Archive of Gestures launches the gestures Repeating and Interrupting with two events: Repeating: Filmic Activism in Times of War and Revolution. Workshop @Archive of the GDR-Opposition 29 Nov, 4-7 pm & Interrupting: Troubling ArchivesTalk & Screening @ Project Space Flutgraben e.V. 15 Dec...

Singing matter, Legeparty, zine launches & audiovisual leaks A program as part of Clubs of the Future https://www.clubsofthefuture.net/ 28.8.2024 5:30...

6 CHAPTERS connecting Cape Town, Windhoek, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo, Dakar, Sinne Saloum, Joal-Fadiouth Berlin & Online When...

readings, listenings & publications...

A decolonial feminist infrastructure for memory politics, art and transformative justice connecting Nairobi, Windhoek, Kigali, Dresden, Dar Es Salam, Dakar, Cape Town and Berlin...

Video Art Festival under the trees in Schloss Biesdorf ...

Inspired by the connections between migrant experiences and pop music, This Space In Between explores embodiments of in-between states. ...

linking stories and processes of solidary living (over)together to experimental ecological ways of thinking...

One of the streams of a language where yesterday and tomorrow are the same work. Kal, radio kal is a fleeting space for artistic experimentation and for gathering community across space and time....

Imagined Community VIII: My Significant Others ...

Video screening with works by Ieva Balode, CENEx, Karin Ferrari, Virginia Lupu, Marina Marković, Naomi Moonlion, Phuong Linh Nguyen, Lea Petříková, and Nataša Prosenc Stearns. Curated by Tia Čiček and Teodora Jeremić....

An archive of feminist perspectives on the Refugee Resistance Movement...

Relating to Gloria E. Anzaldúa in Words, Vision and Context. A translation project and event series by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt and District*Schule ohne Zentrum in cooperation with sonntagsbureau in the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek Berlin and the publishing house Zaglossus...

Open Letter We, cultural workers in Berlin and other places, raise our voices to state that we stand strong and...

Lecture and screening with Alžběta Bačíková, Tatiana Bogacheva, Stéphanie Rosianu, and Selma Selman...

On sunday at 2 pm we will be activating the entanglement of ideas, words, movements, relations. Stop by to have a tea, leave a trace, take a break ...

and Flickering Love Bites...

A trans*oceanic platform for slow approaches, performative interventions and poetic strategies in visual and literary forms...

radio kal episode #2: Arshia Fatima Haq and Fatimah Asghar. "We are the collateral damage of migration, the wave that is breaking on the rocks"...

Exhibition with growing archive, event series, Alive Hospital(y)tis, intimate talks and Tear Bar...

radio kal episode #2: Arshia Fatima Haq and Fatimah Asghar. "... there is this beautiful thing where you are creating an archive and it resonates on a body level for people who maybe can’t access certain insights, certain places or certain things. And it becomes this calling to wanting to know."...

Nomadic. On Air from Darkish Matter Radio Studio Jeetze. At District*School without Center and Archive Books Berlin. a language where...

Radio transmissions from the Houses of Kal Karachi, Colombo, Berlin. Broadcasted live from knowbotiq’s Darkish Matter Studio Jeetze....

The Houses of Kal summon a multiplicity of approaches to learning, sharing, healing, and co-living at the crossings of art-making, queer and decolonial feminisms, and eco-politics. ...

Exhibition with growing archive...

D’EST Online Videoscreening with works by Ieva Balode, Josef Dabernig, Tibor Szemző, Sid Iandovka and Anya Tsyrlina, and Ingel Vaikla...

A Conversation with Gail Pheterson...

Veenadari Lakshika Jayakody, Chathuri Nissansala, Sabeen Omar, Vasi Samudra Devi, Vicky Shahjehan, Hema Shironi Joseph, The Many Headed Hydra, Vasi Udarawane, Emma Wolf...

We open up a department store at District. The name of the department store is "Kaufhaus Der Working Class Daughters"....

Memory of HIV/AIDS Care and Activism as part of #4 Memory and Care Activism of the project On Illness, Resistance and Collective (Health) Care...

Nail Design School / Community Center threatened to be evicted from Dong Xuan Center ...

on queer friendships & poetic forms of resistance...

Karachi Radical Tour; Holding Space for Queer and Trans Grief; Zine Making Workshop; Potentialities of Feminist World Building in Pakistan; Hum Meri Jaan (We My Beloved); Say Their Names; Milna Julna: A cloth weaving & reading session; پیار، مزاحمت، خیال...

Discoteca Flaming Star (Cristina Gómez Barrio, Sofia Lomba, Wolfgang Mayer, Sara Pereira)...

Works and offerings by Arshia Fatima Haq/Discostan, Emma Wolf Haugh, Fiza Khatri, Lucas Odahara, Omer Wasim & Saira Sheikh, Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani, SS Beben & Promona Sengupta, The Many Headed Hydra, Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Vicky Shahjahan...

