Kapwani Kiwanga, Vumbi, 2012, Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

UTOPIA. Keep on Moving Utopian Dimensions

Exhibition Opening

Under the leitmotif of “Thinking with / from images”, curator Diana Wechsler presents videos and installations by Christin Berg, Ingo Dunnebier, Gabriela Golder, Ali Kazma, Kapwani Kiwanga, Enrique Ramírez and Regina Silveira for the historically charged Akademie building on Pariser Platz which create possible horizons for a contemporary humanism. The Fahrstuhlmusik installation by Kathrin Röggla and Leopold von Verschuer explores the utopian potential of movement between and beyond the floors.

Carolin Emcke reads from her new book What is true. On Violence and Climate – a plea for the ethics of storytelling and thinking in utopias, followed by a discussion with Jeanine Meerapfel. The Broken Frames Syndicate ensemble will present pieces by Mary Bauermeister, Sarah Hennies, Angélica Castelló and Pauline Oliveros throughout the evening.

Friday, 3 May

6 pm
Exhibition opening and concert
With Jeanine Meerapfel, Kathrin Röggla, Diana Wechsler
Music: Ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate

In German

Free admission

8 pm
Reading, talk and concert
With Carolin Emcke, Jeanine Meerapfel
Music: Ensemble Broken Frames Syndicate

In German

€ 7.50/5