{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "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"}, {"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": "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": "Architectural Echotones", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-22T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Savvy Contemporary", "address": "Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/racism"], "description": "ARCHITECTURAL ECHOTONES. A Poetics Of The Surrounds is an exhibition and takeover of the SAVVY Contemporary art space in Berlin's Wedding district, spanning installations, paintings, drawings, video works and on-site performances. It is presented by SAVVY Contemporary as part of the 36th São Paulo Biennale's travelling exhibition programme, with the Brazilian collective Vilanismo, a brotherhood of ten Black artists from the peripheries of São Paulo, showing in Berlin for the first time. The group uses the venue as a laboratory and working studio to address race, gender and class, Black masculinities, ancestral and Afro-Indigenous knowledge, and resistance and self-organisation in peripheral urban life. Guided tours with the artists, curators and the SAVVY team, workshops on the collective's curatorial practice \"curadoTRETA\", and contributions from the library and radio station are part of the programme.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/architectural-echotones-17965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6dfcb45b5fc23e3c106f8f1f73aed7f00ed9d4fd42c27da71b13e6709d15df47-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Verwandt sein: geteilte Sprache, geteiltes Wissen?", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "regulär 9 EUR", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/indigenous"], "description": "This exhibition at the Humboldt Forum is a video installation on endangered languages and the theme of family. It is a temporary exhibition by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss and the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, together with the Endangered Languages Archive and Endangered Languages Documentation Programme of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. The films feature people in Indigenous communities who document their language and culture, among them speakers of Dza in Nigeria. They share their views on the role of the family, on kinship, and on the changes taking place in their communities.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verwandt-sein-geteilte-sprache-geteiltes-wissen-3512/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/laufzeitangebot/ausstellung/verwandt-sein-geteilte-sprache-geteiltes-wissen-152731/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/220fba6e3e4b1022ea6d50471948ae8e0d81c3542975c753544ecc26ef9cf808-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Las Americas", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "9 EUR zzgl. Ausstellungsticket", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/ethnography", "history/colonialism"], "description": "“Las Americas” is a public dialogical tour for adults at the Humboldt Forum devoted to the indigenous diversity of the Americas. It is run by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin together with the Ethnologisches Museum. On show are, among other things, dance masks of the Kwakwaka'wakw and stone carvings of the Mesoamerican ritual ball game. The tour discusses collaborations with indigenous societies and the museum’s handling of cultural assets from colonial contexts and restitution.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/las-americas-10767/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/las-americas-2026-10-26-170000-162313/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5d2c6f989e8db8361bd47c1d6551b280a72c7133f2b810fcbaab581d7ce1dfc2-2000.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": "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": "80. Waisenhausgespräch", "start": "2026-11-11T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "SchuleEins Waisenhaus, Betsaal, Berliner Straße 120-121, 13187 Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei / free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/memory-culture", "literature/reading"], "description": "The 80th Waisenhausgespräch asks how a culture of remembrance can succeed as a project across generations. Organized by the Cajewitz Stiftung together with the SchuleEins and the Theater OfW, it features pupils presenting their research into the history of the former orphanage, a staged reading by Anja S. Gläser and Florentine Schara (text and staging by Philipp Urrutia, with English surtitles), and a panel discussion with Lena Ditte Nissen and Rosa Jellinek. In this way the historic building's Betsaal becomes a place of living memory where past and present enter into dialogue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/80-waisenhausgesprach-72986/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Voneinander lernen und gemeinsam agieren: Provenienzforschung und Vermittlung zu NS und Kolonialismus zusammendenken.", "start": "2026-11-16T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus Bastian – Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung", "address": "Am Kupfergraben 10, 10117 Berlin", "price": "0 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/provenance-research"], "description": "An evening talk and discussion in the lecture series „Provenienz und Vermittlung im Gespräch“, part of the project „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten“. Dr. Sven Haase, provenance researcher at the Central Archive of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, and Dr. Patrick Helber, curator for education and outreach at the Ethnologisches Museum, report on their projects on the intersections of the Nazi era and colonialism. Moderated by Dr. Lilja-Ruben Çaharnas Vowe, they discuss similarities and differences between the two disciplines from a transhistorical perspective and what public debate can learn from discussions on colonial looted art. The project is a cooperation between the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste; admission and participation are free, registration is requested.