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Mona Vătămanu and Florin Tudor in collaboration with Dinu Bodiciu, We hope this message finds you well! (2025), textile banner

Matthew Barney, Patriot (2024), 4 high-density polyethylene, N.F.L. jersey, 213,4 × 182,9 × 182,9 cm; Hou Chun-Ming, Revolt of the Slave from Body Image: Man Hole series (2017); The Asian Father: Seoul (2018), series of 3 sets of works, acrylic on paper panel, oil and pastel on paper, dimensions variable

Exhibition view, Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2025

Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Myth of Modernity (2014), 1-channel video, colour, sound, 16'; Myth of Modernity  (2014), light sculpture, 145 × 145 × 100 cm

Exhibition view, Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall, HKW, 2025

Global Fascisms

Exhibition, 13.9–7.12.2025

Photo: Hanna Wiedemann/HKW

Pavilion designed by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil

Pavilion designed by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil

Pavilion designed by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil

Pavilion designed by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil

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Temporary pavilion, 2025, by Mae-ling Lokko and Gustavo Crembil

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Männlichkeitsbilder und autoritäre Verheißungen

Panel with Hendrik Bolz, Veronika Kracher, Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, and Shila Behjat, moderated by Tarik Tesfu, part of Global Fascisms, 16.11.2025

Männlichkeitsbilder und autoritäre Verheißungen

Panel with Hendrik Bolz, Veronika Kracher, Fikri Anıl Altıntaş, and Shila Behjat, moderated by Tarik Tesfu, part of Global Fascisms, 16.11.2025

Welcome speech by Kenan Khadaj and Dzekashu MacViban, curators (Literature and Oralture Practices) at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 11.4.2025

Opening speech by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, director and chief curator of HKW, 11.4.2025

Everyday Wonder: Surrealism and the Renewal of the Imagination, Keynote by Ben Okri, 11.4.2025

Conversation with Ben Okri, moderated by Dzekashu MacViban, 11.4.2025

Ben Okri book signing, 11.4.2025

Surreal Continuum: Revisiting, Remapping, Reimagining Surrealism

Readings, Conversations, Performances, DJ Set, Artist Talks, Installations, Film Screenings
11.–12.4.2025

View of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) with flag series by Ulf Aminde: Klage (Remembering the victims of right-wing violence in Germany since 1990 // 2nd activation) (2024–), series of 16 flags, dimensions vary

Idas Losin, In my world (2024–25), acrylic, 1.53 x 19.54 m, Sylvia Winter Foyer

Batik wall hangings by Ena de Silva, varying years of origin, Sylvia Winter Foyer

Exhibition view, Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall

Julien Creuzet, can we escape, elsewhere, through the door of sequestrations, can we let the gaze observe the distance, when where we are will never exist again. wandering, on the ocean horizon. My body before his body, his body before his body, his body well before his body, like a great madness of tears (…) (2025), sculpture: steel, coffee, plastic bottle, condom, tissue, electric wire, plastic, textile threads, cardboard, 230 × 206.5 × 40 cm

Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests

Exhibition and Research Project, 8.3–16.6 2025

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Global Fascisms – Reader (en)

With contributions Stefan Baghiu, Thomas Biebricher, Cosmin Costinaș, Kwame Dawes, Jakob Grüner, June Jordan, Jeremy Knowles, Canberk Köktürk, Henrieke Kohpeiß, Daniel Loick, Clara E. Mattei, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, M. NourbeSe Philip, Vanessa Rocco, Arundhati Roy, Aaron Skabelund, Quinn Slobodian, Eric Otieno Sumba, Terese Svoboda, Julia Adeney Thomas, Vanessa E. Thompson, Alberto Toscano, Maxi Wallenhorst

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Global Fascisms – Reader (en)

With contributions Stefan Baghiu, Thomas Biebricher, Cosmin Costinaș, Kwame Dawes, Jakob Grüner, June Jordan, Jeremy Knowles, Canberk Köktürk, Henrieke Kohpeiß, Daniel Loick, Clara E. Mattei, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, M. NourbeSe Philip, Vanessa Rocco, Arundhati Roy, Aaron Skabelund, Quinn Slobodian, Eric Otieno Sumba, Terese Svoboda, Julia Adeney Thomas, Vanessa E. Thompson, Alberto Toscano, Maxi Wallenhorst

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Quantum Anthropology

Lecture and conversation with Radek Trnka and Radmila Lorencová as part of Fertile Void: Quantum Paradoxes and the Physics of Living Matter

Quantum Anthropology

Lecture and conversation with Radek Trnka and Radmila Lorencová as part of Fertile Void: Quantum Paradoxes and the Physics of Living Matter

César Olhagaray, Solidarität [Solidarity] (1986/2024), mural, mixed media on canvas, reproduction, 3,1 x 9,4 m © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy of the artist. Installation view of the exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.

