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New Director

SAVVY welcomes Renan Laru-an as artistic director from 2023 on

UNRAVELING THE (UNDER-) DEVELOPMENT COMPLEX

Exhibition
26.11.2022–27.01.2023
With Jess Atieno The Black Audio Film Collective Simnikiwe Buhlungu Sheila Chukwulozie Christopher Cozier Binta Diaw Sènami Donoumassou Sofia Gallisá Muriente & Natalia Lassalle Morillo Rajyashri Goody Karachi La Jamia Jean Katambayi Mukendi Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson Syowia Kyambi Wallen Mapondera Anna Mapoubi Emo de Medeiros Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien Kumari Ranjeeta Moffat Takadiwa The Victor Jara Collective Munem Wasif Guy Woueté

Independence as the way to liberation

WORKSHOP 30.11.2022 14:00
With Clifton Joseph

Quiet (As) Intervention

Event 04.12.2022 19:30
With Romi Morrison, Dr. Layla Zami, Jumoke Adeyanju

Ay Ae Sankofa Ay Ae Sankofa

Sound Art Sundays 16:00
With Mar, Río, y Cordillera and Amuleto Manuela
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Preserving Narratives through Food (Politics)

WORKSHOP 12.12.–14.12.2022
With Suresh Jayaram, Sandeep TK and Gosia Lehmann

WATA GO LEF STONE

OFFERINGS 26.10.2022–02.04.2023
WITH Akinbode Akinbiyi, Diego Araúja and Laís Machado, Leo Asemota, Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Simone Lagrand, Leda Martins, Awilda Sterling
AT Sesc Pompeia, São Paulo, Brazil

Water Seeks Its Own Level

Publication
By Students of the Dutch Art Institute

BERLIN–LAGOS RESIDENCY 2022

With Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero
September–November 2022

SAVVY Journal

Bilingual editorial project 2021–2022

4+3=1

Radiobooks Sundays 16:00
With bela, Léuli Eshrāghi, Mixtape Menage and Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Tanka Fonta, Nkisi, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro, D'Andrade, Raisa Galofre, Angelo Plessas, Leila Bencharnia, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, and Devika Chotoe
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

The Transhimalayan Network

Sound Art Sundays 16:00
With Nischal Kadhka
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Solidarity Prints

Solidarity campaign For for Bipoc people from Ukraine

The Secret Institute

Sound Art Sundays 16:00
With Nkisi
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

RADIO SUBMARINE راديو الغواصة

Radio Sundays 16:00
With Yara Mekawei
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Wi Di Mimba Wi

Jean-Ulrick Désert is the first recipient of the
AKB & SAVVY Contemporary Commission Prize

Past Events

Warp and Weft

WORKSHOP & STORY-TELLING 20.01.2022 16:00–21:00
BY Zwoisy Mears-Clarke and Elena Polzer with Colonial Neighbours
WITH Fatin Abbas, Benita Bailey, Amina Eisner, Jules* Elting, Tjeripo Katjangua, Agnes Lampkin, Vitjitua Ndjiharine

The Bridge Can Get Us There

Exhibition
04.12.2021–23.01.2022

Hacking Sinema Futures Together

Launch 15.02.2022 12:00–20:00

United Screens Think Well #2

Exchanges 24.–27.02.2022
Hosted by AVEC, Tunesia

THE WIND IN YOUR BODY IS JUST VISITING, YOUR BREATH WILL SOON BE THUNDER

Exhibition 09.02.–06.03.2022
With Pallavi Paul

Pneuma: Is Language Enough?

