In the organizer's words:

An open invitation to all to weave, knit and crochet together! This mural collage and workshop series combines storytelling, cultural heritage and participatory weaving to explore the rich cosmology and feminine lineages of the Wayuu community in northern Colombia and Venezuela - and to entangle them with the world.

Immerse yourself in the mythical and material worlds of Wayuu women and their weaving art and help create the collaborative collage! To participate, please come to the Sunday workshops "Gift of the Spider". (QR)

The basis is a large collage wall by the Aliwaa Collective - Sindri Gonzales Ipuana (Wayuu weaver from Colombia), Stefannia Doria (curator from Colombia) and Raquel van Haver (artist from Colombia and the Netherlands). Woven and knitted contributions from visitors to the Humboldt Forum and works from the Wayuu weaving community are constantly being added to and together form a living collage.

Participants

Raquel van Haver (1989, Bogotá, Colombia) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives between Amsterdam and Colombia and works with painting, sculpture and installation. Her works address themes of memory, identity, community and resilience by creating visual narratives with unconventional materials. Listening and storytelling are central to her practice, which connects personal experiences to broader cultural and political contexts. Van Haver has had major solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Spirits of the Soil, 2018), the Bonnefanten Museum (Amo a la Reina, 2020) and the Amsterdam Museum/H'ART Museum (The Collateral Kin, 2025). Other solo exhibitions have taken place at David Krut Gallery (New York), Galerie Wedding (Berlin) and Jack Bell Gallery (London), among others. She works internationally and runs long-term projects such as GlassLab Titambe in Tamale, Ghana. Van Haver is a mentor of the Mondriaan Foundation, board member of the Holland Festival and jury member of De Nieuwe Rembrandt. She is the founder of Studio Raquel van Haver, the 21e Eeuwse Groepsportretten Foundation, the Aliwaa Collective and GlassLab Titambe.

Sindri González Ipuana is a Wayuu woman, mother and indigenous leader with a background as a marketing management technologist and extensive experience in cultural entrepreneurship. From 2017 to 2020, she was a manager at AKUMAJA where she led community visits and pre-consultations with Wayuu women artisans. She has extensive experience in managing productive projects in Wayuu weaving, handicrafts and the preservation of cultural traditions. Between 2020 and 2023, she was Project Coordinator at Perla Ancestral, where she oversaw artisanal production initiatives. From 2023 to 2024 she was a legal representative of the WAN Foundation and in 2024 she became President of the Ethnic Women's Association ASOMUETNICA. She speaks Wayuunaiki and Spanish and has a degree in Marketing Management Technology from SENA (2016-2018). Sindri González Ipuana is committed to the empowerment of indigenous women and communities.

Stefannia Doria is a curator and communication and cultural manager with over fifteen years of professional experience in museums, cultural institutions and digital cultural projects. From 2010 to 2021 she worked as a curator at the Bolivarian Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Marta, Colombia. Since 2019, she has been the founder and digital entrepreneur of the cultural project Lunáteaca, Historias de Té. Between 2021 and 2023 she worked as a curator for the Wayuu Community Weaving Project at the Textile Museum in the Netherlands. In 2023 she taught as a professor at the Universidad del Magdalena.

From 2024 to 2025, she took on curatorial duties for the project The Collection Resists at the Missie Museum in the Netherlands and was responsible for communication, design and logistics for the 12th International Conference on Artificial Reefs and Aquatic Habitats (CARAH) in Colombia. In parallel, she has been working as a curator of transmedia content for the Ministry of Culture and the R101 Theatre Foundation since 2024.

Stefannia Doria holds a Master's degree in Museology (Fine Arts) from Spain and a Bachelor's degree in Social Communication and Journalism from Colombia. Her work focuses on curatorial practice, cultural communication, community-based projects and digital mediation formats.

Dagmar Rehse is responsible for the weaving, knitting and crochet workshops in February, March and April. She is a textile artist and weaver in Berlin. She has been running handgewebt in berlin in the Wedding district since 2013. The PA58 textile studio is located in the backyard of Prinzenallee 58 and is a production and work space for hand-woven textile products.

In addition to its own artistic and artisanal production, handgewebt in berlin offers weaving courses and weaving lessons and now also in Humboldt Forum.

- Special exhibition foyer, ground floor

- Duration: 60 min

- from 6 years

- Belongs to: Family relationships