Opening: Pillar of Societies

Pillar of Societies
Center for Peripheries

curatorial support: Bettina Siegele

In the exhibition Pillar of Societies, the collective Center for Peripheries explores gestures of the appropriation of places by minorities in ethnic enclaves in cities of the global West. Unlike strategies or tactics, which presume a form of organisation, a defined goal and a structured plan, gestures are acts of our daily lives that are charged with moments of resistance. In the Neue Galerie, Center for Peripheries looks at these everyday rituals of resistance, which oppose the vanishing of migrant communities and identities and often coincide with forced integration. The exhibition Pillar of Societies is part of the annual programme The Resistance of Nothingness curated by Bettina Siegele.

Center for Peripheries is a collective operating at the intersection of social research and space-based art. It consists of three artists who stem from Europe’s different peripheries (the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Balkans), but reside and collaborate in Berlin—one of Europe’s most significant centers, and the EU’s (statistically) most populous city—which has throughout recent history embodied the dialectic of East and West. Aiming to explore the relations of power and the mechanisms of othering within and beyond the far ends of this dialectic, Center for Peripheries operates through interventions themed around different notions of everyday life, expanding them into analyses of wider political contexts. www.centerforperipheries.com

Opening:
Thursday 28.11.2024, 19.00
Welcoming: Miriam Tiefenbrunner (member of the board)
Introduction: Bettina Siegele

Exhibition dates:
29.11.2024 – 08.02.2025