Press releases

Opening "Archive of Refuge" on September 30.

Archive of Refuge
Online archive, installation, Opening Days, workshops
Online archive available starting Sep 30, 2021 at archivderflucht.de
Press preview on request: presse@hkw.de
Opening Days: Sep 30-Oct 3, 2021. Free admission, time slot tickets available in September at hkw.de/tickets
Installation, workshops: Sep 30, 2021-Jan 3, 2022

Press release, published on 31.08.2021

Illiberal Arts exhibition opens on September 11, 2021 with extensive program

Illiberal Arts
Duration September 11 – November 21, 2021
Exhibition, performances, workshops, publication
Contributors include Pauline Curnier Jardin, Anne Imhof, Henrike Naumann
Performers include Mikołaj Sobczak, Nicholas Grafia, Ho Rui An, keyon gaskin
Curated by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier

Press release, published on 23.08.2021

Press release, published on 20.08.2021

Opening and press tour of Kosmoskopien on August 26, 2021

Kosmoskopien
By Nicholas Bussmann
Duration Aug 27 – Sep 19, 2021
Exhibition, performances
Exhibition curated by Anselm Franke

Press release, published on 13.08.2021

Illiberal Arts exhibition opens on September 10, 2021

Illiberal Arts
Opening September 10, 2021
Duration September 11 – November 21, 2021
Exhibition, performances, workshops, publication
Contributors include Pauline Curnier Jardin, Anne Imhof, Henrike Naumann
Curated by Anselm Franke and Kerstin Stakemeier

Press release, published on 19.07.2021

Kosmoskopien exhibition opens on August 26, 2021

Kosmoskopien
by Nicholas Bussmann
Opening August 26, 2021
Duration August 27 – September 19, 2021
Exhibition, performances
Exhibition curated by Anselm Franke

Press release, published on 12.07.2021

Press release, published on 09.07.2021

Conference: The White West IV: Whose Universal?

With Norman Ajari, A. Dirk Moses, Nikhil Pal Singh, Françoise Vergès
Saturday, July 10, 2021, 5 – 10 pm
HKW rooftop terrace and livestream
Free admission with tickets

Press release, published on 01.07.2021

Fatima Daas and Sina de Malafosse receive the 2021 Internationaler Literaturpreis

Press release, published on 30.06.2021

Public launch of Forensic Architecture’s new investigation

Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror

Public launch
Saturday, July 3, 2021, 7 – 9pm
Open-Air in HKW Westgarten and livestream
Free admission with tickets

Press release, published on 23.06.2021

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung appointed Director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Press release, published on 16.06.2021

Summer Festival "21 Sunsets" - Concerts, Films, Readings - Jul 15 - Aug 15, 2021

HKW invites the public to twenty-one summer evenings of concerts, readings, performances and cinema on its roof terrace

Press release, published on 10.06.2021

Exhibition Investigative Commons opens on June 9

Exhibition
June 9, 2021-August 8, 2021
Foyer of HKW
Public program
July 3, 2021, 4-11pm
Roof terrace and online
Press tour
June 9, 2021, 12 noon, Foyer of HKW
with Dimitra Andritsou (Forensic Architecture), Anselm Franke (HKW) and Wolfgang Kaleck (ECCHR)

Press release, published on 02.06.2021

Potosí Principle – Archive opens on May 27

Reading room and exhibition
May 27, 2021-July 11, 2021
Press tour
May 27, 2021, 12 noon, Foyer of HKW

Press release, published on 25.05.2021

HKW reopening on May 27

Press release, published on 19.05.2021

Press release, published on 17.05.2021

HKW issues volumes 4 and 5 of the book series The New Alphabet

Echo links technology, sound and politics and creates new values for a future world. Skin and Code examines the way prejudices are inscribed in bodies and digital interfaces.

Press release, published on 31.03.2021

Education Shock exhibition is postponed

Press release, published on 23.03.2021

After seventeen years, Bernd Scherer to leave director’s position on January 1, 2023

Press release, published on 16.02.2021

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2021

Internationaler Literaturpreis 2021: 146 submissions. The jury has been established.

Press release, published on 04.02.2021

New Alphabet School

#Healing (Faju)
Feb 4-6, 2021

Press release, published on 03.02.2021

Haus der Kulturen der Welt issues the first three volumes of the book series The New Alphabet. The series devises systems of symbols for new knowledge.

Press release, published on 27.01.2021

The Disappearance of Music

Digital festival: Concert videos, talks, interactive streaming platform
Begins Nov 13, 2020 at hkw.de

Press release, published on 12.11.2020

HKW will be closed from November 2. Program continues in digital form

Press release, published on 30.10.2020

The Disappearance of Music

Concerts, talks, installations, films
Nov 13–15, 2020

Press release, published on 26.10.2020

The Shape of A Practice

Press release, published on 06.10.2020

Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne – The Original, Conference

Conference
Sep 25 & 26, 2020

Press release, published on 23.09.2020