Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld

Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities and Other Transcendences

Exhibition, Performances, Panels, Talks, Activations

14.9.–8.12.2024
All Dates

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2024–2027

Forgive Us Our Trespasses / Vergib uns unsere Schuld – Reader (EN)

Of (Un)Real Frontiers, Of (Im)Moralities and Other Transcendences

Photo: Silke Briel / HKW

A Walk Through the Exhibition with…

Guided tours

14.9.–8.12.2024
Photo: Laura Fiorio / HKW

Conversations on Art

16.9.–6.12.2024
Visual Middle Ground: Hargeysa International Book Fair

Middle Ground: Hargeysa International Book Fair

Literatures from the Horn of Africa and the Indian Ocean

Poetry, Performances, Readings, Discussions, Workshops, Keynote Lecture, Installations, Open Mic, DJ Set

27.–29.9.2024
All Dates
Image: Torhaus Koch Kollektiv (Danny Liu)

Food for Thought

Workshop

21.–22.9.2024

Xawaré storytelling ceremony

With Nago Guèye Koité & SAF SAP

Convening

21.9.2024

The House That Holds Me

Amina Jama

Poetry Performance

27.9.2024
Photo: Association Lire à Douala

Crafting Memorable Characters

with Touhfat Mouhtare

Workshop

28.9.2024
Photo: Nico Scagliarini

Bad Manners: Writing Like Culture is Not Looking

with Lubi Barre

Workshop

29.9.2024
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.
Visual Schools of Sustainability

Schools of Sustainability

Agency in the Face of Crisis

Photo: Antoine TempeÌ

Sabar, Polyrhythm, and the Politics of Body Movement

June–September 2024
Visual Overcoming the Present

Overcoming the Present

2024

Discussion series with Max Czollek

Douglas R. Ewart, Eric Dolphy Sonic Dread

Always, Already There

An Incubator for Afrodiasporic New Music

4.–10.11.2024
The 5th International Asian, African, and Latin American Film Festival in Tashkent (23 May–1 June 1978). Senegalese actress Issa Nyang.

Destination: Tashkent

Experiences of Cinematic Internationalism

27.11.–1.12.2024
Reflection in Numbers (2024), pavilion by British-Nigerian artist & designer, Yinka Ilori MBE.

Shaped to the Measure of the People’s Songs

Reflection in Numbers

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.
Sebastian Errazuriz, The Tree Memorial of a Concentration Camp, Estadio Nacional Julio Martinéz Prádanos, Santiago de Chile, 2006

Magnolia

by Sharon Lam

Heiko-Thandeka Ncube, The early rains which wash away the chaff before the spring rains, 2023, video, 12 mins, film still

Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much: On the Psychological Burden of Being Racialized While Doing Art

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

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