Barazani e.V

BARAZANI.berlin is an interdisciplinary collective that engages with decolonial issues and practices. It has existed since September 2020 as part of Decolonize Berlin e.V. Emerging from the Museums and Collections Working Group, BARAZANI.berlin initially formed during the COVID-19 pandemic as a virtual space, occupying the vacant Schlossplatz (Palace Square) in protest against the reconstruction of the Hohenzollern Palace. Since 2021, we have had our own action and project space, SPREEUFER 6, in the Nikolaiviertel (St. Nicholas Quarter), opposite the Humboldt Forum.

The word ""barazani"" comes from Swahili and describes a forum for regularly held, informal, neighborly, and open discussions. We aim to create such a space at SPREEUFER.

We seek an honest and appropriate way of addressing the intergenerational traumas that colonialism and imperialism continue to cause today. We join the call for a new ethics of relationships—for justice and respect, for symbolic and material reparations.

As a collectively managed space for decolonial artistic and civil society perspectives, SPREEUFER hosts exhibitions, performances, film screenings, workshops, book launches, concerts, guided tours, discussions, and dinner tables. Various decolonial (artist) groups, communities, and activists use the space for meetings, cooking, and productions.

The project is curated by international artists, scholars, and activists from the global decolonial movement and looks forward to welcoming you and your perspectives:

Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago, Arantxa Ciafrino, Christoph Balzar, Fanny Binder, Colleen Ndemeh Fitzgerald, Carina Herring, Sonja Hohenbild, hn. lyonga, Isabel Raabe, Cheng-Jung Tsai (Ron).