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In the exhibition Spheres of Interest* artists Isaac Chong Wai, Lizza May David, Wilhelm Klotzek, Ofri Lapid, Adrien Missika and Gitte Villesen open a dialogue, marked by different artistic approaches, with selected artworks from the ifa art collection.
The last months of our work were marked by regular visits of the art deposit in Neukölln, in order to explore the collection and choose with the artists which artworks could be featured in the exhibition.
Video by Victoria Tomaschko.
Gods Moving in Places explores the political potential of the Caribbean and Guyanese imagination.
The two-part exhibition exploring the political potential of the Caribbean and Guyanese imagination. It presents the memories, narratives and histories that have shaped this imagination – including indigenous mythologies and the violent conquest of the South American continent – through what Édouard Glissant (1928–2011) calls the tropical night and the spirits and figures that weigh on the shoulders.
The artists were invited by Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Lea Altner initiated the exhibition.
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.
To mark the 100th anniversary of his birth, ifa Gallery Berlin is presenting drawings by Joseph Beuys from the ifa collection in dialogue with the artistic positions of Andrea Acosta, Anne Duk Hee Jordan and Sara Ouhaddou. Both Beuys and the featured artists address overlooked, disregarded, handed-down forms of – often collective – knowledge.
Yon Natalie Mik’s performance Silk-Shop-Oriental-Body is a response to Xiaowen Zhu’s documentary film Oriental Silk (2015). Growing up as a second-generation Korean German, Mik finds resonance with the story of Kenneth Wong, the owner of the Los Angeles-based Chinese silk shop portrayed in the film. Through means of language, sound, memory, and movements that derive from the words silk, shop, oriental, and body, metamorphosing as crucial motifs in the dance, Mik explores the enmeshments of migrant bodies across different generations and places by threading her personal history through the memoirs of Kenneth Wong.
Digital Book Launch with Xiaowen Zhu (Artist and Author), Nicky Harman (Translator), Michael Mason (Designer)
Contributor: Yon Natalie Mik (Performance Artist)
Moderated by Inka Gressel
Display. Sara Ouhaddou
A collaboration between ifa Gallery Berlin and Manifesta 2020
A programme of encounters, readings, listenings, performances and interventions on, through and across the questions of restitution and repair through art. It combines the sonic and the poetic, movement and speculation, thought and debate by criss-crossing contemporary geopolitical divisions that need to be unsettled. The invited artists, thinkers, poets, dancers and scholars leave traces throughout Marseille and beyond, online and offline, provoking us to think about knowledge production, movement and (im)possible reparation. Adapting to the conditions of the Covid-19 pandemic, this programme consists of one day of encounters at the Vielle Charité on September 12th and continues both off- and online. Over the course of M13, this series of iterations presents records, and gathers traces of events, which will be made accessible in a variety of formats to future audiences on untietotie.org.
An die Bedingungen der Covid-19-Pandemie angepasst, besteht dieses Programm aus einem Tag der Begegnungen in der Vielle Charité und wird sowohl offline als auch online fortgesetzt. Im Verlauf von Manifesta13 präsentiert diese Serie an Iternationen Aufzeichnungen und sammelt Spuren von Ereignissen, die in verschiedenen Formaten dem zukünftigen Publikum auf untietotie.org zugänglich gemacht werden.
With: Matthieu Abonnenc, Nora Al-Badri, Memory Biwa, Barbara Cassin, Badr El Hammami, Bhavisha Panchia, Dorothée Munyaneza, Estelle N’Tsende, Xavier Rey, Assia Zouane, et al.
Conceived and curated by Nikola Hartl, Alya Sebti, and Jonas Tinius
Today, 12 October, we would like to draw attention on the struggles of indigenous people around the world by sharing the teaser of “TERRITORIO”.
During the process of colonisation of the American continent, the more “nature” was understood as an ally of the original inhabitants, the more it was hated. The habitat was not understood as a living landscape but as a political landscape. The forest was considered to be barbaric, and by cutting the native trees what was sought was to cut off ancient memory, to drive it into strangeness to appropriate spaces which were signified as empty, like deserts.
The full documentary essay by Brayan Sticks was created for our upcoming exhibition “The Listening and the Winds. Narratives and Inscriptions of the Gran Chaco”.
This conversation was done to accompany the solo exhibition “In the Presence/Absence of Mazen Kerbaj” that opened at ifa Gallery Berlin in February 2020. Two weeks after the opening, the show had to close due to the lockdown imposed to fight the Covid-19 pandemic; it opened again in May 2020 albeit with new safety measures and restrictions. The conversation took place on 26 June 2020 via video conferencing, Hatem Imam being in Beirut and Mazen Kerbaj in Berlin. It was recorded in one sitting, with no prior discussion.
