Project area

Visual L is for the Way You Look at Me

L is for the Way You Look at Me II

Discursive Programme

2026

Mini sculpture created during the workshop ‘Meet Your Gremlin, Make Your Gremlin’, SculptureCenter, New York, 2025. Image: Umico Niwa

Building an internal staircase

Umico Niwa

Workshop

16.7.2026
A spider web captured in Berlin,  September 2025. Image: Qu Chang

Where Does a Body End?

Qu Chang

Opening Lecture

16.7.2026
Oak processionary caterpillars in Berlin, 2026. Photo: Jennifer de Negri

Songs of Love and Infection

Edoardo Micheli and Jennifer de Negri

Sound Performance, Poetry Reading

16.7.2026

Project area

Visual: Sonic Pluriverse Festival. Global Echoes of Gnawa

Sonic Pluriverse Festival

Global Echoes of Gnawa

Concerts, DJ Sets, Film Screenings, Panel Discussions, Workshops

June–August 2026

Introduction to the Lila

Maalem Hicham Bilali, Mqaddma Souad und Alaa Zouiten

Lecture

17.7.2026

  

Gnawa Diffusion. Photo: Hakim Bouafia

Mehdi Nassouli | Gnawa Diffusion

Concerts

17.7.2026

  

Film still from Transes / Al-Hal (الحال)

Transes / Al-Hal (الحال)

Dir.: Ahmed El Maanouni, 1981

Film Screening

17.7.2026

  

Garifuna Collective. Photo: Jeremy Lewis

Garifuna Collective

Concert

1.8.2026

  

Online Magazin Teaser

Programme HKW

Visual Bwa Kayiman: Crossing the Mangrove

Bwa Kayiman: Crossing the Mangrove

On Forests as Sites of Eco-Political Knowledge

1 & 2 August 2026

Performances, Dance, Rituals, Lectures, Conversations, Poetry, Music, Food, Films, Installations

Photo: Hanna Wiedemann/HKW

Rhythms of Sympoiesis

studio in:so (Li Lin and Liang Song)

Temporary Pavilion, 2026
Visual: Not All Travellers Walk Roads - Of Humanity as Practice

Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice

36th Bienal de São Paulo, Berlin Edition

12 September–6 December 2026, Opening 11 September
heimaten flags at Haus der Kulturen der Welt

heimaten

2024–2027
András Visky: Die Aussiedlung – Cover

Die Aussiedlung

András Visky | Translated from Hungarian by Timea Tankó

Award Winners Internationaler Literaturpreis 2026

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.
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.