Elsa Westreicher
@elsawestreicher.bsky.social
Communication design & decolonial questions
📍Berlin & Kinshasa
🆕 Mwano Studio 🆗 11 yrs freelance, 6 yrs SAVVY Contemporary, 2 yrs Stan Hema 🆗 Alumna Central Saint Martins, The New School, Burg Giebichenstein
📍Berlin & Kinshasa
🆕 Mwano Studio 🆗 11 yrs freelance, 6 yrs SAVVY Contemporary, 2 yrs Stan Hema 🆗 Alumna Central Saint Martins, The New School, Burg Giebichenstein
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Website launch! 🌀 Mwano Studio is a space of transdisciplinary work and exchange in Kinshasa, D. R. Congo, that creates opportunities of co-creation, linking diverse knowledges with each other in order to stand up for a pluriversal world and against exploitative destruction. 🌀 shorturl.at/8DvLU
Here we go 🧚♀️ Nada Tshibwabwa and me are making our endeavours with Mwano Studio in #kinshasa #drcongo #congo more public 🪄✨ Go follow to stay up to date 💜 #artivism #contemporaryart #art #music #community #pluriversal #mwanostudio #design #liquid #congoriver #kongo
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Songs we like at Mwano Studio #2: The queen, Mimi Mongo, who left this planet far too soon to join the ancestors www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIQC... #music #congo #drcongo #rdcongo #art
Mimi Mongo Final Interview.
YouTube video by fitzjames
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August 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Interview with Josie Fanon on Haiti Radio #fanon #josiefanon #frantzfanon #haiti #tiersmonde #decolonisation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjFL...
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Josie Fanon, l'épouse du psychiatre Frantz Fanon (1979)
YouTube video by WketDZ
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July 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Interview with Josie Fanon on Haiti Radio #fanon #josiefanon #frantzfanon #haiti #tiersmonde #decolonisation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjFL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjFL...
Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice (MA thesis in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design) 🙏 A longue durée perspective on precolonial, colonial and postcolonial histories of adaptation and resistance through design. #designhistory #design #typedesign
July 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice (MA thesis in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design) 🙏 A longue durée perspective on precolonial, colonial and postcolonial histories of adaptation and resistance through design. #designhistory #design #typedesign
🫧 Degree show time 🫧 Glimpse of my MA thesis: »Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice«. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved 💜 #signwriting #signpainting #research #design #designhistory #visualculture #designstudies #typography #kinshasa #drcongo #decolonial #art #theory
July 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
🫧 Degree show time 🫧 Glimpse of my MA thesis: »Signwriting in Kinshasa: Layers and Traces of a Practice«. Huge thanks to everyone that was involved 💜 #signwriting #signpainting #research #design #designhistory #visualculture #designstudies #typography #kinshasa #drcongo #decolonial #art #theory
Happy to have contributed to this 💜🌱 Concert tonight in Berlin: www.tip-berlin.de/event/musik+... #berlin #joy #music #coverart #graphicdesign #jazz #punk #collaboration #crossings #drcongo #nadatshibwabwa #mwanostudio #skalitzer #westgermany #luisevolkmann #kikudinucci #friendship #graphicdesign
Mwano Studio designed the cover for the single Enxame by Luise Volkmann and Kiku Dinucci, a German-Colombian Jazz-Punk-Mix. Enjoy the doings of some of our recent collaborators: tinyurl.com/yy92jhhx #concert #berlin #jazz #punk #music #coverart #illustration #contemporary #drcongo #colombia #cologne
June 10, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Happy to have contributed to this 💜🌱 Concert tonight in Berlin: www.tip-berlin.de/event/musik+... #berlin #joy #music #coverart #graphicdesign #jazz #punk #collaboration #crossings #drcongo #nadatshibwabwa #mwanostudio #skalitzer #westgermany #luisevolkmann #kikudinucci #friendship #graphicdesign
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Homme Tshombo (cellphone man), a figure created by Nada Tshibwabwa, as it appeared in the village of Sao in 2020, as one of the very first arts activities of Mwano Studio youtu.be/ZgicE1QWIxA?... #kinshasa #congo #kongo #art #performance #village #dialogue #workshop #contemporaryart #nadatshibwabwa
Performance Homme Tshombo — Nada Tshibwabwa — Sao Village 2020
YouTube video by Nada Tshibwabwa
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June 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Homme Tshombo (cellphone man), a figure created by Nada Tshibwabwa, as it appeared in the village of Sao in 2020, as one of the very first arts activities of Mwano Studio youtu.be/ZgicE1QWIxA?... #kinshasa #congo #kongo #art #performance #village #dialogue #workshop #contemporaryart #nadatshibwabwa