INVOCATIONS 06.03.2022 14:00–22:00
With Pallavi Paul

On, Of, For, With Ben Patterson

Invocations
19.03.2022 15:00–00:00
WITH Benjamin Patterson, The String Archestra with Giuseppe Bottiglieri, Dr. Dr. Daniele G. Daude, Anthony R. Green, and Jessie Montgomery; Maria Colusi, Lucrecia Dalt, Maulwerker with Prof. Dr. Ariane Jessulat, Christian Kesten, Tilmann Walzer, and Steffi Weismann; Prof. Dr. George Lewis, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Dr. Tsitsi Ella Jaji, Linda Philomène Tsoungui, Dr. Christopher Williams

DE TING WEH E DO CACAO NA E GO DO CAFÉ

Invocations 30.03.–01.04.2022
At Bandjoun Station in Cameroon
WITH Roland Fomundam, Dorothée Tong Grâce, Comfort Musa, Anrette Ngafor, Hervé Yamguen, Doueng dance group, Dandji dance group, Enama Leon, Jeannot Domchie, Tito Valéry, Asafor Emmanuel, Henry Kah, Tally Mbok, Gohla Loveline, Zack Ndam, Père Theodore, Louise Abomba Houngue, Linus Kwokom, Bobo Leennox Art

In What Century Will the Earth’s North and South Poles Change Polarities? On, Of, For, With Ben Patterson

RESEARCH, EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCE PROJECT
19.03.–17.04.2022
WITH Benjamin Patterson

NOT A READY-MADE HISTORY

Radio Sundays 17:00
With Hera Chan and Edwin Nasr
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Liway

Film Screening
09.04.2022 20:00

Garden of Ten Seasons

Announcement
21.04.2022 19:00–20:00
Nepal Pavillion at the Venice Biennale

CALL FOR DIRECTOR

SAVVY is looking for a new director

Fossilised Frequencies

Sound Art Sundays 16:00
With Urban Feral / Cindy Islam
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Alpha Caribe

Sound Art 22.05.2022 16:00
With La Usurpadora
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

HOW WILL YOU ASCERTAIN TIME?

Exhibition
29.04.–27.05.2022
With Lamia Abukhadra, Maria Thereza Alves, Tewa Barnosa, Ariel Bustamante, Rehema Chachage, Lamin Fofana, Dakota Guo, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Zahra Malkani, Nida Mehboob, Mehregan Meysami, Naeem Mohaiemen, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Igor Vidor

HOW WILL YOU ASCERTAIN TIME?

Invocations
28.05.–29.05.2022
With María do Mar Castro Varela, Angélica Freitas, Manuela García Aldana, Jamila and the Other Heroes, Jasmine Guffond and Stephen Boakye, Sarah Imani, Shahram Khosravi, Daniel Mader, Momtaza Mehri, Tumi Mogorosi and Gabisile Motuba, Adania Shibli

Kurakani

Public Programme 11.06.2022 19:00
With Anil Limbu, Ashmina Ranjit, Dipti Sherchan, Karan Shrestha, Loten Namling, Nischal Khadka, Priyankar Chand, Soydivision (Ariel Orah) with Pedro Oliveira, Tenzing Sedon Ukyab Lama

Future Perfect

Encounterings in three acts
25.06.2022
WITH Denise Ferreira da Silva in conversation with Edna Bonhomme, Arjuna Neuman, Olivier Marboeuf, and further guests

BERLIN-LAGOS RESIDENCY 2022

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
DEADLINE 25.06.2022

Queer Companions

Book Launch 01.07.2022
WITH Omar Kasmani with Fabian Bernhardt, Hansjörg Dilger, Nasima Selim, and DJ Taxila (Syma Tariq)

Here, now, then, there

WORKSHOP 02.07.–03.07.2022
With Lee Ingleton and Syma Tariq

Kibandin' with Wakaliga

Performative Screening
02.07.2022 16:00–23:00
With Issac Godfrey Geoffrey Nabwana and Harriet Nakasujja

A Sense of Displacement

LECTURE AND CONVERSATION 05.07.2022 19:00
WITH David Scott with Mojisola Adebayo, Kadija George, Khwezi Mkhize, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Garden of Ten Seasons

Exhibition
OPENING 10.06.2022 19:00
ON SHOW 11.06.–10.07.2022 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00

Curator in Residence 2022

With Mario Alberto Llanos May–July 2022

Project Number Two

Open Studio 27.07.2022 17:00–20:00
With Saleh Lo & Tegene Kunbi

HipHop Havana-Berlin

Symposium & Festival 29.–30.07.2022

Nuevos Territorios

CONVERSATION & EXHIBITION ACTIVATION 11.08.2022 19:00
WITH Eli Wewentxu & Sharon Mercado Nogales