Alternative Indonesian Performance & Film Festival @District. The festival organized by Indonesian diaspora in Berlin will happen from 7 – 21 August across different venues in Berlin....

Artist talk with Mahmoud Khaled...

Performance & installation by Arshia Fatima Haq with Raed Yassin evoking the communal, immersive atmospheres of deep listening in Sufi dargahs, or shrines...

kal is temporal glitch, a sphere of remixing, for “creating new “records” through radical action” (Legacy Russel). In their site responsive collaborative performance, Venuri Perera and Nuray Demir remix queer feminist technologies of honouring and (re)inscribing the battles and works feminist ghosts...

Connecting participants in and beyond Karachi, Colombo and Berlin, the workshop with A Frei aims to experiment with relationality beyond linear notions of time, attunement toward difference and simultaneity of place and shared sonic fields ...

Conversation with Arshia Fatima Haq of Discostan, Lucas Odahara and The Many Headed Hydra - practicioners who utilise building infrastructures for coming together as an inherent part of decolonial feminist artistic work ...

How may we inhabit queer pasts and futures through ideas of performance and drag, ritual making and deep listening to planetary ecologies? Promona Sengupta, Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis and Venuri Perera in conversation. ...

Our bodies are the most cutting-edge and futuristic technology we possess to change our realities. Cephalopods like jellyfish have been studied to be able to achieve live genetic coding and genetic editing at light speed for purposes as simple as adapting to a warmer temperature in seawater......

You will learn how to set up a small PA, use different mixers and other sound equipment, soundcheck, set up monitor speakers, and some basic theory on electricity....

Mit dem Festiwalla stellt das Theater X ein internationales CommUNITY-Kulturfestival auf die Beine, unter anderem bei District*Schule ohne Zentrum. ...

At District, the mitkollektiv shares selected processes of Reimagine Jetzt! Create your own history with the visitors....

**The exhibition is open again and extended until 04. June 2021**...

As we are not able to (re)open the exhibition at this moment, we would like to share a selection of the video works from the exhibition with you....

an opportunity for a group of emerging art practitioners permanently or temporarily based in either Colombo or Karachi whose work explores feminist, anti-fascist, anti-racist and queer possibility. Deadline: 30 April...

Im Rahmen von REIMAGINE JETZT: Gestalte deine Geschichte selbst!, ein Projekt für kulturelle Bildung von mitkollektiv Juli 2020 - Juni 2021...

A collective translation of Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s work. Lecture by Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, followed by a Q&A...

For our upcoming fiction anthology, we are looking for voices in/from/across South Asia that build queer utopias through storytelling....

Workshop with Promona Sengupta and Shanti Suki Osman ...

as part of the project Wissen über Brücken – Conocimiento sobre puentes. Relating to Gloria E. Anzaldúa in Words, Vision and Context...

Im Frühjahr 2018 lanciert District Berlin die zeitgenössische Online-Videokunstplattform D'EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former “East” and “West”, die bis Jahresende 2020 online zugänglich sein wird. ...

Across the Palk Strait and many generations, Draupadi is remembered and propitiated to negate infertility and malaria. Her polyamory no longer celebrated, becoming a footnote; lost in the tectonic shift of the topography of memory. ...

From late June, the Yoggaton video channel goes online. ...

Online exhibition – Cooperation project between D’EST and Moderna galerija, Ljubljana ...

Online exhibition, live video channel, publication launch, talks & screenings ...

Yoggaton workshop and Q&A with Macque Pereyra...

Workshop with Shanti Suki Osman based on feminist DIY methodologies and open source software ...

**Event cancelled** According to a recent decision by the federal and state governments, art and cultural institutions are to be...

A Series of Audio Performances for Cell Phones...

International group exhibition with works by Dovilė Aleksaitė, Milijana Babić, Mareike Bernien and Kerstin Schroedinger, Kim Bode, Centre for Women's Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka, Lea Culetto, Lenka Đorojević, Anna Ehrenstein, Jinran Ha, Johann...

The Level 1 workshop is perfect for people who do not have experience with sound equipment!...

Open air festival with Afrodiaspora 2.0, Babiche Papaya, Bad&Boujee, Don Jegosah, Douniah, Ilgen-Nur, Kollektiv DNA, Mandhla, Meron, Miriam Davoudvandi, Preach, Slic Unit, Titi Amoako (nappyheadedberlin) a.o....

(Ingrids Web_Hospital install 2) – (Skip the web and embrace the longing body at distance)...

Gesprächsformat mit Gülriz Eğilmez, Sabuha Salaam und Margarita Tsomou und weiteren Gästen...

Event series with talks, film program, workshops, lecture, performance and concert...

Concert with Derya Yıldırım and DJ-Set by DJane Masta Sai...

Video screening with Anna Engelhardt, A.S.S. Collective (Mizu Sugai & Jonathan Jung), Senka Domanović, Ruthia Jenrbekova & Morris Getman and Flo Kasearu; followed by a discussion with A.S.S. Collective...

Film screening and talk with Gülriz Eğilmez, Angelika Nguyen and Nivedita Prasad ...

