibition catalogue. Savvy Contemporary Berlin & Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth (with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung).

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2013. Iwalewa – quatre vues de l’Afrique contemporaine. Bayreuth: Iwalewahaus.

• Siegert, Nadine (ed.). 2011. GhostBusters [from nightmare to memory] – Nástio Mosquito & Cláudia Cristóvão. Exhibition catalogue. Savvy Contemporary Berlin & Iwalewa-Haus Bayreuth (with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung) articles.

• Siegert, Nadine (forthcoming), Collectivize (re)sources. The Photographic Estate of Ulli Beier. In: Jürg Schneider, Marian Nur Goni, and Érika Nimis (ed.), Sources and Resources: Photography and Archives in Africa, Critical Interventions.

• Siegert, Nadine (forthcoming), Art topples monuments. Artistic practice and colonial/postcolonial relations in the public space of Luanda. In: Christopher Larkosh, Mario Pereira and Memory Holloway (ed.), Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies 30. Transnational Africas: Visual, Material and Sonic Cultures of Lusophone Africa.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2018. Monumentalkunst. In Rüthers, Monica (ed.), Bildwelten des Sozialismus. Böhlau.

• Siegert, Nadine, First Word. A Summer of Arts?  African Arts, 51 (Issue 35), Winter 2017. 

• Siegert, Nadine. 2017. Aesthetic Nostalgia: Constructing Memories through Contemporary Art in post-socialist Angola. In Tania Macedo, Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, Selma Pantoja, Ana Sobral (eds.), Literatura e outras artes na construcao da memória em Angola e Mocambique / Literature and Others Arts in the construction of Memory in Angola and Mozambique. München: Peter Lang.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2017. Memory, Trauma and Empathy – On the (un)representability of the Civil War in Art. In Benedikt Jager (ed.), My heart of darkness. Transcript.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2017. Mighty Images. Counter-visuality as anticipation of utopian imagination. In Ijou Cheikh Moussa, Maroua El Naggare, Aminata Cécile Mbaye et Youssef Wahboun (eds.), Création et actualité en Afrique, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines de Rabat. Université Mohammed V, Rabat.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2016. Zooming in and out. In António Ole. Luanda – Los Angeles - Lisbon. Lisbon: Gulbenkian.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2016. Nostalgia and Utopia. On the (post-)socialist Condition in Angolan Contemporary Art Practice. In Mark Nash (ed.), Red Africa. Affective Communities and the Cold War. London: Black Dog Publishing.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2016. Mächtige Bilder. Zur Dekolonisierung des Blicks in der angolanischen Fotografiegeschichte. Zeitschrift Fotografiegeschichte.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2016. The archive as construction site –Collective memory and trauma in contemporary art from Angola. In Ferdinand de Jong (ed.), World Art, 6(1), pp.1–20.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2014. Luanda Lab –  aesthetic practices between nostalgia and utopia. In Erin Haney (ed.), Critical Interventions Special Issue: “Emerging Platforms for Artistic Production in DRC, Angola, and Mozambique”.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2013. “Urban Memories and Utopias – Contemporary Art in Luanda and Nairobi”. In Birgit Obrist, et. al., Living The City. Processes of Invention and Intervention. Schweizerische Afrikastudien - Etudes africaines suisses, Bd. 10. Hamburg: LIT-Verlag. (with Ulf Vierke).

• Siegert, Nadine. 2013. Grooving on broken – dancing war trauma in Kuduro? In Lizelle Bisschoff and Stefanie Van de Peer (ed.). Art and Trauma in Africa: Representations of Reconciliation in Film, Art, Music and Literature. London: IB Tauris (with Stefanie Alisch).

• Siegert, Nadine. 2011. (Re)mapping Luanda. Post-war Utopias of the Angolan Contemporary Art Scene. In Weibel and Buddensieg (ed.), Global        Studies. Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2010. From the Border of the City to the Shore of the Island. The Angolan artist António Ole. NKA – Journal of Contemporary African Art. No. 26, Spring 2010.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2009. The Beauty of elusive Architecture – António Ole's exhibition. “In the skin of the city”. Exhibition catalogue. Instituto Camões. Luanda.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2009. António Oles Kunst als Archäologie der verborgenen Geschichte. In Vierke, Ulf (Hrsg.), António Ole. Hidden Pages. Wuppertal.