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Our Okra plants are growing 🌱🌱 Who can spot the soursop / guanábana tree growing under their leaves, that might provide us with the most delicious fruits in about five years? 🌳💜 #garden #seedlings #food #growing #health #congo #kinshasa #nature #agriculture #sharing #power #green #guanabana #okra
June 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Our Okra plants are growing 🌱🌱 Who can spot the soursop / guanábana tree growing under their leaves, that might provide us with the most delicious fruits in about five years? 🌳💜 #garden #seedlings #food #growing #health #congo #kinshasa #nature #agriculture #sharing #power #green #guanabana #okra
Multiplying decolonial whirls – second day teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. #teachingdesign #design #graphicdesign #photigraphy #colonial #archive #coloniality #pluriversal #congo #typography #signpainting
May 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Multiplying decolonial whirls – second day teaching at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design. #teachingdesign #design #graphicdesign #photigraphy #colonial #archive #coloniality #pluriversal #congo #typography #signpainting
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Meet Pagero one of the very talented kids in our neighbourhood who have become regulars at Mwano Studio 🔥
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa
May 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Meet Pagero one of the very talented kids in our neighbourhood who have become regulars at Mwano Studio 🔥
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa
#workshops #instruments #art #music #contemporaryart #artivism #recycling #congo #kinshasa #rdcongo #congolesemusic #africanmusic #drums #rhythms #reclaiming #mwanostudio #nadatshibwabwa
💜💜 Such a joy to listen to Báyò Akómoláfé and Erin Manning thinking out loud 💜💜 so grateful 💜💜 centerforneweconomics.org/events/becom... #whiteness #blackness #racism #dei #freedom #minorgestures
Becoming Unsettled: Why White Virtue Will Not Save Us - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
“You aren’t white unless you act white” — Fred Moten A common mistake of thought reduces whiteness to a recognizable quality that a specific population “has”. There are ‘Black’ people, ‘Brown’ people,...
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May 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
💜💜 Such a joy to listen to Báyò Akómoláfé and Erin Manning thinking out loud 💜💜 so grateful 💜💜 centerforneweconomics.org/events/becom... #whiteness #blackness #racism #dei #freedom #minorgestures
One of our main readings during a seminar I will teach next week will be this book: "Potential History — Unlearning Imperialism" by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. It has been deeply influential for me, so I am really looking forward to discuss it with the students 💟 #book #seminar #reading #art #design
May 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Instruments in the making 🥁🔥 During the last couple of days we have been collecting and recycling all sorts of objects with the children and artists in the neighbourhood… Now we are putting them together and testing them… Stay tuned! #accoustic #analogue #recycling #music #art #fundraiser #sound
May 14, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Instruments in the making 🥁🔥 During the last couple of days we have been collecting and recycling all sorts of objects with the children and artists in the neighbourhood… Now we are putting them together and testing them… Stay tuned! #accoustic #analogue #recycling #music #art #fundraiser #sound
One of the brightest stars in contemporary art from the African continent passed on to the extra-worldly. I am speechless, without words. May you rest in peace, Koyo Kouoh. And may your brightness continue to shine and inspire.
May 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
One of the brightest stars in contemporary art from the African continent passed on to the extra-worldly. I am speechless, without words. May you rest in peace, Koyo Kouoh. And may your brightness continue to shine and inspire.
Some of my favourite people and places in Berlin "They strive to develop and promote an understanding of cosmopolitanism in the plural which combines visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity." www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...
May 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Some of my favourite people and places in Berlin "They strive to develop and promote an understanding of cosmopolitanism in the plural which combines visions of transcultural justice, peace and conviviality with an ethical commitment to difference and alterity." www.uni-potsdam.de/en/minorcosm...
