{"title": "Pos(t)-Monumenta: From Pedestal to Word", "start": "2026-11-17T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "art"], "description": "A laboratory titled Pos(t)-Monumenta: From Pedestal to Word, led by Julián Santana-Rodríguez (Posmonumenta), with participation from Carla Isabel Espinosa Muñoz (Yanakuna / Rematriation Oversight Group) as well as Indy Piapya, Marleny Deli Yalanda Cuchillo and Adriana María Velasco Muelas (Misak Misak). Participants will reproduce figures using moulds and charcoal-based materials, then use them in transformative actions and practices of anti-colonial pedagogical writing. The event takes place in Spanish with English-language mediation. It does not celebrate colonial figures but questions their authority and explores alternative practices of public memory; entry is free and donations are welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/post-monumenta-from-pedestal-to-word-80102/", "official_url": "https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2026/pos-t-monumenta/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a6da4eacb8ca55a1cc6e28ecf17f8bd8445b27bfd171588db7b9e357d8a82e67-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-17T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2027-11-17T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Preuss’s Dilemma", "start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "price": "Free entry, donations welcome", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism/restitution", "art/sculpture"], "description": "A Círculo de Palabra y Escucha (word and listening circle) around the Stone Grandmothers, ancestral lithic beings from the Colombian Massif now held in the collection of Berlin's Ethnological Museum. Members of the Yanakuna and Misak Misak peoples, the Rematriation Oversight Group and Posmonumenta take part, including Jhon Alirio Córdoba Quinayas, Carla Isabel Espinosa Muñoz, Martha Jeannette Gil Gómez, Indy Piapya, Marleny Deli Yalanda Cuchillo, Adriana María Velasco Muelas and Julián Santana-Rodríguez. At the centre stands a soft textile sculpture of a Grandmother of Stone, divided into two parts, which participants will reunite through a collective weaving and sewing action whose line of joining remains visible. The gathering asks what it means to preserve an ancestral being by fragmenting it – as the German ethnologist Konrad Preuss once did to transport some of them – and is accompanied by community projection mapping with archival images and landscapes of memory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/preusss-dilemma-127424/", "official_url": "https://savvy-contemporary.com/en/events/2026/preusss-dilemma/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e903edc78191da81927d836cc00c57e681b7abe96230a61af0e9d8f2fc007ee9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort", "start": "2026-11-13T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "„Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort“ is an evening devoted to the question of how a central learning and memorial site on the history of colonialism could be designed in Berlin. The event brings together perspectives from academia, art, architecture, activism and memorial policy practice, sharing with a broad audience the conceptual and spatial foundations of the future site as well as the structures and networks that could sustain it. Artistically, the evening is framed by the dance company Fii ak Fee with the work DEM DEM and by Nathalie Vairac, who reads for the first time from Felwine Sarr's „Traces – A Speech to African Nations“. The event takes place in cooperation with „Kolonialismus erinnern“ and further partners, with simultaneous translation into English and French.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kolonialismus-erinnern-vom-konzept-zum-ort-293/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261113-1900/", "image": ""}, {"title": "TALK: The Grandmothers of Stone: Paths of Return and Re-existence", "start": "2026-11-13T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Babylon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei / Free Entrance", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism/restitution"], "description": "A talk offering a space of dialogue, memory, and collective listening in the OVAL, with free entrance. Members of the Indigenous Misak Misak and Yanakuna communities of Colombia invite us, alongside the Veeduría for the Repatriation/Rematriation of the Lithic Heritage of the Colombian Massif and Posmonumenta. Together with SIN TEMER and La Sur Real, the gathering weaves ancestral knowledge and shared reflections on historical reparation, territorial memory, and the return of sacred stone ancestors to their territories.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/talk-the-grandmothers-of-stone-paths-of-return-and-re-existe-67949/", "official_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/programm/festivals/la-sur-real-colombia/10775-talk-the-grandmothers-of-stone-paths-of-return-and-re-existence", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63c3f1d6e8afaa470e74f3c0696374c09468bbd0fb2f49d3cff8030882e1239f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Erinnerungsort Kolonialismus. Call & Response mit Alice Hasters und Khuê Phạm.", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz", "address": "Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism"], "description": "A keynote dialogue on the question of how a central place of learning and remembrance for the history of colonialism and its continuities can be shaped. Following an introduction by literary scholar and curator Ibou Diop, Alice Hasters and Khuê Phạm take up questions about forms, practices and politics of remembering and bring them into conversation with each other, after which the exchange continues with the audience. The event reflects on the Erinnerungskonzept Kolonialismus (2025), initiated by actors of Berlin's civil society, which combines activist, scholarly and artistic positions and presents guidelines for engaging with and remembering Berlin's long-suppressed colonial history. In cooperation with Kolonialismus erinnern, the dialogue opens the event „Kolonialismus erinnern. Vom Konzept zum Ort.