Walk Poems: Unsere Straßen
neu beschreiben
at Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin
May 5, 6, 7, 2026
A series of three artist-led workshops that explore the neighborhood around Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum and Kottbuser Tor through walking and writing. By collecting fragments and feelings from the streets, the project explores public space as a shared, poetic resource.
Graphic Design: Kathrin Baumgartner
Curatorial team: Clementine Butler-Gallie & Viviane Tabach
Funded by Projektfonds Kulturförderung, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
The workshop builds on and extends from the artist’s work “there is a table in this house”, a choreo-reading and collective intervention that investigates the ethics and politics of gathering, particularly in times of rupture.
It opens at a table where neighbors sit. This sitting comes with its own questions. The simple act of sitting together with a neighbor, to witness each other and the places proximate to our bodies becomes a radical act of care. In this workshop, we sit to rethink and remake the language of neighbor and neighborhood. To make it a language that is soft. To ask: who is welcome where, what and who a neighbor truly is, how might we belong or become otherwise, together, etc. At this table, as Gwendolyn Brooks puts it, we are “eachothers bond”. Together, we will sit, and as we sit we will observe, we will write. Not only on paper. But with our whole body and being. We will observe the living grounds around Kotti.
Workshop 1:
a poem opens at this table
with hn. lyonga
Date: Monday 4. May, 2026
Time: 18:00-20:00
Meeting point: FHXB Museum courtyard
Languages: German and English
Type: Choreo-Reading, Writing Workshop
Bio:
hn. lyonga is a Black, Queer, interdisciplinary artist, writer and curator. His work is the work of gathering: words, neighbours, silences, inheritances. He writes not only for the page but for the ear, the circle, the community that refuses erasure. He turns his face toward the migrations. Those journeys born of dispossession and yet marked by invention that continue to shape the lives of the colonised, the marginalised, the ones who endure. lyonga is a neighbor, and always a student. He sits among the members of BARAZANI.berlin – Forum Kolonialismus und Widerstand, and the Field Narratives collective, where the work is remembering and refusing, where rural biographies, ancestral speech, and cross-continental intimacies find new breath. He was formerly neighbour in residence at the Gropius Bau, Berlin and a Human Maschine Fellow at E-Werk Lückenwalde and Akademie Der Künste, Berlin.
What ideas, structures, and beliefs inhabit our words? In this workshop, we will walk the local space and streets in the hunt for words. A collective poem-map on fabric will take shape guided by questions as a methodology.
By investigating our relationship with language, this workshop intends to expand the dimensions of words so as to perceive beyond our ideas of what exists. We will practice writing as a form of allowing sensitive knowledge to arise from listening, collecting, and thinking together. Enacting writing as a social and communal practice, we will rethink and rewrite the narratives that we have inherited to create new poetic structures to inhabit.
Workshop 2:
Collecting words, building poems
with Giuliana Kierz
Date: Monday 4. May, 2026
Time: 18:00-20:00
Meeting point: FHXB Museum courtyard
Languages: German and English
Type: Choreo-Reading, Writing Workshop
Bio:
Giuliana Kiersz is a Berlin-based poet, playwright, and librettist, originally from Buenos Aires. Her texts received several national and international awards including first place in Todos los tiempos el tiempo in 2024, the X German Rozenmacher Award for New Playwriting in 2017 and Neue Szenen VII with composer Huihui Cheng organized by the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 2023. Her poems and theatre plays have been translated into English, German, French, Portuguese, Suomi and Tsosil and published by Rara Avis Editorial, Libros del Rojas, Fondo Editorial ENSAD, Editorial INTeatro, Espejo Somos, Libros Drama, Solitude Editions / Archive Books and Editions Espaces 34. She has taught creative writing workshops in art spaces, theaters, galleries and universities in Latin America and Europe and in 2017 she started the art and literature project Writing Gatherings, as a laboratory to create collective pieces of writing.
Photo by Dirk Skiba
Workshop 3:
Working the waterways
with Fabian Saul / Flaneur Magazine
Date: Thursday 7. May, 2026
Time: 18:00-21:00
Meeting point: FHXB Museum courtyard
Languages: German and English
Type: Walk, Sound/Composition Workshop
Walking along the waterways of Kreuzberg, we collect material: recordings, notes, observations, and conversations. From this, we develop a multi-voiced portrayal of the less visible layers of the area: its routines, infrastructures, and transitions, as well as the power structures embedded in the built environment and the realities it produces. The workshop is conceived as a practical, collaborative process: reviewing, editing, and assembling fragments into a shared, open composition.
Bio:
Fabian Saul, born in 1986, is a writer, composer, and editor-in-chief of the award-winning magazine Flaneur. The magazine, which focuses on a different street around the world in each issue, follows a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach that is also reflected in Saul’s work. Alongside his writing, he works as a composer and songwriter. His music is released under his artistic name SAUL. He is also the composer of the audio series Schlechte Wörter and Stoff aus Luft. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Alfred Döblin Medal, a scholarship from the Roger Willemsen Foundation, and the Harald Gerlach Scholarship.
Photo by Malte Seidel