Berlin, Germany

Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Haus der Kulturen der Welt — the House of World Cultures — is Germany's national center for international contemporary arts and a place for cross-disciplinary dialogue. It occupies the former Kongresshalle in Berlin's Tiergarten, a 1957 gift from the United States by architect Hugh Stubbins whose dramatic cantilevered roof gave it the nickname "the pregnant oyster." Since 1989 HKW has staged exhibitions, performances, conferences, and music programs that foreground non-Western perspectives and the global entanglements of contemporary art, decolonial thought, and ecological transformation.

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in English House of World Cultures, in Berlin is Germany's national center for the presentation and discussion of international contemporary arts, with a special focus on non-European cultures and societies. It presents art exhibitions, theater and dance performances, concerts, author readings, films and academic conferences on visual art and culture. It is one of the institutions which, due to their national and international standing and the quality of their work, receive funding from the federal government as so-called "lighthouses of culture", from the Federal Minister of State for Culture and the Media as well as from the Federal Foreign Office. As a venue and collaboration partner, HKW has hosted festivals such as the transmediale, curatorial platforms, biennials such as the Berlin Documentary Forum, and mentorship programs such as Forecast.…