Past Events
Cancelled | Mazen Kerbaj invites... Andrew Lafkas plus one
30.4.2020, 7pm
Concert
Music and visual arts are the two facets of Mazen Kerbaj’s work. Both practices influence each other a lot, and it seems very natural to present a series of concerts in this exhibition. In this series Kerbaj invites one of his close collaborators in Berlin, asking her/him to bring along another musician. The name of the second musician will remain unrevealed to Kerbaj and to the audience until the date of the show, where the three musicians will perform together for the first time.
Andrew Lafkas is a musician currently living in Berlin, Germany. His primary instrument is the contrabass. He is currently focused on developing pieces for largish…
Video | Mazen Kerbaj invites... Tony Buck plus one
23.4.2020, 7pm
Concert
Due to Coronavirus ifa Gallery Berlin had to cancel a series of concerts where Mazen Kerbaj would invite close collaborators from Berlin, and ask them to bring along a guest to play a trio together. Now Kerbaj has found a way to replace these gigs by recording solo pieces while listening to the other musicians solos through headphones, both an homage and a an open letter to close collaborators who he cannot meet for the time being: This time he recorded a solo while listening to Tony Buck’s Tidal, an unreleased piece that the musician shared with him for this project.
https://vimeo.com/414261985
Tony Buck is regarded as one of Australia’s…
Art Education
Cancelled | Lecture: How racism talks through schoolbooks
27.3.2020, 7pm
Lecture
On the coloniality of knowledge transfer within the school context
Lecture by Dr. Elina Marmer
The lecture will be held in German. For more information please check the German page.
Video | Mazen Kerbaj invites... Ute Wassermann plus one
19.3.2020, 7pm
Concert
Due to Coronavirus ifa Gallery Berlin had to cancel a series of concerts where Mazen Kerbaj would invite close collaborators from Berlin, and ask them to bring along a guest to play a trio together. Now Kerbaj has found a way to replace these gigs by recording solo pieces while listening to the other musicians solos through headphones, both an homage and a an open letter to close collaborators who he cannot meet for the time being: Enjoy this first attempt recorded while listening to Strange Song 6 by Ute Wassermann!
https://vimeo.com/400085413
As a vocal artist and composer, Ute Wassermann is known for her polyphonic and extreme sound language,…
Artist Talk: In the Presence / Absence of Mazen Kerbaj
28.2.2020, 4pm
talk
Lebanese comic author, visual artist and musician Mazen Kerbaj and Hatem Iman, curator of the exhibition In the Presence / Absence of Mazen Kerbaj, will explore the relationship of autobiography and politics in underground comics. Since 2011, the two have collaborated on many design projects mostly in the alternative music scene of Beirut.
Ultrasanity: Guided Tour
24.1.2020, 6:30pm
Curator Elena Agudio will offer a guided tour of the exhibition at ifa Gallery Berlin. Artists Eva Kotatkova und Leo Asemota will join her and the visitors to give an inside view into their work.
Opening: ULTRASANITY. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry and Resistance
13.12.2019, 7pm
Exhibition Opening
28.11.2019, 7pm
Talk
Reading session with Nida Ghouse and Haytham El-Wardany
Is a word a concrete intervention or is it an abstraction of social relations? Is a color an abstracted property? Or is it an excess that can never be exhausted by any particularity? A reading session on color, language and community with texts by different authors.
