Exhibition: Borders, History of Transformation
Since 2006 Atelier Limo has been exploring the 3000 km long borders from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea, which separate the "old" from the "new" EU countries. From the opening in 2007 to the partial return of controls since the refugee crisis in 2015, they have collected a multitude of photographs, videos and interviews that testify to the long-term transformation of these places of great symbolic importance.
Image gallery
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What do the borders 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall tell us about the challenges, fears and hopes of the EU? How can our perception of it illuminate the relationship we Europeans have with the outside world and the rest of the world? What kind of social project do we want to build and what role will the border play in this construction?
This research at the interface between architecture and geopolitics, between great history and local anecdote, led to the production of the documentary film "Le retour des frontières", which was broadcast on ARTE in October 2018 and to which cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz contributed.
An exhibition by Atelier Limo (Simon Brunel & Nicolas Pannetier) - www.atelier-limo.eu, with the collaboration of Philippe Rekacewicz, presented as part of the "89 face au présent" programme of the French Institute Berlin.
The event is supported by funds from the Robert Bosch Stiftung's "Grenzgänger" funding program.
VERNISSAGE with film projection and discussion
4 june 2019 from 19 o'clock
19 h Visit of the exhibition
19:30 screening of the documentary "Le retour des frontières" (52 min.)
20:30 Conversation with Simon Brunel and Nicolas Pannetier from Atelier Limo and cartographer Philippe Rekacewicz, moderated by Dominique Treilhou (Director of the French Institute in Berlin)
KOLLOQUIUM
5 June 2019, from 2:30 p.m.,
Centre Marc Bloch
Round tables
14.30: Reception of the participants and opening, with Denis Eckert (CNRS/CMB)
15.00-16.30: Does Europe play its future on its borders? with Bénédicte Michalon (CNRS-Passagen), Martine Drozdz (CNRS-LATTS), Catherine Gousseff (Polish Institute for Advanced Studies/CNRS-CERCEC), Moderation: Elsa Tulmets (European University Viadrina/CMB)
16.30-17.00: Coffee and cake
17.00-18.30 : Visualization of Europe today, with Simon Brunel (Regissuer), Philippe Rekacewicz (journalist, cartographer), Sarah Mekdjian (University Grenoble Alpes), Béatrice von Hirschhausen (CNRS/CMB), Moderation: Denis Eckert (CNRS/CMB)
Further information: www.cmb.hu-berlin.de/fr/agenda
Free entry to the exhibition l Reservation required for the vernissage at anmeldung.berlin@institutfrancais.de
Exhibition from 5 June to 26 August 2019 at the Galerie des Institut français Berlin
Opening hours of the gallery: Monday - Friday: 14.00 - 18.00 o'clock, Saturday: 11.00 - 15.00 o'clock
