Chto Delat International

03/05/2026

next event in Hamburg with our greatest poets and performers! please come

08/04/2026

What will be on Friday? The opening of ART IS NOT AN END IN ITSELF /// In relationship with the constructivist Asja Lācis
Curated by Konstanze Schmitt and Mimmi Woisnitza at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien - please come and share this events with great art works made by many comrades - be there and celebrate the premier the reenactment of our historical work "In a praise of Dialectic" - 20 years after - looks like it did not lost its meaning

23/03/2026

honored to be part of this publication - thanks to Gregory Sholette and congratulations with new book

The Radical Unpresent examines our disorienting contemporary moment, in which our experience of time has become profoundly disrupted. Building on his earlier...

04/03/2026

the works of Chto Delat at this historical show at Prague City Gallery - last week on view

The Art of Activism 10. 12. 2025 – 8. 3. 2026 Curator: Jitka Hlaváčková; Co-operation: Oliver Elser, Megan Hoetger, Barbara Holub, Tamara Moyzes, Vladimír Turner The Art of Activism exhibition and publication explore a specific segment of protest and engaged art in the Czech Lands, especially...

06/02/2026

Chto Delat video film Partisan Songspiel at this show - very curious how Raqs Media Collective make it - big fan of their curatorial visions

link at first comment

Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time)
In Dialogue with Raqs Media Collective
07.02. to 25.05. 2026

The Disobedience Archive is a constantly growing video archive with no fixed location initiated by Marco Scotini in 2005. Comprising more than one hundred documentary and art films at the intersection of art and activism, all show forms of resistance, social struggle and collective self-organisation. Events, voices and gestures realign in new formations, opening up a wide range of viewpoints and interpretations, rather than insisting on one truth only.

Titled Disobedience Archive (Canopy for Broken Time), this is the most comprehensive presentation to date on view, with fifty film documents in all. The selection of works is a response to the fragility of our time: ecological crises, political polarisation, technological acceleration and ongoing global conflicts.

Raqs Media Collective was invited to engage with the premise of the Disobedience Archive. The Collective, for whom time is a central axis in their practice, asks in turn: How can time be experienced beyond the rigid structures of our present moment?

The exhibition encounters our fractured present with open spatial structures. The starting point for this is the shamiana, a temporary canopy that is easy to erect, and that plays an important role in the everyday life of South Asia. Food is eaten, celebrations are held and mourning takes place under a shamiana – and protesters gather here, too. The simple canopy turns into a symbol of togetherness. For, in the words of Raqs Media Collective, to be together under the shamiana means to share time, to become community, to measure the world not in hours, but in gestures of attentiveness towards others.

Curated by Marco Scotini in collaboration with Nadia Schneider Willen, Tasnim Baghdadi and Yasmin Naderi Afschar

With Samir Abdallah, Ravi Agarwal, Navjot Altaf, Atelier d’Architecture Autogérée (AAA), Atelier Impopulaire, Petra Bauer, Ege Berensel, Bernadette Corporation, Ursula Biemann, Wang Bing, Black Audio Film Collective, Seba Calfuqueo, Simone Cangelosi, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Mao Chenyu, Sim Chi Yin, Cooperativa Cráter Invertido, Critical Art Ensemble, Chto Delat, Ali Essafi, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Maria Galindo and Mujeres Creando, Alberto Grifi, Raphaël Grisey und Bouba Touré, Grupo de Arte Callejero, Grupo Etcétera…, Barbara Hammer, Khaled Jarrar, Sara Jordenö, Sanjay Kak, Karrabing Film Collective, Bani Khoshnoudi, Pedro Lemebel, LIMINAL and Border Forensics, Silvia Maglioni und Graeme Thomson, Angela Melitopoulos, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Pınar Öğrenci, Daniela Ortiz, Paloma Polo, Oliver Ressler, Mia Eve Rollow & Caleb Duarte, Güliz Sağlam, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Roy Samaha, Urbonas Studio, Mohanad Yaqubi, Želimir Žilnik