Dito Tembe, Madgermanes (2023), series of 8 reproductions of original oil paintings on canvas (detail), courtesy of the artist. Installation view of the exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.

Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.

Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.

Exhibition view Echoes of the Brother Countries. What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2024.

Echoes of the Brother Countries

Between 1949 and 1990, thousands of people migrated to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from countries such as Algeria, Angola, Chile, Cuba, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Syria, and Vietnam. Their stories remain largely untold. The exhibition and research project Echoes of the Brother Countries is dedicated to the often overlooked political, economic, educational, and artistic links, as well as the exchange and migration movements between the GDR and other socialist-orientated states, the so-called brother countries.

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The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2025

The Internationaler Literaturpreis 2025 Reader gathers extracts from the six works shortlisted for the award, which honours an outstanding work of contemporary international literature that has been translated into German for the first time.

The Internationaler Literaturpreis Reader 2025

Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan (Thumbnail)

Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with Naika Foroutan

In the discussion series Theatre of Reconciliation, Max Czollek encounters people who are exploring questions of memory. How do societies remember? What does the much-lauded German Erinnerungskultur—culture of remembrance—have to do with the question of belonging? What does remembrance mean for the German, European, and international present?

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Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation

With contributions by Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos (author), Jurema Mombaça (Foreword), Natália Affonso (Conversation), Luce deLire (Afterword)

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Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation

With contributions by Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos (author), Jurema Mombaça (Foreword), Natália Affonso (Conversation), Luce deLire (Afterword)

Max Czollek in Conversation with Peggy Piesche

Max Czollek in Conversation with Peggy Piesche

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Surreal Continuum: Revisiting, Remapping, Reimagining Surrealism

Opening speech by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Director and Chief Curator of HKW, 11.4.2025

Surreal Continuum: Revisiting, Remapping, Reimagining Surrealism

Opening speech by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Director and Chief Curator of HKW, 11.4.2025

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VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS, performance by Slim Soledad with Alada and Black Pearl de Almeida Lima, as part of Bwa Kayiman – Lakouzémi, 1.8.2025

VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS Slim Soledad with Alada and Black Pearl de Almeida Lima, performance (Screenshot)

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Rasambleman! Sa Na Kenbe? Reimagining Translocal Living Economies for Haiti’s Counter-Plantation System (Thumbnail)

Rasambleman! Sa Na Kenbe? Reimagining Translocal Living Economies for Haiti’s Counter-Plantation System

Bwa Kayiman – Lakouzémi, Inaguration Talk with Évelyne Trouillot and Wole Soyinka (Thumbnail)

Souveraineté, de quel côté es-tu? [Sovereignty, which side are you on?]

Slim Soledad, VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS (2023). Photo: Mayra Wallraff

VIBRATIONS, TRANSLATIONS

Rasambleman, Sa Na Kenbe? The Lakou as a Space for Political Transformation (Thumbnail)

Rasambleman, Sa Na Kenbe? The Lakou as a Space for Political Transformation

L’Antech: Wine yu Bottom. Lift up yu Chest and Pointe yu Tuoz, Movement Lecture, Dance Workshop mit L’Antoinette Stines (Thumbnail)

L’Antech: Wine yu Bottom. Lift up yu Chest and Pointe yu Tuoz

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Quantum Anthropology

Lecture and conversation with Radek Trnka and Radmila Lorencová as part of Fertile Void: Quantum Paradoxes and the Physics of Living Matter

Quantum anthropology offers a fascinating new perspective on humanity, culture, and the world by considering the quantum nature of reality. This interdisciplinary exploration begins with a profound question: what is the source of creation in the world? Or, as physicists might ask: what underlies the formation and emergence of material objects? Quantum theory suggests that ‘zero-point fluctuations in the vacuum’—random, ambient, fluctuating energy even in the emptiest spaces—may hold the key. This invisible force is thought to drive the actualization of matter and entities in time and space. Interestingly, this concept resonates with the cultural philosophies of many Indigenous peoples, who often speak of a life-giving force, an original singularity, or a ‘Great Mystery’. These ancient ideas, deeply embedded in Indigenous arts and artefacts, reflect a similar understanding of creation and emergence. In this lecture, Radek Trnka and Radmila Lorencová explore the intriguing parallels between quantum physics and Indigenous cosmologies, seeking to illuminate how these seemingly distant ways of thinking converge on the mystery of creation.

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00:58:51

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English

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#History of Science

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Fertile Void - Quantenparadoxien und die Physik lebender Materie

Contributors

Radmila Lorencová