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Claude Gomis & Saskia Köbschall. Laboratorium der Solidarität
Exhibition
Claude Gomis & Saskia Köbschall. Laboratorium der Solidarität
8 Oct 2016 – 1 Oct 2017
Regular hours
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Auerbacher Ring 41
- Eingang Kastanienboulevard
- Berlin
Berlin - 12619
- Germany
The project Laboratorium der Solidarität explores past and present methods of solidaritywith the fight against racialized forms of oppression.
About
It takes Marzahn-Hellersdorf residents’ memories of former GDR solidarity movements (e.g. with the Civil Rights and Anti-Apartheid movements and the people of Vietnam) as its starting point. While the GDR placed great emphasis on the importance of a worldwide anti-racist struggle and education, it systematically denied the existence of racism “at home”. The project aims to emphasize the importance of self-reflective and critical methods of solidarity in the framework of Marzahn-Hellersdorf’s changing political, visual and discursive landscape. In this way the particularities of the borough’s specific history and current socio-cultural contexts might generate new forms of coexistence relevant beyond its boundaries.
Images found during the research will be installed on a footbridge above the Kaulsdorf-Nord Underground Station (U5).
Laboratorium der Solidarität is a collaborative project between Dakar-born, New York City-based artist Claude Gomis and Berlin-born anthropologist and curator Saskia Köbschall.
Read more about the project "Mitte in der Pampa [The Middle in Nowhere] - Art in the Underground 2016/17"