And works by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Ursula Biemann and Graciela Carnevale from the collection of the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst

26/01/2026

Hiwa K from “The Ball Ballat Babel”, 2023

Signal Window at Chto Delat Emergency Project Room
at Brunnen Str 43 (direction Rheinsbergerstr)

you are welcome to pass by and see at day and at night a two magic boxes

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As a Kurd in an Arab school, Hiwa K understood not a word of the Arabic spoken around him and in fact did not grasp that what he was not understanding was a foreign language he could learn (ball ballat means blah blah). Until one day, when he was six, he suddenly got it, and from then on he spoke Arabic.

A bit of background: the Kurdish language has been repressed or marginalized for decades in a variety of ways in the areas in which it is spoken, and some Kurdish children never learn their native tongue. To complicate matters, there is no unified Kurdish language, only widely different dialects, making it difficult to articulate the idea of a united Kurdish nation.

The formal design of the collages revisits Hiwa K’s My Father’s Color Periods (2014–), again with an autobiographical reference: when the first color film was broadcast on Iraqi television in 1979, few residents of the Kurdish areas had color TV sets. Hiwa K’s father, a calligrapher, devised a creative solution to the problem. He cut pieces of colored transparent foil and taped them over the black-and-white TV image, transforming the unfulfilled promise of technological progress into an art in its own right.

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Hiwa K was born in Kurdistan-Northern Iraq in 1975. His informal studies in his home town Sulaymaniyah were focused on European literature and philosophy, learnt from available books translated into Arabic. After moving to Europe in 2002, Hiwa K studied music as a pupil of the Flamenco master Paco Peña in Rotterdam, and subsequently settled in Germany. His works escape normative aesthetics but give a possibility of another vibration to vernacular forms, oral histories (Chicago boys, 2010), modes of encounter (Cooking with Mama, 2006) and political situations (This lemon tastes of apple, 2011). The repository of his references consists of stories told by family members and friends, found situations as well as everyday forms that are the products of pragmatics and necessity. He continuously critiques the art education system and the professionalization of art practice, as well as the myth of the individual artist. Many of his works have a strong collective and participatory dimension, and express the concept of obtaining knowledge from everyday experience rather than doctrine. Hiwa K participated in major institutional exhibitions, such as Manifesta 7, Trient (2008), La Triennale, Intense Proximity, Paris (2012), the “Edgware Road Project” at the Serpentine Gallery, London (2012), the Venice Biennale (2015) and documenta14, Kassel/Athens (2017), New Museum, NYC (2018), S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018), Kunstverein Hannover (2018), "Theater of Operations" at MoMA (2019), Jameel Arts Center Dubai (2020), Museum Abteiberg (2021), The Power Plant Toronto (2022), KOW, Berlin (2023),“Echoes of the Brother Countries" at HKW, Berlin (2024), “Politics of Love" at Kunsthaus Hamburg (2024), "Dis-placed“ at Konschthal Esch (2024), and Ruya Foundation, Iraq (2024)

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Thanks to KOW Berlin for providing artistic work for the display

and to Réjean & Emmanuel (the space at Brunnenstr. 43, Berlin-Mitte) for their generous support

25/01/2026

A film by Chto Delat International at Rotterdam Film Festival

We are delighted to invite you to the world premiere of our film "Songs of hope and despair", presented in the official selection of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Harbor Program.

Our team, together with director Tsaplya Olga Egorova, will be present at both screenings on 3 February and 5 February.

We would be very happy to see some of you there.

