Bernd Scherer
Bernd Scherer has been director of Haus der Kulturen der Welt since 2006. The philosopher focused the program on the examination of transformation processes in our societies; post-colonial structures, ecological and technological upheavals. It began with projects such as The Potosí Principle (2009–2010) and Über Lebenskunst (2010–2011) and, starting in 2012, the multi-year research projects The Anthropocene Project, 100 Years of Now and The New Alphabet, which includes the event series Dictionary of Now (2015–2018). He thus advanced HKW from an institution that represented non-European cultures to a laboratory of ideas in the making for a world that is changing not only globally, but also planetarily. One chief curatorial approach taken by Bernd Scherer and his team is to interweave art and science, politics and technology. The program is developed collaboratively with international artists and researchers in the interests of a variety of perspectives. Scherer has been an honorary professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt University in Berlin since 2011. Before he became director of HKW, he headed the Goethe-Institut Mexico from 1999 to 2004 and then the Arts Department at the Goethe-Institut head office in Munich. He is editor of books including Das Anthropozän – Zum Stand der Dinge (with Jürgen Renn, 2015), Wörterbuch der Gegenwart (with Stefan Aue and Olga Schubert, 2019) and Das Neue Alphabet (The New Alphabet) (2021).
As of March 2021
Events
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The German Colonial Genocide in Namibia
Conference
Nov 5, 2022
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Hijacking Memory: Day 1
Conference: talks, panels, screenings
Jun 9, 2022
Artist talk with Giulia Bruno & Armin Linke
Jun 1, 2022
Alle Veranstaltungen
Alle Veranstaltungen
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Earth Indices
Exhibition Opening
May 19, 2022
Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
Presentation, Discussion
May 18, 2022
Extractivist Memories
Video series: Presentations, discussions
Dec 15, 2021
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Recoding Alphabets
Book presentation, lecture performance, live coding set
Oct 27, 2021
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Socializing Evidence
Conference
Oct 9, 2021
Archive of Refuge – Opening
Sep 30, 2021
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#Instituting: Workshops & Public Program
Workshops
Jun 26, 2021
Opening
Oct 26, 2020
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Conference: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
Sep 25, 2020
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On the Aesthetics of the Ethnographic Gaze
Discussion
Oct 13, 2019
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Echoes of the South Atlantic
Conference
Jul 10, 2019
How political is the Bauhaus?
Talks, artistic interventions
Jan 19, 2019
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Stop Making Sense
Lecture Performances, Lectures, Discussions
Jan 12, 2019
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The Discrete Charm of the Alphabet
Performances, Lectures, Discussions
Jan 11, 2019
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Mappings as Joint Spatial Display
Conference
Nov 29, 2018
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Artist Talk
Mar 3, 2018
The Apparatus of Racism: Day 1
Discourse program
Mar 8, 2017
Opening | Prompters of the Subtext
Apr 8, 2016
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Wolfgang Tillmans: What’s wrong with redistribution?
Book Presentation, Lecture, and Talk
Dec 3, 2015
Earthbound Knowledge: A Forum II
Hearings
Nov 22, 2014
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Anthropocene Campus – Opening
Nov 14, 2014
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A Report - Opening
Oct 16, 2014
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Expert Talk at Halftime
Jun 23, 2014
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An Ecosystem of Excess
Conference
Feb 1, 2014
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Ten Years of 9/11
Forum Berlin - Debates | Day 2
May 29, 2011