Is "Heimat" a Place?
Talks
In German, Arabic, Korean, English and Turkish
Southwestern Germany’s border region of Saarland is home to many heimaten. With the aim of making heimaten visible as a process and something that can be experienced, as well as celebrating it, the Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken is inviting various actors to collaborate: the German-Korean conceptual artist and designer Hojin Kang is creating an artistic work in the Stadtgalerie. Its creation will be accompanied by a talk held in coordination with the Bildungswerkstatt Kirchberg, a district education centre in Saarbrücken-Malstatt and, like the Stadtgalerie, a member of the Netzwerks kulturelle Bildung (Network of Cultural Educators).
As part of the talk, various guests have been invited to Malstatt to describe their experiences of making themselves at home. Some of them have heimaten beyond their Saarland and German heimat—whether they were forced to flee, or because their parents or grandparents immigrated.
More information about the programme can be found here.