Art and migration: Discover new perspectives in Halle!

Art and migration: Discover new perspectives in Halle!

On Monday, the exhibition "Nearby" was opened in the Neustadt Centrum in Halle. The project shows photographs and texts by migrants who have been invited to capture their personal exploration of the city of Halle. This initiative was implemented by Max-Planck Institute for Ethnological Research in cooperation with the Neustadt Centrum, the Department of Economy, Science and Digitization of the City of Halle (Saale) and Damigra e.V.

The curatorial management took over the social anthropologist Ceren Deniz, who already designed a workshop with the migrants in 2023. As part of this project, various city tours took place, in which photography was used as a method for aesthetic and social discussion. The results come from women from Eritrea, Syria, Sudan and Ukraine, who represent their own stories of orientation, memory and hope through pictures and texts.

creativity meets migration

The exhibition is based on two collaborative projects in the "Anthropology of Economic Experiment" department at the Max Planck Institute. The concept of "closeness" is particularly emphasized, which serves as access to the world, personal ties, trust and self -location. In a supplementary art project with the title "Perceive the first 500 meters", human contact in restrictive contexts is also discussed.

center manager Michael Schneider was pleased to comment on the positive reactions of the visitors. The exhibition, which also shows creative forms of expression of migration, calls on to deal with foreign perspectives. Interested parties can visit the works by June 7, 2025 in the Neustadt Centrum Halle (Neustädter Passage 17d). Admission is free.

artistic impulses in the immigration company

In a broader context, a current study by the German UNESCO Commission and the Bertelsmann Foundation deals with the positive contribution of artistic work to the immigration society. Germany, which is taking up the third -party immigrants worldwide, has increasingly faced the challenges of living together in diversity in recent years. The results of the study entitled "Art in the Immigration Society" will be presented in Erfurt on May 17th, led by Verena Metze-Mangold, President of the German UNESCO Commission.

The following panel discussion will be able to live together with the topic "From the migrant stadl - how can art and culture be able to live together in diversity?" deal with. The focus is not only on the framework conditions or structures for the promotion of artistic potential, but also successful approaches to strengthen the commitment of the federal, state and municipalities.

The study examines the role of the arts for living together in a society characterized by diversity. Since 2011 there has been a strong influx of people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and North Africa, which set new cultural impulses. German middle organizations and civil society initiatives contribute to the networking of immigrants with German cultural workers, whereby the exchange between refugees and German artists is decisive for cooperation