Autumn Exhibitions at the HKW—The Programme in October

Fall marks the beginning of a new trajectory at HKW: Being in and Seeing the World through the Prism of the Global East, an engagement with stories and histories, poetics and politics, lived and imagined realities of the construct that one might call the ‘Global East’. This project, which spans the period of our tenure, intends to deliberate on relations that have existed and continue to exist without the mediation of the West, while also exploring geography, politics, and their common offspring, geopolitics as mythology-made-real. We hope you will join us this month and beyond.
—Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Director and Chief Curator

NEW EXHIBITION
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories—Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia
Opening Friday, 20 October; 21 October–14 January

As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories is an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.

The exhibition invites processes of collective memory, the revival of cosmologies and vanished knowledges, the consideration of networks of those who defy imperially drawn borders, as well as forms of collective resistance and imagination of futures that can be lived, survived, and rejoiced in. 
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Opening Weekend 20–22 October
FREE ENTRY

Thursday, 19 October, 11:30
Exhibition tour for press representatives
Register at: presse@hkw.de

Friday, 20 October, 18:30
Exhibition opening with performance by Zoya Lebedeva, concert by Sainkho Namtchylak and Kazuhisa Uchihashi, and DJs

Saturday, 21 October, 12:00
Exhibition tour in English with curators and performances by Nikolay Karabinovych and Natalia Papaeva

Sunday, 22 October, 15:00
Exhibition tour in German

Supported by the Capital Cultural Fund.

NEW EXHIBITION
Exercises in Transformation—Sergio Zevallos
Opening Friday, 20 October; 21 October–14 January

HKW’s exhibition Exercises in Transformation—Sergio Zevallos is dedicated to the more than four decades of artist Sergio Zevallos’s practice of embodying, investigating, and transmuting dominant knowledge systems. For Zevallos, the labour of transforming imposed patriarchal and colonial knowledges begins in the body and is worked through via performativity, social choreographies, and critical realism.

The exhibition opens with a series of newly commissioned artworks by Zevallos based on his family’s archive of the magazine Sociedad y Política (Society and Politics), while also bringing into perspective his early works and featuring activations and performances by the artist. 
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Opening Weekend 20–22 October
FREE ENTRY

Friday, 20 October, 18:30, Beatriz Nascimento Hall
Activation of Archivo Ambulante (Wandering Archive, 1982–94)

Saturday, 21 October, 15:00, Beatriz Nascimento Hall
Unpacking Sociedad y Política Magazine (1972–83, Peru), a conversation in English between Sergio Zevallos and curator Paz Guevara

DISCUSSION SERIES
Theatre of Reconciliation: Max Czollek in Conversation with…
1 October & 22 October

Theatre of Reconciliation, an ongoing discussion series by visiting curator and author Max Czollek that explores memory, remembrance, and belonging, continues this month. The focus of the series rests on a pluralistic present, especially that of German society, and on all those without whom the present would look very different.
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Sunday, 1 October, 15:00, Safi Faye Hall
In conversation with writer Lena Gorelik

Sunday, 22 October, 15:00, Safi Faye Hall
In conversation with historian and exhibition organizer Mirjam Zadoff
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CONCERT
Mateus Aleluia: Deep Bahia
Tuesday, 31 October, 20:00

With a soft voice, guitar, and atabaque, in his songs Mateus Aleluia tells of life, nature, and the gods. Aleluia brought African heritage to música popular brasileira when he became well known in Brazil in the 1960s with his band Os Tincoas. For twenty years, he remained out of the limelight, living in Angola where he dedicated himself to cultural politics, education, and research. In 2002, he returned to Brazil and the stage. Now he celebrates his eightieth birthday and the sixtieth anniversary of his first stage performance with the concert evening Deep Bahia. He appears at HKW with his daughter Fabiana Aleluia on piano, accompanied by a percussionist. 
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TALKS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES, SOUND INSTALLATIONS, FILM SCREENING, DJ
Listening to the World—100 Years of Radio
21–22 October

In 2023, radio in Germany turns 100 years old. On the occasion of this anniversary, Listening to the World—100 Years of Radio explores listening as a global phenomenon. It pays homage to the diversity of radio’s functions: networking, communication, the shaping of culture, power dynamics, protest, artistic medium, and information. Featuring a two-day programme at HKW, this project focuses on the interactions between radio, culture, belief systems, and the writing of history. 
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FREE ENTRY

A project of the Goethe-Institut, the Experimental Radio at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, and HKW.

TALK, BOOK PREMIERE
Bernie Sanders: It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism
Thursday, 12 October, 19:00

Bernie Sanders’s new book, It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism, is a powerful testament to his political life's work and a militant appeal to the next generation to fundamentally challenge hyper-capitalist systems. In doing so, Sanders’s vision goes far beyond the demands of his campaign days. He shows that economic rights must be recognized as human rights in order to combat growing inequality, and he encourages his readers to create a society that provides a decent standard of living for all.

It’s Okay to Be Angry About Capitalism will be published in German by Tropen Verlag on 14 October. The book premiere at HKW, in cooperation with the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the American Academy in Berlin, is one of only a few stops in Europe.

Please note that this event has sold out. View the free livestream here. (No registration necessary.)

For accreditation please contact:
presse@hkw.de
Press photos: hkw.de/pressphotos

Visit Information

Opening Times
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Extended opening hours during evening programmes.

Free admission on Mondays and on every first Sunday of the month (Museumssonntag Berlin).

Childcare with programme
HKW offers free childcare for many of its programmes. For further information visit hkw.de

Current information about visiting and accessibility.

Weltwirtschaft Restaurant is open daily, from 12:00–00:00 on weekdays and 10:00–00:00 on weekends.

Contact

Jan Trautmann

Pressesprecher
Lead Communications Officer
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

T: + 49 (0) 30 397 87 157
presse@hkw.de