Sample Reading with Tunay Önder (migrantenstadl), Ismahan Wayah and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah ...

A children’s workshop based on the oral tradition El Rincon de las semillas (Where the seeds come from) from the Wirrárika-Bibliothek of the Tuapurie community. The date will be announced as soon as possible...

According to the new regulations for cultural events: Small Town Utopia takes place analogously at District (with registration) and via livestream!...

Guided by the writings of Gloria Anzaldúa visual artist Paloma Ayala in collaboration with musician Luna León, reframes Anzaldúa’s poetry in a format that invites to sing along, read together, listen and participate....

Online exhibition – cooperation project between D’EST and etc. gallery, Prague...

The workshop Borderlands is based on Anzaldúa's method of building knowledge production on one's own experience and on her understanding of border as a space that allows opposites, binaries, paradoxes and contradictions to be brought together....

Reading of poems by Semra Ertan...

Feminist Struggles Yesterday and Today: Protest banner workshop for the International Women*s Combat Day on March, 8th and a visit to the exhibition Laboratory 89 in the FHXB Museum with an introduction by Nicola Lauré al-Samarai / co-curator of the exhibition...

Through an overview of “Mestiza” texts and writing practice, this workshop will provide a welcoming space to practice mixed genre writing for self-knowledge and creative expression....

WORKSHOP SERIES: Maque Pereyra and District invite you to participate in the research Yoggaton as Empowerment and Decolonial Body Practice....

Karen Michelsen Castañón will share short excerpts from conversations in her video project No Poems for Columbus, which offer a change of perspective on the so-called "discovery" of the American continent. ...

What does it mean for each of us to live in the Borderlands? ...

At this year’s BeFem Festival, D’EST will present Postcosmetic META-morphoses, a video screening about beauty and gender norms and their global toxic bonds....

Book Launch "wild recuperations. material from below" and exhibition opening "Turnen: A Vocabulary of Revolutionary Gestures", Eastgerman Undergroundsound 1979-1990 and "Legeparty: URKUNDE - 40 Jahre DDR", Conversation about Black feminism and antifascist self-organisation...

The Easterndaze x Berlin festival once again invites artists, actors and activists from the electronic music scene of Eastern Europe to Berlin, pairing them with locally-based labels/collectives for live performances, DJ sets and talks....

Pêdra will articulate their works with the concept of Crossroad in Anzaldúa's thoughts....

Gestures of De-Monumentality. D'EST Screening in Plovdiv, Bulgaria with works by Tal Alperstein and Julia Turbahn, Gery Georgieva, Szabolcs KissPál, Ilona Németh, Eglė Rakauskaitė / Rakė and Adnan Softić....

A double event at TIER & Archive Books@Arkaoda...

In this lecture, Miñoso examines poetic movements as part of the anti-racist and anti/decolonial struggle in Abya Yala (Latin America). ...

The Many Headed Hydra at Is It Possible To Exist Outside of Language? curated by Aziz Sohail at Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Gallery, Karachi...

Open workshop by Maque Pereyra in the salon of the Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek ...

The event Intersectional Feminism - we need strategies of solidarity and actions! brings together critical actors from Berlin as part of Berlin Art Week and creates a space for encounters. ...

Portable Landscapes: Unweaving the Iron Curtain is a cooperation with the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art and shows artistic and political expressions of diaspora and dissidence....

HOMES, BELONGINGS, EXCHANGES, CODES, ENCOUNTERS, ALLIANCES, INFRINGEMENTS, ESTRANGEMENTS, ENTANGLEMENTS, DESIRES, MEMORIES & EXILES....

MYSTI will perform an introduction to I AM NOT SULKING I AM HONORING YOUR LIMITATIONS in conjunction with its publication launch at District Berlin....

Publication lauch and collective reading: In Revolt She Said we were moved by the question which histories, participants, and voices still remain invisible within the dominant narratives about the so called ‚long 1960s’ and how they can be re-actualised....

In this talk, I wish engage with the political potentials of endurance through the lens of my ethnographic study with Muslim queer communities in Indonesia....

Screening and discussion on the occasion of Lene Markusen's latest publication Sisters Alike. Female Identities in Post-Utopian, published by Spector Books and designed by HIT....

With Caring for Conflict we are searching for queer cultures of conflict, for possibilities to fight together: against injustice, inequality, and violence....

Künstlerisch-wissenschaftliches Symposium des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Das Wissen der Künste“...

An installation by Nguyen Phuong Linh co-inhabited by In One’s Breath–Nothing Stands Still by Tuan Mami, Memory Of The Blind Elephant by Nguyen Phuong Linh, NAILS*hacks*facts*fictions collaborative publication and gatherings...

Collaborative publication on nailwork, art and migration. The magazine NAILS hacks*facts*fictions gathers different contributions that imagine the nail salon as a queer site of critical, trans-cultural practices and intersectional care politics....

