RE:BORDERS – An Indictment

With its debut exhibition of the same name, “RE:BORDERS – An Indictment,” the curatorial collective Re:Borders shifts the boundaries between visual art, political education, and transmedial happening. Re:Borders invited seven artists to the Berlin art space Projektraum Bethanien to position themselves within the pervasive discourse on migration.

Through documentary photography, video works, walk-in installations, performance, and text-based art, the exhibition created multi-perspectival narratives spanning personal stories of flight and experiences of borders. Anger, pain, and despair were given space alongside courage, hope, and self-determination.

The participating artists—Parwana Amiri, Salih Basheer, Vincent Haiges, Michél Kekulé, Özlem Sarıyıldız, Abou Bakar Sidibé, and Chiara Wettmann—engaged directly with themes of war, displacement, exile, and human rights. Their collective confrontation culminated in a shared outcry directed at EU migration policy.

The collective, whose artistic direction is led by the author Kasia Wojcik together with photographer Michél Kekulé, accompanied RE:BORDERS with a social media campaign. Their focus lies particularly on exchange, networking, and community-building among cultural and political actors.

Funded by: Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and VG Bild-Kunst
In collaboration with: Sea-Watch, Seebrücke, LeaveNoOneBehind, ECCHR, Moving Cities, and borderline-europe