Nida Ghouse is a writer and curator (born in Bombay) living in Berlin. Her recent essay, The Whistle in the Voice, appeared in the publication accompanying Natascha Süder Happelmann’s presentation for the German Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). She co-curated Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold…
Rereading: A Critical Diversity Textbook Workshop
Art Education
7.11.2019, 7pm
11. Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint, Bornemannstraße 9
Die Remise – activation by Aïcha Diallo and Annika Niemann, in German
11th Berlin Biennale c/o ExRotaprint
Free admission, limited capacity
With Aïcha Diallo und Annika Niemann
In the summer term of 2017, the project Untie to Tie—Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies by the ifa Gallery Berlin (Institute for International Cultural Relations) collaborated with the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts. The seminar was dedicated to a critical rereading of textbooks and children’s books in relation to the politics of representation and language. In response to this textbook workshop, Aïcha…
Palestine Hosting Society: A collective in the making
13.9.2019, 7pm
Presentation and tasting with Mirna Bamieh (artist, cook, Jerusalem/ Palestine)
Palestine Hosting Society is a live art project that explores traditional food culture in Palestine especially those that are vanishing or on the verge of disappearing. The project brings these dishes back to life over dinner tables, walks, and various interventions. Palestine Hosting Society is founded and run by artist and cook Mirna Bamieh, as an extension of her art practice that often looks at the politics of disappearance, and memory production.
Technoheritage and Restitution
13.6.2019, 7pm
Talk
An exchange between artist Nora Al-Badri and anthropologist Jonas Tinius
Seferis in Pergamon: Myth, History and Archaeology
26.4.2019, 7pm
Talk
Talk by Arie Amaya-Akkermans
Through five different fragments selected from Giorgos Seferis’ Mythistorema, a sequence of twenty-four lyric and dramatic poems in free verse, Arie Amaya-Akkermans will explore different aspects of Hera Büyüktaşcıyan’s exhibition Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky, focusing on Seferis’ method of moving ambiguously between history and myth.
Opening Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky
28.3.2019, 7pm
Opening of the exhibition
28.3.: Opening of the exhibition Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky
29.3.: Artist and Curator Talk with Hera Büyüktaşcıyan and Nat Muller
Resonances
1.3.2019 — 16.3.2019
space for research and encounter
Resonances (rez.ən.ənsez) is a space for research and encounter at ifa-Galerie Berlin. Reflecting each chapter and exhibition of Movement.Bewegung, the platform brings together voices, thoughts and actions of allies and collaborators who have inspired and contributed to the Untie to Tie programme.
Resonances
Opening Resonances and
ARK - Arkestrated Rhythmachine Komplexities
Resonances
1.3.2019, 7pm
Opening, presentation, performance
deufert&plischke:
Knotting Choreographies
What does it take to cross a border?
24.2.2019, 4-5pm
Workshop
choreographic workshop - no registration needed
In the framework of their performative installation spinnen, deufert&plischke invite the audience to take part in a choreographic workshop. Together we will write down some algorithmic rules and transfer them into space by walking and looking at each other. The words keep us together like imaginary threads and make us move not next to but through one another, building collective knots by temporal alliances, stumbling, hesitation or smiles.
Farah Saleh:
Archiving Gestures
What does it take to cross a border?
23.2.2019, 3-6pm
Workshop
Farah Saleh will share her ongoing artistic research on the archive of gestures with the art community in Berlin. The workshop will investigate how individuals can contribute to change through exploring social and political memories, using the body as an archive. By re-enacting, transforming and deforming gestures in different creative ways, it will experiment with ways of archiving gestures and personal alternative narratives that are omitted from official narratives.
Mischa Leinkauf and Sandra Noeth:
Two lectures and a dialogue
What does it take to cross a border?
23.2.2019, 8pm
Talk
Anne Juren: Plastering the Body
What does it take to cross a border?
23.2.2019, 11am-2pm
Workshop
This workshop will explore different somatic body practices (such as the Feldenkrais method) that choreographer Anne Juren uses in her research on Fantasmical Anatomy in order to explore the relation between body functions, body images, dance and choreography. In this workshop, we will work with the idea of the skin as a boundary-object and surface, and explore the practice of plastering as an artistic strategy to rethink how we experience the body, its contours and its boundaries. Participants are asked to bring comfortable clothes and a towel.
Anne Juren:
The Lesson on the Skin
What does it take to cross a border?
