Our Team

Curator and researcher Michael Gyimah worked with ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge before. He attended a fellowship at the museum in August 2022 to explore the museum's holdings from Ghana and since then works at the museum as a freelancer.

Ricarda Rivoir is a cultural anthropologist with a focus on postcolonial provenance research on museum holdings from the African continent. She worked at the GRASSI museum as an assistant to the head of the research and exhibition department and freelanced in the project "Provenance of Colonial-Era Collections from Togo". Currently she is employed at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne as assistant to the curator of the Africa department and is responsible for provenance research on the museum's holdings from Cameroon. Meanwhile she is developing a PhD project on holdings in German museums from Dagbon.

Marlena Barnstorf-Brandes is a cultural scientist and anthropologist. She worked as a research assistant in the project "Provenance of Colonial-Era Collections from Togo" and since 2023, as an assistant curator at the GRASSI museum. Her focus is on postcolonial provenance research on museum collections from the African continent.

Jan König worked in museums in Germany and Togo and is currently enrolled in art history master studies.

Julia von Sigsfeld has a background in sociology of knowledge, with a PhD from the Institute of Latin American Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin, and is currently focusing on museum work and restitution. She is currently engaged as a restitution coordinator at the Ethnological Museum Berlin/Asian Art Museum. Before joining the Berlin museums' project "The Collaborative Museum", she was research assistant to the director of the State Ethnographic Collections Saxony.