Musafiri: Von Reisenden und Gästen – Eröffnungswochenende
In our words:
Opening weekend! 🎉 The new exhibition at HKW tells the story of people who leave borders behind and create new connections. With a look at different cultures, languages and migration stories, it opens up a space for polyphonic perspectives beyond fear and demarcation.
In the organizer's words:
Opening program (Free admission):
Friday 7.3.2025
18:00-23:00
Exhibition opening
Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall and various foyers and outdoor areas of HKW
19:00-19:30
Opening speeches with Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Director and Chief Curator) and Cosmin Costinaș (Senior Curator Exhibition Practices)
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
English with German translation
19:30-20:00
Music performance with Bilawa Ade Respati
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
20:00-21:00
Concert with Batila & the DreamBus
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
21:30-00:30
DJ Amuleto Manuela
World Economy Restaurant
18:00-22:00
Food stands
Hirschfeldbar
Saturday, 8.3.2025
12:00-19:00
Childcare
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall
12:00-14:00
Feels HKW
Special tour for blind, visually impaired and sighted people on International Women's Day
With Heike Hamman, Petra Fischer and Daniel Neugebauer
Registration via education@hkw.de or phone: + 49 (0)30 397 87 175
13:00-14:00
Artist talk
With Aboubakar Fofana, followed by Q&A
Angie Stardust Foyer
English with German translation
14:15-16:00
Artist talk
With Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Julien Creuzet, Lawrence Lemaoana, Joar Songcuya
The artists in the exhibition will discuss their works and their interfaces. The focus is on the question of migration, which has shaped the history and geographies of travel.
Angie Stardust Foyer
English with German translation
16:00 -17:00
Through the exhibition with Cosmin Costinaș (Senior Curator Exhibition Practices)
Guided tour
In English
17:00-18:00
Legacies of Love and Rebellion: A Feminist Walk through the House
With Shohreh Shakoory, Daniel Neugebauer, Paz Guevara, Qu Chang, Çiğdem Çağlayan Kolain and Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
In German
18:15-20:00
Artist talk
With Choy Ka Fai, Idas Losin, Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, Musquiqui Chihying, Yudi Rafael, Anne Samat
The artists in the exhibition draw a map of stories and show paths that lead through different temporal and spatial constellations.
Angie Stardust Foyer
English with German translation
20:30-22:00
Film screening "E5 Ölüm Yolu/ Gastarbeiterstrasse" by Tuncel Kurtiz
(SE and TUR with EN subtitles), followed by a discussion with Gülşah Stapel
Safi Faye Halle
Conversation in English with German translation
12:00-20:30
Food stands
Hirschfeldbar
Sunday, 9.3.2025
14:00-18:00
Childcare
Teresia Teaiwa room
15:00-17:00
Children's disco
Haunani-Kay Trask Room
15:00- 16:00
Through the exhibition with Philipp Albers (Editor Publication Practices)
Guided tour
In German
Musafiri: Of travelers and guests
Exhibition and research project
March 8-June 16
Public discourse and politics are increasingly characterized by fears - Germany is one of the most obvious examples of this. Fears that stem from a narrow, often hegemonic and at the same time localized view of the world. The exhibition Musafiri: Of Travelers and Guests is an urgent plea for the recognition and affirmation of the polyphonic worlds of all those who have detached themselves from the places of their origin and set out on their journey.
The Arabic word musafir resounds with an astonishing phonetic coherence in different languages and cultural spaces. From Romanian to Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, Malay and Uyghur, its distribution covers an impressive geographical area. The exhibition takes us
through these geographies and the interwoven worlds of fearless travelers, of people who were involuntarily and brutally
involuntarily and brutally displaced individuals and communities in the past and the increasingly dramatic migration movements in the here and now.
