Internationaler Literaturpreis: The 2018 Shortlist

“The weight of the political runs through the texts of this year’s shortlist like a common, explosive thread. (…) What links the writings are the drastic to poetic insecurities with which they indicate the absolute necessity of literary storytelling.”

Dictionary of Now – ANIMAL

What does the concept of the animal mean for humans’ self-perception? Rosi Braidotti, Philippe Descola and Anne Peters undertake a redefinition.

Neolithic Childhood: Conference

What cultural significance does the recourse to narratives of origin have? The conference Deep Time and Crisis, c. 1930 examines the relationship between the global crises of around 1930 and those of the present day with James Clifford, Silvy Chakkalakal, Joyce Cheng, Charles W. Haxthausen, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie and other contributors.

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.

Neolithic Childhood: Public program

From exploratory tours through the exhibition to archaeological revolutions, childhood, and prehistory, to self-made graffiti: The extensive public program comprises guided exhibition tours, workshops for kids and teens, and much more.

Emancipation

The activists of 1968 insisted on freedom, equality and mutual respect. What has changed since that last great outbreak of emancipatory practice and theory? At the kick-off at HKW the speakers include Wendy Brown, Rahel Jaeggi, and Christoph Menke. The conference continues at the TU with Nancy Fraser, Milo Rau and many others.

Schools of Tomorrow: Ideas Competition finalists online

How would children and young people like to see their school? More than 1000 students sent in their visions of the future for the Ideas Competition It’s Our School!. The most exciting ideas will be presented to the public at the Test Run for the School of the Future on June 14 and can now be viewed online.

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.

100 Years of Now

Photo galleries, video and audio recordings of selected events

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.

Utopie und Feminismus

100 Years of Now Library
Ed. by Annemie Vanackere and Sarah Reimann
This volume, created together with the theater HAU Hebbel am Ufer, is devoted to the transformation of historical utopias of equality over the last hundred years, starting with the writings of the Russian author Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952).

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