Exhibition
Berlin Art Week 2016
13 Sep 2016 – 18 Sep 2016
Berlin Art Week
Berlin, Germany
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Poppyfield in Balkh province, Afghanistan, 2003 © Robert Knoth & Antoinette de Jong
Exhibition
Poppy – Trails of Afghan Heroin Installation by Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong
16 Jul 2016 – 25 Sep 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
Address
- Hardenbergstraße 22–24
- Berlin
Berlin - 10623
- Germany
Travel Information
- S1/S2 Oranienburger Strasse
Event map
The Silk Road has connected East Asia with the West for thousands of years. Once an important trade route—for the exchange not only of goods but also of religion and cultures—today large swaths of the Road are deserted, in decay, or being used to transport drugs.
About
For over 20 years, Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jong followed the trails of the heroin trade from Afghanistan across Central Asia, Russia, and the Balkans, through East Africa, Dubai, and Western Europe, to where the traces finally disappear in the concrete jungle of London. Brutal gang wars, deadly addictions, illegal money laundering, unscrupulous corruption and prostitution, coupled with the epidemic spread of HIV/AIDS: the multimedia installation “Poppy” is a striking documentary revealing a dark side of globalization as reflected in the faces of smugglers, prisoners, prostitutes, border guards, children, and farmers.