KLIRRRRR celebrates the second project year of Caring for Conflict, a project of intersectional learning initiated by District Berlin and Institut für Queer Theory (iQt)...

to be a party to: to be involved in, to be associated with, to be concerned with, to be participant in....

Newcomers* 11 am – 18 pm Friedrichshain Kreuzberg Museum Adalbertstraße 95a, 10999 Workshop in Turkish language. Participation is free, no prior knowledge required. There will be snacks and drinks. Please register at pinarogrenci@yahoo.com....

‘Sexy Dancing’, Agency and Femme Empowerment/NAILS hacks*facts*fictions // Workshop for 15-20 participants....

REZ* na D’EST will present the work of the Berlin-based video art platform D’EST and its long-term commitment to capturing female and collective artistic positions that reflect the post-socialist transformation through moving images....

Across the Palk Strait and many generations, Draupadi is remembered and propitiated to negate infertility and malaria. Her polyamory no longer celebrated, becoming a footnote; lost in the tectonic shift of the topography of memory. ...

The lecture performance, lecture, film screening, conversation, workshop, and walk, invite all participants of the project to actively take part in creating new narratives of 68....

Exhibition period extended until 30 January 2019, opening hours by arrangement: ak@district-berlin.com...

Lecture-Performance with Pınar Öğrenci in the frame of Revolt She Said – Decolonial and feminist perspectives on 68 and the Vorspiel program of transmediale and CTM...

D’EST video screening with Marwa Arsanios, Ioana Cojocariu, Factory of Found Clothes, Elske Rosenfeld and The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, introduced by Ulrike Gerhardt...

A collaborative and performative space, this project offers collective forms to undo Dadaism and other white Eurocentric avant-garde narratives....

In 2018, this dissident history of the late GDR is still awaiting its public and especially artistic acknowledgement and appraisal as a political experience of relevance. ...

Über die gesamte Laufzeit des Projektes wildes wiederholen. material von unten ist die Ausstellung an zwei Orten für Besucher*innen geöffnet: im Archiv der DDR-Opposition und bei District Berlin....

Exhibition talk, performance and round table within the framework of “wild recuperations. material from below: Artistic Research at the Archive of the GDR Opposition“...

On December 15, 2018 we cordially invite you to D’EST's last screening chapter launch for this year: ReTopia....

A conversation about the environmental movement of the GDR, about Western and Eastern waste (materials, languages, ideologies), (radio)active landscapes and histories ...

Choros VI is a choreographic installation by the artist Moritz Majce and the writer Sandra Man. Objects, images, text, and the movements of a group of six performers form a landscape. ...

Conversations and archive readings about oppression and resistance in and in between different political systems, about queer subjectivities and anti-colonial struggles, their alliances, and im/possibilities. ...

a nomadic platform for learning and unlearning together. knowledge from below. self-education. political imagination. pedagogies of freedom, kinship and change....

On Saturday November 24, 2018, D’EST screening chapter #5 We Are Family will be launched by their curators Nataša Ilić and Jelena Vesić in conversation with respondents and audiences from Poznań. ...

manYdancing the digital ornament aims to reflect on what it means to form a collective body today, to activate and produce body knowledge through dance-like movement....

As 2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of 1968, we take this opportunity to engage with the student movement of the...

Karina Griffith followed the traces of Black and PoC filmmakers* in German film archives to expand the genealogies of Black-Authored Cinema in Germany. At the same time, she examines the decolonial role of the moving image. ...

We are engaging with conflicts within and beyond the Deaf Community....

With an opening and ending meditation, conceived by Negarra A. Kudumu Mad Vibrations: A Humming Ritual for Untrustworthy Narrators side-steps the cruelty of colonial modernity, and focuses on the radical, renegade voices of decolonial struggles who demand different realities for themselves....

In this workshop, through historical materials from newspapers, publications, and other ephemera, a mapping of the discourse of the relationship between sexual self-determination and anti-colonial (liberation) movements at that time will be created....

This autumn School Without Center *Moscow hosts D’EST in the exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art....

Lecture Performance with Dr. Natasha A. Kelly (Curator, Author and Scholar), Dr. Corina S. Kwami (Artist) and Kelvin Sholar (Musician)...

Talk with Karina Griffith (Artist, Curator and Filmmaker), Nathalie Mba Bikoro (Artist, Curator) und Dr. Natasha A. Kelly (Curator, Author, Scholar)...

You know next to nothing about feminist activities or histories and queer cultures in Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand? ...

Practices of radical health care – materials of the health movement is an artistic research about the health movement of West-Berlin....

Together with protagonists of the health movement and contemporary activists,  we would like to explore the health movement’s strategies, forms of organisation and fields of action in view of its relevance today....

On June 30th, we will present the first two screening chapters of the online video art platform D’EST. A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former ‘East’ and ‘West’ at Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf in collaboration with the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen....

The workshop offers the possibility to conduct a vaginal self-examination....

This workshop offers an introduction to basic concepts and methods of Radical Therapy and the process of F.O.R.T. sessions....

