HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Tuesday, Jun 19

7 pm
Free admission

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Screening

2018, Apr 13, Fri – 2018, Jul 9, Mon

Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930

Exhibition

Wednesday, Jun 20

2 pm
Free admission

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Screening

Thursday, Jun 21

2 pm
Free admission

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Screening

Friday, Jun 22

2 pm
Free admission

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Screening

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2018: The Awardees

The prize goes to Ivana Sajko’s Liebesroman. Sajko creates a political tableau, telling of how the system subtly poisons the private. Translator Alida Bremer has found a captivating language for this.

Until Jul 9

Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930

“C. 1930” was a time of crisis in modernity. How the artistic avant-gardes responded to it is explored by the exhibition with works by Max Ernst, Georges Braque, Paul Klee, Toyen, Catherine Yarrow, and many more in addition to many archival materials. The extensive public program comprises guided exhibition tours, film screenings, Neolithic Nights, workshops for kids and teens, and much more.

All events

Schools of Tomorrow

Learning without fear of discriminations, more digitization and nature: these were the students’ demands in the ideas competition. The most exciting ideas were presented at HKW in the presence of the Federal President, and turned into the Student Manifesto, which is now online. Children, artists, and teachers came together in 21 school projects to test out the school of the future.

Jun 19–24

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Contemporary visual culture: The festival presents German premieres of films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Rosa Barba, Louidgi Beltrame, Lasse Lau and others. Laure Prouvost’s work Dit Learn celebrates its Berlin premiere.

2018–2019

Mississippi. An Anthropocene River

The Mississippi is a symptom and object of investigation for the radical impact humans inflict on the Earth. Until 2019, actors from the arts, research and civil society along the river course will develop regional articulations to engage with global changes. How the Anthropocene concept can help to face these will be discussed by the participants at the kickoff symposium at Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, on June 20.

Jun 25

Anthropocene Lecture: Sheila Jasanoff

Nature, Time and Law: At Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Sheila Jasanoff traces the modern scientific narratives of human-nature relationships and asks what rights the environment has in this.

June 26

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2018: The Celebration

Six texts and six translations multiply into a celebration: The nominated authors and translators and the awardees will read and comment on the shortlisted texts and disseminate materials. Admission is free!

June 29 & Jul 5

Neolithic Nights

Many Surrealists had a special relationship to the night in common: The realm of dreams and premonitions offered them access to new ideas and viewpoints. Visitors to HKW are also invited to spend three nights experiencing the exhibition after dark.

Jul 19

Gilberto Gil & Amigos: Refavela 40

40 years after the release of his visionary album Refavela, Gilberto Gil brings tropicália to Berlin! He performs together with singer Mayra Andrade, percussionist Domenico Lancellotti, and many more.

Jul 27–Aug 18

Wassermusik

Goodbye UK—and Thank You for the Music

The summer festival on the rooftop terrace takes the Brexit as an opportunity to pay homage to the musical creativity of the United Kingdom. With The Zombies, Matthew Herbert’s Brexit Big Band, Jazz Jamaica, and other artists from the UK and around the world.

2018–2019

bauhaus imaginista

How did the ideas of the Bauhaus spread? Exhibitions from Kyoto to Moscow to São Paulo reflect its connections with non-European modernity. In 2019, HKW will present the final exhibition.

Director Bernd Scherer on the program July/August:

Major political challenges as a soundscape: The eleventh edition of the annual Wassermusik festival is putting the Brexit on the program. Under the motto Goodbye UK – and Thank You for the Music, over four summer weekends we present “Britishness” in polyphonic form. Shortly before the closing of our Neolithic Childhood exhibition, HKW is offering curator-guided tours, film screenings, and Neolithic Nights for personal access to the themes of the exhibition, the crises of then and today. The common thread running through all of these programs is inquisitive research using the means of science and culture to bring about new forms of knowledge production, new forms of social participation, and subjective means of expression.

From the Mediathek

Media

Neolithic Childhood

Audio and video recordings of lectures and discussions with Silvy Chakkalakal, Joyce S. Cheng, James Clifford, Susanne Leeb, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, among others

Media

Dictionary of Now: Animal

Photo gallery, audio and video recordings of the lectures and discussion with Rosi Braidotti and Philippe Descola

Media

Anthropocene Lectures

Audio and video recordings of selected presentations and discussions with Bergit Arends, Bruno Latour, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, among others

Media

100 Years of Now

Photo galleries, video and audio recordings of selected events

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In Search of the School of Tomorrow
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Spirits of 68: Gender Trouble in Space
14.06.2018

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Publication

“Misfits”: Pages from a loose-leaf modernity

Ed. by David Teh
What makes artworks valuable? How do museums decide what to collect? Using a succinct selection of their impressive works, Misfits reveals why artists Bagyi Aung Soe, Tang Chang und Rox Lee are important today in particular, standing at the threshold of the canon. With essays by David Teh, Merv Espina, Yin Ker, and Mary Pansanga.

projectfichte.org

The international exhibition project “Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology” (2017-2019), a cooperation between Goethe-Institut and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, supported by S. Fischer Stiftung and S. Fischer Verlag, is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. The journal offers insights into Fichte’s writing in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English.

Technosphere Magazine

Materials

The whole technosphere rests on the mobilization and organization of (energetic) matter. This dossier discusses the criticality of the material world as the spatio-temporal backbone of the technosphere, presents stories of stuff from mining to discarding, and explores the blurring lines between naturalness and artificiality.

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Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin – New cinema and contemporary art