Projects 2010

International Literature Award - Haus der Kulturen der Welt 2010

The literatures of the world are the focus of the award for international prose literature in a first German translation. Last year the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Stiftung Elementarteilchen presented the award for the first time.

transmediale.10 - Futurity now!

WortWelten 2010

The series WortWelten (Word Worlds) offers authors from around the world a platform to “speak out" and engage in lively discussions.

On Rage

Is there a new “culture of rage” in the current economic and political crises and states of emergency? How can this rage be tapped for positive future developments?

MaerzMusik - Festival of Contemporary Music

Under the dialectic motto Utopia [lost], the ninth edition of MaerzMusik - the Festival of Contemporary Music - via exemplary works, premieres and new productions, explores music as a realm of utopian thought and practice, of memory and hope, but also as a place for the reflection of loss and failure, resignation and decline, death and beyond.

Restoration of Henry Moore Sculpture

A new gloss for the Henry Moore sculpture in front of the Mirror Pond at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt: Thanks to the collaborative efforts of private and public partners the bronze figure: "Large Divided Oval: Butterfly" will be beautifully restored in 2010.

Lifelines #3: Rubén Rada

The third round of the series LifeLines pays tribute to Uruguay's music star Rubén Rada. Since 2009 Lifelines has featured the life work of outstanding musicians, writers, visual artists and filmmakers.

Bicentenario

200 years ago, the independence movement began in Latin America that led to liberation from Spanish colonial rule. The term “Bicentenario” for the events of 1809-11 is certainly thought of as being controversial in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela. For the “Bicentenario” at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, artists and intellectuals, musicians and writers, theater directors and filmmakers from Latin America will develop a more differentiated view of the continent’s political, social and artistic relationships.

Spot on: Fashion 2010

With the new series of events SPOT ON: FASHION, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt focuses for the first time in 2010 on the creative potential of up and coming international fashion designers living in Berlin.

Labor Berlin 2010

The exhibition series Labor Berlin is dedicated to the creativity and potential of international artists who have chosen the city as their new home.

Berlin Documentary Forum 1

It is the documentary that inquiries into the means of image-producing practices. For the firs t time, an international meeting highlights documentary practices across disciplines.

Cup of Cultures

Football and culture: Following its 2006 Copa da Cultura success, HKW advances to the next round, as the House is transformed into an African football center – Berlin’s most international viewing-point for the South Africa World Cup.

Dysfashional

From 25 June to 17 July 2010 the exhibition DYSFASHIONAL will be presented in Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. After Luxembourg, Lausanne and Paris, this exhibition in the context of fashion and art now also takes place in Berlin.

Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid 2010

Since 2007, Rencontres Internationales has taken place not just in Berlin and Paris but also in Madrid, three of Europe’s major cultural and historical cities. Rencontres Internationales is a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe, offering artists, networks, and diverse audiences a wide variety of projection screens and points of contact.

Performing the Future

The interdisciplinary research project “Kulturen des Performativen” is organizing its final conference, after more than 11 years of support in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Wassermusik: DanubeAmazonNile

The first two open-air summer festivals at the Haus on the Spree revolved around South Sea flair and Caribbean sounds. This time we are sailing into the very heart of the world‘s great rivers.

HKW ROYAL 2010

Rue Princesse

By day it’s an average street in the heart of the West African metropolis Abidjan. But when the sun goes down and the bars, restaurants and clubs open, the Rue Princesse transforms into the center of the nocturnal world—the “Champs-Élysées” of the Ivory Coast (taz). The sound systems are pumped up for a new urban lifestyle. DJs and dancers compete for the “Moment of Glory” against the social, political and economic crises in the country. The artist duo Gintersdorfer / Klassen, who have been traveling throughout the Ivory Coast for several years, have produced a unique festival from this blend of European and African artists.

10th international literature festival berlin 2010

Experience literary diversity in an era of globalization: Arab poets meet American short story writers, South Korean poets their Russian colleagues, South African novelists meet Albanian young talents.

The Potosí Principle

Not only commodities, but also images—material and ideological—were transported from colonial Latin America to Europe. On the 200th Anniversary of the independence movements in Latin America, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, together with partners in Spain and Bolivia, will focus on a specific aspect of colonial history: the relationship between trade and image transfer, exchange of economic and thought structures between Latin America and Europe and beyond.

Worldtronics 2010

"The title alone sounds sporty, in fact, Worldtronics is a kind of Olympics for electronic music," writes SPEX. Since its successful debut in 2007, the festival of global electronic music has been on the lookout for the most exciting musical developments from the wide electronic world beyond Europe and North America.

Première Brasil 2010

The Brazilian film industry is booming! In the section "Première Brasil”, the Festival do Rio is screening the best domestic productions of the year. Curated personally by festival director Ilda Santiago, a selection from the previous two years is available for viewing at the HKW.