Solvej Helweg Ovesen

What does it mean to curate deeply? 🌀 Join us for a talk by Solvej Helweg Ovesen on Deep Curating — a practice that transforms exhibition-making into a living, breathing process of creativity, collaboration, and care. More than a method, it’s a leadership form built on feedback loops, team reflection, and aesthetic growth. Solvej is Program Curator and Dramaturg at Humboldt Forum, and brings decades of curatorial experience from the Venice Biennale, Riga Biennale, Roskilde Festival, and beyond. 📅 15 May 2026, 5 pm CET 📍 Radialsystem, Berlin + Online via Zoom Open to the public. All talks in English. Register via link in bio or at curating.org Hosted by @oncurating Academy Berlin and @dorothee_richter

How was your 1st of May? Mine was full of magic ✨ performing ONENESS by @mwangihutter with @andrius.nekrasoff at @humboldtforum . Curated by @solvejovesen A moment of pure generosity and kindness. Opening our hearts full of love gratitude and beauty. Time stopped to allow connection compassion and joy to fill the space. We erased borders and differences in an act of togetherness. Not a performance but something real, raw, rare and authentic. Forever grateful for this experience. #Oneness #berlin #live #liveart

In town for Gallery Weekend? >> GIVEN OR CHOSEN? A Festival of Kinship 🧬🫀💫🤲🏼💗 1-2.5.26 Free Entry Schlossplatz 1 Berlin (Foyer) @humboldtforum Contemporary performances on kinship, oneness, intimacy, family lines, emancipation, mothering & unmothering. Is your family given or chosen? GIVEN OR CHOSEN? – Festival Timeline ⸻ BOTH DAYS (1.5 & 2.5) When two flowers meet @raymondliewjinpin • 1.5 — 1:30 PM • 2.5 — 2:30 PM & 5:30 PM Cooking Box Groundtable @groundtableee @manonseat @giftlalicha • 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM Plaza @libinyuan • 11:00 AM • 12:00 PM Transpersonal @kristindiya • 1.5 — 12:00 PM & 5:00 PM • 2.5 — 4:00 PM ⸻ 1.5 Oneness @mwangi.hutter • 3:00 – 5:15 PM ⸻ 2.5 The Mitochondrial Eve @lilibethcuencarasmussen • 1:30 PM • 5:30 PM There is only one family: the terrestrial @kimdelhorizon • 3:30 – 5:00 PM ⸻ Humboldt Forum, Berlin 🔗 in bio for full program with exhibitions

Kim de L’Horizon - A Lecture Performance Sat, 2 May 2026 03:30 pm – 5:00 pm free admission German Mechanical Arena in the Foyer 🗣️🎶🎤📕 “Given or Chosen? A Festival of Kinship”@kimdelhorizon @humboldtforum 🦋🌳🪾🧜🏽‍♂️💚 Making kin with Kim? Drawing on the bestseller Blutbuch (2022), novelist, playwright and language-creator Kim de l’Horizon speaks about human and more-than-human kinships – particularly between humans and trees. At the centre is the delicate copper beech (Blutbuche) serving as an important relational figure of thought and experience through which key questions of our present day are revealed: the (in)ability to empathise, processes of growth, and the dynamics of in– and out–grouping. Kim presents a lecture performance that moves between reading, improvised speech and singing. Drawing on text fragments – from Blutbuch to Donna Haraway and historical church laws – an associative web of research, reflection and voice unfolds. “There is only one family: the terrestrial” relates to the topics of the exhibition “Making Kin” in Humboldt Forum. A particular focus lies on the question of how animism can be discussed from a white, European perspective. 📷 Portrait of the non-binary artist Kim de l'Horizon © Valerie Reding @valerie.reding

Given or Chosen? We’re not alone. We all live in some kind of relation. This reality inspires a two-day festival of kinship at the Humboldt Forum that deals with biological or chosen family, kinship, ancestry and other intimate relationship constellations in which most of us are involved. 🧑‍🧒‍🧒🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🌳🪾🏕️👯🙆🏽👥🌻🥀❣️🌻🌹You can look forward to a festival of togetherness and participation with concerts, dynamic dance performances, friendly chatbots, readings, games and curatorial insights in the special exhibitions on Family Matters. With: Kim de l’Horizon, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Black Dads Germany, Li Binyuan, Raquel van Haver and Aliwaa Collective, Ernest and Theo Thiesmeier, Raymond Liew Jin Pin, Suli Puschban and many more. Festival Website please see link in bio. Artists and kin: @kimdelhorizon @lilibethcuencarasmussen @black_dads_germany @libinyuan @raquelvanhaver @wayuu_akumaja @stefanniado @kristindiya @theothiesmeier @ocular.dysfunction @raymondliewjinpin @sulipuschban @africanstreetgamesfestival Curation: Solvej Helweg Ovesen (SHF), Minh Duc Pham and Hai Nam Nguyen. Collaboration: Paul Timo Kaemmerer: @dju.zi @namnggg @timoka_____

