The presentation posits the ambivalence toward identity in recent work by minoritarian artists in Germany and exhibitions of their work.

I suggest that Germany is an interesting site to examine calls for decolonization and commitments to anti-racism, which have become widespread in contemporary art discussions, while eclipsing previous forms of “identity politics.” I explore how contemporary art exhibitions have addressed Germany’s overlapping histories of racialization and migration, generating adjacencies between culturally distinct artists and programmatically diverse artworks.

How can we write and exhibit Germany’s art histories from transcultural perspectives while avoiding tokenizing forms of inclusion? Can postmigration frameworks remedy the blind spots in critical multiculturalism discourses of the 1980s and discussions of the artworld’s “global turn” in the 1990s and 2000s?