gaze is directed to the colonial references of the collections. The colonial history of the palaces becomes visible in the biographies of people who were trafficked to Prussia via the slave trade. Likewise [...] those of the Hohenzollerns — contained collections documenting such journeys in a style resembling the cabinets of curiosities. The artworks of the Prussian royal family passed into the collections of the [...] things, the biographies of hitherto discounted people at the court are being examined as a part of Prussian history, along with the colonial contexts of art and objects in the collection. The exhibition
