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Please note that this event centres BIPoC experiences and perspectives.
Free admission
Limited capacity. Please register here.
Venue
Former Courthouse Lehrter Straße, 1st floor
Lehrter Straße 60, 10557 Berlin
Language
English
Further dates
August 16, 2025, 3:30 pm
Planting Seeds to Hunt with the Wind (PSHW), Subtle Agency (Artist Collective comprising Bradley van Sitters, Noncedo Gxekwa, Niklas Zimmer and Julia Theron); image: Noncedo Gxekwa and Niklas Zimmer
Please note that this event centres BIPoC experiences and perspectives.
Free admission
Limited capacity. Please register here.
Venue
Former Courthouse Lehrter Straße, 1st floor
Lehrter Straße 60, 10557 Berlin
Language
English
Further dates
August 16, 2025, 3:30 pm
Memory Biwa’s work centers on the legacy of colonialism in Namibia, where the former German Empire committed a genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples. What can be built from the dust of this historical catastrophe? Biwa’s response is a garden at the former Courthouse Lehrter Straße, featuring a Nama reed house as a space for resilience and growth. Through her installation, she explores sites of memory and embodied forms of transmission—building worlds with words. In her space, Biwa, together with invited guests and visitors of the 13th Berlin Biennale, engages with themes such as shapeshifting monuments, Black geographies, and ecologies.
These gatherings take place as part of her Yvette Abrahams Reading Cycle, held in honor of Yvette Abrahams—a healer, organic farmer, and historian who lives in South Africa. Following Prossession Peda’Gogo—a procession as part of the 13th Berlin Biennale with Lusine Khurshudyan to memorial plaques about Armenia and Namibia on Tempelhofer Feld—the Reading Cycle is the third movement of a series of artistic works by Biwa.
Anike Joyce Sadiq, *1985 in Heidelberg, Deutschland. Orte der Zugehörigkeit: Berlin-Kreuzberg. Aufnahme (mit Judith Hamann): Playing the Structure, 2023.
Memory Biwa, *1979 in Windhoek, Namibia. Orte der Zugehörigkeit: Northern and Western Cape, Tansania. Verbundenheit: Pungwe Listening.
Information on accessibility will follow shortly.
Information on Accessibility
Venue:
The event will take place in Memory Biwa’s exhibition space on the 1st floor of the former Courthouse Lehrter Straße.
The access to the 1st floor is not step-free and can only be reached via a staircase with two landings, each with 11 and 12 steps and railings on both sides.
Documentation:
The event will be recorded.
Time:
Entrance starts at 3 pm.
The duration of the event is approximately 60 minutes.
The event is held without breaks.
Seating:
A limited number of seating (pillows) will be provided.
Sensory stimuli:
The event will have a medium volume.
Language:
The event will be held in English.
There is no translation.
Assistance:
There is free admission for assisting persons.
Service dogs can be brought along to the event.
Accessible Toilet:
There is no accessible toilet in the former Courthouse.
A barrier-free toilet is available for your use at Hotel Rossi at Lehrter Straße 66.
The distance to Hotel Rossi is approximately 350 meters in the direction of the central station.
If you would like to use the accessible bathroom, please check in at the reception desk as a visitor of the Berlin Biennale.
The toilet is located on the 1st floor and can be accessed by an elevator.
The elevator is located right next to the reception.
Gender-neutral toilet:
The toilets in the former Courthouse are for all genders and marked as sitting and/or standing toilets. There are two sitting toilets in the bathroom on the ground floor. There are sitting and open standing toilets in the bathroom on the 1st floor.
Contact persons:
If you have questions on-site or need support, please approach a member of the Encounters team with the turquoise badges.
If you have any further questions regarding accessibility, please send an e-mail three days before the event to encounters@berlinbiennale.de.