Unlearning and Being Freed

The Raining Season School 17.08.2022
WITH Emmanual Asafor, Ndàb Cchum, Dieudonné Djiela Kamgang, Chantal Edie & Zacharie Ngnogue, Wilfred Mbida, Landry Nguetsa, Ladifah Zeh Nsangou
At The Forest Creative Loft, Douala, Cameroon

Ceremony

Party as Method 18.08.2022 20:00
WITH Cali Rose, Jewel, Kewin Bonono with Eric Peter and 'O', and Maryisonacid
AT Trauma Bar and Kino [Heidestraße 50, 10557 Berlin]

Family Matters

Book launch 01.09.2022 19:00
WITH Viron Erol Vert, Adnan Yıldız, Çağla Ilk, Kristina Kramer, Elena Agudio, Kelly Krugman, Jonas Tinius, Anton Kats

Becoming Ancestors

Storytelling WORKSHOP 27.08.2022 10:00–14:00
WITH Vivian Ngozika Aghamelu

INFOPOINT

For international students from Ukraine
Tuesdays 15:00–18:00

4 + 3 = 1

Exhibition
OPENING 22.07.2022 19:00
ON SHOW 23.07.–02.09.2022 Thursday–Sunday 14:00–19:00

4 + 3 = 1

INVOCATIONS 03.09.2022 16:00–23:00
WITH Mehyar Abboud & Alaa Abboud, Aída Bueno Sarduy, Devika Chotoe, Clémentine Dusabejambo, Rona Geffen, Chikako Kaido & Jascha Viehstädt, Wynton Kelly Stevenson, Loulou Sylla, Sona Tatoyan, Sarah Wesley

The development myth

Audio Archive Launch 03.09.2022 12:00
At McMillan Memorial Library, Eastlands Library in Makadara, Nairobi, Kenya
Hosted by African Digital Heritage
WITH Maureen Kasuka, Bryan Ngartia, Stoneface Bombaa, Felix Omondi, Karwitha Kirimi, The LAM Sisterhood, Zo Randriamaro, Bengi Akbulut, Jimmy Ogonga

404 Suns and Shadows

LISTENING:DANCING SESSION 15.09.2022 18:00–02:00
WITH Chaos Clay, KMRU, Makumba & Zufu, Edna Martinez, NYKSAN (TraTraTrax), Carlos Serrano, Qeei
AT panke.club

frequential reconfigurations

PUBLIC PROGRAMME 16.–20.09.2022
WITH Phyllis Akinyi, Ekow Alabi & the drummers of joy, Archive Books (Leila Bencharnia, Wissal Houbabi, Omar Delnevo), Frank Báez, Blick Bassy, Maria Buenaventura, Tanka Fonta, folkloric mashup from Mar, Río y Cordillera, Oscar Murillo, Kettly Nöel, Saca Sal, Michelle M. Wright, and many more
in Venice, Italy

A Prosopographic Celebration

Opening and Launch of the Arjun Appadurai Archive
21.09.2022 18:45
With Faisal Devji, Dilip Menon, Vyjayanthi Rao, Julia Roth, Ashraf Sharif Khan & Raimund Engelhardt, and the SAVVY team

Web residencies

Open Call
Until 23.09.2022

Intangible Archeologies

Cosmoaudición 24.09.2022 19:00
WITH Miguel Buenrostro & Ensemble de Cámara de la Orquesta Experimental de Instrumentos Nativos (ECOIN)

writing/waiting

Writing WORKSHOP 23.09.–25.09.2022
With Fatin Abbas and Emese Benczúr

Späti Circuit

Film Programme 14.09.–25.09.2022
AT Spätis in Berlin and Tiendas de Barrio in Bogotá

