Spore hosts: InVisible Borders - Exhibition

For Kids and teenagers (aged 3-16), Schools, Artists, Art and Education Students, Teachers, Educators, families, Activists.

In the transnational photo art project ‚Invisible Borders‘ at the Elementary School for the Arts (UdK), students from different grades at the Bruno Taut School in Neukölln approached these important, current questions with the support of university educators of the elementary school art teacher training course. The students looked at analog photographs that were taken and developed by refugee and local children from the Sirkhane Darkroom Project in Mardin/Eastern Turkey under the guidance of the Syrian photographer Serbest Salih. They were able to engage with the stories, narratives and independently developed artistic testimonies of children beyond the border of the Black Mediterranean (Di Maio 2012, Barry 2021) and create their own creative responses to the photographs, thus entering into an aesthetic dialogue across borders. This resulted in further analogue photographs, self-made pictures and drawings, as well as up-cycled objects.  

In the exhibition 'Invisible Borders, the photographs of the children of the Sirkhane Darkrooms are exhibited in tandem with the analogue photographs and works of art of the Neukölln children. The exhibition is accompanied by the art program *WAVES OF MIGRATION* with Isra Abdou and Rüzgâr Buşki (Mobile Screenprinting Workshop - Şipşak Druck, DE/ENG/TR), as well as volunteers from the Sirkhane Darkroom from Mardin, Benazir Özmen and Ceng Yiğit (TR).  

We would like to warmly invite you to visit the exhibition and to the opening event on June 2nd with our guest speaker, the human rights activist Sara Mardini, den Künstler*innen Serbest Salih and Cana Bilir-Meier, and the participating students, teachers, pupils and parents from the Bruno Taut primary school.