Projects 2022

China, Germany

ESCAPING INVOLUTION

ESCAPING INVOLUTION is a transnational collaboration project of a group of artists, curators and writers from Guangzhou and Frankfurt/Main unfolding through various interventions and openings in the two cities.

SYNNIKA & HB STATION © Synnika & HBStation © Synnika & HBStation

Germany, India, Mexico

AUTOPOIESIS

Building upon Jamaican cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter's evocation 'Being Human as Praxis' (2007), AUTOPOIESIS explored the nuances of narrating personal stories to pursue what Wynter posits as the act of 'instituting oneself as full and complex human beings'.

Keynote performance © Ceren Saner © Ceren Saner

Germany, Lebanon, United Kingdom

Architecture as Document

The project of the Centre for Documentary Architecture is dedicated to documenting the modern architecture of the 1930s and 40s in Beirut. The aim is to document the remaining buildings of international modernism and the efforts to preserve them.

Architecture as document © Anna Luise Schubert, Centre for Documentary Architecture © Anna Luise Schubert, Centre for Documentary Architecture

Chile, Germany

Sketches of the South - Landscapes of Tomorrow

This bilingual anthology presents a selection of artistic positions and collective practices as well as current debates from different regions of the South American country.

Valeria Fahrenkrog, installation “El Kiosco”, Galería Metropolitana 2023 (Photo: E.C. Meier). Valeria Fahrenkrog, sketch “El Kiosco”, 2021. © E.C. Meier, Valeria Fahrenkrog © E.C. Meier, Valeria Fahrenkrog

Germany, Togo

Maison Gbebe

This laboratory is a place to lay the foundations for the invention of a new relationship between Africa and Europe which is both scientific and aesthetic but at the same time resolutely innovative and fruitfully rooted in regional African religious and cultural heritage.

In front of the temporary gathering space of Maison Gbegbe; Gregor Kasper and Musquiqui Chiying chat with students of the UdK and the University of Lome at Gbegbe Days, videostill, 2022 © Mathilde ter Heijne © Mathilde ter Heijne

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