ifa blog

Interviews, essays, reports – in the ifa blog, the diverse topics of the ifa are vividly presented in various formats.

Portrait Karolina Slusarenka

ifa as a Stepping Stone into Berlin Politics

In an interview, Karolina Slusarenka, former coordinator of ifa's Deployment Programme in Poland and the Czech Republic, talks about identity as an important component of her work with ...

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Iris Lenz, Head of the ifa Galleries

Iris Lenz and the ifa Galleries

What distinguishes the ifa Galleries? Why is the location of a gallery decisive for its programme? And what are current themes in art? Gallery director Iris Lenz looks back on 30 years ...

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Streetart in Johannesburg

Mapping Cultural and Creative Industries in Sub-Saharan Africa

Over the last 20 years, cultural and creative industries have gained considerable attention in sustainable development agendas, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. What impact and ...

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Fundación Proa

Closeness and Community

For Manuela Otero, Programmer and Curator at Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires, lockdown was a unique opportunity to sustain and create communities – through digital study programs, local ...

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Statue of Tito in the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, photograph of the statue from behind, view into the inner courtyard of the museum.

An European Excursus: Peripheries and Places of Diversity

Current conflicts and the increasing division in society have lead ifa to realize the new art project 'EVROVIZION crossing stories and spaces'. The author Sanja Kojić Mladenov, one of ...

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Art Room of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Vojvodina, Serbien, Novi Sad

A Call for Clarity and Plurality

For curator Sanja Kojić Mladenov at the Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina in Novi Sad, Serbia, the pandemic crisis has only heightened the need for clear cultural policy and common ...

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Exterior view of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; to the left and right of the entrance the banners, red and white, of the Martin Roth Symposium

MuseumFutures: MaRS 2020

The second Martin Roth Symposium took place over five days in early September. Beaming out from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin it explored what might (and should) be next for the ...

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[Translate to english:] Design Society in Shenzen

A Global Language and Mutual Learnings

At the Design Society in Shenzhen, Curator Lu Yangli saw several international projects disrupted by the pandemic, but remains committed to cross-institutional cooperation and exchange.

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Portrait of the writer Eva Menasse

The Loss of the Public Sphere

The digital revolution has destroyed the public sphere as we knew it. Isolated from each other, we dig our own tunnels: blind, sensitive to the smallest of vibrations, frightened by ...

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