22.2.2019 — 24.2.2019
Performance
Friday, 22 February, 8–9pm
Saturday, 23 February 6.30–7.30pm
Sunday, 24 February, 2–3pm
deufert&plischke mit Kike García Gil:
spinnen
What does it take to cross a border?
22.2.2019 — 24.2.2019
Performative installation
Friday, 22 February, from 2pm onwards
Saturday, 23 February, from 2pm onwards
Sunday, 24 February, from 3pm onwards
Quarto:
Communal Rope
What does it take to cross a border?
22.2.2019
Workshop
In this workshop, we will share some of the work and practices that we have developed in the context of the ROPE-series over the last ten years. We will be dealing with the rope as an emblem, as a riddle and a problem, collectively encountering its qualities and dealing with its entanglements. These are some of the questions we will be exploring together: How do you untie a huge knot collectively? What happens with the limits between bodies and objects when dealing with a very long rope? Please bring comfortable clothing.
What does it take to cross a border?
On borders, bodies, and performance
21.2.2019 — 24.2.2019
Performance, Workshop, Talk
The ifa-Galerie Berlin presents a four-day event programme addressing the experience of borders from the perspective of bodies. Through a series of performances, original artistic contributions and workshops, a group of international artists will ask participants to examine how borders are created, engendered and negotiated by physical, choreographic and sensory strategies and processes, but also how we can understand and redefine them through physical experience. The programme will be complemented by talks and conversational formats.
The Lion’s Spring
Talk and discussion with artist Hassan Darsi and Omar Berrada
19.2.2019, 7pm
Talk, Discussion
We cordially invite you to a conversation between artist Hassan Darsi and writer and curator Omar Berrada which is organised in the context of HUDUD, a transdisciplinary art and research programme curated by Driss Ksikes and Omar Berrada.
HUDUD, an art and research project on (post-) colonial mobilities
19.2.2019, 7pm — 20.2.2019
Workshop, Talk
HUDUD (arab. "borders") is a transdisciplinary art and research programme that brings together young artists, architects and social scientists based in Morocco.
"Was I sleeping, while the others suffered?”
28.1.2019, 7pm
Lecture
Contemporary Art, the Refugee Condition, and the Alibi of Engagement
Talk by Anthony Downey
The talk will be held in English.
Free entry.
Artist Talk with Abdessamad El Montassir
22.11.2018, 7pm
Artist Talk
The event will take place in French and will be consecutively translated into English.
Free entry.
Invisible
Exhibition Opening
11.10.2018, 7 pm
Opening of the exhibition Invisible
With Zainab Andalibe, Kenza Benamour, Hicham Berrada, Mohammed Laouli, Abdessamad El Montassir, Anna Raimondo, Leila Sadel and Anike Joyce Sadiq.
Radical Discounts
Artist Talk with Jace Clayton
12.7.2018, 7 pm
Artist Talk
What if the radical potential (if any) of music exists not in its performance and consumption, but in how it is or isn’t archived? Jace Clayton (New York), artist and writer, also known as DJ/rupture, will explore this notion using examples that range from Julius Eastman and Lee Lozano’s conceptual hostilities to black radicality under the banner of brand sponsorships.
4.6.2018, 2–6pm
Workshop
A workshop by and with Walter Mignolo for BE.BOP 2018. BLACK EUROPE BODY POLITICS. COALITIONS FACING WHITE INNOCENCE in collaboration with ifa-Galerie Berlin.
With Geraldine Juárez (artist), Alanna Lockward (curator BE.BOP), Walter Mignolo (advisor BE.BOP), Bhavisha Panchia (curator/researcher) and Alya Sebti (head of ifa-Galerie Berlin)
For the Record
1.6.2018, 7 pm
Exhibition Opening
Opening of Movement.Bewegung, the new exhibition and research programme of the ifa Gallery Berlin and its first exhibition For the Record.
