Since November 2021, the students of class 10d have been studying the art of West Africa with a focus on the Kingdom of Benin. The demand for the return of the Benin bronzes and many other indigenous artifacts, which are exhibited in the world's major museums with hardly tolerable self-evidence, are discussed as well as the intransparent paths of individual objects are traced and documented. The Nigerian artist David Amaechi Dibiah accompanies us in the project and explains the spiritual characteristics of his culture. All students have been given additional Ibo names that refer to their character attributes. From these they have derived partly fantastic animal figures that possess supernatural powers. These figures were created in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Youth Art School in clay as reliefs and as full sculptures. The students will now write stories about their power figures and finally visit parts of the African collection in the Humboldt Forum. In addition, a joint exhibition visit to the Brücke Museum "Whose Expression? The artists of the Brücke in a colonial context" is planned.
