Announcement At Museum Rietberg, 20 global artists transform colonial photographs into new narratives of memory, identity, and resistance. May 27, 2026 — 3 min read Wendy Red Star, “Spring – Four Seasons” (2006) (© Wendy Red Star, courtesy the artist; collection of the Newark Museum of Art) A Kind of Paradise , on view at Museum Rietberg in Zurich, brings together twenty artists who treat colonial‑era photography not as a sealed historical record but as material that can be unsettled, reworked, and reclaimed. The show unfolds across four sections – Shapeshifters , Confrontation , Care , and In the Photo Fantastic – each offering a different tactic for dealing with images that have shaped, distorted, or erased histories. Rather than smoothing over the contradictions of the colonial archive, the artists lean into them. They cut, annotate, stitch, and reimagine photographs that once claimed to define entire cultures.  In Shapeshifters , the absence of photographic archives becomes a generative force.…