Come celebrate Oneness 🫂 ・・・ 📣 Open Call: We’re looking for you! For Mwangi Hutter’s performance “Oneness”, we’re seeking 9 family duos – couples, siblings, friends, parents & adult children, or self‑chosen families with mixed backgrounds who want to make their connection visible. At the centre is a recycled‑wood throne, where each duo develops a gesture of care, recognition and self‑definition. Participants begin in full-body costumes, which they later cut open themselves – a moment of mutual visibility. Each duo ends by presenting a shared gesture expressing their relationship. ✨ Participation Info • 👥 9 family duos • 💛 No experience needed • 🤝 Prep meeting: 1 May 2026, 10:30 am • 🎭 Performance: 3:00–5:30 pm • ⏰ Total: 10:30 am–6:00 pm (incl. break 🥐) • 📍 Humboldt Forum, Berlin • 💶 Expenses reimbursed 📅 Register by 15 April 2026 💌 [email protected] 🔗 More infos: Link in Bio! . 📣 Open Call: Wir suchen euch! Für die Performance „Oneness“ von Mwangi Hutter suchen wir 9 familiäre Duos – Paare, Geschwister, Freund*innen, Eltern & erwachsene Kinder oder selbstgewählte Familien. Im Zentrum steht ein Thron aus recyceltem Holz, auf dem ihr Gesten von Fürsorge, Anerkennung und Selbstbestimmung entwickelt. Die Ganzkörperkostüme zu Beginn werden später selbst aufgeschnitten – ein Moment des Sichtbarmachens. Zum Abschluss zeigt jedes Duo eine gemeinsame Geste. ✨ Infos zur Teilnahme • 👥 9 familiäre Duos • 💛 Keine Erfahrung nötig • 🤝 Vorbereitung: 1. Mai, 10:30 Uhr • 🎭 Performance: 15:00–17:30 Uhr • ⏰ Gesamt: 10:30–18:00 Uhr (mit Pause 🥐) • 📍 Humboldt Forum, Berlin • 💶 Aufwandsentschädigung 📅 Anmeldung bis 15. April 2026 💌 an [email protected] 🔗 Alle Infos: Link in Bio! . Foto: © Mwangi Hutter; Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / iStockphoto / Goodboy Picture Company

Hosted by OnCurating Academy Berlin (CAS in Curating 2025/26), the Talks on Curatorial Practice offer a focused public forum for emerging curators, bringing together practice-based knowledge, critical reflection, and real-world insights into the infrastructures and conditions shaping contemporary art today. 📍Hybrid (Berlin + Zoom) | Open to the public (free) | All talks in English 🌐 To join via Zoom, register at curating.org or use the link in bio. 🔗 The series brings together key figures from Berlin’s contemporary curatorial scene including Kathleen Reinhardt (Director, Georg Kolbe Museum Berlin; curator of the German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2026), Mira Anneli Naß (University Stuttgart); Hannah Kruse (Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt), Jonas Tinius (Institute for European Ethnology HU Berlin), and Nabi Nara (SOMA Art Berlin). Alongside them, Florian Wüst (film curator/publisher, Stadtmuseum Berlin), Leon Kahane (artist-researcher on politics, institutions, and border regimes), Fabian Bechtle (author and artist) and Solvej Helweg Ovesen (program curator at Humboldt Forum and cultural theorist) contribute perspectives rooted in Berlin’s contemporary practice. #berlinart #OnCurating #OnCuratingAcademy #CuratorialPractice #CASinCurating

“Aufbau Ost” by Henrike Naumann at Galerie Wedding 2016. 10 years ago. We’re deeply heartbroken to hear that our dearest Henrike Naumann has passed on. 🖤🥹🫣We cannot comprehend as memories roll in… of the unusually innovative confident energy, solidarity, and braveness you brought into not only this early solo in Berlin in @galeriewedding , but wherever you went… the amount of storages, markets, archives and eBay Kleinanzeigen you and your collaborators visited, the care for the splitter of the world. The conversations that assembled. The world that fell apart in the 90s. We in the Galerie Wedding team all felt deeply urged but also enlightened by you … not only about what had happened as part of “Aufbau Ost” (build up the East) with the “reunion” being translated to mere consume offers in the 90’s, but by the reshuffling of history into a place and narrative as well as background for the sort of rightwing tendencies appearing in the east of Germany. This process your exhibition and program showed us. Such important and heavy work deciphered through furniture and finally a deep care for youth. 🪑⛓️ But as to a lighter side of the practice of Henrike, we also back then studied ourselves as the early musealization of techno-culture “The Museum of Trance” entered our discussions with such humor and eye. 👁️ 📀🧞‍♀️👽It both exhibited our common ground meanwhile bringing ourselves even closer to the alien nature of our “roots”. Rest in Power beautiful Henrike🖤🩶 POST-OTHERNESS WEDDING 🔗in bio @henrikenaumann @bonaventurendikung @yzulover @utemullertischler

