Visual: Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests

Musafiri

Of Travellers and Guests

Exhibition and Research Project

8 March– 16 June 2025

All Dates
Photo: Silke Briel / HKW

A Walk Through the Exhibition with…

Guided tour

14.6.2025

With Cosmin Costinaș

Visual Miss Read 2025

Miss Read 2025

Art Book Fair & Festival

13.–15.6.2025

HKW Hosts

Illustration from The Mosaic Library by Diana Ejaita

Book Presentation: The Mosaic Library

Reading for Kids, Children’s Book Presentation

14.6.2025

in the frame of Miss Read

Cover: Instituting

Ecologies of Instituting

With the editors Gigi Argyropoulou, Olga Schubert, and guest Bernd Scherer

Book Presentation

14.6.2025

in the frame of Miss Read

Photo: Eva Stein

Gamelan in the Garden

With Choy Ka Fai and Mo’ong Santoso Pribadi

Workshop

15.6.2025

Musafiri Closing Weekend

Courtesy of Hui Ye

Linger in Sounds: The (For)getaway

Hui Ye and Qu Chang

Lecture Performance and Karaoke Session

16.6.2025

Musafiri Closing Events

Photo: Laura Fiorio / HKW

Conversations on Art

10.3.–16.6.2025
Cover Reader Musafiri

Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests – Reader (en)

Sonic Pluriverse Festival

Bass Cultures

Concerts, DJs, Lectures

27 June – 2 August 2025

All Dates
Everlasting Ball (2025), Indica Gorgeous Gucci Mermaid. Photo: JAYJAYSNAPS

Pump, Create, Elevate: from Body to Sex Siren. Ballroom 101 Labs

With Indica Gorgeous Gucci, Gifty Lartey

Workshop, Guided Community Session

20.6.2025

18:00–20:00 Body Lab
20:00–22:00 Sex Siren Lab

Photo: Vanessa Marino

Ruedas de Bullerengue

Practising Communitarian Joy and Resilience

Music and Dance Workshop and Practice

21.6.2025
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)

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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.

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

'haɪ̯maːtn̩ Vol. 3

Who Does Germany Belong To? Podcast

Who Does Germany Belong To?

The heimaten Podcast from Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Internationaler Literaturpreis HKW: Shortlist 2024

Shortlist for the 2025 Internationaler Literaturpreis

Prize for Contemporary Literatures in Translation

17.7.2025 Award Ceremony

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

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.

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