Further details can be found on the festival website:

https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2026/films/songs-of-hope-and-despair-performed-by-bundschuh-fish-fox-tail-rainbow-dead-drummer-muse-leaving-germany-and-by-other-agencies

Songs of Hope and Despair (2026) a new film by Chto Delat International directed by Tsaplya Olga Egorova is an improvised fairy tale and highly experimental road movie in which a group of strangely costumed, non-professional actors — exiles from Russia and their friends—set out on an absurd quest for a miracle. Inspired by two key historical works, Werner Tübke’s Panorama of the Peasants’ War and Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Niklashausen Journey, the film unfolds in the former mining town of Hettstedt as an unabashedly lo-fi magical game and tragicomic musical. Guided and manipulated by a trickster-magician, and accompanied by the haunting chorus Dark Clouds of Apocalypses, its Fish, Dead drummers, Muse-Leaving-Germany, Dice Roll and other minor rebel agencies wander across landscapes scarred by ecological ruin, failed revolutions, and the unease of the present..

Oscillating between enchantment and exposure, mourning and play, the film asks a deceptively simple question: what does a miracle even look like in politically dire times like these? Drawing past and present into a single ritual procession, Songs of Hope and Despair reflects on manipulation and resistance, despair and stubborn hope, insisting—like all true fairy tales—on the fragile persistence of solidarity even when history seems trapped in cycles of defeat.

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This video work was a part of video installation “Fell Down – Get Up” at the exhibition Planetary Peasants at Art Museum Moritzburg Halle (Saale) and also at the exhibition Utopia. The Right to Hope – Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and and Institute of Global Reconstitution (Berlin)

The film festival features a new cinematic version of this video work and if you are interested we can share with you a preview copy of the film – please inquire at [email protected]

30/11/2025

our film "Inside Diagrams" will be shown at this festival VIDEOAKTION #6 5-7 December

VENUE: Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstr. 34, 10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain

https://www.attaqueerlevisible.com/videoaktion-6/

26/11/2025

Songs of Hope and DespairA film by Chto Delat InternationalSynopsisSongs of Hope and Despair unfolds as a collective journey through history, myth, and lived...

26/10/2025

14 ноября, в 18 часов

НЕ ПРОПУСТИТЕ!

ПОЭТИЧЕСКИЙ ВЕЧЕР с АННОЙ ГЛАЗОВОЙ!

Приглашаем Вас на поэтический вечер Анны Глазовой, который пройдет в emergency project room по адресу Brunnenstrasse 43, в Берлине. Ждем вас 14 ноября в 18:00. Анну представят редактор и критик Александр Скидан (онлайн) и писательница Егана Джаббарова.

Поэт, критик и редактор поэтической серии НЛО "Новая поэзия" Александр Скидан определяет последнюю книгу Анну Глазовой как "этапную книгу", движущуюся к бессубъектности. Вместе с тем перед нами поэзия очень чуткая, вбирающаяся в себя и дающая место всему, даже тому, чего мы не видим. "Геката", несмотря на свое название, вовсе не сводится исключительно к богине, как мы можем ожидать: это пространство сверх чуткого наблюдения и одновременно отстранения. Но не холодного и не лишенного человеческого сердца. Слова, словно утекающие сквозь пальцы, по формулировке Скидана "убегающие от убийственной однозначности", и может поэтому обволакивающие помещают слушателя в пространство сладостного неопределенного. Встречи с Анной Глазовой подобно ее стихам – редкие, но долгожданные как свидание.
Анна Глазова — поэтесса, переводчица. Родилась в 1973 г. в городе Дубна Московской области. Училась в Московском архитектурном институте, затем в Берлинском Техническом университете, в аспирантуре Северо-Западного университета (Эванстон, США). Преподавала в Корнеллском университете (США), является исследовательницей в области сравнительного литературоведения. Стихи публиковались в журнале «Воздух», альманахах «Вавилон» и «Черновик», антологии «Девять измерений» и многих других. Переводила с немецкого произведения П. Целана, Э. Яндля, Ф. Майрёкер, Р. Вальзера и У. Цюрн. Лауреат премии Андрея Белого (2013).