Sonic Pluriverse Festival

Bass Cultures

Concerts, DJs, Lectures

27 June – 2 August 2025

All Dates
Photo: Mathias Voelzke

Sabar Workshops 2025

Led by Nago Guèye Koité & SAF SAP

Workshops

24. & 25.6.2025
Visual Der Anfang ist nah

Max Czollek in Conversation with Luisa Neubauer

Talk

25.6.2025
Queen Omega

Linton Kwesi Johnson, Queen Omega & The Royal Souls, Roots Daughters

Poetry Reading, Concert, DJ Set

27.6.2025

19:00-20:00 Linton Kwesi Johnson
20:30-22:00 Queen Omega & The Royal Souls
22.00-00.00 Roots Daughters (DJ Set, Sylvia Wynter Foyer)

André Marie Tala

Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin, André Marie Tala & The Tchamassi Band, Feminine Hi-Fi

Concerts

28.6.2025

19:00-20:00 Les Mamans du Congo & Rrobin
20:30-22:00 André Marie Tala & The Tchamassi Band
22:00-00:00 Feminine Hi-Fi (DJ Set, Sylvia Wynter Foyer)

heimaten flags at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

heimaten

2024–2027

All Dates
Visual Heimatization

Is that a thing? Colonialism and Memory Culture

Conversation

9.7.2025
Who Does Germany Belong To? Podcast

Who Does Germany Belong To?

The heimaten Podcast from Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Ndey Bassine Jammeh-Siegel & Diana Ejaita: The Mosaic Library

'haɪ̯maːtn̩ Vol. 3

Text

Illustration by Diana Ejaita

About Us

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together.
Indigo dyed fabric with a rice paste resist print inspired by the drain fly (Psychodidae) infestation of Alanna Lynch’s worm compost. Courtesy of Alanna Lynch

Open Call: L is for the Way You Look at Me Reading Group 2025

August–November

Submission deadline: 1.8.2025
Internationaler Literaturpreis HKW: Shortlist 2024

Shortlist for the 2025 Internationaler Literaturpreis

Prize for Contemporary Literatures in Translation

17.7.2025 Award Ceremony

Cover Reader Musafiri

Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests – Reader (en)

69 to the Treason Trial Vinyl

69 Years to the Treason Trial

The Drill Hall Arts Advocacy Project

8 Discs 12“ Vinyl and Booklet
Photo: Malte Seidel

A Chorus of Tongues

Audio installation

Photo: © Iman Salem /Archive Souq

Archive Souq at HKW

Aziza Ahmad for Archive Books

Resignifying Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)

HKW ventures to resignify each public space in its historic building with the names of women from different worlds who have contributed to the betterment of them.

Accessibility

Equal participation in and accessibility to exhibitions, cultural events, and performances is important to HKW. Here you will find detailed information on barrier-free transportation to and from HKW and the forms of accessibility within the building.

Welcome to HKW’s Website