The opening of the Dekoloniale Festival will take place this year from November 14th to 17th, 2024 in the districts of Berlin-Mitte and Berlin-Wedding.
On the evening of November 14th, we will open the decentralized exhibition Dekoloniale – what remains?! in the Museum Nikolaikirche together with the Stadtmuseum Berlin. Here, the five Dekoloniale Berlin Residents 2024 will show their group exhibition “Colonial Ghosts – Resistant Spirits. Church, Colonialism and Beyond” and the curatorial team will present the historical exhibition “Inscribed. Colonialism, Museum and Resistance.” The topics addressed in each case are Berlin’s centuries-long involvement in the global history of slavery and colonialism and the interventions of resistant personalities, which have not yet been recognized here.
November 15th, 2024 marks the 140th anniversary of the historic Berlin Conference of 1884/85. The discourse event Dekoloniale Berlin Africa Conference 2024 reflects this past and its effects on the present and brings together representatives from Africa and its global diasporas. They discuss the aftermath of the historic conference, which is now reflected here. Parallel to the main program, a series of practice-oriented, mostly target group-specific workshops will take place as part of the Dekoloniale Academy 2024. We will conclude the second day of the festival with the music theater piece Ecosystem by GROUP50:50 in the Maxim Gorki Theater.
On Saturday, November 16, the Dekoloniale Festival is organizing the all-day Dekoloniale City Tour as every year with many interesting historical and contemporary stops and corresponding interventions by our invited experts at the interfaces of science, art and activism.
On Saturday evening we will host this year’s closing party of the Dekoloniale Festival at our friends and colleagues SAVVY Contemporary in Wedding.
On Sunday, November 17, we will talk to our network partners and end the Dekoloniale Festival with lunch at the Gropius Bau.
