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There are borders

Exhibition featuring our projects on migration and arrival

June 5, 2025 Opening

June 7, 7:30 p.m.: Update on “KEINE RUHE” and the current situation at the Belarus-Poland border

June 8, 2025 Zine presentation “A look over our shoulder, insight into our perspective” followed by discussion

June 9, 2025 Lecture and discussion on the photo project “Komplex: Heimat” (Complex: Home)

Change of perspective – First reception

Photo interview newspaper and educational offerings for a differentiated view and more perspectives in the discourse in Suhl

2024/08 Publication of the newspaper in the CCS, distribution to letterboxes
2024/12 Theatre workshop for young people to discuss and respond to the content

2025/04 Listening evening and opening of listening stations
2025/09 Discussion forum with politicians, residents and refugees

And now?

Thinking ahead on billboards after the large demonstrations against the deportation plans of the New Right

2024/04-05 Workshop
2024/06 Exhibition on billboards in public spaces as part of the f/stop Festival for Photography Leipzig

Complex : Homeland

Photographic work by Frieder Bickhardt on the construction of Saxon identities

2023/03 Exhibition at Hoyerswerda Castle and Town Museum
2024/06 Exhibition at the f/stop Festival for Photography, Historic Waiting Room, Leipzig Central Station

from here

It's not about who was born here, but who is here. Magazines are produced in photography and writing workshops.

2023/10-2024/02 First workshop and magazine release at Galerie KUB, Leipzig
2024/06-11 Readings at the Crossover Festival Grimma, at the Pöge-Haus and el libro Leipzig

2024/09-2025/02 Second workshop at EJBW Weimar and magazine release with exhibition at the Weimar shop

Suhl-Nord - Back in dialogue

Socio-cultural-artistic project on a disappearing neighbourhood

2022/07-12 Street festival with participatory activities, newspaper workshop and publication
2023/05 Exhibition in public space with content from the newspaper
2023/09 Workshop on producing a second edition of the newspaper ‘Suhl-Nord – Aus unserer Sicht’ (Suhl-Nord – From our perspective)
2024/04 Exhibition of two works from the project for the ‘Kleinstadt/Future’ festival in Werdau

NO REST

Photo newspaper with personal perspectives on fleeing via Belarus to Suhl and Leipzig

2022/03 Publication of the newspaper for the Leipzig Photo Book Festival
2022/09 Reading tour with stops in Jena, Suhl, Eschwege and Hanover

Born, arrived, stayed – portraits of a diverse city

Interviews and profiles in cooperation with Bon Courage e.V. Borna

2022 Publication as a monthly series in the Borna City Journal

Stereotyped thinking

Portraits of migrants and people of color from Suhl and conversations about their experiences with discrimination

2020/09 First interviews and exhibition for Intercultural Week in Suhl's main church and online
2021/09 Further interviews and exhibition on the IKW at the Lauterbogen Centre in Suhl
2023/09 Production of roll-ups as a mobile exhibition for hire, presentation at IKW Suhl
2024/09 Exhibition on IKW at the Old Town Hall in Suhl

A marked neighborhood.

Two newspapers and an exhibition against the racist stigmatisation of Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig

2019/08 Publication of the first newspaper as part of the travelling exhibition ‘No beautiful ____ at this time’
2020 Readings at Pöge-Haus, adi, el libro and Radical Bookfair Leipzig
2021/02-04 Exhibition on tarpaulins in public spaces (shop windows, Eastpark Leipzig)
2021/06-07 Exhibition as a satellite event to the f/stop Festival for Photography. Villa Plagwitz, Leipzig

2021/11-2022/04 Group exhibition ‘Photobooks – Art to Leaf Through’, GRASSI Museum of Applied Arts, Leipzig

I labour, therefore I am

Two intensive youth exchanges resulted in photographic and film projects on the theme of work.

2019/04 Youth exchange in cooperation with Autodidaktische Initiative e.V. in Leipzig
2019/10 Youth exchange in cooperation with Circolo ArciRagazzi Gli Anni in Tasca in Terni, Italy

other projects

2023
2022/06 Wish production with collages as a participatory format for designing the schoolyard, Paul-Greifzu-Schule Suhl

2019/02-04 Workshop ‘out of the box’ in the Dresdner59 district project, Leipzig-Reudnitz
2019/01 Joint exhibition ‘von ihnen von uns von wem’ (from them, from us, from whom) at Pöge-Haus e.V., Leipzig
2018/10-12 Workshop ‘How to Publish’ at Pöge-Haus e.V., Leipzig-Neustadt-Neuschönefeld
2018/08-09 Workshop ‘sharing.unofficial.pictures’ at Treibhaus e.V., Döbeln
2018-2024 Seminars on anti-racist photography during voluntary service, Evangelical Lutheran Mission Leipzig e.V.
2018/07 Workshop ‘out of the box’ at kunZstoffe – urban ideas workshop e.V., Leipzig-Lindenau
2018/06 Start of the ongoing workshop ‘Photo, Film & Pizza’ in our own premises, Leipzig-Kleinzschocher
2018/02 Zine workshop ‘born to work’ at Autodidaktische Initiative e. V., Leipzig-Lindenau
2017/12 Exhibition and book presentation of ‘Die Jasmin-Flucht’ (The Jasmine Escape) by Fahd Aldaya at Tipi im Westwerk, Leipzig-Plagwitz
2017/11 Zine workshop ‘The personal is political’ at Autodidaktische Initiative e. V., Leipzig-Lindenau
2017/11 Crash course ‘The Documentary Portrait’, Leipzig-Plagwitz
2017/10 Exhibition ‘now.unofficial.pictures’ as part of the LindeNOW art festival, Leipzig-Lindenau
2017/08 Zine workshop ‘Good material for a story’ in the Village of Youth as part of the state programme ‘Spurensuche’ (Searching for Traces), Grimma
2017/05 Exhibition ‘Topographies of Resistance’ as part of the Kulturelle Landpartie (Cultural Country Outing), Gasthof Meuchefitz/Wendland
2017/04 Start of the monthly ‘Ideas Workshop’ with former workshop participants, Leipzig
2017/03 Workshop ‘out of the box’ at krudebude e.V., Leipzig-Schönefeld
2017/01 Theory seminar ‘How can photography be political?’ at Autodidaktische Initiative e. V., Leipzig-Lindenau
2016/06 Film and theatre project ‘MOMO’ with a DaZ class from the neighbourhood school, Leipzig-Lindenau
2016/04 Workshop ‘sharing unofficial pictures’ at krudebude e.V., Leipzig-Schönefeld