House of Memories

What constitutes our Houses of Memories? What does it contain, who do we share it with? How do collective, national traumata haunt individual biographies? And how can cultural memory studies and artistic works influence one another?

Workshop/Symposium: January 11, 5 to 7 p.m.; January 12, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with Jane Jin Kaisen (artist, Copenhagen), Lizza May David (artist, Berlin), Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa (artist, London), Elahe Haschemi Yekani (Europa-Universität Flensburg), Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Anja Michaelsen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Karin Michalski (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln) as well as students from KHM.

Exhibition: January 13 to 20, with works by Yael Bartana, Larissa Sansour/Søren Lind, Jane Jin Kaisen.

Concept: Anja Michaelsen (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) & Karin Michalski (Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln).

Workshop in English.