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Hoffnung أمل

Jamila Barakat

4 Dec–1 Feb 26

Opening: 3 Dec, 6 pm

Hoffnung أمل, a solo exhibition by Jamila Barakat, explores the act of remembering as a form of resistance, and the search for belonging as an open-ended process. Using collage as a central medium, Barakat charts a delicate topography through painting, drawing, text, photography, and sculpture. Voices permeate the room, emenating from a sound installation created in collaboration with Maryam Fazeli.

“What happens when a country forgets how to breathe?”¹

This question resonates like an echo through the exhibition. Collage-making is used as an artistic strategy to piece together fractured and forgotten remains of the visibile and invisibilised, the past and the present. These elements intertwine and open up a space in which memory can become action.

The artworks follow movements between Palestine, Kuwait, the Emirates, Lebanon, Syria, Ukraine, and East and West Germany through to contemporary Berlin. These movements don‘t come together in a neat narrative arc, but unfold into a mosaic of fragments that, taken together, offer possibilitiesfor endurance andsurvival.

أمل (amal, the Arabic word for hope) is not used here as a promise for the future, but as a daily presence; an enduring spirit that persists even as language fails us. Hoffnung أمل reminds us that the truth can‘t be silenced. One day, it always returns, borne by those who refuse to stop speaking out.

¹ Barakat, „In den Rissen der Stille“, Arts of the Working Class No. 36

 

 

 

VERANSTALTUNGEN

3 Dec 2025 | 6 pm

Opening with a performance by the artist and Maryam Fazeli

 

11 Dec 2025 | 7 pm (EN)

Presentation and discussion with Forensis e.V.

 

07 Jan 2026 | 7 pm (EN)

Tour with the artist and curator

 

14 Jan 2026 | 7 pm (DE)

Tour with the artist and curator

 

24 Jan 2026 | 2 pm (DE)

Collage Workshop for youth hosted by the artist and Elvis Osmanović

 

31 Jan 2026 | 7 pm (DE)

Closing with an artist talk moderated by Priya Ravi