Transpositional Geologies

Sascha Mikloweit is a research artist-in-residence at the Mineralogical Collections of the Technical University of Berlin (2025–2027), where he initiated and leads the project Transpositional Geologies, which he initiated in 2019. Contributing to an evolving political geology, Mikloweit examines the mineralogical collections in relation to epistemic violence, racialised matter, extractivism, and asymmetrical power relations, with a particular focus on the collection’s significance as the origin of one of the dominant taxonomic systems in contemporary mineralogy. Mikloweit is an Honorary Associate of the Global Heritage Lab, Critical Museum and Heritage Studies, University Bonn and he holds an MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, UAL, London, where he graduated with distinction.

With texts by Saima Ashipala, Paul Basu, Charmaine //Gamxamus, Johannes Giebel, Elizabeth Grosz, Maria-Oo Haihambo, Selby Hearth, Bastian Herbst, Chris Hill, Herbert Jauch, Juuso Kaluvi, Veripuami Nandee Kangumine, Malina Lauterbach, Helmut Maier, Prince Kamaazengi Marenga I, Sascha Mikloweit, Hidipo Nangolo, Paul O’Kane, Jermaine Solunga, Ellison Tjirera, Kuhepa Tjondu, Samo Tomšič, Kathryn Yusoff.