KLIRRRRR festival means: music, videos, workshops, discussions, exhibition contributions, and performances by artists and activists who suggest inspiring means of dealing with current conflicts....

Screening in the frame of Malzwiese summer festival...

Queer Black TV: Workshop with Aymar Jean Christian (co-founder of Open TV)...

Open Television & Queer Black TV: Screening and talk with Aymar Jean Christian (co-founder of Open TV) and Karina Griffith...

Black Women in Civil Rights: Film screening and discussion with Nevline Nnaji, Karina Griffith, Andrea Keppler and Margaret Amaka Ohia...

I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer ist eine Werkreihe, die aus kollektiver Anstrengung erwächst. Bei District findet IwtIcwlabd als Konzert in Form einer Performance und in einer Installation statt....

Producing Roma Feminist Art. Präsentation von Margaret Tali and nachfolgendes Künstlerinnengespräch von Mihaela Drăgan im Rahmen des D'EST Curatorial Summit ...

A Body is an Archive. Künstlergespräch mit Karol Radziszewski und anschließende Konversation mit der Kuratorin Zofia nierodzińska im Rahmen des D'EST Curatorial Summit ...

DIT-Dampfbad-Architektur und Ritual Eine zweitägige Werkstatt von und für Quere Frauen*, Trans und nicht-binäre Menschen von 18 bis 27 Jahren (ungefähr) ...

In the studio talk Karina Griffith, District Studio Grant holder 2018, gives insight into her artistic practice as well as into her research on Black German film production around 1968....

Performance by Vika Kirchenbauer Performers: Ashkan Sepahvand, Max Göran, Vika Kirchenbauer ...

SISTER STONES AND BLOCKS OF ANGER. Queer Petrographies is a collective artistic inquiry into diasporic stones in Berlin and the histories and ecologies they are part of....

Employing artistic means ranging from video and performance to storytelling and improvisation, the workshop invites its participants to play with language(s)....

Friederike Hamanns Installation Konstellation I und II, the sixth project in the series AAArchitecture, has been developed fort he second floor of NEXT, a building by architect Jürgen Sawade from 1994 which is now part of the Malzfabrik ensemble....

Nonsphere XIV by Luis Berríos-Negrón is the seventh project in the series ArtAndArchitecture and has been developed for the staircase of NEXT, a building by architect Jürgen Sawade from 1994, which is now part of the Malzfabrik ensemble....

With Laura McLardy’s Line of Least Resistance, District presents the eighth project of its AAArchitecture series at NEXT, a building by architect Jürgen Sawade from 1994, which is now part of the Malzfabrik ensemble....

Sea Body Infrastructure Image Magazine #01, Summer 2016 14 August 2016 – 31 December 2018 169 x 239 mm, Softcover...

For Part 2 at District Berlin the body of WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK. A Serpent's Tale travels and grows several new heads to speak from the belly of the Hydra to the Berlin context....

My Mother’s Land / Müttererde calls for femme forms of ancestral history in the face of the often interrupted historical knowledge of the African diaspora in Europe and elsewhere....

STREITBAUTEN is a participatory art and architecture project aimed at young people between the ages of 12-27. In cooperation with the intercultural meeting place Fresh 30 and Rückert-Gymnasium, the workshop series investigates, builds and uses architectures as social forms. ...

The workshop is an invitation to think together, to talk and share ugly materials and empowering Anti*Preuß tactics....

5 November 2017, 7.30-8.30 pm - MC Baustelle I: Arbeitstitel/ Working Title 3 December 2017 , 7.30-8.30 pm - MC Baustelle II: Klassen Sprechen/ Speaking Class...

As part of the exhibition WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK (A Serpent’s Tale), Bryndis Björnsdóttir presents a hybrid version of Mountain Woman that gives an outdoorsy pillow talk in the sand, bringing to the front a mesh of ecosystems while dancing a weird and treasonous flamenco dance....

In light of global capitalism’s never-ending crises of representation and the rise of right-wing populism, today we observe a return to the suppressed relations of class – a return that itself comes in many languages....

A day of talks, discussions, a performance and a party will conclude KLASSENSPRACHEN in Berlin, whose next iteration will open in November at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf....

The participants of the workshop are invited to contribute to the dialogue with their own impressions of the exhibition and their experiences of class, of the realities of work and fluid identification in the field of art....

The CAMPerVAN is modified caravan that hosts performances, lectures, workshops and screenings. Inspired by a mass wave of LGBTQ venue closure in London, it can be deployed anywhere in the world to make queer art accessible to everyone. ...

WHEN THE SEA LOOKS BACK (A Serpent’s Tale) is a polyphonic oracle that takes the form of an exhibition, a series of evocations and a radio magazine curated by The Many Headed Hydra....

The opening weekend was accompanied by a program of artistic and theoretical contributions that charted the contested terrain of class languages and put up for debate its potentialities and problems. ...

As a physical way of coming together, concentrating on the matter of doing together, a repetitive, exhausting exercise. A meditative situation, a physical activity, possibly a violent action, a resonance piece....

