December at HKW
3.12.2025
Global Fascisms
Exhibition until Sun., 7 December
Finissage Programme
The Global Fascisms closing weekend features a wide-ranging program with exhibition tours, the book launch of the Global Fascisms Reader, film screenings, talks, and kids' disco.
Closing Weekend
Free entry
Sa., 6.12
12:00–19:00
Please register
15:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Paz Guevara (Exhibition Practices)
and Sefa Pala (art mediator)
16:30
Book Launch: Global Fascisms Reader
18:00
Executive Exxhaustion
Performance by Leila Bencharnia
19:00
A Feminist Killjoy Through a Gauze Darkly
Keynote by Xine Yao, response by Katrin Köppert, followed by a conversation moderated by Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
21:00
MAJEMUK: Extended Concert
Performance by Ariel William Orah
So., 7.12.
12:00–13:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Cosmin Costinaș (Exhibition Practices)
12:00–14:00
HKW—I Feel You
Please register
12:00–19:00
Childcare
Please register
14:00
With Eli Cortiñas, Robin Rhode, Julia Scher, and Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), moderated by Paz Guevara
15:00–17:00
16:00
Screening, Shu Lea Cheang (2023, 80min, eOmU)
18:00
An Audiovisual Conversation with Film and Music Excerpts, with Cem Kaya and Can Sungu, in cooperation with SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
HKW Publications
Best of 2025
We have published many new books this year at HKW—here is an overview of our publications released in 2025:
69 Years to the Treason Trial
The Drill Hall Arts Advocacy Project
An acoustic encounter from the inner city of Johannesburg as far as Berlin.
Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guest
The reader follows the entwined paths and encounters of those that embark on journeys, traversing the worlds that open up when the confines of familiar surroundings are left.
German edition English edition
'haɪ̯maːtn̩ series
All volumes German/ English
Björn Kuhligk: We’ve Already Been There
Manja Präkels: Breathing Against the Wind
Ndey Bassine Jammeh-Siegel & Diana Ejaita: The Mosaic Library
Sharon Dodua Otoo: Mahlerstrasse 8
Max Czollek & Ibou Coulibaly Diop: … Together We Can Get It Done
Ricardo Domeneck: The Archbishop Writes to Me Sometimes
Aslı Erdoğan: When Does a Journey End? Available from 19 December
Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos: Pedagogies of Travesti Liberation
About the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil’s travesti
community.
German edition English edition
Global Fascisms
The reader examines the appeal and the ideological mechanisms of Fascism, and looks at how current authoritarian conjunctures are being condoned, contested, and resisted across the globe.
Available from 6 December in German and English
HKW Gifts
Treat yourself and your loved ones with our own honey, a warm hat, or cozy socks for the cold Berlin winter from the HKW web shop. If you can't decide, we also have gift vouchers.
Politics of Rhythm
Bullerengue and Sabar Workshops
The Bullerengue and Sabar series take place in the frame of the ongoing programme Politics of Rhythm, which stimulates dance and music practices to cultivate and preserve communitarian knowledge.
Sabar, Polyrhythm, and the Politics of Body Movement
Drum and Dance Workshops
Tue., 2, Wed., 3 & Thur., 4 November 19:00–21:00
Ruedas de Bullerengue: Practising Communitarian Joy and Resilience
Music and Dance Workshop
Sun., 14 December, 15:00–19:00
HKW on the Road
Thur., 4 December, Re-Mixing the Stage x SAVVY Contemporary
Sun., 7 December, DEEP CUTS x SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
With the HKW on the Road initiative, HKW expands its radius of action in the city. To this end, it cooperates with art institutions, spaces, and projects that work at the grassroots level of the cultural landscape and make a significant contribution to the diversity and dynamism of Berlin’s cultural scene. The programme takes place in Berlin in cooperation with Berlin Mondiale, SAVVY Contemporary, and SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA.
Circular Listening Session with Dudù Kouate, Cassette Head Sessions, +++
Thur., 4 December, 18:00–23:00
Venue: SAVVY Contemporary, Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin
An audiovisual conversation with film and music excerpts, with Cem Kaya and Can Sungu, in cooperation with SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, part of the Global Fascisms closing weekend
Sun., 7 December, 18:00
Venue: HKW
Exhibition
Until 7 December
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
8/6€, free admission on mondays
Tue., 2.12
19:00–21:00
Drum and Dance Workshop with Nago Guèye Koité & SAF SAP
Wed., 3.12
19:00–21:00
Drum and Dance Workshop with Nago Guèye Koité & SAF SAP
Thur., 4.12
18:00
HKW on the Road x SAVVY Contemporary
Re-Mixing the Stage
Session IV. On Jamming & Crossing Rhythms, with Dudù Kouate, Cassette Head Sessions, +++
Venue: SAVVY Contemporary, Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin
Sat., 6 & Sun., 7.12
Global Fascisms Closing Weekend
Sat., 6.12
12:00–19:00
Please register
15:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Paz Guevara (Exhibition Practices) and Sefa Pala (art mediator)
16:30
Book Launch: Global Fascisms Reader
18:00
Executive Exxhaustion
Performance by Leila Bencharnia
19:00
A Feminist Killjoy Through a Gauze Darkly
Keynote by Xine Yao, response by Katrin Köppert, followed by a conversation moderated by Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss
21:00
MAJEMUK: Extended Concert
Performance by Ariel William Orah
Sun., 7.12
12:00–13:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Cosmin Costinaș (Exhibition Practices)
12:00–14:00
HKW—I Feel You
Guided tour
Please register
12:00–19:00
Childcare
Please register
14:00
With Eli Cortiñas, Robin Rhode, Julia Scher, and Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), moderated by Paz Guevara
15:00–17:00
16:00
Screening, Shu Lea Cheang (2023, 80min, eOmU)
18:00
An Audiovisual Conversation with Film and Music Excerpts, with Cem Kaya and Can Sungu, in cooperation with SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
Sun., 14.12
15:00–19:00
Ruedas de Bullerengue. Practising Communitarian Joy and Resilience
Music and Dance Workshop
HKW is closed from 20 December and reopens on 1 January 2026.
Visit Information
Opening Times
Wed.–Mon. 12:00–19:00
Free admission on Mondays
Extended opening hours during evening programmes.
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
Contact
Jan Trautmann
Leitung Kommunikation
Head of Communications
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)
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Berlin
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