Finissage: Palmification

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with: Ali Abuhassan, Fadi Aljabour, Rula Ali, Kifan Alkarjousli, Mayada Alkayal, Mohanad Alsneeh, Ali Amam, Barakat Arrja, D’Andrade, Hami, Diwali Hasskan, Nadira Husain, Dreamteam, Marenka Krasomil, Cam-Anh Luong, Talia Manor, Katharina Marszewski, Dachil Sado, Batoul Sedawi, Hatef Soltani, Samaneh Soltani, Vera Varlamova, Noureddin Yassin, Marwa Younes Almokbel.

Co-existence with multiple forms of life, animals, plants, and bacteria, allow for an artificial cross-pollination of ideas – this at least is one of several starting points of the project “Palmification”. In a collective process, artists of the *foundationClass collective and friends build junctions around concepts such as “home,” “belonging,” and “habitat,” intersected personal ideas and experiences, reached out into the neighborhood, planted utopian concepts, and composted social restrictions and boundaries.
During a time period of five months participants met regularly at feldfünf and started hosting ecological systems, planting seeds, and cultivating bacteria through fermentation. This mutual inclusive space was enriched by conversations, rituals and exchange to create and activated different forms of collaboration and coexistence. During this process the palm tree as an exoticized object was re-appropriated, it grew roots, branched out, became a parasite, an air plant: embodied, invented, and digested.

In support of equal access to art academies for those who have migrated or fled to Germany, the *foundationClass tries to create a social space where everyone’s resources are acknowledged and validated and where new formats of skill sharing and knowledge transfer can be developed. Ultimately, the *foundationClass wants to question the norms, conventions, and habitus of art institutions and the industry as a whole. The *foundationClass is located at weißensee academy of art berlin.