Shisha Bar

In the setting of a shisha bar, video interviews with relatives, survivors, activists and experts report on the far-right terrorist attack in Hanau and its effects.


The far-right terrorist attack in Hanau cannot be reduced to its first crime scene, a shisha bar, however, the shisha bar in this installation is symbolic of exactly those places that – as safe havens for people excluded from other venues due to racist entrance policies, as meeting places and hang-out spaces for primarily migrantised young people, and last but not least, as places of migrant entrepreneurship – are repeatedly the subject of racist policies and media coverage and thus criminalised and marked as other, and in the end, as in Hanau, are targets of far-right terrorist attacks.


The full-room video installation is open throughout the duration of the exhibition. Every Sunday from 16-20:00, the Shisha Bar is run by Berlin initiatives and activists raising awareness about their own anti-racist and queer-feminist work and inviting you to chat with one another, share ideas and network over a shisha or tea.


In memory of Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar and Kaloyan Velkov.

• Part of 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE
  

© IMA LI SNIJEGA?, Danica Dakić, 2024, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn