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HKW is closed until the end of 2016 and is now Out and About with projects in Berlin, Hamburg and Munich. Following our reopening in January 2017, collaborative projects will also take us to New York, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Zürich and other cities.

The Ability to Listen
13.09.2016

The migration scholar Nanna Heidenreich talks about her three-part project “Soundtracks”. Discussing the works by Constanze Fischbeck, Philip Scheffner, an...

The Refugee. Episode on Lake Geneva (1927)
01.09.2016

War and displacement go hand in hand. The author Stefan Zweig describes what the historian Jörn Leonhard underlines in his analysis of the First World War –...

2016, Oct 1 and 2

50 Years of Beat and Prose – Reenacting Hubert Fichte

Berlin, ACUD Kunsthaus
Hamburg, Golem

The pop star author: On October 2, 1966, young Hubert Fichte read from his unfinished novel Die Palette (The Palette) at the Star-Club. In his book, the queer ethnographer was the first to portray a West German underground scene. A reenactment will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the evening at ACUD in Berlin and Golem in Hamburg.

2016, Oct 10

Dictionary of Now: Sharon Macdonald, Tony Bennett & Arjun Appadurai – THING

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Museums stage objects as testimonies of specific narratives. How do these museum things articulate the global order and supplant alternative narratives? What meanings do they adopt in the context of the dynamics of globalization and decolonization?

2016–2018

State 1–4

By Rimini Protokoll
What stakeholders and networks are gaining influence in the post-democracy? Until 2018 the writer-director collective Rimini Protokoll surveys examples of post-democratic phenomena in four theatrical productions.

HKW is undergoing renovations

Architecturally and technologically fit for the future: Since May 2016 HKW is undergoing renovations. The building will reopen in January 2017. The Auster restaurant will remain open throughout.

HKW Mediathek

Selected events held between 2007 and today are documented by video recordings of keynote speeches, lectures and debates, podcasts of readings and discussions, picture galleries and program trailers.

Tweets by @HKW_Berlin

100 Years of Now

Until 2018, exhibitions, musical and educational projects, discourses and plays will deal with the global transformations and classification systems that emerged from the First World War.

From the archives

The Anthropocene Project 2013/2014

On the occasion of the 2nd meeting of the Anthropocene Working Group, Aug/Sep 2016, at the 35th International Geological Congress in Cape Town: Recordings, e. g. of the forum accompanying the 1st meeting 2014 at HKW, publications, picture gallerie and program information.

50 Years of Beat and Prose

Dictionary of Now

Soundtracks

State 1–4

50 Years of Beat and Prose – Reenacting Hubert Fichte

50 Years of Beat and Prose – Reenacting Hubert Fichte

Sharon Macdonald, Tony Bennett & Arjun Appadurai – THING