CLOSE TO HOME.
Remittance Spaces Between Arrival and Return
EXHIBITION Project
WITH Lizza May David, Akshita Garud, Hasan Gündoğan & Deniz Örün, Samuel Hilari, Patrick Jimenez Krämer, Pegah Keshmirshekan, Ilaaf Khalfalla, Van Bo Le-Mentzel, Yairan Montejo, Tra My Nguyen, Canan Öztekin, Jeanne-Ange Wagne
OPENING 10.09.2025 19:00
ON SHOW 11.09.–19.10.2025 THURSDAY–SUNDAY 14:00–19:00
FREE ENTRY Donations welcome
ACCESS Our space is accessible by wheelchair
Activations
27.09.2025 19:00 Sonic Remittance LISTENING SESSION With Abraham Tettey
05.10.2025 19:30 Come La Notte FILM SCREENING With Liryc Dela Cruz
19.10.2025 19:30 Cross My Palm With Silver DINNER With Akshita Garud
SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES
14.09.2025 15:00 TOUR IN ENGLISH With the curators Patrick Jimenez Krämer and Lukas Feirreiss
25.09.2025 17:00 TOUR IN ENGLISH With Abraham Tettey
02.10.2025 16:00 TOUR IN ENGLISH With Matthew Hansen
04.10.2025 16:00 ARCHITEKTUR–TOUR AUF DEUTSCH Mit Kurator Patrick Jimenez Krämer
11.10.2025 15:00 TOUR AUF DEUTSCH Mit Shahnas Claus
16.10.2024 17:00 TOUR AUF DEUTSCH Mit Anna Jäger
The exhibition project CLOSE TO HOME: REMITTANCE SPACES BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND RETURN is an exploration of everyday migrant worlds, an appreciation for transnational care practices and an invitation to rethink the idea of home as something that is not only left or found, but also created, inherited and shared. It invites us to understand migration not only as a movement of people, but also as a multi-layered exchange of meanings, forms and memories. At its core, it considers remittance beyond financial transfers: as emotional, cultural, and creative flows moving between places of origin and arrival. They manifest themselves in architecture, music, textiles, food, objects and everyday cultures – and thus shape urban spaces as well as individual identities.
CLOSE TO HOME brings together various artistic positions that take up, reflect and transform these multi-layered aspects of remittances. The exhibition is not intended to establish a linear narrative or an ordered structure, but to be experienced as a dense collage of voices, images, objects and sounds – a place where space is given to the fragmentary, the untranslatable and the contradictory.
Team
CONCEPT & CURATION Patrick Jimenez Krämer, Lukas Feireiss
CURATORIAL TEAM Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Billy Fowo, Anna Jäger
PRODUCTION Matthew Hansen
PRODUCTION TEAM Jessie Omamogho, Dušan Rodić
PROJECT MANAGEMENT Anna Fasolato, Patrick Jimenez Krämer
GENERAL MANAGEMENT Lema Sikod
ACCOUNTING Matthias Rademacher
COMMUNICATIONS & TRANSLATION Anna Jäger
GRAPHIC DESIGN Aziza Ahmad
SAVVY.doc Sagal Farah
Fellowship Abraham Tettey
INTERNSHIP Shahnas Claus
TECH Bert Günther
LIGHT Shun Perrotta
VISUAL Aziza Ahmad
CoOPEration The exhibition opening is taking place in the framework of Berlin Art Week.
FUNDING The project is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.
