Opening "Family Matters"
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| Free Admission |
| Foyer, special exhibition areas and other areas on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors |
| Belongs to: Family Matters |
At the opening, you can experience first excerpts from the annual program in the form of talks, guided tours, and musical contributions. The Resident Music Collective will present selections from its new composition Sonic Affinities, which explores familial closeness, friction, and resonance in a polyphonic way.
Get a first impression and feel free to return: the annual program Family Matters grows through dialogue – with voices from around the world and from Berlin’s urban society. There is always something new to discover.
Programme
18:00
Welcome:
Hartmut Dorgerloh, General Director of the Humboldt Forum
Julia von Blumenthal, President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophie Plagemann, Artistic Director and Board Member of the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation
Lars-Christian Koch, Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, National Museums in Berlin
Greeting:
Konrad Schmidt-Werthern, Secretary General of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Introductory remarks:
Laura Goldenbaum, Maria Sobotka, Alia Rayyan, Grit Keller, Solvej Helweg-Ovesen, Kerstin Pinther und Minh Duc Pham
Short Guided Tours of the Exhibition Interventions:
19:00
Jan Mende: Short guided tours of the interventions in the exhibition space Berlin Global
19:00
Tian Lu + Alexander Hofmann: Short guided tour of the interventions in the Museum of Asian Art
19:30
Paola Ivanov, Verena Rodatus + Melanie Krebs: Interventions in the Ethnological Museum
20:00
Mandana Seyfeddinipur + Ute Schüren: on the exhibition Being Related: Shared Language, Shared Knowledge?
Discussion Rounds in the Foyer – moderated by Jan Linders:
19:30
Mandana Seyfeddinipur + Ute Schüren: on the exhibition Being Related: Shared Language, Shared Knowledge?
19:50
Maria Sobotka + Jan Mende: on the interventions in the permanent exhibitions
20:10
Masala Movement e.V. / Manoj Kurian Kallupurackal + Anja Adelina Giese ( WHO CARED ) + Paul Timo Kaemmerer
20:30
Short Concert by the Resident Music Collective from their new programme Sonic Affinities
21:00
DJ set: Stella Zekri
In addition, curators, contributors, artists, and project participants will be available in various spaces to answer your questions.
Stella Zekri describes her mixing style as one led by emotion, rather than an adherence to razor-sharp beatmatching – one could also simply call this playing soulfully. Soon after moving to Berlin in 2015, she came upon a passion for collecting records – starting with hip-hop, funk, soul, jazz and boogie. At a certain point, she began to receive some invitations to play her collection out at bars, which was around the same time she began going out to dance in the city’s clubs – her wider investigation of electronic dance music soon followed. So one could say Stella’s DJ practice began with collecting, then gained dimension as a selector and dancer, and this is audible in her sound – she plays sets that stoke a warmth in the body and keep it lit, sequences of deep-dug cuts that are mixed with a tactile intuition and trust in the track that only a vinyl DJ could have.
Over the years, Stella has become a signature member of Berlin’s club community, enacting an old-school ethic of the DJ as a community-driven role. Today she is well-known for her wide knowledge of classic, groove-driven house and disco, as well as deep dubs and acid, but her rise as a DJ came hand-in-hand with booking and curating. After a number of years organizing parties at the DIY venue Kake Stella founded Body Language with Camilla Rae and Caitlin Russell in 2021. Gaining a committed crowd over the last years, Body Language has hosted a vibrant array of international and local DJs. Rather than needing to brand the party with markers of identity, Stella emphasizes the core ethic of the party being its openness – the function encourages a range of sounds and styles (one can hear everything from clever, groovy house and techno to classic Chicago cuts to RnB-laced high-NRG in recorded sets on SoundCloud) and so welcomes a heterogenous crowd. In this way, Body Language is part of a shift into a new line of queer parties in Berlin – “queer” precisely because diversity runs through its bookings, its sound systems, its dancefloors, and isn’t just a catchword printed on a statement.
She has been a resident at Cocktail D’Amore since its heyday years at Griessmühle and has played several times at Panorama Bar. She also hosts the Breakfast Show once a week on Refuge Worldwide. On the airwaves, in Berlin or abroad, a DJ-set or studio recording or upcoming edition of Body Language – whatever it may be, make sure to catch the singular warmth and deeply cultivated love of music Stella brings to the table. There’s nothing quite like it.