Together with Nguyen Phuon Linh, member of the Hanoi based Nha San Collective, we will welcome guests for a dinner and conversation on Monday May 22 from 7 pm....

Discoteca Flaming Star present wonderful songs of love, consumption, fervor and feminism. In the performance Sticky Stage the interdisciplinary collective proposes a rehearsal situation within a dystopian landscape mixed with a musical soundtrack. ...

Exploring scenarios of unlearning nor-mative practices, this workshop collects together and experiments with tools from the realms of art, critical educa-tion, everyday life, and intersectional experiences and theories....

On three evenings in April District will be hosts Softsonic GG, a Live Audio Drama by the Berlin based collective Polyphrenic Creatures. By connecting ritual and rhythm with borrowings from performance, installation, music, and radio play Softsonic GG takes its guests on a journey....

Inspired by the soviet revolutionary and feminist Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Aughterlony and Rosenblit navigate current forms of feminist politics ­beyond manifestos....

The Public Seminar investigates perspectives on the post-socialist transformation as well as on theoretical positions and discourses from art history, art theory, visual culture studies and historical studies....

Undisciplinary Learning takes the novel The Aesthetics of Resistance by Peter Weiss (1916–1982) as an impetus to question current knowledge politics at the intersection of artistic, political, and pedagogical practices....

Undisciplinary Learning: City connects original locations from the book, which are characterized by transformations, traces of political conflicts, or ephemeral encounters, with current emancipatory topographies....

TRÜMMERBERG KILIMANJARO assembles a performative archive that interweaves the urban traces of German colonialism and how it is expressed culturally and economically, as well as the migration context of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district....

The day-long symposium focuses on self-empowering pedagogies, especially from feminist, queer, leftist, anti-racist, and decolonial contexts and renegotiates institutional epicenters of western education and science such as schools, research institutions, or museums....

In a three-part workshop, Santillán will enter into a performative exchange with participants. The series will share research from a collaborative, long-term project situated at the intersection of documentation, art, and knowledge production with indigenous, nomadic Mexicans communities....

The workshop of the performer and visual artist Julie Carvalho focuses on the rise of queer activism during the Weimar Republic in Berlin, and on the life narratives of queer individuals from this time....

Appropriating monuments, Squat Monument reconstructs memories from the visibility and invisibility of people’s lives in relation to the trajectories of migration over many generations....

all inclusive explore the paradoxical parallels between the manic culture industry and wholesome, hyper-real holiday resorts. His choreography deconstructs and reflects strategies of image production along with its logistics: practical working processes crash against sensual corporealities....

Curated by Xandra Popescu, O’ Mystical East and West presents contemporary works of video art that critically interrogate mythical and phantasmatic images of the “imaginary West” and “East” with a particular focus directed towards gender codes, clichés, and geopolitical stereotypes....

This year District will again take part to the Project Space Festival with an exhibition by Ato Malinda, a performance Bryndís Björnsdóttir and printed contributions by Anna Hallin & Olga Bergmann, Bryndís Björnsdóttir, Hannah Black, Natasha Ginwala, Tinna Grétarsdóttir, Emma Haugh, Suza Husse a.o....

Raumschiff (Spaceship) Marzahn is an educational art project with the aim to explore urban spaces of transformation. Focusing on public space as a place for learning and creating narratives, artists and children from Marzahn examine the architecture of large estate Marzahn-Hellersdorf. ...

Doubling Past opens trans-temporalities generating contingencies between transformative breaks and historically unredeemed possibilities of corporeal memory....

PUBLIC SPEAKING works with the accumulated tensions between ideas of art for art’s sake and its potential to produce social change. ...

Felix: "I’m concerned with who we are and how we move on this planet, what scales we are in and what they mean. Consequently, I’m interested in the interplay between space and us. I use a playful approach to such phenomena, such as in Vertikale."...

A short dystopian sci-fi film about communities of care, militant struggles, dreams and toxic trauma....

This interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project explores the relationship between visual art, dance, and music as a collaborative process. It manifests itself in a setting located between laboratory and workshop, club and stage....

Accompanied by music and visual movements created by Maria Guggenbichler and Amal Alhaag for the occasion, a set of materials from The feminist health care research group and a group of plants, we launch two fabulous zines into the world: French Kisses & Sick Leave....

As a preliminary surfacing of Emma Haugh and Suza Husse’s The Many-Headed Hydra performance and publication project, this workshop will be a collaged reading of Bryndís Björnsdóttir’s art work Quota Queen (2015) and other texts....

The symposium SEA BODY INFRASTRUCTURE IMAGE originates in the artistic research project Keep Frozen, an ongoing investigation into coastal cultures, transnational labor relationships and the movement of bodies, machines and commodities....

The health care research group's aim is to develop independent and feminist perspectives on the broad field of health, on wellbeing, our bodies, disease and care. With Sick Leave they would like to explore thinking and speaking through illness as a form of producing and sharing knowledge. ...

