Forgive us our Trespasses
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Persons with limited mobility and wheelchair users
- Two disabled parking spots are located in front of the main lobby’s right entrance; another is on the left, next to the gate in front of the eastern driveway to the building.
- HKW has barrier-free, stepless entrances to the main lobby. Other barrier-free entrances are located on the west and north sides of the building.
- The entrances to the main lobby on the south side of the building have wheelchair-height intercom systems.
- A barrier-free elevator leads to the basement and mezzanine. Another elevator on the mezzanine level leads to the roof terrace. The elevators are equipped with tactile writing.
- Two all gender restroom facilities for people with reduced mobility are located in both the basement and on the mezzanine level.
- Wheelchairs are available on loan from the counter.
Persons who are partially sighted or blind
- At the main entrance of HKW, a tactile model offers orientation about the building levels. Information about the architecture of the building and its surroundings are provided in braille and are marked by strong visual contrasts.
- Glass doors are labeled with safety markings.
- The elevators are equipped with braille panels and the stops are announced.
- We recommend that guests wear FFP2 masks.
- Please keep your distance.
- No admission for persons with cold symptoms.
S+U Hauptbahnhof
S+U Brandenburger Tor
U Bundestag
Bus 100
Boat station Haus der Kulturen der Welt
In the center of the first year is the exhibition Forgive Us Our Trespasses, which will officially open the four-year program Heimaten on September 13, 2024. This exhibition project reflects on the real and metaphorical dimensions of transgression as a means of self-assertion, epistemic disobedience, and subversion within heteronormative, patriarchal, and white power structures that propagate gender, racial, sexual, and class inequalities. Forgive Us Our Trespasses deliberately draws on various narratives of post-war German history after 1945, which speak of transgressions as a means of resistance against domination, experiences of labor and student migration, collective migration in search of asylum, minorities and dissenters, or the struggle for self-determination of gender and sexuality. The project extends from the exhibition halls of the HKW to the Tiergarten and along the Spree.
With works by: Mensa Ansah (FOKN Bois), Ibrahim Ahmed, Ana Alenso, Esvin Alarcón Lam, Myriam Omar Awadi, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ananias Léki Dago, Lizza May David, Victor Ehikhamenor, Jessica Ekomane, Theo Eshetu, Alfredo Esquillo, Hikaru Fujii, Dani Gal, Surya Gied, Patricia Gomez, María Jesús González, Assaf Gruber, Olivier Guesselé-Garai, Dorothy Iannone, Leiko Ikemura, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Rebecca Pokua Korang, Casa Kuà, Søren Lind, Antje Majewski, Shehzil Malik, Sliman Mansour, Babá Murah, I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni), Nazanin Noori, Ahmet Öğüt, Tanja Ostojić, Emmanuel Owusu-Bonsu (FOKN Bois), José Alejandro Restrepo, Larissa Sansour, Nedko Solakov, Andrew Tshabangu, Linda-Philomène Tsoungui, Nasan Tur, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Isaac Chong Wai, Sim Chi Yin