Maangamizi: The Ancient One

Performative Film Screening 01.10.2022 20:00
WIth Ajabu Ajabu and DJ Black

Toward Sympoietic Systems for Film Circulation

United Screens Think Well 3.0 30.09.–02.10.2022
At Flutgraben & online

Mar, Río y Cordillera

Folkloric Mash Up & Jam Session 05.10.2022 19:00

Touch by Touch

WORKSHOP 07.10.2022
With Czar Kristoff

Leider Alex

Sound Art Sundays 16:00
With Andrés Felipe Uribe
SAVVYZΛΛR Online streaming and on Berlin 88.4 FM & Potsdam 90.7 FM

Corrected Chairs

WORKSHOP 08.–09.10.2022
With Ernesto Oroza

The Town Crier In Motion

Gathering 19.10.2022 19:00
With Bobo Leennox, Grace Dorothée Tong, Dzekashu MacViban, Tanka Fonta

The Art of Activism

Conversation & Exchange of ideas 20.10.2022 19:30
With Hamze Bytyci, Moro Yapha, Katja Utrosa, and Birgit zur Nieden

(A)Temporal Movements

Movement WORKSHOP 24.–26.10.2022
With Regina Lomio, Amna Mawaz, and Venuri Perera

Ókakò r’Évu

WORKSHOP 29.10.2022
With Stacey Ejiroghene Okparavero

Guaracha Budots

Virtual Rave 29./30.10.2022
With Club Matryoshka & Sindicato Virtual de Mods

El Picó que se repite

Exhibition activation 03.–04.11.2022 16:00–18:00
WITH Sonido Los Cariños, Roots Daughters

MAGICAL HACKERISM

Exhibition 14.09.–04.11.2022
WITH Aarati Akkapeddi, Theresah Ankomah, aruma, Erick Beltrán, Shailesh BR, Tania Candiani, Cian Dayrit & Mark Sanchez, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Merv Espina, Jung Hsu & Natalia Rivera, Los Carpinteros, Joiri Minaya, Sheila Nakitende, Vernelle A. A. Noel, Sahej Rahal, Eliécer Salazar, Corinne de San Jose, Juliana dos Santos, Sindicato Virtual de Mods & Club Matryoshka, Cem Sonel, Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Abel Rodríguez, Wakaliga Uganda

Listening – Sensing – Receiving

Cosmoaudición 05.11.2022 19:00
WITH Miguel Buenrostro & Laura Robles, Fabiano Lima, Robby Geerken, Biano aka K'boko, Tom Kesslert ++

Dan Ayido-Huedo

Ritual performance 06.11.2022
With Ana Beatriz Almeida

MAGICAL HACKERISM INVOCATIONS

INVOCATIONS 05.–06.11.2022
WITH Don Alirio Ana Beatriz Almeida Karounwi Anuoluwapo C-Dríck Patricia Cadavid Alvin Collantes & Jun Suzuki COSMOAUDICIONES (Miguel Buenrostro with Biano aka K'boko Robby Geerken Tom Kesslert Fabiano Luna Laura Robles Trigo Santana & Brandon Labelle) Merv Espina Neema Githere Hexorcismos IosOtres Simone Lagrand Mobilegirl Afro-Cuban Ensemble (Regina LoMío with Arturo Martínez Rasiel Alejandro Almanza Matteo Bowinkelmann Regis KinRe Molina Alexis Borrero Ángel Candeaux Lisandra Cervantes Yasiela Gómez Dianel Laugarz) ++

The restitution of dignity

Conversations 12.11.2022 14:00
With Muna Mussie, Chiara Cartuccia, Theo Eshetu, Alula Pankhurst and the SAVVY.doc

The Body & Collective Resistance

WORKSHOP 13.11.2022
With Camille Barton

If Undelivered, Please Return To...

Poetry evening 19.11.2022 19:00
With Abul Kalam Azad, Uzma Falak, Reyazul Haque, Meena Kandasamy

Abakwa Arts and Craft Fair

Fair 26.11.–27.11.2022 09:00–18:00
At CBC Nkwen Bamenda, Cameroon

Catch-22

Event 04.12.2022 19:30
With Romi Morrison, Dr. Layla Zami, Jumoke Adeyanju