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Art, Colonialism, and Academic Collections 5-16 October 2026 Lichthof Ost, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin This exhibition shows works inspired by academic collections and seeks to trace colonial violence, imperial overlaps, and how the past reaches into the present. Gesa Stedman, who also curated the exhibition, worked on a navigation chart from the Marshall Islands which is…

This series uses as their starting point art objects which Gesa Stedman inherited from her British-Canadian grandfather, who worked for the British government in a quasi-diplomatic capacity. The provenance of these objects made by indigenous artists from Canada and China is unknown, and have left Gesa Stedman with a set of questions. The objects may…

Based on a research project entitled “Happy in Berlin? English Authors in the City, the 1920s and Beyond”, Gesa Stedman has begun a series of zines focusing on British women writers in Berlin. Quotations from letters, diaries, or memoirs from these early-20th-century writers provide the textual basis, and original black and white drawings by Gesa…

Inspired by a poetry workshop conducted by poets and academics which focused among other texts on Eugen Gomringer’s poem “Schweigen”, Gesa Stedman has produced a version of the poem transposed into Morse, and an accompanying piece entitled “Lärm” (“Noise”). Both were shown at the pop-up exhibition Silence/Stille/Schweigen which included art from Humboldt-Universität’s art collection as…

Gesa Stedman coordinated this exchange project with artists and art students from Berlin and Oxford and produced cut-outs, clay panels, and a series of Morse collages based on the Sudan Archaeological Collection at HU. The works were shown at an exhibition at Lichthof Ost at HU Berlin, and a public panel debate, and a school…