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17 September – 6 December 2026
Return is often understood as a homecoming—to one's place of origin, to a familiar place, or to something that has been lost.
For many people whose lives have been shaped by migration, displacement, and colonial violence, however, return remains fragmentary, marked by longing, memory, and inaccessible pasts.
The exhibition r e t u r n explores the impossibility of return while asking how new forms of belonging can emerge through memory, exile, and encounters.
The exhibition opens up spaces for imagination and new ways of remembering between past and future.
More information coming soon!
BEYOND RETURN: REMATRIATION, TEMPORAL REPAIR, AND LIVING HERITAGE
3 July 2026, 3:30–7:00 p.m., Yellow Room
An interdisciplinary workshop that brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners to explore rematriation, gendered heritage, embodied knowledge, memory, and living cultural practices. Through presentations, dialogue, and an artistic performance, the workshop creates a space for reflection on heritage, decolonial approaches, and community healing. → Programme Outline
Body and Memories - A Creative Workshop Series for Women of the African Diaspora
Saturday, 18 July 2026, 2 PM - 5 PM, RJM
How do memories live in our bodies? How do they shape our sense of heritage, identity, and belonging? Together, we will share stories, experiences, and forms of knowledge that are often absent from archives, museums, and public narratives, while imagining new forms of belonging and building collective futures.
This workshop marks the beginning of a series of creative and embodied workshops that will continue in the following weeks. A dedicated space for BIPoC participants. → Learn all the details and dates for the follow-up workshops.
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE NOT
The exhibition displays no objects from the RJM’s holdings. The exhibition by curator and artist Yohannes Mulat Mekonnen turns the gaze toward what is no longer there – and asks what these absences reveal about the museum, its history, and its structures of power. → Learn more