Guided visit
Focus on the temporary exhibition: Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections
Preview: 23 June 2024. In-gallery guided tour: 30 June and 1, 7 July 2024. Online guided tour: 17 September 2024
The exhibition Colonial Memory in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections will aim to decipher the influence of colonial power on the iconography of various works in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collections. A selection of paintings will reveal “invisibilised” stories of racial domination, marronage and the civil rights struggle, as well as the introduction of the modern mercantile system based on European military control, the use of enslaved African workers and the appropriation of firstly Latin American and later Asian and African land and raw materials.