Wo ist der Krieg? Eine interaktive Performance und Diskussion zum Krieg in der Ukraine bei BERLIN GLOBAL

In the organizer's words:

What does war mean to you? As part of the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition, artist Masha Pryven invites the public to take part in an interactive performance in the "War" room.

Pryven's intervention is based on her observation that the war in Ukraine has no place in the "War" space at BERLIN GLOBAL, creating a gap. This gap is dangerous - on the one hand because it leaves room for misinformation and fantasy, and on the other because it enables the social repression of an imminent catastrophe. Pryven is looking for ways to create a genuine emotional connection between those who live in peace and those who are at war. How does a war in Europe change your own understanding of peace? Can a brief exposure to another reality change your worldview?

The performance is based on Pryven's ongoing art project with people living in Ukraine during the war. She regularly travels to her home country and asks the question: If you had the opportunity to speak to people in Europe, what would you say to them?

The Berlin audience has the opportunity to become part of the performance and respond to the absence of the topic "War in Ukraine" in BERLIN GLOBAL.

Afterwards, we invite you to a reading by the writer Ewa Maria Slaska and a discussion on dealing with contemporary conflicts in museums and institutions, in which Daria Prydybailo (art historian and curator) and Daniel Morat (space curator "War") will participate.

The performance will be held in English and German, the subsequent discussion will be held in German.

Participants

Masha Pryven (performance and moderation)

Ewa Maria Slaska (reading)

Don Philippe (sound)

Daria Prydybailo (conversation)

Daniel Morat (conversation)

Masha Pryven, born in Ukraine, has lived in Berlin since 2014. Her artistic practice explores the relationship between the private and the political. In her work, she invites different social groups to participate radically, in which they become co-authors of the artworks. One of her collaborative photography projects (See What I See) was published in Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, edited by Ariella Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas and others, Thames & Hudson, UK, 2023. She is working on her ongoing Ukraine project together with Marianna Prigozhina, a trained philologist who is involved in politically engaged art projects.

Ewa Maria Slaska, born in Poland in 1949. Writer, editor, publicist, blogger, project manager, translator, teacher and curator. She fled to Berlin in 1985 as a political activist in the Solidarność movement and has been working in refugee aid ever since. She has been involved in many projects over the past 40 years, including the Polish independent television program "Insel", the publishing house for the promotion of German-Polish literature and the German-Polish Poetry Ship. Together with Anna Krenz and Jemek Jemowit, she is co-author of the open space "Freiheit, Gleichheit, Solidarność" in BERLIN GLOBAL.

Philippe Kayser, aka Don Philippe, was active as a professional drummer in the 1980s and later also worked as a pianist and guitarist. Since the 1990s, he has been working as a producer and composer in his own studio. He is a co-founder of the hip-hop group "Freundeskreis", which has shaped German hip-hop culture. Since 2015, he has released more than ten solo albums in the hip-hop instrumental genre with a worldwide presence on Spotify and various independent labels.

Daria Prydybailo has been living between Ukraine and Germany since 2016. She is an art scholar and curator. Daria Prydybailo has worked at leading cultural institutions in Ukraine and Germany, including the National Museum of Art and Culture Mystetskyi Arsenal and the National Museum of Contemporary Art Hamburger Bahnhof. She is the founder of the Temporarily Displaced Foundation, which works to develop intercultural dialog, support independent artistic voices and strengthen postcolonial discourse in the contemporary art world.

Prof. Dr. Daniel Morat is a curator at the German Historical Museum and teaches Modern and Contemporary History at Freie Universität Berlin. Between 2016 and 2021 he was part of the curatorial team of BERLIN GLOBAL.

- 5 EUR, reduced 3 EUR

- from 12 years

- Language: German, English

- Location: Berlin exhibition, 1st floor, room 5 - Berlin Raum