The ReproReality Hack Lab is a series of workshops initiated by the research avatara Transformella and the curator Suza Husse to collectively fathom queer-futurist reproduction scenarios. ...

The theatre laboratory session invites various Berlin-based women’s groups (working on social development and arts education within diverse communities) for an aesthetic experience facilitated by BÁRBARA SANTOS. The public event will bring together an evening open to the public with its results....

At the center of the exhibition, event, and performances is the character Transformella, Surrogate Mother of the Institute for Reproductive Futures. She is one of the multiple fictive identities and hysterical-subversive drag characters that Systema identitekturae has cyclically developed since 2009...

In dialogue with musician Tarren Johnson, Julian Weber's constructing ruins interlaces sculpture & dance, exhibition display and stage. The different materialities, animacies and temporalities of the structures and bodies present create resonances which question the intangibility of the surroundings...

embark on a journey into the future /// become a member of the repro-revolutionary tribe & put new life-forms between bio- and techno-beings to a test /// connect your experience to the ideas of the russian avantgarde & the exhibition 's artworks /// make short films with your cell phone's camera...

How can a word create a space? How can a song be embodied?...

With FRENCH KISSES, curator Amal Alhaag and artist Maria Guggenbichler initiate a series of encounters with the aim to develop an understanding of taste which stems not from separateness, social distance or distinction, but from tasting as touching, being in touch, being touched and affected....

Trespassing the limitations, closedness and invisibility of selection procedures towards moments of critical, solidary communality, District launches a new cycle of evenings dedicated to artists who unsuccessfully applied for the Studio Grant Program for Women Artists. ...

The Berlin Art Prize is an independent award annually honoring contemporary art from Berlin. Its aim is to support and connect the city’s artists. This time hosted by District on 12 June 2015, the Berlin Art Prize was bestowed for the third time. ...

Commentary clarifies, validates, and argues from a subjective position. As an instrument of opinion-making it serves to question existing discourses on truth. In this sense, it represents a form of political, social, and economic critic that reveals and problematizes power mechanisms....

A constellation of texts, videos, drawings, sound recordings, surveys, banners and notations that have arisen from the artistic-performative engagement with Marzahn’s socialist past undertaken by the art and educational initiative Pioneers of Marzahn....

Presenting the works of the 8 artists and the artist collective, who since 2010 participated in our Studio Grant program, the satellite serves to link aesthetic border transgressions, nomadic temporalities, unleashed conceptions of space & resistant politics of the peripheral along an erratic orbit....

Bringing together artists Katharina von Dolffs, Klara Hobza, Jeronimo Voss as well as the artist collective Cooltūristės under the star dome of Planetarium at Insulaner to explore the artistic imaginations of the universe as well as social and aesthetic visions linked to outer spaces....

An invitation to join the galactic constellation of fantastic women artists to experience, celebrate and dance and in support of a publication accompanying the exhibition Satellite Affects and Other Lines of Flight. The title referring to deep sky objects first catalogued in the Catalogue of Stars....

Jana Gunstheimer’s Genie (Labor) is the fourth project of the AAArchitecture series. At the site where the control centre and maintenance commands of the historic Malzfabrik were located up until 1996, the artist has created a gloomy laboratory and monitoring platform for an absent genius....

Yvonne Reiner’s Performing Encounters continues the series of workshops and acts Curatorial Practices: Fields and Techniques which District dedicates to the exploration of current tendencies, questions and methods of curatorial work....

The Forgotten Pioneer Movement (TFPM) is an interdisciplinary performance and exhibition project about the experiences of the last, transitional generation between socialism and post-socialism....

DIRECT APPROACH is an ongoing collaborative film and art project by Stine Marie Jacobsen. Since 2012, the artist together with different collaborators, activates pop-cultural narratives on violence from film and cinema in relation to specific socio-biographic contexts. ...

The studio talks are a public frame for District studio grant artists to discuss their practice departing from a selection of work samples. D’Angelo has invited Dr. Bernd Wagner, criminologist and cofounder of the initiative Exit Germany who is an expert on right-wing extremism and radicalism. ...

What causes gaps and changes in a system? How much control do we need over the creations we participate in? Which are the landscapes of the inter-zones between planned and spontaneous creation?...

The project Resonance Assembly by District studio grant artist Zorka Wollny investigates the former factory area of the Malzfabrik in Tempelhof-Schöneberg and its relicts of machinery as resonant bodies for a music of the forgotten and of transformation. In a series of concerts, a temporary ensemble...

Khaled Barakeh’s mural Transmigrations (2013) on the facade of District is the fifth project in District’s AAArchitecture series of site-specifically developed art projects at the intersection of architecture, urban space and media technologies....

A program for the realization of site-specific artworks that rethink the connection of art and architecture. Three of these artworks are located in NEXT, a building by architect Jürgen Sawade from 1994 which is also part of the Malzfabrik ensemble. ...

Zorka Wollny has invited the cultural theorist Sabine Sanio, who heads the department of Theory and History of Auditive Culture at the Sound Studies MA Programme at the Berlin University of Arts. ...