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-10956/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/voneinander-lernen-und-gemeinsam-agieren-provenienzforschung-und-vermittlung-zu-ns-und-kolonialismus-zusammendenken-2026-11-16-180000-160852/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97a02728430dd9e7149162dc18524e394401c06a15d53d6b2957f6956f8ece5a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "‘GOING PLACES’ – MARTY SANDER, PEDRA GUINNESS, SU WEISS – „Memory and Landscape: Landschaft als Erinnerungsraum“", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kultur in der Petruskirche", "address": "Oberhofer Platz 2, 12209 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/going-places-marty-sander-pedra-guinness-su-weiss-memory-and-9330/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a291db7fa20e436c7a6bc17086e8336e8b2cccad45cb768adb3854bd4c05bf2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Koloniale Gewaltgeschichte erinnern - Gespräch mit Abenaa Adomako und Dr. Ibou Diop", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schöneberg Museum", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/racism"], "description": "A conversation on remembering German colonial history of violence takes place at Schöneberg Museum. Abenaa Adomako and Dr. Ibou Diop discuss civic engagement within Berlin's decentralized culture of remembrance, coming to terms with German colonial history and researching Black German history. Adomako has been campaigning against racism and for making Black history visible for over 40 years. Diop curates discourse programmes and art exhibitions in Senegal and Germany and, since 2022, has been shaping concepts and places of remembrance for Berlin's colonial history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gesprach-mit-abenaa-adom-12563/", "official_url": "https://museen-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/events/koloniale-gewaltgeschichte-erinnern-gespraech-mit-abenaa-adomako-und-dr-ibou-diop/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c149d30805acc9a39ff7783253385b478b15a133ac14bb4278dd607fc8dc1706-600.webp"}, {"title": "Restaurierung im Dialog", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-03-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Museum für Asiatische Kunst", "address": "3. OG", "price": "9 EUR (Ausstellungsticket für Ethnologische Sammlungen und Asiatische Kunst erforderlich)", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conservation", "history"], "description": "\"Restaurierung im Dialog\" is a temporary exhibition about the conservation and restoration of cultural objects in museums. It is presented by the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss together with the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz. On show are two crest poles from the northwest coast of Canada, a small lacquer cabinet from the Qing dynasty, a Mongolian shrine from the 20th century and a ceremonial pipe of the Umoⁿhoⁿ from Nebraska, accompanied by a booklet with further information. The focus lies on the complex decisions that shape the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage and on dialogue and cooperation between international partners, conservators and curators.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/restaurierung-im-dialog-3510/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/laufzeitangebot/ausstellung/restaurierung-im-dialog-144418/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8649855257991ed017236cefd4d976cd0c7ad1e36145c8ad60659a9da6be4f93-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Die Unbegrabenen. Traces of Violence", "start": "2026-10-11T10:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "roam projects e.V.", "address": "Lindenstraße 91 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "Die Unbegrabenen. Traces of Violence\" is an exhibition at the project space roam projects e.V. in Berlin. Curated by Prof. Dr. Márcio Seligmann-Silva, it centres on the series \"Traces of Violence\" (2021) by Marcelo Brodsky, made up of thirty altered historical photographs, alongside texts and a video by Forensic Architecture and Forensis. Its subject is the German colonial army's war of extermination against the Ovaherero and Nama in what was then German South West Africa, and the death camp Shark Island near Lüderitz. The exhibition is accompanied by a series of lectures, discussions, screenings and guided tours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-unbegrabenen-traces-of-violence-15559/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/85d593f67b63de765a24f2ef38e0714ca8b3985bacf1bcee546eb68341dce754-600.webp"}]}