Opening: The Canticle of the Birds

The new exhibition Das Hohelied der Vögel / The Canticle of the Birds by Katia Kameli and curated by Valerie Chartrain opens at ifa Gallery Berlin on 12 May 2023.

Activation: C&’s Center of Unfinished Business

Join us for a special event day with a panel at ifa Gallery Berlin and party at ACUD on 18 March 18 2023 to celebrate C&’s 10th anniversary.

Untie to Tie. Colonial Fragments in School Contexts
Publication

Remnants of colonialism continue to mark the social norms still found in school curricula and textbooks today.

These ties to the past find expression within structural racism as experienced by so many school children every day—in the schoolyard, in countless classroom interactions, and through that which is not revealed, spoken or conveyed.

This anthology explores these colonial continuities and their effects on discourse, imagery, and the politics of language. Embedded in the arts, education, and social sciences, the authors aim to counter these persistences through alternative representations and striking new perspectives.

This publication accompanies the research and exhibition project Untie to Tie – On Colonial Legacies and contemporary societies, realized by ifa Gallery Berlin, in cooperation with the German Federal Agency for Civic Education/bpb.

Click here to read the publication online

Editorial Direction:

Aïcha Diallo / Annika Niemann / Miriam Shabafrouz

Authors and Artists:

Josephine Apraku, Jule Bönkost, María do Mar Castro Varela, Nikolaj Jesper Cyon, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, Jean-Ulrick Désert, Marlene Dumas, Merih Ergün, Ndèye Codou Fall, Saraya Gomis, Leila Haghighat, Stacy Hardy, Devin Hentz, Moshtari Hilal, Rangoato Hlasane, Claudia Hummel, Rajkamal Kahlon, Prabhakar Kamble, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Annette Krauss, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Elina Marmer, Sunanda Mesquita, Karen Michelsen Castañón, Babacar Mbaye Ndaak, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Neo Muyanga, Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard, Wura-Natasha Ogunji, B’net Rahal, Juliana dos Santos, Sumesh Sharma, Thiago de Paula Souza, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Ferdiansyah Thajib, Malick Welli, Aram Ziai

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Chains of Interest

In the exhibition Chains of Interest, Isaac Chong Wai, Lizza May David, Wilhelm Klotzek, Ofri Lapid, Adrien Missika and Gitte Villesen continue their personal explorations of the ifa art collection.

Artist Talk with Lizza May David

In conversation with author and artist Anna-Lena Wenzel.

Artist Talk with Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc and Lea Altner

Accompanying the exhibition Gods Moving in Places.

Opening: Gods Moving in Places. The Day Reader

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s work intertwines his own personal history with the collective history of the Guianas, which is deeply rooted in the forests of the Amazon Basin.

Gods Moving in Places. The Day Reader

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc’s work intertwines his own personal history with the collective history of the Guianas, which is deeply rooted in the forests of the Amazon Basin.

Portrait Marcel Pinas

For more than twenty years, Marcel Pinas’ work has been guided by the desire to preserve the culture and language of his community, the Ndyuka, a Maroon people.

The Maroon Wars and maroonage were important events in the struggle against and resistance to slavery in the Caribbean and more specifically the Guiana Shield. After escaping the plantations to hide in the forests, the Maroons waged war on French and Dutch enslavers in order to free the slaves, enabling the Saramaka, Aluku, Paramaka and Ndyuka nations to establish themselves permanently along the Maroni River. Pinas’ sculptures, installations and drawings convey this specific relationship to landscape, history, memory and language. The work presented in the exhibition articulates the movement to preserve Afaka, a syllabic way of writing the Ndyuka language.

Talk with Manuel Raeder and Rodolfo Samperio

Manuel Raeder (Germany) and Rodolfo Samperio (Mexico) are long-time collaborators recently working under the name Probject, concept borrowed from the brazilian designer, artist and composer Rogerio Duarte.