House of World Cultures
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The House of World Cultures in Berlin is Germany's centre for non-European art. It presents cultures from outside Europe via contemporary art exhibitions, films, theatre- and dance performances, lectures, concerts and congresses. The projects focus on a topic which is then being debated within various art forms. The House of World Cultures is located in one of Berlin's architectural landmarks: the former Congress Hall, also called the "pregnant oyster," in the centre of Berlin, next to the Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten and the Chancellery.
Former projects: About Beauty, War of Images, China - Betweeen Past and Future, In Transit, Brasil: Copa da Cultura a.o.
Former guests of the house: Elias Khoury, Catherine David, Geeta Kapur, Jin Xing, Susan Sontag, Marina Abramovic, Bernard Khoury, Ismael Ivo, Elia Suleiman, Nadine Gordimer, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Walid Raad, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Ea Sola, dumb type, Salman Rushdie, Sally Nyolo, Kenzaburo Oe, Mohamed Mounir, Yulduz Usmanova, Yvonne Vera, Cesaria Evora, Arundhati Roy, Richard Sennett, Shirin Neshat, Natacha Atlas, Gao Xingjian, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Breyten Breytenbach, Bei Dao, Richard Bona, Huschang Golschiri, Kisho Kurokawa, Umberto Eco a.o.
External links:
House of World Cultures http://www.hkw.de/en/index.php
About Beauty http://www.hkw.de/en/ressourcen/archiv2005/ueberschoenheit/_ueberschoenheit/index.php
War of Images http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2006/bilderkriege/projekt-detail_3.php
China - Between Past and Future http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2006/cultural_memory/_cultural_memory/china_detail.php
In Transit http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2006/intransit06/_intransit06/projekt-detail_4732.php
Brasil: Copa da Cultura http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2006/copa_da_cultura/_copa_da_cultura/projekt-detail_3.php