• Siegert, Nadine and Vierke, Ulf. 2008. Angola Pop (2005-2007) : la première Triennale de Luanda. Africultures numéro 73. S. 110-117 online publications

• Siegert, Nadine. 2017. The Iwalewahaus collection displaying works of African Modernism. In Dorine de Bruijne (ed.). Stedelijk Studies. Curating the Collection. Strategies of Presentation in the Twenty-First-Century Museum.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2017. Ephemeral Monuments. Contemporary art in the urban space of Luanda. In Iolanda Pensa, with Marta Pucciarelli, Fiona Siegenthaler, Marilyn Douala Bell, Kamiel Verschuren, Xandra Nibbeling, Lucas Grandin, Asta Adukaite, Maud de La Chapelle (eds.). Public Art in Africa. Geneva: Métis Presses.

• Siegert, Nadine. 2010. Trienale 2010: Cultural Affections in Utopia. In SAVVY. art.contemporary.african

• Siegert, Nadine. 2010. Mestre Paulo Kapela – re-estruturando o discordante (Re-membering the disparate)

Lectures and conference participation. 

2017

• (Re)activated heritage. State-sponsored socialist propaganda and architecture in the Luanda cityscape. Conference State Socialism, Heritage Experts and Internationalism In Heritage Protection after 1945. University of Exeter Saudade do Futuro. The postcolonial and post-socialist condition in Angolan modern and contemporary art. Lecture at Fundação Hansen. Curso de Artes Visuais, CAHL. UFRB Cachoeira.

• “Socialist Angolanidade”. What did art history writing mean in the Angolan socialist period? Conference Socialist Internationalism & the Global Contemporary, Leipzig.

• The militant woman in the African revolutions (1960 – 1985). Gender in Revolution. Women and men experiencing revolutionary change 1917-2017, Women In War. Think Tank for Gender and Armed Conflict, Odessa.

• The Visuality of Militant Femininity. The iconography of the revolutionary women in the context of the liberation of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau Revolutionäre Biographien im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Imperial – inter/national – dekolonial. Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moskau.

• The militant African woman as globalized icon in the late 1960s. Fifth European Congress on World and Global History, Budapest.

• Socialist Brothers (and Sisters) – On the performativity of state visits between socialist African and Eastern European states. Conference Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe. Sixth biennial network conference, University of Tampere, Finland.

• Peripheries in the Centre (of attention). On the role of the "Province" in decolonizing artistic practice in Angolan modern and contemporary art. 7th European Conference of African Studies (ECAS), Basel, Switzerland.

• Jesus, Che, Luaty: About the Transfer of an Iconic Image into a Digital Picture. Symposium “African Artistic Practices and New Media: Intersections, Volatilities, Futures”. Convened by Indiana University African Studies Program in collaboration with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Universität Bayreuth.

• Curadoria em Artes Visuais e Performativas.Paisagem Sonora. Mostra Internacional de Arte Eletrónica do Reconcavo da Bahia. Cachoeira, Brasil.

• Josina Machel: The Iconography of Militant Femininity in the Context of Revolution. Conferencia Científica. Universidad de las Artes. Havanna, Cuba.

2016

• ‘The Socialist Imagery at Large – Travelling political iconography between socialist Angola & Mozambique and other socialist states’. Conference Africa, Eastern Europe and the Dream of International Socialism: New Perspectives on the Global Cold War. St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University.

• “Female Spaces of Resistance” – The visuality of militant femininity in the context of the revolution. Conference Resistance and Empire: New Approaches and comparisons. ICS. Universidade de Lisboa.

• “The Iconography of Militant Femininity in the context of African Independences” Workshop “Celebrating whose Independence? Visions of the Post-Colonial Nation in Africa”. Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, Bayreuth University.

• "The archive as construction site. Collective memory and trauma in contemporary art from Angola”. Workshop “Mediating Past, Present and Future: Historical narratives and 20th/21st century art; Dialogues with Global South experiences. Academie de Beaux Arts, Kinshasa (DRC).

• “L’iconographie de la féminité militante dans le contexte des indépendances en Angola e Mozambique.” Femmes Résistantes. Colloque International. Constantine (Algeria).

2015

• “Mighty Images – On the political iconography in socialist Angola & Mozambique”. Conference on „Photography in Socialist Societies: Picturing Power“, University of Bremen.

