Klima Biennale - Immediate Matters Party
17.04.2026 - 20:00
Funkhaus Wien
Argentinierstraße 30B
1040 Wien
Let’s set aside our eco-anxiety and come together in joyful resistance against one of capitalism’s spells: the illusion that there is no alternative. Immediate Matters – Speak We Must We Must Speak, a collective project featuring ten exhibitions by ten independent Viennese art spaces, reaches its climax on Friday, April 17, with a joint celebration featuring performances, talks, and music. In an era when neoliberal discourse serves to extract, divide, and flatten relationships, collective discussion and singing, the voicing of uncomfortable truths, and listening to stories of alternative ways of living together become—at least temporarily—antidotes to the violence against words and worlds, and sources of inspiration for future struggles.
https://www.biennale.wien/programm/opening-party-immediate-matters
A Black Fairytale
14-19 April 2026
a film by Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi, and Mariama Sow (AT / DE / ML / CI / SN, 2026, 23’), will celebrate its premiere at the Filmfest Dresden – International Short Film Festival (Germany, April 2026).
Synopsis
We follow the day of princess, who lives deep under the sea and is called by cauri shells to travel across time and space. On their journey they become a witness of possibilities of black resistance and existence. In three worlds they encounter three figures, each sharing a glimpse of their story, making different black experiences and forms of knowledge visible. All encounters are materialized in a small object that Princess archives and cares for with their community.
Crew
Director: Isabelle Edi, Mariama Sow, Kim Sanou
Screenplay: Mariama Sow, Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi
Producer: Kim Sanou
Cinematographer: Diara Sow
Sound design: Mbatjiua Hambira
Editor: İpek Hamzaoğlu
Composer: Mbatjiua Hambira
Production design: Mariama Sow, Isabelle Edi
Color correction: Deniz Örs
Graphic design: EYEOFBRC
Hair and Make-up: Céline Mbwisi
Outside Eye Text: Duygu Ağal
Catering and Cake Design: Ihunanya Egbonu
Additional camera footage and other voices: Kim Sanou, Isabelle Edi, Mariama Sow
Supported by Shift Wien, Zukunftsfonds der Republik Österreich, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
Mardin Biennal - The Promise of Grass
20 May - 20 June 2022
The forthcoming 5th edition of the biennial will explore the possibility for a mystical cosmopolitics or a social-ecology that is steeped in the notion of renouncement. This is being examined against the backdrop of the swelling tide of disenfranchised humanity (and more-than-humans) alongside a literal rise in the sea levels. The expansion of capitalist enclosure — perfectly illustrated by the pervasive phenomenon of gated societies as well as its auxiliaries such as luxury doomsday bunkers, floating sea barriers for mitigating movement of refugees as well as hostile public infrastructure and policies — has managed to lock a vast majority of its subjects out, inadvertently collectivising the precariat from Chile to Hong Kong over their shared vulnerability. Indeed, globalisation—the universal outreach that sought to unite us across cultural and geographical differences—has been systematically discredited by nationalist governments, who use it as a sword to terrorise the masses with an image of invading hordes threatening their jobs, social security and way of life, in short all the things that the self-same governments then freely enact under its cover. Where do we go from this impasse between capitalist encroachments over peoples’ rights and resources, and the rising multitudes that are left dispossessed in its wake?
Online Talk: Getting to Know Hayırlı Evlat
21 April 2021 / 19:00 (GMT+3)
A Question of Taste exhibition brings together works of thirteen artists and collectives and deals with the concept of kitsch, and the intimate relationship this concept has established with today's visual culture as well as its critical role in shaping taste. As part of the exhibition’s public programming, the artist Hayırlı Evlat is having an online conversation moderated by the curator of the exhibition Ulya Soley.
The event is organized as part of “Senkron: Simultaneous Video Exhibitions”. The talk will be held in Turkish.
https://www.peramuseum.org/event/getting-to-know-hayirli-evlat-/5185
Screening of KORİDOR, 2017
17 - 23 April 2021
Invited by Harry Chapman, KORİDOR, 2017, will be screened
at Rue de l'Hectolitre 3-5 Bruxelles.
Stage of Plastic Dreams: Future Nostalgia
16 April 2021 / 20:30 (GMT+3)
Pera Museum presents virtual event series “Stage of Plastic Dreams” in collaboration with HYPERCORTEX and with the support of the British Council. Organized in parallel to the A Question of Taste exhibition, the “Stage of Plastic Dreams” event series brings musicians and visual artists together in a virtual event space open to participants.
In the second event that will take place on April 16, the first performance of the night will bring together Debora İpekel and Ece Düzgit’s music with İpek Hamzaoğlu’s visuals. The mix which narrates an avatar’s day who travels between melodies and rhythms from around the world is presented with familiar and nostalgic cartoons.
KÜLTÜŘ GEMMA IS ON!
12-17 March 2021
an online gathering bringing together and celebrating migrant + BIPoC artists in Vienna
With much joy, kültüř gemma! invites you to the final presentation for the grantees of 2020 entitled “An Online Gathering Bringing Together and Celebrating Migrant + BIPoC Artists in Vienna''.
Despite Dispossession: An Activity Book - Book Launch
26 February 2021
With İpek Hamzaoğlu, Berhanu Deribew, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Rojda Tuğrul, Janine Jembere, Sílvia das Fadas, Anette Baldauf and K. designers Wolfgang Hückel & Katharina Tauer.
https://k-verlag.org/books/despite-dispossession-an-activity-book/
https://k-verlag.org/books/despite-dispossession-in-translation/