Hannelore Vandenbergen

Hannelore Vandenbergen

 

Hannelore started her PhD Objects as ‘agents’ : Historical-anthropological study of the Hutereau collection in the Royal Museum for Central Africa Tervuren (1911-1913) 1 May 2015 at the History and Politics section in the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren and at the African Languages and Cultures department, Ghent University. She took an MA in Art History, majoring in ‘Ethnic Art’ at Ghent University with a focus on the art history of Africa and Oceania. After, she specialized through the MA of the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas at the University of East Anglia in Norwich (UK) in the anthropology of art. The focus of her current research is on how these objects’ exchanges and transactions – interhuman relations in which these objects were mediators themselves – uncover hidden historical narratives, constituting to the social lives of these ethnographic objects, local agency and influencing the history expedition and thus the museum collection itself.