“ on 13 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/erinnerungsort-kolonialismus-call-response-mit-alice-hasters-283/", "official_url": "https://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de/produktionen/kolonialismus-erinnern/20261109-1700/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sankofa - Fäden der Erinnerung", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Ballhaus Prinzenallee", "address": "Prinzenallee 33, 13359 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/circus/contemporary-circus", "history/colonialism"], "description": "SANKOFA – FÄDEN DER ERINNERUNG is an interdisciplinary performance and research project by Helen Schwochert and Brenda Akele Jorde and the first creation of their company Zwischen Seilen und Sein. The contemporary circus piece deals with cultures of remembrance and colonial continuities between Germany and Ghana. At its centre stands a transformable multisilks prop that serves as a stage set and a metaphor for a plural culture of remembrance. Two short films open the evening, followed by an exchange with the audience, artists, filmmakers and a representative of berlin decolonial tours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung-3736/", "official_url": "https://www.ballhausprinzenallee.de/spielplan-ballhaus/sankofa-faden-der-erinnerung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db340cd2473f2bd5d3a3f205fbf32315239787429c89cf440d0f0ed4837f0904-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MUSEUM MACHEN IN OAXACA – Gespräch mit Antonio Peña auf Englisch", "start": "2026-11-16T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunsthaus Dahlem", "address": "Käuzchensteig 8, 14195 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum", "society/identity"], "description": "An informal evening talk with snacks and wine at Kunsthaus Dahlem. In conversation with Gloria Freiler, curatorial trainee at the museum, Antonio Peña, head of museography at the MACCO in Oaxaca and currently an IFA fellow there, offers insights into Oaxaca's museum and cultural landscape. The Afro-indigenous artist and cultural manager speaks about his experience in cultural work and his artistic practice dealing with identity, representation and belonging. Together with the audience, the discussion covers collections, exhibitions, mediation and the role museums play in engaging with cultural diversity and history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/museum-machen-in-oaxaca-gesprach-mit-antonio-pena-auf-englis-120309/", "official_url": "https://kunsthaus-dahlem.de/das-programm/gespraech-mit-antonio-pena/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8613c718a740473f09717a1d7ee57917eaef345e332750de7d6b624bf3c75ae9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flutgraben e.V.", "address": "Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch\" is an openly designed evening that combines spoken word, an artist conversation and collective thinking. At its centre are tensions, contradictions and the space between apparent opposites. Behind the evening are Meriem Mohamed, an interdisciplinary artist and creative strategist whose practice is shaped by decolonial perspectives, and Glacier, an independent artist, musician, psychological counsellor and systemic thinker who moderates the conversation. Using the Know Thyself calendar as an example, it shows how a different view of time, memory and inherited orders can be translated into a personal practice and lived in everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/back-to-the-future-imagine-x-kunst-poesie-gesprach-96864/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7c7194f94e18c0d052ed221d5f988deaa411306333266c2a8946b1bc9320c6e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads: Humanity as Practice", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "€10 / reduced €7", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice is an exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Berlin edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, staged in Germany for the first time. It was conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung together with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza, with Alya Sebti curating the Berlin edition. More than thirty international artists contribute installations, performances, sound works, storytelling and spatial interventions, departing from a poem by the Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. The works approach listening and humanity as a living practice, engaging with the political and colonial inheritances of modernity as well as with care, interdependence, animal and plant life, memory and spirit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/not-all-travellers-walk-roads-humanity-as-practice-3145/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Schutzwesen – Superkräfte der Natur", "start": "2026-11-15T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "0 EUR zzgl. Ausstellungsticket", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "kids-family", "tags": ["art/participatory-art", "nature/biodiversity"], "description": "A drop-in workshop for families with children aged 6 to 12 at the Humboldt Forum. Participants visit the immersive panorama by artist Yorleny Cardozo Peña, experiencing the flora and fauna of the Colombian mountain massif along with millennia-old guardian figures, and then explore, in an artistic laboratory, the superpowers of animals with magnifying glasses and microscopes, learn the vital importance of biodiversity and create their own three-dimensional protective being. The workshop was created as part of a collaboration between the Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia (ICANH) and CoMuse, the Collaborative Museum at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst in Berlin. It aims to empower children to discover their own \"superpowers\" so as not to feel helpless in the face of climate change and species extinction.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schutzwesen-superkrafte-der-natur-10837/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/schutzwesen-superkraefte-der-natur-2026-11-01-150000-162805/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/39628323362d49358cc255a90954075e484842e804558525fbc67c9cc01957f6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Performance von Rachel Monosov mit Rachell Bo Clark, Cami Brogaard und Victor Dumont", "start": "2026-11-07T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Künstlerhaus Bethanien", "address": "Kottbusser Straße 10, 10999 Berlin", "price": "frei, keine Anmeldung erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "At Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Rachel Monosov presents a performance in which Rachell Bo Clark, Cami Brogaard and Victor Dumont take on the role of flag bearers. Starting from sculptural works based on paintings by Edgar Ende, they set choreographic sequences in motion between movement, repetition and spatial negotiation. The flag appears as a symbol of collective ideals, as a physical burden and as contested territory. Titled The Flag Bearers and curated by Jorgina Stamogianni as the seventh chapter of the exhibition series Becoming B, the work links surreal imagery with questions of conflict, belonging and vulnerability and Monosov's ongoing engagement with nationalism and collective identity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/performance-von-rachel-monosov-mit-rachell-bo-clark-cami-bro-67973/", "official_url": "https://bethanien.de/events/performance-von-rachel-monosov-mit-rachell-bo-clark-cami-brogaard-und-victor-dumont/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b1b9df5b6362e5ba61ae437f8b9016d412fdc54d1f3191142b3c70f1d04ec81-2000.webp"}]}