TAKE a SEAT. MAKE a SHIFT is not just an exhibition — it’s a space of gathering, reflection, and radical presence.
Image gallery
Schriftzug "Ausstellung" in verschiedenen Sprachen
Organized by the transfrontier collective de_colonialanguage, the project brings together two years of public, publishing, and artistic work exploring exile, decoloniality, language, and solidarity — with a focus on Central and Northern Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe.
The exhibition opening will feature installations, books, performative gestures, and the launch of our public program, including workshops, talks, and screenings.
Programme
September 20
17:00 Opening Ceremony
20:00 Eldar Tagi live performance
September 21
15:00 Trinketing, ceremony by Nilufer Musaeva
17:00 Transindigenous Assembly, film screening with film director Joulia Strauss18:30 Discussion with Joulia Strauss and Kanykei Kyzy, moderated by vica kravtsova
September 24
17:00 Guided Tour over exhibition TAKE aSEAT. MAKE aSHIFT
19:00 Jakutisches Filmfestival Silis documentary film by Diana Khudaeva, screening
20:00 Open conversation with film authors on the phenomenon of Sakha (Yakut) cinema, moderated by Anna Malgina
September 27
17:00 GRASP a SEAT book presentation + conversation with Liz Rech, Irina Denkmann
September 28
15:00 Beyond the Surface and Into the Depth / workshop by lena pozdnyakova
October 1
18:00 alla popp, Voices Otherwise residency at !Alexanderplatz!
October 4
16:00 Thinking together on decolonisation and border abolitionism, anarchism and migration / Marina Israilova and Nearby Reading Room workshop
October 5
15:00 Tongues of Belongings workshop by de_colonialanguage
October 8
- 18:00 the current state of Indigenous peoples in russia and their struggle against russian colonialism and war, book presentation: сollection of papers by independent Indigenous decolonial activists and researchers/ with Ziliä Qansurá and Igor Sivtsev
- 19:00 Conversation with independent projects "re.public_speaking" and "O rodnom" / Dankhaiaa Khovalyg and collective reading
- 20:00 Slaystans dances at Slaughterhaus/ Kulturfabrik Moabit
18:00 alla popp, Voices Otherwise residency presentation
October 11
17:00 (horizontal/self-organized) Resistance / fish-bowl discussion with Udi Raz, Ufuk Aydin, Tinatin Gurgenidze
October 12
17:00 Radical Collectivity: possibilities and limits / fish-bowl discussion with Bakai Abdykul uulu (Slaystans), Moritz Gansen (diffrakt | zentrum für theoretische peripherie) and GVANTSA (Untitled Tbilisi)
October, 17
17:00 Mixed Identities / fish-bowl discussion with Marina Israilova,
Marina Solntseva, Ksti Hu
October, 18
- 17:00 closing ceremony
- 18:00 poetry readings by vica kravtsova, Marina Solntseva
- 19:30 performance by Kreolex zentre