With Vivian Caccuri, Jace Clayton, Geraldine Juárez, Christine Sun Kim and Julio César Morales with Discos Unicornio
Curated by Bhavisha Panchia
Gallery Reflections
Anthropology, Vulnerability, and Curatorial Practice
Gallery Reflection #5
16.5.2018, 7pm
Talk
For this encounter, Alya Sebti and Jonas Tinius speak about the institutionalisation and destabilisation of curatorial and anthropological practices.
A Conversation between Alya Sebti (director, ifa Gallery Berlin) and Jonas Tinius (anthropologist, HU Berlin).
Art Education
INTERLOOP
8.5.2018, 5-8.30pm
Workshop
During Week 2, we will explore (un-)readabilities and counter-readings. By experimenting with strategies of reading-between-the-lines, highlighting, erasing, and overwriting, we will be probing the emancipatory treatment of the canon of knowledge mediated through schoolbooks and children’s literature.
Art Education
INTERLOOP
3.5.2018, 5-8.30pm
Workshop
On the basis of playful (listening) hearing and drawing exercises, the act of drawing is experienced as an expanded realm of hearing. Taken as a point of departure are the Sonic Panoramas composed by Saout Radio (Younes Baba-Ali, Anna Raimondo) for Untie to Tie: the programme investigates the universe of sound art, presents different approaches and aesthetic experiences, and also opens up an auditory space of reflection.
In the workshop we will engage in resonance with the sounds and voices in the listening station and respond to that which is heard with different drawing utensils.
Art Education
Taking Sides: Open Zine Workshop on Solidarity in Resistance
INTERLOOP
28.4.2018, 2-5pm
Workshop
Zines are small, non-commercial, and self-published magazines or booklets that require little more than an idea, paper, pens, and a copier. Generations of movements devoted to youth culture, artistic activity, and social issues have used zines as a space for self-determination and empowerment. The autonomously published material focuses on topics like feminism, body politics, punk, or racism.
Art Education
27.4.2018, 6pm
Opening
Knowledge Transfer: Practices, Reflections, Perspectives
With INTERLOOP, the ifa-Galerie Berlin is reflecting back on the research and exhibition programme Untie to Tie – On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies. An essential facet of this project was the comprehensive event and education programme that accompanied the four exhibitions. INTERLOOP offers insight into the processes “behind the scenes”, sharing experiences and knowledge while also giving rise to new constellations.
Art Education
Stresspad XXL – Collective Sound Performance
INTERLOOP
27.4.2018, 6pm
Performance
For the opening of INTERLOOP, visitors to the ifa Gallery Berlin are invited to interact with the Stresspad, to work together in controlling and manipulating it, with the aim of acoustically intervening in the institutional space. It can get loud.
Gallery Reflections
Gallery Reflection #4
15.3.2018, 7pm
Talk
For the Gallery Reflection #4, we will be talking about “protesting identities” as “identities that protest” and “challenging (or protesting) identities”.
A conversation with Candice Breitz (artist, Berlin), Natasha Ginwala (curator, researcher, author, Berlin), Azadeh Sharifi (theatre scholar, LMU Munich), and Jonas Tinius (anthropologist, HU Berlin)
Center of Unfinished Business
Dominer l’Anonymat – Taming Anonymity
C&'s Center of Unfinished Business presents:
15.2.2018, 7pm
Presentation of the Artist’s Book, Talk
with Guy Woueté
Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures
26.1.2018, 26.1., 6–10pm & 27.1., 3–9pm — 27.1.2018
Lectures, Artist Talks, Screenings and Performance (EN)
With Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Vaginal Davis, Dilip Gaonkar, Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, Dariouche Kechavarzi-Tehrani, Thomas Seibert, Benedict Seymour, Niloufar Tajeri, Chandraguptha Thenuwara and Ala Younis
13.1.2018, from 2pm
Performance, Discussion, Lecture, Conversation
2 pm Performance: Wura-Natasha Ogunji, The Kissing Mask
2:30 pm Discussion with the performers
3 pm Lecture by Eva Barois De Caevel: "Acting Decolonially – From Adrian To Zora – Black Women Performing" (EN)
3:30 pm Coffee break
4 pm Kathy-Ann Tan and Wura-Natasha Ogunji in conversation: Perfomance, Masking and the ’limits of empathy and identification’ (EN)
Speaking Feminisms — Exercise with Tracey Rose
11.1.2018, 7pm
Performance
For this series of preliminary exercises, our point of departure is the acknowledgement of a deep, and we hope productive, disagreement on the meaning of and the contemporary valence of this term. Perhaps this is already what feminism is about, a form of collective non-alignment.
Through a series of performative events, talks and workshops, SPEAKING FEMINISMS enacts the multiple histories, struggles, and voices that define ‘feminism’ as both a practice and a concept.
In cooperation with SAVVY Contemporary
Center of Unfinished Business
gal-dem: Creating Spaces for Women of Colour Online
C&'s Center of Unfinished Business
14.12.2017, 7pm
Talk and Presentation
gal-dem is a creative platform online and offline which enables women of colour to talk about an array of issues.
Women on Aeroplanes // 1 // FILTER
30.11.2017 — 3.12.2017
Lecture, Film Screening
Women on Aeroplanes is a research-based project, which aims to get an idea of a more comprehensive notion of independence and allows to see and understand a women-informed view on a shattered presence of complicated dependencies.
Gallery Reflections
Art and (New) Intersectional Feminisms
Gallery Reflection #3
16.11.2017, 7.30pm
Talk
A Conversation with Alanna Lockward (author, filmmaker, BE.BOP curator), Federica Bueti (writer and editor, SAVVY Contemporary), Kathy-Ann Tan (academic, Berlin), and Jonas Tinius (anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin)
Performance and Artist's and Curator's Talk
29.9.2017, 6pm
Performance, Talk
6 pm Performance: Wura-Natasha Ogunji, If I loved you
7 pm Artist's and Curator's Talk with Wura-Natasha Ogunji and Eva Barois De Caevel (EN)
Cássio Bomfim: SALVE EXU MOTOBOY
15.9.2017, 7pm
Translinguistic Street Performance
“SALVE EXU MOTOBOY!” is a translinguistic process by the artist Cássio Bomfim. It proposes the construction of a fictional cosmology by exploring the nuances and similarities between the codes, rituals and archetypes of the Brazilian religion Umbanda – with a focus on spirits from the street, cemeteries and road crosses, to the figure and universe of motoboys, central agents for transportation and communication dynamics in contemporary Brazil. “SALVE EXU MOTOBOY!” contains a series of photographs, videos, live storytelling and other expressions, will bring a carnival-like parade to the streets of Berlin-Mitte.
Gallery Reflections
Traces, Legacies, and Futures: A Conversation on Art and Temporality
Gallery Reflection #2
7.9.2017, 7pm
Conversation
What does it mean to speak of colonial legacies (in the present), and how is this different from talking about traces, or remnants?
A conversation between Nora Al-Badri (artist, Berlin), Prof. Silvy Chakkalakal (anthropologist, HU Berlin), Prof. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll (artist and art historian, Birmingham/London), and Dr. Jonas Tinius (anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Magazine Launch: Aperture “Platform Africa”
20.7.2017, 7pm
Magazine Launch
This summer, Aperture magazine is presenting its 227th issue titled “Platform Africa”. “Platform Africa” takes an in-depth look at the dynamic spaces that have shaped conversations about photography in Africa for the last twenty-five years—the biennials, experimental art spaces, and educational workshops in which artists and audiences interact with photography.
With Contemporary And (C&)
African urban, african culture, african future - Hip Hop in Dakar
7.7.2017, 7pm
Performances, Talks and Screenings
Carte blanche to Alex Moussa Sawadogo
On the second day of this 2-day programme, Keyti points to the entanglements of Hip Hop and politics in Dakar and gives insight into his work as artist and activist for die Youth Urban Media Academy (YUMA). In his innovative format of the Journal Rappé, a „rapped" news programme that he has produced together with Xuman since 2013, Keyti addresses the urban space and ways to engage politically for the Senegalese youth.
