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Abed Abdi’s Public Talk at Berlin’s House of World Cultures

Echoes of the Brother Countries An exhibition and research project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt What is the Price of Memory and What is the Cost of Amnesia? Or: Visions and Illusions of Anti-Imperialist Solidarities Abed Abdi: Conversation with the Artist Abed Abdi boasts a large body of work comprising graphics, drawings, sculptures, and […]

THERE IS NO THERE THERE: Exhibition at Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art

In the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, numerous artists from abroad were working in both the GDR and the FRG. Within the framework of grants and bilateral cultural agreements, and alongside migrant workers, exiles, and refugees, they came to a divided Germany during the Cold War to continue working on their art and to collaborate and […]

Abed Abdi’s Public Talk at the Albertinum Museum, Dresden

Part of Voices from the interview project “Art in Networks” Prof. Kerstin Schankweiler (TU Dresden) speaks with artists Abed Abdi (*1942) and Michael Touma (*1956) about their time as international students at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, the influence on their art, and the continuity and impact of networks beyond the time of the […]

The Foreign Brothers / Berlin Exhibition Review

Originaly published in German in Junge Welt, Aus: Ausgabe vom 05.03.2024, Seite 11 / Feuilleton By Gerhard Hanloser. From the perspective of the Global South: An exhibition at the Berlin House of World Cultures about good and bad experiences with the GDR No, this GDR exhibition is not a “West German invention.” It is not […]

Echoes of the Brother Countries / House of World Cultures Berlin

What is the price of memory and what is the cost of amnesia? Or: Visions and illusions of anti-imperialist solidarities Workshops, Performances, Film screenings, Podcasts, Narratives, Publications, Exhibition Exhibition 2.3.–20.5.2024, opening 1.3. To look at Germany’s historical and contemporary global relations only through the prism of the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany), i.e. the West, […]

Auction: MIDDLE-EAST MODERN & CONTEMPORARY – Paris

Thu 30 Nov16H00 PARIS SALONS DU TROCADERO The upcoming auction of modern and contemporary art from the Middle East presents a diverse collection of artworks spanning various mediums. These remarkable creations originate from established and emerging artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, all sharing ties to the expansive regions of North Africa and the […]

Group Exhibition: “On This Land” @ Alserkal Dubai

Exhibition 19 November 2023–26 November 2023 Alserkal Arts Foundation x Barjeel Art Foundation x The Palestinian Museum Part of Alserkal Art Week Bringing together the digital archive of The Palestinian Museum and works from the Barjeel Art Foundation’s collection. Starts 19 November 2023 Ends 26 November 2023 Venue Concrete On This Land originated with the […]

Albertinum: Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR

After the opening exhibition, a conference on the topic “The Global GDR. A Transcultural Art History (1949–1990)” as well as academic discussion groups and an accompanying program on the online platform voices in 2022, the “KONTRAPOINTS” project will culminate in the exhibition “Revolutionary Romances? Global Art Histories in the GDR” in the Albertinum. This exhibition […]

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