Sich verwandt machen

The exhibition Making Kin/Making Yourself Related brings together works by artists from Canada, South Korea, Nigeria, Ghana, Myanmar, Germany, Estonia, Uzbekistan and the USA. Their different practices are united by the understanding that we are all woven into a dynamic web of relationships: with other people, animals, plants, spiritual beings, the cosmos - but also with our office chair. This world view is linked to criticism of (colonial) regimes of violence and exploitation as well as state ideologies that seek to reduce the diversity of relationships to nuclear family models and rigid forms of belonging. The artists counter the loss of connections, biodiversity, languages, aesthetics and knowledge with resistance and the exploration of marginalized forms of knowledge and relationships.

Four themes are central: Belonging and community, interdependencies between human and non-human collectives, reviving and passing on devalued knowledge cultures and questions of cultural memory and intergenerational exchange. The transcultural diversity of artistic approaches turns the exhibition space into a pluriverse and invites visitors to weave their own connections.

Participating artists: Catherine Blackburn, Aziza Kadyri, Mae-ling Lokko, Meryl McMaster, Caroline Monnet, Katja Novitskova, Soe Yu Nwe, Odun Orimolade, Judith Raum, Cara Romero, Zina Saro-Wiwa, Haegue Yang

Curation: Kerstin Pinther, Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art in a Global Context, and Ute Marxreiter, Research Associate for Education and Outreach, Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Further information

- Languages: English, German
- Location: Museum of Asian Art, Room 304

- A Humboldt Forum ticket is required: 14,00 EUR / 7,00 EUR reduced

- Duration: 28.11.2025 until 03.08.2026

- Opening hours: Wednesdays to Mondays from 10:30 - 18:30. Tuesday is a regular closing day