African urban, african culture, african future - Sapeurs
6.7.2017, 7pm
Performances, Talks and Screening
Carte blanche to Alex Moussa Sawadogo
The 2-day programme, curated by Alex Moussa Sawadogo, the artistic director of the film festival Afrikamera – Current cinema from Africa, is addressing political resistance in urban space on the African continent. African Urban, african culture, african future is a platform for reflections on the processes of the development of its connections to photography, film, fashion and music.
On the first evening of the 2-day programme we invite you to a historical and geographical journey of the political figure of the Sapeur from the beginning of the 1990s until today.
Fraternité – Universality after Universalism
29.6.2017, 7pm
Conversation and Reading (DE/FR)
With Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch), Shumona Sinha, Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (Kulturaustausch. Zeitschrift für internationale Perspektiven)
Watch your step / Mind your head
23.6.2017, 4pm
Artist and Curator Talk
With Marina Reyes Franco, Irene de Andrés and Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Watch your step / Mind your head
22.6.2017, 7pm
Exhibition Opening
With Irene de Andrés and Sofía Gallisá Muriente
Curated by Marina Reyes Franco
Liberté: The language of Villa Sésini
Égalité – Liberté – Fraternité #2
29.5.2017, 7pm
Conversation
Lecture and discussion with Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch), Kossi Efoui (with reading) and Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (Kulturaustausch. Zeitschrift für internationale Perspektiven).
With lectures, discussions and readings, the series "Égalité – Liberté – Fraternité" takes the great
ideals of French universalism as the starting
point of a "politics of literature" (Jacques Rancière) of
the present.
Beyond the European echo chamber: in dialogue with the Global South. Cultural Diversity: social strength or existential threat?
21.5.2017, 10:30am
Panel Discussion
A large amount of the world’s major conflicts have a cultural dimension. So do rising populism, anti-immigrant attitudes and fears about the loss of national identity, prevalent in Germany and greater Europe. This event addresses the themes of cultural differences, their relationship to other dimensions of political and social life, their consequences for human co-existence and strategies in dealing with these.
With Anupama Sekhar, Abdullah Alkafri, Ayeta Wangusa, Keith Nurse and Ayoko Mensah
Égalité: Melancholy of white men over 40
Égalité – Liberté – Fraternité #1
16.5.2017, 7pm
Conversation
Lecture and
discussion with Markus Messling (Centre Marc Bloch), Olivier Remaud (EHESS Paris) and Jenny Friedrich-Freksa (Kulturaustausch.
Zeitschrift für internationale Perspektiven).
With lectures,
discussions and readings, the series "Égalité – Liberté –
Fraternité" takes the great ideals of French universalism as
the starting point of a "politics of literature" (Jacques
Rancière) of the present.
Gallery Reflections
Urban Decolonisation and Diasporic Formations
Gallery Reflection #1
4.5.2017, 7pm
Conversations
A conversation between Dr. Noa Ha (Center for Metropolitan Studies, TU Berlin; research fields: postcolonial urbanism, Asian diasporas in European cities; Board member of "Migrationsrat Berlin-Brandenburg"), Trang Tran Thu (Berlin Asian Film Network/Anthropologist working on Vietnamese diaspora in Berlin), Hyunsin Kim (Choreographer and Performer), and Dr. Jonas Tinius (Anthropologist, CARMAH/HU Berlin).
Kolmanskop Dream
30.3.2017, 7pm
Exhibition Opening
The grand opening of Untie To Tie at ifa-Galerie Berlin with our first exhibition Kolmanskop Dream, featuring Pascale Marthine Tayou, Contemporary And and Saout Radio. Join us there and have a look at our new exhibition, reading room and hearing station.
