Gardens of Care
Exhibition Opening: Fractured Lifeworlds
Ovaherero and Nama Claims for Intergenerational Justice
6. June 2026
16.00-22.30
16.00-22.30
Save the Date
For free
for adults and children older than 14
in German/in English
Spore Initiative marks the opening of the exhibition Fracture Lifeworlds.
Developed over four years by Forensis and Forensic Architecture, in collaboration with researchers, descendant communities, oral historians, Indigenous scholars, and activists in Namibia and Germany, this show explores the legacy of Germany’s brutal colonization of Namibia, offering an account of ancestral lifeworlds lost to colonial violence.
We warmly invite you to join us for the following opening programme:
4:00 pm Doors Open
5:00 – 6:00 pm Speeches
- Artistic and Executive Director Spore Initiative - Antonia Alampi
- Founding director and principal investigator at Forensic Architecture – Eyal Weizman
- Creative technologist, research fellow at Forensis / Forensic Architecture and exhibition curatorial lead – Mark Mushiva
- Representative of Okandjoze Chiefs Assembly on Genocide – Kambanda Veii
- Representatives of the Ovaherero Traditional Authority & Nama Traditional Leadership Authority
8:30 pm Musical Contribution: DJ Morenga
10:30 pm End of Event
More about Fractured Lifeworlds
Between 1884 and 1915, German colonial forces carried out genocides against the Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia. Ovaherero and Nama descendant communities, and the land their ancestors inhabited, are still living with that history, through altered environments, stolen territories, and inequalities that have outlasted the colonial period by more than a century. Fractured Lifeworlds is an investigation into that inheritance.
The exhibition seeks to build international solidarity in support of the demands for recognition, cultural protection, education, and reparation articulated by the Nama Traditional Leaders Association (NTLA), the Ovaherero Traditional Authority (OTA), and the Okandjoze Chiefs Assembly on Genocide (OCAG). In doing so, the exhibition follows in the footsteps of Inherited Testimonies, an exhibition by the same coalition at Windhoek’s National Art Gallery of Namibia (NAGN).
Credits:
Forensis, Forensic Architecture und Spore Initiative
Nama Traditional Leaders Association
Ovaherero Traditional Authority
Okandjoze Chiefs Assembly on Genocide
Swakopmund Genocide Museum
