CAPE x NL Conversation #1
On December 7, 2025, the exhibition ‘CAPE x NL: whispers and shouts’ opens at the Camissa Museum, located within the castle of Good Hope in Cape Town, the oldest remaining colonial building set up by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). This building holds a painful history of displacement, enslavement and oppression.
‘CAPE X NL: whispers and shouts’ is a temporary intervention. We hear the shouts of those who were punished and brutalized in this place and listen to the whispers that convey untold stories of people whose voices have been unheard for too long. This transnational, collaborative project of The Black Archives, Nancy Jouwe and Elise Fernandez on behalf of the Camissa Museum, explores the legacy of Dutch slavery in the Cape.
The intervention presents unique archival material, historical narratives and artworks by Adrian van Wyk, Charles Palm, Bradley van Sitters, Farren van Wyk, Carine Zaayman and Neo Muyanga. Our temporary layering within the Camissa museum is an offering. We hope to enhance dialogues that deepen our collective knowledge about the (impact of) Dutch presence in the Cape.
Decolonial conversations
Inspired by the exhibition we will organize a full day of key speakers and conversations on topics related to the exhibition. Speakers include Patriq Tariq Mellet, Nancy Jouwe, Bradley van Sitters, Mitchell Esajas, Carine Zaayman and others.
When? December 14th 2024
Where? Camissa Museum, within the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Open? 11AM - 16PM
This exhibition and project was made possible by Dutch Culture, Creative Industries Fund NL, the Dutch Embassy in South Africa, Castle of Good Hope, Camissa Museum, Mapping Slavery, and The Black Archives.
‘CAPE X NL: whispers and shouts’ is a temporary intervention. We hear the shouts of those who were punished and brutalized in this place and listen to the whispers that convey untold stories of people whose voices have been unheard for too long. This transnational, collaborative project of The Black Archives, Nancy Jouwe and Elise Fernandez on behalf of the Camissa Museum, explores the legacy of Dutch slavery in the Cape.
The intervention presents unique archival material, historical narratives and artworks by Adrian van Wyk, Charles Palm, Bradley van Sitters, Farren van Wyk, Carine Zaayman and Neo Muyanga. Our temporary layering within the Camissa museum is an offering. We hope to enhance dialogues that deepen our collective knowledge about the (impact of) Dutch presence in the Cape.
Decolonial conversations
Inspired by the exhibition we will organize a full day of key speakers and conversations on topics related to the exhibition. Speakers include Patriq Tariq Mellet, Nancy Jouwe, Bradley van Sitters, Mitchell Esajas, Carine Zaayman and others.
When? December 14th 2024
Where? Camissa Museum, within the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
Open? 11AM - 16PM
This exhibition and project was made possible by Dutch Culture, Creative Industries Fund NL, the Dutch Embassy in South Africa, Castle of Good Hope, Camissa Museum, Mapping Slavery, and The Black Archives.