• „Nostálgia e Utopia – Sobre Visões estéticas no mundo de arte póscolonial e pós-socialista de Angola“. 11. Deutscher Lusitanistentag, Aachen  “Collective imaginations of militant femininity. The anticipatory force of images before, during and after the revolution”. Presentation at ECAS Conference, Paris.

• “Aesthetic Encounters - On the political iconography in artistic practise in socialist Angola & Mozambique”, Workshop Writing and Screening Socialisms in an Entangled World, Universität Tübingen.

• “Iconographic Repositioning - On the (post)socialist Imagery in Angola & Mocambique”. XIII International Summer School "Repositioning in a Globalizing World" of the Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum Geschichte und Kultur Ostmitteleuropas (GWZO), Leipzig.

• Presentation at Artl@s séminaire “Circulation and Traceability of Artistic Knowledge and Facts between the Souths”, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris.

• “Images of nostalgic and utopian socialism: visuality and counter-visuality in Angola & Mozambique”. Presentation at conference “Visual Cultures of Socialism - A Comparative Approach”, Universität Hamburg.

• „Estéctica do videoclipe em Angola.“ II Paisagem Sonora. Mostra Internacional de Live Cinema do Recôncavo. Cachoeira, Brazil.

2014

• “(Counter)visual strategies in mimicry and mockery.” Keynote lecture at Afropean Mimicry & Mockery. Opening Weekend, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.

• “Nostalgia and Utopia. On the Post-socialist Condition in Angolan Contemporary Art Practice”. Presentation in Socialist Friendship Research Program at Calvert 22 Gallery, London.

• „Transmedial migration of images: imaginations of revolution and future in different media.” VAD Conference, University of Bayreuth (panel convenor).

• “Nostalgia and Utopia. On the (Post)socialist condition in Angolan Contemporary Art Practise.” Moscow. 13th International Conference of Africanists. Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow.

• “The Archives of the Future: Remix and Iconoclasm as aesthetic practice in contemporary art in Angola.” At Work in the Archive. Sainsbury Institute for Art, Univ. of East Anglia. Norwich.

• The Art(s) of Revolution: Images, Figurations and Iconographies of radical change in the digital age. Création et actualité en Afrique / Creation and Actuality in Africa. International Conference Laboratoire Littérature Arts et Société of our Partner University Mohammed V., Rabat.

• “The Archives of the Future: Revisiting iconographies of revolution and utopia in contemporary art practice.” ACASA 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art. New York.

• Mashing Up the Archive - Remix and tumult at the Iwalewahaus. Conference Collecting Geographies at Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam.

2013

• Revolution 3.0: iconographies of utopia in Africa and its diaspora. ECAS conference, Lisbon (panel chair).

• “Mashing Up the Archive - Remix and tumult at the Iwalewa Haus” (with Sam Hopkins). Interdisciplinary Conference for young researchers ARTS WITHOUT BORDERS. Rethinking Methodologies of Art and Culture in the Global Context. Bern.

2012

• “Luanda Lab – aesthetic practises in a utopian city”,  VAD Conference, Panel “(New) spaces and strategies for negotiating art and cultural knowledge in African cities”, University of Cologne.

• “I ♥ LUA. Arte contemporáneo em Luanda, Angola”, Escola de Comunicação e Arte, Maputo, Mosambik.

• “As perpectivas nos estudos da Arte Contemporânea em Africa”, Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mosambik.

• “As Perspectivas nos estudos da arte contemporânea em África”, Instituto Cultural Mosambique Alemanha, Maputo, Mosambik.

2011

• “O Poder da Utopia. Estética e Política na Arte Contemporânea em Angola”, Museu de Arte Moderna, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.

• “A New Generation of Utopia: Young Artists' Careers in the Context of the Trienal de Luanda”. Other Views: Art History in (South) Africa and the Global South. Colloquium by South African Visual Arts Historians (SAVAH), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

2010

• “Urban Memories and Utopias – Contemporary Art in Luanda and Nairobi” (with Dr. Ulf Vierke). AEGIS Thematic Conference Living the City. University of Basel.

• “The power of utopia and the aesthetic of revolution – creating post-amnesia communities of a new elite in the context contemporary art Kenya and Angola“, 21st Annual GNEL / ASNEL Conference Contested Communities: Communication, Narration, Imagination, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

• “Grooving on broken – dancing war trauma. Kuduro sound and dance negotiating a new Angolan identity on the threshold from civil war to postwar society” (with Stefanie Alisch), VAD Conference, University of Mainz.

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