DICKERSBACH KUNSTVERLAG/PROTOCOLLUM
PRŌTOCOLLUM, published by Berlin-based DICKERSBACH KUNSTVERLAG, is an art anthology and an exhibition in the form of a book, a hybrid publication that focuses on non-Western contemporary visual art and artistic production and challenges the Eurocentric status quo.
Through six editions, it has chronicled, documented and exhibited the work of more than 350 visual artists from over 100 countries.
PRŌTOCOLLUM offers a rich tapestry of diverse artistic genres, media and forms, redefining the canon of contemporary visual art from regions spanning Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
PRŌTOCOLLUM upholds artistic autonomy, inviting contributing artists to choose their own content, thus ensuring an authentic encounter with the presented artistic positions. Its peer review system, in which contributing artists select and promote future contributors, draws on the knowledge and expertise of a diverse artistic community, allowing a regional, local perspective on global art to prevail over traditional Western interpretation and categorisation.
PRŌTOCOLLUM's motto, 'Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary', encapsulates its mission to present a visual arts exhibition in a book that transcends the temporal and geographical constraints of conventional exhibitions and addresses the systemic barriers that artists and audiences from the Global South face in accessing art exhibitions of international relevance.
PRŌTOCOLLUM has been edited and published since 2014 by Safia Dickersbach from Tanzania.
PRŌTOCOLLUM is part of among others the libraries of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and was awarded the Red Dot Award for Communication Design in 2017 and the German Design Award in 2019.
Through six editions, it has chronicled, documented and exhibited the work of more than 350 visual artists from over 100 countries.
PRŌTOCOLLUM offers a rich tapestry of diverse artistic genres, media and forms, redefining the canon of contemporary visual art from regions spanning Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia.
PRŌTOCOLLUM upholds artistic autonomy, inviting contributing artists to choose their own content, thus ensuring an authentic encounter with the presented artistic positions. Its peer review system, in which contributing artists select and promote future contributors, draws on the knowledge and expertise of a diverse artistic community, allowing a regional, local perspective on global art to prevail over traditional Western interpretation and categorisation.
PRŌTOCOLLUM's motto, 'Global Perspectives on Visual Vocabulary', encapsulates its mission to present a visual arts exhibition in a book that transcends the temporal and geographical constraints of conventional exhibitions and addresses the systemic barriers that artists and audiences from the Global South face in accessing art exhibitions of international relevance.
PRŌTOCOLLUM has been edited and published since 2014 by Safia Dickersbach from Tanzania.
PRŌTOCOLLUM is part of among others the libraries of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and was awarded the Red Dot Award for Communication Design in 2017 and the German Design Award in 2019.
