Opening with Performances

with Jamila Barakat & Maryam Fazeli

3 Dec 25, 6.00–10.00 pm

Photo: L. Zafisambondaoaky von einer Arbeit von J. Barakat
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The evening will be framed by speeches from the artist herself and the curator Frances Breden, as well as by the performance “Peace on Earth Is Not for Us” by the artist together with Maryam Fazeli.

The performance consists of a combination of texts and sounds: Jamila Barakat will read her poem “In the Cracks of Silence” (2025), accompanied by Maryam Fazeli with clarinet and additional sound design. 

Jamila Barakat: More info here.

Maryam Fazeli is a sound artist, researcher, and community organiser based in Berlin. As the co-founder of the collective sound archive project Khamoosh she researches sounds and songs from West and Central Asia: in her current research project, she preserves local knowledge of land and agriculturethrough folk songs. In concerts, performances, and radio shows she processes and mediates these sounds together with electro-acoustic compositions. As an organiser and art mediator she facilitates empowerment workshops for children and teenagers, as well as educational reading events together with the counter-pedagogy collective un/learning group.

This event is free of charge.

More info coming soon!

A portrait picture of the artist Jamila Barakat. She is visible from the bust upwards und is tilted to the left but looks directly into the camera. She wears her curly dark hair up and has a piercing on her right ear. She is wearing a grey scarf and a grey puffer jacket. The background is blank, with a kind of blueish shadow behind Barakat.
Jamila Barakat
A Portait photograph of Maryam Fazeli. She is visible from the waist up and is looking directly into the camera. She is wearing a green scarf in her hair, which is brown and curly and falls over the scarf. She is also wearing a thin scarf around her neck as well as a black long sleeve shirt. Her arm is bent and her hand is resting on her waist. She is standing in front of a white wall and the sunlight hits her face from the right side.