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Friendships from the past two years formed on the fringes of artistic practice, but not due to it. Rather, they grew over Instagram posts, cooking and eating, organizing, grieving, raging and walking together. Two years on they seem to exude an impermeable and formidable force, intrinsic to our survival. Here she asks how we lean on, take from and carry forward each other’s tireless minds and labour; poetry and art? \u003Cbr />\u003Cbr />In the first of a set of three screenings titled Wildfire, we watch films by five Berlin-based artists: \u003Cstrong>Candice Breitz, Basma Alsharif, Pinar Öğrenci, Heba Y. Amin and Sylvia Schedelbauer.\u003C/strong> The works offer diverse narratives about familial and political histories, the politics of witnessing, social alienation and friendship.\u003Cbr />\u003Cbr />The screenings will be followed by a discussion between Abidi and\u003Cstrong> Omar Kasmani\u003C/strong>: her old friend and Berlin-based cultural anthropologist. A reading of Kasmani's set of texts 'Love is a City in Anguish' will be followed by a conversation around conviviality, migrant belonging and political heartbreak.\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr />\u003Cstrong>6-7:30pm\u003C/strong> - Film screenings\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>7:45-8:30pm\u003C/strong> - Bani Abidi & Omar Kasmani in conversation \u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cbr />\u003Cstrong>FILMS\u003C/strong>\u003C/p>\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>Candice Breitz\u003C/strong> - \u003Ci>Dear Esther (May 1943),\u003C/i> 2025\u003Ci> (9:00)\u003C/i> \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">In her series of short films titled \u003Ci>Dear Esther\u003C/i>, Breitz reckons with the experience of living in contemporary Germany, a nation in which atonement for a genocidal past is too often expressed in the form of support for the ongoing genocide in Israel-Palestine. Narrated in the artist’s own voice, each film in the series takes the form of a letter addressed to the late musician and antifascist activist Esther Bejarano (1924–2021), who survived Auschwitz as a young woman, only to face accusations of antisemitism in her later life on the basis of her vehement criticism of Israeli oppression of Palestinians. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Commissioned by steirischer herbst 2025 \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Basma Al Sharif \u003C/strong>- \u003Ci>Morgenkreis, \u003C/i>2025 \u003Ci>(20:31)\u003C/i> \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">A short visceral narrative film unfolds in three parts to describe loss. From our earliest experience of separation to the imperceptible violence associated with integrating to a new country when yours is no longer liveable, Morgenkreis follows a father and son in their intimate rituals as they prepare to start the day and head to kindergarten. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Pinar Öğrenci\u003C/strong> - \u003Ci>Hotel Miks, \u003C/i>2023\u003Ci> (17:03)\u003C/i> \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Avalanches are a regular and deadly occurrence in Miks, an old Armenian–Kurdish town where roads remain blocked by snow for nine months of the year. Cut off from the rest of the world during this time, playing chess in cafés becomes a daily ritual that helps its people endure. The artist continues to explore the chess metaphor as a tool of resistance, struggle, and negotiation, re-evaluating the video material from her film \u003Ci>Aşît – The Avalanche\u003C/i>, produced for documenta fifteen in 2022. The work is slightly inspired by Stefan Zweig’s last novel, \u003Ci>The Royal Game\u003C/i> (\u003Ci>Schachnovelle\u003C/i>, 1941), in which the main character, Dr. B., is imprisoned by the Nazis in a hotel room and turns to chess as a survival mechanism in the face of fascism. In this context, the hotel becomes an architectural symbol of totalitarian regimes. Pınar Öğrenci portrays her father’s hometown, Miks in Wan, as a hotel where dissident citizens are treated as guests. In this setting, living conditions cannot be altered, and people are compelled to endure their circumstances. The video’s soundtrack—featuring the Armenian duduk and the Kurdish zurna—evokes the shared cultural heritage of the two communities that once lived together before the Armenian Genocide of 1915. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">*Hotel Miks includes video materials that has been realized in the framework of documenta fifteen. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Heba Y. 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By mobilizing the act of 'witnessing' as both subject and structure, the work asks: \u003Ci>What does it mean to see, and to not know what one has seen?\u003C/i> \u003Ci>How do we record without claiming, observe without extracting, remember without possession?