Exiled Lives on the Stage

Organized by Freie University and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, the “Exiled Lives on the Stage: Practices of Self Fashioning, Archiving, and Decolonization” event will be taking place on 21-25 February. The program includes workshops, roundtables, panels, and concerts.

The event is focused on the following questions:

What strategies do artists in self-exile and/or at risk develop and acquire to enter the German cultural industry, including the theatre stages?

Is self-fashioning an exilic artist’s identity emancipating or restricting?

How do we archive the affective stories, works of art, and exiled lives of artists who have come to Germany?

What strategies for archiving the lives of exiled artists exist today, inside and outside the institutions?

How do the works of art impact institutions and the public debate, and how can they help others?


As part of the program, WAWA Team member and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-Doctoral fellow Şirin Fulya Erensoy will be talking about archiving and the efforts of WAWA in a roundtable that investigates topics such as the need for more action and memory keeping with regard to artists at risk and in exile within Berlin’s decentralized institutions, and challenges of archives in the making through private and independent initiatives.


For more info please visit https://www.artspaceinexile.org/


Hotel Continental, Elsenstraße 87, 12435 Berlin
21-25 February 2023