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As Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung assumes his role as Director and Chief Curator of Haus der Kulturen der Welt, its cadence, pulse, and tune change. HKW is delighted to announce conceptual lines, practices, and programs for 2023 and beyond, and to present its team members.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together. It is a house in which cultures of conviviality and hospitality are sown, nurtured to blossoming, and disseminated. It is a physical and affective space in which everyone has the possibility of breathing. To breathe and let breathe. A house in which respect for living and non-living beings is fundamental and shapes our understanding of cultures.
HKW highlights the notion of “Welt” in its name. It proposes a concept of the world that embraces pluralities of cultures, epistemologies, sociopolitics, spiritualities, and ways of being in the world. This plurality of “worlds” manifests itself in the deliberations on and acknowledgement of the malleability and processuality of the worlds we have historically shaped and continue to shape. The world is not a noun, but a verb: to unworld, to world, and to reworld.
Berlin is host to citizens from 170 nations from around the world, and these people and their communities are fundamental in shaping HKW, not as subjects or visitors only, but as fellow travelers and co-makers of the program. The task at hand is to make HKW a house of multiplicities and international encounters. These cultures are lived and experienced rather than othered, or merely displayed.
From June 2–4, HKW celebrates its opening weekend with a series of concerts, lectures, performances, processions, readings, and rituals, as well as the launch of the exhibition project O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies.
For further details on the program, please visit our newly-launched website.
The team shaping Haus der Kulturen der Welt
By bringing together practitioners from a wide range of disciplines, experiences, and geographies, together with Director and Chief Curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the team embraces the poetics of multitude, foregrounds the politics of joy, centralizes communities of affinity, emphasizes the multiplicity of epistemologies, engages migrant-situated knowledges, and celebrates differences and dissonances while being in and practicing solidarities.
Program team
Fernande Bodo, Curatorial Assistant (Architectural and Spatial Practices); Dr Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Curator (Scientific, Digital, and Media Practices); Dr Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Curator (Discursive Practices); Cosmin Costinaș, Senior Curator (Exhibition Practices); Dr Max Czollek, Visiting Curator; Henriette Gallus, Deputy Director; Paz Guevara, Curator (Exhibition Practices); Dzekashu MacViban, Curator (Literature and Oralture Practices); Carlos Maria Romero aka Atabey, Curator (Performative Practices); Edna Martinez, Curator (Music and Sonic Practices); Prof Dr Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Director and Chief Curator; Daniel Neugebauer, Curator (Cultural Education & Strategic Partnerships); Eric Otieno Sumba, Editor (Publication Practices); Marie Hélène Pereira, Senior Curator (Performative Practices); Eva Stein, Curator (Cultural Education); Can Sungu, Curator (Filmic Practices); Dr Alexandra Ortiz Wallner, Curator (Literature and Oralture Practices); Jill Winder, Editor (Publication Practices).
Read more about the program team members here.
