Maresa Nzinga Pinto

Maresa Nzinga Pinto (she/her) is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Global Studies, focussing transdisciplinarily on collective memory, belonging, and resistance in (neo-)colonial and (post-)state socialist contexts. Through participatory memory culture projects such as "Remembering Colonialism" and "Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City," she researched German colonial history, Black movement histories, and solidarities between marginalized communities. Based on archival materials and oral history interviews from her Master’s thesis on Black female migrants in the GDR, she developed a web tour on the lives of African students and contract workers in the GDR. As part of the 5th edition of the artistic residency program "UpCycles", she translated her archival research into an artistic intervention at the former colonial Maputo Fortress in Mozambique. In october 2025, she initiated the community archive project "Black Histories in East Germany."