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In memory of the recently deceased Peruvian author and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, a small showcase exhibition is currently presented in the reading room of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936 – 2025) visited the IAI in person several times. Among other ocasions, i

On March 27, 2025, a high-ranking delegation from the funding agency of the Brazilian state of São Paulo, FAPESP, visited the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) for an exchange on German-Brazilian scientific cooperation. FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de S

In a working paper on “Restitution and Postcolonial Justice,” Julia von Sigsfeld analyzes restitution processes for cultural property in a postcolonial context. The focus is on a dialogical approach that involves museums and societies of origin on an equal footing. The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

21.11.2018 Right to be Returned? Article An estimated 600,000 works of art were plundered by the Nazis. A summary of restitutions to date Twenty years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. This is an anniversary to celebrate even if the fact itself is no reason for joy

Shortly before the start of summer, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut was once again a guest at the Baumschule (tree nursery)Kulturforum, this time with a poetic reading and sound performance. Trees are a great place to come together for events and so the tree nursery invites visitors to a varied pr

With its regional focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) has a genuinely international orientation. This also characterizes the work of the library, for which international cooperation and networks are of central importance. The internation

21.11.2018 The Search Goes On Article 20 years of the Washington Principles: Gilbert Lupfer draws an interim balance Together with Germany’s Kulturstiftung der Länder (Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States) and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), Deu

26.11.2019 “Now Be Glad, Berlin!” Article It wasn't just the peperoncini promised by Jacques Herzog to spice up the facade that turned up the heat at the public information event for the Museum of the 20th Century on November 18, 2019. The participants discussed all of the important questions relati

21.11.2018 „Washington was a Revolution“ Article The architect of the Washington Conference, Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, on the achievements of the Washington Principles from 1998. How did you first become involved in the issue of Holocaust-era assets? In 1968 I joined Vice President (Hubert) Hu

Professor Axel Marx and family donate important Beuys works from the Erich Marx Collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The family of art collector Erich Marx, who died in 2020, has donated all of the works by artist Joseph Beuys in the Marx collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kultu