Wellcome: Karin Korte, City Councilor for Culture

Greeting: Pia Entenmann, artistic director of Tarabya Academy of Culture

Introduction to the exhibition: Sarah Maske, curator

Icelandic curator and architect Elísabet Gunnarsdóttir talks with Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov, the artists of the exhibition “Hidden People”, about their journey and the wondrous encounters in Iceland.

Theremin concert by Dorit Chrysler for the exhibition opening of “Hidden People”.

Isabel Lewis’ occasions can be thought of as a ritual of gathering for the 21st century, offering a liberalized form of attendance that allows visitors to linger for hours or just pass by.

Viviana Druga and Dafna Maimon are creating an installation in the form of a kind of support center as a laboratory of their own, in which somatic experiential strategies are being tested.

Magical illusions by Ben Blu at 48 Stunden Neukölln “BOOM” - a bang, sparks fly and things are gone - where did they go? Changing, disappearing, fading, forgetting - not only the OTTTO group of artists is taking a stand in the current exhibition “Invisibilities. Panorama of Disappearance” with these topics, but also the magician Ben Blu.

Neurologist Dr. med. Péter Körtvélyessy, talks about memory disorders.

In a conversation with the lawyer Karina Theurer from the human rights organization ECCHR, the artist Regina José Galindo, talks about femicide and patriarchal violence.

In the frame of the exhibition “This Might Be A Place For Hummingbirds” Regina José Galindo shows her performance “Monument To The Missing Women”.

The discussions concerning Humboldt Forum in recent years have ignited long overdue debates about the colonial past of Germany and Europe. In conversation with the artists Kristina Leko and Sandra Monterroso, the curator of the exhibition „This Might Be A Place for Humming Birds,” Çağla Ilk, will discuss how to deal with colonial heritage and the challenges of post-colonial memory culture.