The foundation of dissident desire is an editable archive in collaboration with GenderArtNet as well as local and international practitioners, thinkers and initiatives from the fields of art, cultural and political theory, philosophy and sociology....

Exercises of Critical Body Building is an exhibition and performance project, which opens up a rehearsing space for body-based knowledge production and non-conformist modes of operating within the ongoing research framework of dissident desire....

Terrain of Threshold Voices is dedicated to forms of artistic research on language in relation to the transforming urban landscape. Inspired by the presence of written expressions which take the contemporary city as a textual surface - language phenomena are explored as terrains of friction....

dissident desire is an ongoing art and research project on the performativity of precarious (social) bodies. Questioning the contemporary production of the body and ideas of desire, dissident desire establishes a framework for the search for everyday forms of political subjectivity....

How can we dislocate and relocate the qualities of intelligence? How can we begin to re-align the boundaries, stretching out ideas to points of rupture, generating something altogether unexpected, surprising and new? ...

The video installation Lập Lòeof the year 2012 shown at District will be introduced in the context of the symposium ổn định động Mobile Akademie Hà Nội Hội An Sài Gòn Bá Linh. Lập Lòe is based on a series of Tran Luong’s performances with the title welts. ...

A moveable facility for knowledge production and exemption, established by art students in the class of British artist Simon Starling. After its first stations in Hà Nội, Hội An and Sài Gòn, Mobile Academy in collaboration with District is now visiting Bá Linh for the two-day symposium ổn định động....

Achim Lengerer works with questions concerning language, which are addressed in performances, installations and publications. Rehearsing P.W. is based on research about the aesthetics of political speech in different archives from the FRG and the former GDR....

Presenting the French Magazine VOLUME for the first time in Germany, District opens the second part of its ongoing series of exhibition experiments and performative exercises (Dis)playing paper, hours and constellations. ...

In preparation of the coming edition of the annual artists’ magazine SKULPI, Schramm und Sochacki develop their dialogue as an open gesture turned towards the visitors. Geschmack posierend is meant as an invitation to enter interdisciplinary conversations and varying constellations....

VISUAL AID is a cross-disciplinary exhibition and performance project on unconventional forms of musical notation, which constitutes the fourth and final part of the series (Dis)playing papers, hours and constellations....

Artist Julius von Bismarck, experimental designer Benjamin Maus and filmmaker Richard Wilhelmer concentrate on public space as a discursive and...

Discoteca Flaming Star and curator Suza Husse exchanged daily emails between 1 and 7 April. A textual structure gradually developed from these "Agora Conversations"....

Sculptures, performances, drawings, films and songs revolve around moments and situations in which the visitors (can) become potential constructors of unforeseen and heterochronal actions. How does such a space of potentialities, a space in which time and reality temporarily dissolve, emerge?...

For the furious closing of both dissident desire chapters EXERCISES OF CRITICAL BODYBUILDING and TERRAIN OF THRESHOLD VOICES this coming Saturday, December 7th, District invites to a full day and night program of performances....

An exhibition that investigates how language is used in the construction of public identities and social interactions. SAY IT LOUD asks artists and their audiences to consider both the hierarchies and possibilities woven into the relationship between words and actions. ...

POST-STUDIO TALES is a residency-as-exhibition investigating «contemporary art practice and the spaces of its production». For one month, 18 artists and 3 curators will stay and work at District in a site-specific exhibition architecture designed by architectural collective Something Fantastic....

The Neukölln Social Parquet is a participatory art project by the artist Barbara Caveng. Dismantled furniture was collected in Neukölln and transformed into floor installation made out of about 3000 parquet pieces....

The visual artist Balz Isler, philosopher, musician, performer and stimulator, „overwrites“ digital data such as videos, photographies, sounds, clips and texts and translates them into the present, into „real time“ (Paul Virilio) in his multimedia installations and performances....

A couple of years ago the artist duo purchased two sleepy pieces of land on ebay, one lying close to Dewitz in Mecklenburg-Hither Pomerania, the other one close to the town Oasis in the desert of Nevada. In both places, the people suffer from water shortage and start to get inventive....

The exhibition is concerned with the materiality of objects and the self-engagement of the subject with material experience. Inspired by Walter Benjamin’s early childhood memories as well as a Kandinsky poem, six artists work with the affective language of things and productive misunderstandings....

With Where there was 'Fabrik' there shall be Factory District presents an extensive installation by Misha Stroj – conceived by the artist particularly for the institution – and inaugurates a new site for art in Berlin on the grounds of a former malthouse in Berlin Schöneberg....

The visual artist Martina von Meyenburg is presenting her monumental installation Escaping Reality for the first time in the facilities of Berlin's Malzfabrik. In collaboration with the Zurich film director and musician Martin Andersson, Martina von Meyenburg creates a mythical site of escapism....

The Kcymaerxthaere Project is the geographical location of a parallel universe, the traces of which the artist and self-appointed geographer Eames Demetrios has installed on the site of the Malzfabrik. ...