Places revisited and records reviewed: Wilinggin Traditional Owners and researchers on Country
For the last three years, a team from the Frobenius Institute in Germany and the University of Western Australia has been working on making ethnographic materials, that have been kept in Germany for more than 80 years, accessible to Wanjina Wunggurr Traditional Owners.
“Towards collaborative research on cereal cultures in South Asia”
The panel "Towards collaborative research on cereal cultures in South Asia" by Roland Hardenberg, Peter Berger (Institute of Indian Studies, University of Groningen, NL) and Sofia Filatova (Groningen Institute of Archaeology, University of Groningen, NL) has been accepted for the 27th European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS) of the European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS).
Iranian Visiting Scholar of the Frobenius Institute earns PhD on economic sociology and development
Following her stay as a guest researcher at the Frobenius Institute, Atiyeh Sadeghi has finalized her PhD in economic sociology and development at Ferdowsi university of Mashhad in 2022.
Award of the Frobenius Research Promotion Prize
This annual Frobenius Research Promotion Prize was awarded to Dr des Valerie Nur for her doctoral thesis Promotionsschrift „Handwerkliche Arbeit als soziale Praxis. Eine ethnologische Studie über die handwerklichen Praktiken der endogamen Handwerkergruppe der inadan Tuareg des Aïr in Niger“.
Frobenius material in Kalumburu
More than 80 years after they were created, the images from the 1938/39 Frobenius expedition are again accessible to the people of the Wunambal Gaambera community in the Kimberley/Australia.
Third retreat of the Frobenius Institute
For the third time, the entire team of the Frobenius Institute met for a two-day retreat to jointly set the course for the future in terms of content and organisation. 
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Research partner in the new LEAD project “Global Pastures”
Urknall der Kunst. Moderne trifft Vorzeit
Big Bang of Art. Modernity meets prehistory
Exhibition at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt with works from the rock art collection of the Frobenius Institute for Cultural Anthropological Research at the Goethe University Frankfurt, 24. March – 25 June 2023.
Where is the origin of art? The German anthropologist Leo Frobenius pursued this question at the beginning of the 20th century. Over two dozen expeditions led him and his research teams to the cave paintings of Europe, Africa and Asia. Artists were also part of the expedition teams. They produced over 8,000 painted reproductions of these sensational pictorial worlds, which take us back 30,000 years into the past. They are still in the possession of the Frobenius Institute in Frankfurt am Main today.
The discovery of the cave paintings was a key experience for modern artists. Many were inspired by these primal beginnings of art. They adopted abstract forms of representation and stylistic devices from the rock paintings and were convinced that this would bring them closer to the anthropological core of art. Alfred H. Barr, founding director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, recognised this connection between modernity and prehistory and exhibited the Frobenius Collection together with works of contemporary art for the first time in 1937.
The ‘Big Bang of Art’ exhibition revisits this artistic dialogue. Around 80 loans allow the rock paintings to enter into a dialogue with works of modern art and forge a link to the art of Joseph Beuys, who described himself as a ‘reborn cave artist’. In addition, works by Joan Miró, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Hans Arp, Willi Baumeister and André Masson are set in relation to the atmospheric cave paintings, including paintings from the Spanish Altamira and from the famous ‘Cave of the Swimmers’ in south-west Egypt.
Photographs: JM
Photos by Jennifer Markwirth
Collaborative Cultural Anthropology: “Cereal Cultures in Odisha”
As part of the close collaboration between researchers from three universities and research institutions in India (Utkal University), the Netherlands (University of Groningen) and Germany (Frobenius Institute at Goethe University), a workshop on “Cereal Cultures in Odisha” was held on 10 February 2022 in Bhubaneswar, India.
Paideuma is now open acess
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- Pressemitteilung des Hessischen Landesmuseums Darmstadt
- Impressions of the keynote lecture at the ECAS
