At a time when our lives are constantly subjected to acceleration and to a...
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Opening hours
Mon – Sun 10 am – 7 pm / Exhibitions: Wed – Mon 11 am – 7 pm
Phone
+49 - (0)30 - 39 78 71 75
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Email
Foundation year
1989
Director/initiator
Bernd M. Scherer
Transport
S3, S5, S7, S9, S75 S-Bahn Hauptbahnhof / U55 U-Bahn Bundestag / Bus 100
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt is a place for international contemporary arts and a forum for current developments and discourse. It presents artistic productions from around the world, with a focus on non-European cultures and societies.
HKW is partner of Berlin Art Week.
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
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Miss Read BerlinMISS READ: The Berlin Art Book Festival & Fair 2023 takes place from September 22–24 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), hosting 340 exhibitors... | 22 Sep-24 Sep | read more |
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Ceremony (Burial of an Undead World)We live and survive in the decaying ruins of the modern/colonial world-system: structures of systemic inequality, institutions, border regimes and... | 22 Oct-30 Dec | read more |
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Where is the Planetary? A Gathering | In Collaboration with Koki Tanaka Practices and Conversations How could collaboration maintain a habitable... | 14 Oct-16 Oct | read more |
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The Most Dangerous Game The Path of the Situationist International to the Events of May 1968 The title of the exhibition, THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME, refers to a lost collage of the same name by Guy Debord (1931-1994), who influenced the... | 26 Sep-10 Dec | read more |
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Language and Knowledge - conference“Language brings order into the existing world and it allows us to enter non-existent worlds by firing our imaginations. In the sciences, it serves... | 8 Apr-9 Apr | read more |
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Past DisquietIn the 1970s, artists across the world mobilized around anti-imperialist solidarity movements. Departing from the 1978 International Art Exhibition... | 18 Mar-9 May | read more |
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A History of Limits The critique and deconstruction of the modern canon has shaped both artistic practice and theory over the past three decades. However, the canon is... | 18 Mar-19 Mar | read more |
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Nervous SystemsCan our inner thoughts be transmitted by our eye movements? Can our future actions be predicted by our current behavior? Julien Prévieux’s film... | 10 Mar-10 May | read more |
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The Artist At Work – Adam AvikainenFor the painter and writer Adam Avikainen, all of nature becomes a crime scene in a continuing story that subsumes elements of his life in an... | 20 Sep-21 Sep | read more |
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After Year Zero. Geographies of Collaboration since 1945After Year Zero looks at the emergent new world order after 1945 with a focus on the intertwining of European and African history. Works by artists... | 18 Sep-24 Nov | read more |