\u003C/i> \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Sylvia Schedelbauer\u003C/strong> - \u003Ci>Memories, \u003C/i>2024 \u003Ci>(19:16)\u003C/i> \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">Growing up in Japan’s bubble economy, a woman questions her parents’ silence about the past. With a box of family photos, she tries to assemble her own version of their history. \u003C/p>",[],[106],{"authorName":12,"authorRole":12,"authorPortrait":107,"authorBio":108,"authorUrl":12},[],{"html":109},"\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Bani Abidi \u003C/strong>is a Pakistani visual artist based in Neukölln, Berlin. Along with her studio practice of drawing, photography and film making she runs 'Books of Others', a project space and reading room. Abidi studied visual art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, and at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited widely, with solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; and Gropius Bau, Berlin, amongst others. Selected group exhibitions include Lahore Biennial, 2024; Asia Pacific Triennial, 2021; Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2021; Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016; 8th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2014; documenta (13), 2012; Kochi-Muziris Biennial, 2012 and 10th Lyon Biennale, 2009. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Basma al-Sharif \u003C/strong>is a Palestinian artist/filmmaker who explores cyclical political histories and conflicts. 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She recently completed her ‘White Noise Trilogy,’ which she has been working on since 2015. Breitz’s work has been acquired by the Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk) and the Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin), among other institutions. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Heba Y. Amin\u003C/strong> is a visual artist, researcher and Professor of Digital and Time-Based art at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. She is the co-founder of  Black Athena Collective, curator of visual art for MIZNA journal, and currently sits on the board of Disruption Network Lab. Amin was awarded the 2025 Hans-Molfenter Preis/City of Stuttgart Prize (Germany), 2022 Nordhorn City art prize (Germany), the 2020 Sussmann Artist Award (Austria), and the 2019 Field of Vision Fellowship (NYC). Amin’s work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide and lives in the collections of the Musee du Quai Branly, The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art (Germany), British Museum, KADIST, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine, among others. Her works and interventions have been covered by various media including The New York Times, The Guardian, the Intercept, and BBC. Furthermore, Amin is one of the artists behind the subversive graffiti action on the set of the television series “Homeland” which received worldwide media attention. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Omar Kasmani \u003C/strong>is a Karachi-born writer and cultural anthropologist based in Berlin. His work is concerned with unstraight notions of intimacy, religion and migration. He is the author of \u003Ci>Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy and Saintly Affects in Pakistan \u003C/i>(2022) and the editor of \u003Ci>Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere\u003C/i> (2023). His current writing turns to the self as a public archive of migrant feeling and un/love in Berlin. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Pınar Öğrenci\u003C/strong> (1973, Van, Turkey) is an artist and filmmaker based in Berlin. Her works are decolonial and feminist readings from the intersections of social and political research, everyday practices, and human stories that follow agents of migration and displacement. Öğrenci engages with place, site and architecture as the materialization of violence. Her practice serves as a response to a collective past often left in silence and urging her audience to imagine a future built on justice, equality, and collective healing. Her works have been exhibited widely at museums and art institutions including at HKW, Berlin (2025), Venice Biennial (Disobedience Archive, 2024), Harward Museum (2024), documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022), Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg MK&G (2024), Berlinische Galerie, (2023), Frac Bretain, Rennes (2024), 12th Gwangju Biennial (2018), 6th Athens Biennial (2018), Kunst Haus Wien - Hundertwasser Museum (2017), the Istanbul off-site project for Sharjah Biennial13 (2017) and many others. \u003C/p>\u003Cp style=\"margin-left:0px;\">\u003Cstrong>Sylvia Schedelbauer \u003C/strong>was born and raised in Japan and has been based in Germany since 1993. 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