May 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Lorenz, a young Black man, was shot 4 times, in the back, by the #police in #oldenburg #germany. We will not be silent. #silence #kills #racism #kills. We remember all the lives lost to #policebrutality and #systemicracism. Today at 4pm in #berlin. #schweigentötet #niedersachsen 📸 #ouryjalloh 2019
April 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Lorenz, a young Black man, was shot 4 times, in the back, by the #police in #oldenburg #germany. We will not be silent. #silence #kills #racism #kills. We remember all the lives lost to #policebrutality and #systemicracism. Today at 4pm in #berlin. #schweigentötet #niedersachsen 📸 #ouryjalloh 2019
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Encouraged by the #support our #fundraiser gets [link in bio], we started the first part of activities around #earth #soil #plants #arts and #collaborativework today 💚 #mwanostudio #workshops #nature #congo #kinshasa #artivist #contemporaryart #courage #art #kids #culture #africa #afrika #gofundme
April 27, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Encouraged by the #support our #fundraiser gets [link in bio], we started the first part of activities around #earth #soil #plants #arts and #collaborativework today 💚 #mwanostudio #workshops #nature #congo #kinshasa #artivist #contemporaryart #courage #art #kids #culture #africa #afrika #gofundme
One of the best panels I have attended in the recent past ❤️❤️❤️ Seloua Luste Boulbina, Nikita Dhawan and Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, moderated by Maboula Soumahoro 🪄✨ @hkw-berlin.bsky.social #deberliniserung #1885 #congoconference #berlin #congo #pluriversal #coloniality #utopia #worlds #meeting #crossing
April 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
One of the best panels I have attended in the recent past ❤️❤️❤️ Seloua Luste Boulbina, Nikita Dhawan and Mahamadou Lamine Sagna, moderated by Maboula Soumahoro 🪄✨ @hkw-berlin.bsky.social #deberliniserung #1885 #congoconference #berlin #congo #pluriversal #coloniality #utopia #worlds #meeting #crossing
At @hkw-berlin.bsky.social a beautiful and hopeful conference started, departing from 140 years of the #congoconference to think worlds beyond #coloniality. Memories of the first year at #savvycontemporary came back & the first #graphicdesign I made there 🦋 #berlin #deberlinisation #deberlinisierung
April 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At @hkw-berlin.bsky.social a beautiful and hopeful conference started, departing from 140 years of the #congoconference to think worlds beyond #coloniality. Memories of the first year at #savvycontemporary came back & the first #graphicdesign I made there 🦋 #berlin #deberlinisation #deberlinisierung
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Costumes come out in the open to recreate balance, especially in moments in which communal life is being disrupted. The artists Nada Tshibwabwa, Spiritus Bongonda, and Wijo created a performance for peace at #mwanostudio #kinshasa #drcongo this #eastersunday. #freecongo #contemporaryart #artivists
April 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Costumes come out in the open to recreate balance, especially in moments in which communal life is being disrupted. The artists Nada Tshibwabwa, Spiritus Bongonda, and Wijo created a performance for peace at #mwanostudio #kinshasa #drcongo this #eastersunday. #freecongo #contemporaryart #artivists
We say à bientôt, Prof. VY Mudimbe. Your incredibly critical, generous and sharp spirit will stay with us, even though your material being has passed ✦ To one of the greatest intellectuals of the Congo ✦
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo
April 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
We say à bientôt, Prof. VY Mudimbe. Your incredibly critical, generous and sharp spirit will stay with us, even though your material being has passed ✦ To one of the greatest intellectuals of the Congo ✦
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo
#mudimbe #decolonization #theideaofafrica #philosophy #theinventionofafrica #congo #freecongo
Here we go 🧚♀️ Nada Tshibwabwa and me are making our endeavours with Mwano Studio in #kinshasa #drcongo #congo more public 🪄✨ Go follow to stay up to date 💜 #artivism #contemporaryart #art #music #community #pluriversal #mwanostudio #design #liquid #congoriver #kongo
Website launch! 🌀 Mwano Studio is a space of transdisciplinary work and exchange in Kinshasa, D. R. Congo, that creates opportunities of co-creation, linking diverse knowledges with each other in order to stand up for a pluriversal world and against exploitative destruction. 🌀 shorturl.at/8DvLU
April 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here we go 🧚♀️ Nada Tshibwabwa and me are making our endeavours with Mwano Studio in #kinshasa #drcongo #congo more public 🪄✨ Go follow to stay up to date 💜 #artivism #contemporaryart #art #music #community #pluriversal #mwanostudio #design #liquid #congoriver #kongo