12611 SHARDS

In collaboration with the Museum of Islamic Art, Kamil Saad Ahmad (Berlin University of the Arts) is developing a production about memory, identity, and belonging.

The play is being created as part of the participatory art project “Inside Out / M(ein) Museum.” The world premiere will take place on July 19, 2026.

Why do I feel like a shard? I don’t understand it. Shards are loud. They are incomplete. And yet they are part of a whole. They tell stories we can no longer remember. Shards are honest. They forget nothing.

“Shards are historical artifacts. I’m particularly interested in the stories hidden among the shards—and what happens when we begin to piece them back together,” says author and director Kamil Saad Ahmad.

Drawing on objects, stories, and fragments from the Museum of Islamic Art, Muslim performers explore different texts, memories, and perspectives. In doing so, they encounter not only the shards of times past, but also themselves: as fragments, as witnesses, as part of a larger whole

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Start: 5:00 p.m.

• Text & Direction: Kamil Saad Ahmad
• Dramaturgy: Solaf Almusleh
• Cast: Jessica Abochama, Mustafa Abd Alla, Esra Alanbay, Afife Eser, Phyllis Jallow, Diana Kadah, Mohamad Al Halabi, Adam Idriss Ouattara

Post-show party following the performance

Location: University of the Arts, Bundesallee 1–12, 10719 Berlin, Room 201

Free admission