Dutch anthropologist and curator, Nanette Snoep, has been working since 2016 at the head of various ethnographic museums in Germany, after being a curator at the Quai Branly museum for a long period of time.

In her exhibitions, she disrupts the way ethnographic collections are presented, not hesitating to propose themes that challenge established knowledge associated to the conception of projects for new audiences (alternative scene, migrants, artists).
In addition, Nanette Snoep actively participates in contemporary debates on the restitution of museal collections acquired during colonization, in Germany and in France.

This roundtable at Le Cube – independent art room invites the public and Nanette Snoep to discuss these problematics in the moroccan context. Being an open space of exchange, this event is an opportunity to reflect all together, on questions related to collections constitution, restitution and history.

This roundtable is followed by a conference of Nanette Snoep at the Goethe-institut Rabat, on the following morning. During this event, the curator proposes to discuss some attempts she undertook, to cause a change in the traditional rules that govern ethnographic museums

This meeting is organized in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Marokko.
It takes place in the framework of tavelling narratives, a regional program of art and research that aims at encouraging interactions between cultural agents in Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania and Libya.
Through the organization of a cycle of residencies, exhibitions, screenings, meetings, workshops and conferences, this project strives to cross and connect micro-stories from North Africa in order to discover and disseminate endogenous stories of these territories and to collectively imagine new social and cultural utopias from these alternative narratives.
Travelling narratives is supported by AFAC – The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, the Goethe-Institut Marokko, the Institut Français du Maroc, the Centre Jacques Berque and the Ministry of Culture and Communication in Morocco. The program is carried out in partnership with Townhouse, مؤسسة ورق للفنون – WaraQ art foundation and the cultural space Diadie Tabara Camara.