Exhibition “Signals of Power. Nauen, Kamina, Windhoek”
Opening: May 15, 2025
Exhibition duration: May 16 – November 2, 2025
Three Locations – Three Stories – A New Perspective on Colonial Communication Networks
In Brandenburg’s Nauen stands the world’s oldest high-power radio station still in operation today.
Together with the radio stations in Kamina (Togo) and Windhoek (Namibia), this triangle formed the German Empire’s flagship project in 1914
for expanding its colonial, imperial claims to power. Through cutting-edge global telecommunications technology,
the empire sought to secure colonial rule and establish itself as a “global player.”
The exhibition illuminates for the first time this multifaceted history from three cultural-memorial perspectives.
Featuring three artistic installations specifically conceived for this exhibition by
Tuli Mekondjo (Namibia),
Madjé Ayité with Sitou Ayité (Togo), as well as
Frederike Moormann and Angelika Waniek (Germany),
new spaces are opened for individual engagement with the subject.
Three narrative films and an archive wall contextualize the historical dimension through archival materials,
some of which have never before been published.
Signals of Power of colonial communication networks continue to resonate today,
compelling us to examine how digital infrastructures, media ownership, and information sovereignty
shape our modern power dynamics and collective memory.