HKW | Haus der Kulturen der Welt

2019, Dec 7, Sat – 2019, Dec 15, Sun

Bestiarium

An interactive round of sound

2019, Oct 18, Fri – 2020, Jan 6, Mon

Love and Ethnology

The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)
Exhibition

2019, Nov 1, Fri – 2020, Jan 6, Mon

Spectral-White: The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Exhibition

Sunday, Dec 8

3 pm

„Der Gott steigt in den Kopf herunter“ – Fichte und Trance

Thematic guided tour with Rosa Eidelpes
Love and Ethnology

Thursday, Dec 12

2 pm
Free admission

Designing Present World(s)

Architecture after universalism and postcolonial criticism
Conference

Saturday, Dec 14

2 pm–6 pm

Art Dialogs

About the exhibitions “Love and Ethnology” and “Spectral-White”

Dec 7–15

Bestiarium

What is real, what is fantasy? Whirring sounds, strange figures and a gramophone recording asking for help: Combining concerts, music theater and sound installations, Bestiarium offers a magical tour and interactive adventure for kids from 6 years and up.

Dec 12

Designing Present World(s)

How does architecture transform life’s reality and society? What does it mean to live in the world? Against the backdrop of the Bauhaus legacy, the conference will explore the concepts and practices of contemporary world design. With Priya Basil, Onyeka Nwelue, Zvi Efrat and many more.

Until Jan 6, 2020

Love and Ethnology

Can the ethnographic gaze be “given back,” restituted? The exhibition takes up topics related to writer and traveler Hubert Fichte (1935-1986), from Hamburg’s gay 1960s subculture to arts and religions of the African diaspora and a utopia of sensitivity. With works by Kader Attia, Papisto Boy, Renée Green, Euridice Kala, Tiona Nekkia McClodden and many others.

Until Jan 6, 2020

Spectral-White. The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Julius Lips aimed to refute colonial myths of white supremacy. The ethnologist collected portrayals of Europeans as “exotic” foreigners. Based on Lips’s work, the exhibition raises questions about the power of the gaze and its reversal, but also about the problematic role played by ethnology.

Schools of Tomorrow

How can schools prepare young people for life? Schools can now apply to work with everyday experts and artists: In school projects, they’ll explore subjects such as medicine and the body, politics and research, culture and logistics and then artistically process their results.

Journal 100 Years of Now

Schools for Future

How can we imagine schools that take part in shaping a desirable tomorrow? Educational theorist Keri Facer examined already in 2017, in the context of the HKW program Schools of Tomorrow, the challenge of rethinking the relationship between schools, society and the future.

Long Thursday, free Monday

From now on, exhibitions will be open on Thursdays until 10 pm. All other days except Tuesdays they’ll be open from 12 noon to 7 pm. Exhibition tickets are valid for two visits and on Mondays admission is completely free.

2016–2019

Kanon-Fragen

With Kanon-Fragen, since 2016 HKW has been developing research-based exhibitions that grapple critically with the canonization of modernity. In the fall of 2019 Love and Ethnology, Afro-Sonic Mapping and Spectral-White address anticolonial thinking from German history and how even it reproduces colonial formulas.

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For further reading

Online journal

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

The international exhibition project Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology is being accompanied by the web journal projectfichte.org. It offers insights into the writing of Hubert Fichte (1935–1986) in German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Wolof and English. The writer and ethnologist is considered a poetic and documentarian realist precursor for new disciplines in Germany such as Queer Studies and Postcolonial Studies.

Website

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

The research platform Anthropocene Curriculum explores novel epistemic, aesthetic and educational challenges of the age of humankind. Currently the digital platform also serves as a research tool, discussion forum and public portal for the transdisciplinary research project Mississippi. An Anthropocene River.

Blog

New Alphabet School

How does language influence thought? How can we develop other forms of learning and acting? From the politics of translation to practices of weaving: Speakers and workshop participants from the New Alphabet School share their questions, observations and studies on solidary practices of knowledge production on the blog.

Publication

100 Jahre Copyright

Ed. by Detlef Diederichsen and Lina Brion
How do rights determine the frame conditions of music culture? The publication 100 Jahre Copyright (100 Years of Copyright) examines the evolution of copyright since the emergence of the cultural industry and discusses concepts used to protect and promote artistic creativity. With contributions by Monika Dommann, Jessica Litman, Larissa K. Mann, Aram Sinnreich and Ravi Sundaram, among other.

Publication

Schools of Tomorrow

Ed. by Silvia Fehrmann
How can schools become places where alternative designs of the future are created? The volume Schools of Tomorrow examines how experimental practices of the past can be applied to today’s learning and provides access to the latest educational theory approaches. With contributions by Gert Biesta, Catherine Burke, John and Evelyn Dewey, Keri Facer and Luis Armando Gandin, among other.

Publication

Love and Ethnology

Ed. by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anselm Franke and Haus der Kulturen der Welt
From „Baroque“ to „Vodou“ to „The Gayification of the World “: The publication brings together essays, artistic text contributions and a glossary that explains Hubert Fichte's theoretical vocabulary. These are supplemented by statements from the project stations in Salvador da Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Dakar, New York and Lisbon, as well as extensive photo series depicting the artistic works from the exhibition at HKW.

Love and Ethnology

Spectral-White

transmediale 2020 End to End

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Bestiarium

Love and Ethnology

Spectral-White: The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

„Der Gott steigt in den Kopf herunter“ – Fichte und Trance

Designing Present World(s)

Art Dialogs

Bestiarium

Designing Present World(s)

Love and Ethnology

Spectral-White. The Appearance of Colonial-Era Europeans

Schools of Tomorrow

Schools for Future

Long Thursday, free Monday

Kanon-Fragen

HKW Newsletter

For further reading

Hubert Fichte: Love and Ethnology

Anthropocene-Curriculum.org

New Alphabet School

100 Jahre Copyright

Schools of Tomorrow

Love and Ethnology

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