‘Among the fringe events in Venice during the Biennale’s opening week was a small thematic exhibition held in the Palazzo Pisani, which also hosted the Angolan Pavilion, focused on the history of German colonialism in Namibia. Entitled Unrecounted (with a nod to W. G. Sebald), the exhibition paired two time-based works by artists of German heritage: Christoph Schlingensief (1960-2010), whose work for the German Pavilion had been posthumously awarded the Golden Lion for best national participation in 2011; and Nicola Brandt (born Windhoek, 1983), who recently had a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia. [ ... ] As Germany plans to address its colonial past within the institutional context of the future Humboldt Forum – a planned presentation of its ethnographic collections in a yet to be completed, contested reconstruction of a baroque castle in Berlin – questions about collective memory and the construction of identity, and about romanticism and reconciliation that were dealt with in the Unrecounted exhibition are not only timely, but also part of a much larger conversation.’

~ Review by Elisa Schaar, in ARTMargins, 11 June 2015