Shisha Bar

As part of the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon exhibition, Shisha Bar, a participatory-performative video installation hosted and run by Berlin-based activists, will be on display in the Studio Я foyer. In the setting of a shisha bar, video interviews with relatives, survivors, activists and experts report on the far-right terrorist attack in Hanau and its effects.

The far-right terrorist attack in Hanau cannot be reduced to its first crime scene, a shisha bar, however, the shisha bar in this installation is symbolic of exactly those places that – as safe havens for people excluded from other venues due to racist entrance policies, as meeting places and hang-out spaces for primarily migrantised young people, and last but not least, as places of migrant entrepreneurship – are repeatedly the subject of racist policies and media coverage and thus criminalised and marked as other, and in the end, as in Hanau, are targets of far-right terrorist attacks.

The full-room video installation is open throughout the duration of the exhibition. Every Sunday from 16-20:00, the Shisha Bar is run by Berlin initiatives and activists raising awareness about their own anti-racist and queer-feminist work and inviting you to chat with one another, share ideas and network over a shisha or tea.

In memory of Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar and Kaloyan Velkov. #saytheirnames

With the initiatives Blacks and Whites Together for Human Rights, Women in Exile, Initiative für die Aufklärung des Mordes an Burak Bektaş, Migrantifa Stuttgart, Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt Berlin (KOP), Support Gruppen Netzwerk (SuGruN) ​​​​​​​& ARA (Antirassistisches Netzwerk Sachsen-Anhalt)

Part of 7th Berliner Herbstsalon ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE

© Ute Langkafel MAIFOTO