With contributions from:
Ulf Aminde, Alibay Bapanov, Sonia E. Barrett, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Musquiqui Chihying, Narcisa Chindoy, Julien Creuzet, Ena de Silva, Roy Dib, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Aboubakar Fofana, Simryn Gill, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Yun-Fei Ji, Choy Ka Fai, Sachiko Koshikoku & Akinori Nakatani & Massao Okinaka & Yuji Tamaki (conceived and compiled by Yudi Rafael), Lawrence Lemaoana, Idas Losin, Ana Lupas, Gail Mabo, Maria Madeira, Mohammad Din Mohammad, Carlos 'Marilyn' Monroy, Diane Severin Nguyen, Haji Noor Din, Jimmy Ong, Anne Samat, Citra Sasmita, Joar Songcuya, Simon Soon, Nádia Taquary, Robel Temesgen, Ryan Villamael, Ocean Vuong, Madame Zo (Zoarinivo Razakaratrimo)
Opening program (Free entry):
Friday 7.3.2025
18:00-23:00
Exhibition Opening
Mrinalini Mukherjee Hall and in various foyer and outside areas of Haus der Kulturen der Welt
19:00-19:30
Opening Speeches with Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (Director and Chief Curator) and Cosmin Costinaș (Senior Curator Exhibition Practices)
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
In English with German translation
19:30-20:00
Music Performance with Bilawa Ade Respati
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
20:00-21:00
Concert with Batila & the DreamBus
Miriam Makeba Auditorium
21:30-00:30
DJ Amuleto Manuela
World Economy Restaurant
18:00-22:00
Food stands
Hirschfeldbar
Saturday, 8.3.2025
12:00-19:00
Childcare
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall
12:00-14:00
HKW-I feel you
Special tour for blind, visually impaired, and sighted people on
International Women's Day
With Heike Hamman, Petra Fischer, and Daniel Neugebauer
Guided tour
Please register via education@hkw.de or Tel.: + 49 (0)30 397 87 175
In German
13:00-14:00
Artist Talk with Aboubakar Fofana, followed by Q&A
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with German translation
14:15-16:00
Artist Conversation
With Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Julien Creuzet, Lawrence Lemaoana, Joar Songcuya
Artists of the exhibition discuss their works and intersection points, focusing on the question of migration as it has shaped histories and geographies of travel.
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with German translation
16:00-17:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Cosmin Costinaș
Guided Tour
In English
17:00-18:00
Legacies of Love and Rebellion: A Feminist Walk Through the House
With Shohreh Shakoory, Daniel Neugebauer, Paz Guevara, Qu Chang, Çiğdem Çağlayan Kolain, and Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
In English
18:15-20:00
Artist Conversation
With Choy Ka Fai, Idas Losin, Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, Musquiqui Chihying, Yudi Rafael, Anne Samat
Artists of the exhibition draw a map of stories, highlighting routes that traverse varied temporal and spatial constellations.
Angie Stardust Foyer
In English with German translation
20:30-22:00
Screening "E-5 Ölüm Yolu / Gastarbeiterstrasse" by Tuncel Kurtiz
(SE and TUR with EN subtitles), followed by a conversation with Gülşah Stapel
Safi Faye Hall
Conversation in English with German translation
12:00-20:30
Food Stands
Hirschfeldbar
Sunday, 9.3.2025
14:00-18:00
Childcare
Teresia Teaiwa Room
15:00-17:00
Kids' Disco
Haunani-Kay Trask Hall
15:00- 16:00
A Walk Through the Exhibition with Philipp Albers (Editor Publishing Practices)
Guided Tour
In German
Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests
Exhibition and Research Project
8 March-16 June
Public discourse and politics are increasingly characterized by fears-with Germany being one of the strongest examples of this. Fears that stem from a narrow, often hegemonic, and at the same time localized view of the world. As such, the exhibition Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests constitutes an urgent plea to acknowledge and assert the polyphonic worlds brought together by the experience of those who have moved past their points of origin.
The Arabic word musafir resonates with stunning phonetic consistency across languages and within strikingly different cultural spaces, from Romanian to Turkish, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Swahili, Kazakh, Malay, and Uygur, among others, in a vast, uninterrupted geography. The exhibition follows worlds as they have been braided by intrepid travelers and unwillingly displaced individuals and communities in history, to the intensifying migratory movements of today.
With contributions by:
Ulf Aminde, Alibay Bapanov, Sonia E. Barrett, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Musquiqui Chihying, Narcisa Chindoy, Julien Creuzet, Ena de Silva, Roy Dib, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Aboubakar Fofana, Simryn Gill, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Hit Man Gurung and Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Yun-Fei Ji, Choy Ka Fai, Sachiko Koshikoku & Akinori Nakatani & Massao Okinaka & Yuji Tamaki (conceived and assembled by Yudi Rafael), Lawrence Lemaoana, Idas Losin, Ana Lupas, Gail Mabo, Maria Madeira, Mohammad Din Mohammad, Carlos 'Marilyn' Monroy, Diane Severin Nguyen, Haji Noor Din, Jimmy Ong, Anne Samat, Citra Sasmita, Joar Songcuya, Simon Soon, Nádia Taquary, Robel Temesgen, Ryan Villamael, Ocean Vuong, Madame Zo (Zoarinivo Razakaratrimo)
Price information:
Tickets €8/6 Free admission every Monday, on selected Sundays, on the opening weekend 7-9.3. and on the finissage weekend 14-15.6.
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