Berlin as a cultural center has a responsibility for the issue of exile in a double sense. Over half a million people persecuted by the Nazi regime, including many democratic artists, were forced to flee in the 1930s and 40s. Many people from today's war zones and conflict areas as well as those who are politically persecuted are currently seeking refuge in Berlin.
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Mamlok Ursula - Fotograph Simon Pauly März 2009 (1)
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Under the motto “Inside & Outside – Art, Music and Literature in Exile”, exile experiences will be highlighted in the fifth exhibition project in the Art & Sound series from 28th February to 6th April 2025 in the Amalienpark Gallery in Berlin-Pankow.
The exhibition shows pictures, graphics, drawings, photographs and sculptures by nine artists from Berlin and Brandenburg, among others by the painter and graphic artist Núria Quevedo, and includes an extensive additional programme with four concerts, two reading sessions, a lecture, two film screenings and three rounds of discussions in the gallery, Schönhausen Palace and the former Jewish orphanage. The focus is on, among others, the composer Kurt Weill, who emigrated to the USA, the composer Ursula Mamlok, who emigrated to the USA via Ecuador and spent the last years of her life back in Berlin, and the Turkish author and activist Nazli Karabiyikoglu. Other guests are the internationally celebrated Pankow resident Andrej Hermlin and his Swing Dance Orchestra, the Arminio String Quartet, the actress Monika Lennartz and the accordionist Cathrin Pfeifer.
Opening hours of the Amalienpark Gallery:
Tuesday to Friday 2 - 7 pm
Saturday 12 - 5 pm and by appointment