Sarah Ama Duah erected her new living latex monuments in the sculpture hall of the Humboldt Forum @humboldtforum under the statues of the former palace. Duah’s five living sculptures honour lives that are neither past nor commemorated by other monuments. Hidden objects merge with the bodies and provide clues to biographies that would otherwise often remain secret or unseen. 🗽🌟🙋🏽‍♀️From a Black feminist perspective, Sarah Ama Duah @sarah_ama_duah explores the relationship between bodies and sculpture, with Afro-diasporic narratives playing a central role in her artistic practice. She engages with sculptural appreciation and cultures of remembrance. All eyes and attention on these breathing monuments, these alternative forms of appreciation. To whom—or what—do we want to dedicate monuments today? And how do we address the void left behind when a colonial monument is dismantled? ✨🌟⭐️💛⚜️👸🏾⚱️🫥👀Video: SHF, Video: Boheifilm; Performer(Reel): Sarah Ama Duah @sarah_ama_duah ; Naomi Boima @artsiinaomii ; Rositsa Mahdi @rositsa.mahdi @ Live Performance at Humboldt Forum Gisèle Moro @giselemeta_ ; Maleburu Moorosi @gojas___ ; Sound: Anna Lucia Nissen; @Anchoress ; Assistance: Miriam Kuna Schade @azea.zalea

Curated by Solvej Ovesen (@solvejovesen ), Raquel Van Haver (@raquelvanhaver ) and the Aliwaa Collective’s mixed media installation is live at the Humbold Forum (@humboldtforum ) in Berlin, Germany! Big congratulations to Raquel Van Haver (@raquelvanhaver ) and the Aliwaa collective @wayuu_akumaja and @lunateacasm - studio Raquel van Haver @timski_lightpainting @jazmon_amon @drainspotting.art Opened Sat, 24 January 2026, the exhibition will remain open till Mon, 3 August 2026. If you find yourself in Germany, do visit this incredible exhibition! — Welcome to the Living Room. A gathering place of generations. This room invites you to read, relax, weave, knit, watch and listen. As part of the Family Matters programme, it offers the opportunity to unwind, become curious and actively explore. The living room opens up access to diverse forms of family. It asks questions about how family backgrounds shape life paths and how one’s own life story is co-created or ‘woven’ together. Collective wall collage and weaving and knitting workshop series A participatory wall collage and workshop series explores the matriarchal lines of the Wayuu community through textile art and storytelling. Following the thread of The Story of Waleker, visitors are invited to weave along. Visit the workshop series The Gift of the Spider! The project explores the rich cosmology and female lineage of the Wayuu community in northern Colombia and Venezuela. The Aliwaa collective - Sindri Gonzales Ipuana (Wayuu weaver), Stefannia Doria (curator from Colombia) and Raquel van Haver (artist from Colombia and the Netherlands) - has created the basis for a collaborative work of art. The woven or knitted contributions of visitors to the Humboldt Forum, as well as works by the Wayuu weaving community, will be added to form a collage co-created by all participants. It will continually grow until spring.

What an amazing opening it was ! The mixed media installation with Studio Raquel van Haver and Aliwaa collective @humboldtforum - Berlin, GE. A big shout out to the Aliwaa collective @wayuu_akumaja and @lunateacasm - studio Raquel van Haver @timski_lightpainting @jazmon_amon @ victor @drainspotting.art And ofcourse the whole HF team 🩷 to @solvejovesen for making all these things happening and for @katharinakepplinger @hartmutdorgerloh and @jan_linders_berlin Opening on the 24st of January #humboldtforum #familymatters info Sat, 24 January 2026 10:30 am – 9:00 pm Sun, 25 January 2026 10:30 am – 9:00 pm Opening EXHIBITION, INSTALLATION, WORKSHOP Living Room Sat, 24 January – Mon, 3 August 2026 Welcome to the Living Room. A gathering place of generations. This room invites you to read, relax, weave, knit, watch and listen. As part of the Family Matters programme, it offers the opportunity to unwind, become curious and actively explore. The living room opens up access to diverse forms of family. It asks questions about how family backgrounds shape life paths and how one’s own life story is co-created or ‘woven’ together. Collective wall collage and weaving and knitting workshop series A participatory wall collage and workshop series explores the matriarchal lines of the Wayuu community through textile art and storytelling. Following the thread of The Story of Waleker, visitors are invited to weave along. Visit the workshop series The Gift of the Spider! The project explores the rich cosmology and female lineage of the Wayuu community in northern Colombia and Venezuela. The Aliwaa collective – Sindri Gonzales Ipuana (Wayuu weaver), Stefannia Doria (curator from Colombia) and Raquel van Haver (artist from Colombia and the Netherlands) – has created the basis for a collaborative work of art. The woven or knitted contributions of visitors to the Humboldt Forum, as well as works by the Wayuu weaving community, will be added to form a collage co-created by all participants. It will continually grow until spring.

@ncreindorf @humboldtforum BANNERS and WORKSHOP “Skins” by Na Chainkua Reindorf Banners: Fri, 16 January – Mon, 9 February 2026 free admission Special exhibition foyer, ground floor as part of Hide or Tell? Festival (24.-25. January 2026) Opening hours Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat, Sun: 10:30 am – 6:30 pm 👉🏼🫣😶‍🌫️Hide or Tell? 🎨✍️📣Festival, FREE WORKSHOP: 24-25.1.2026 we invite audience to come and draw, paint and create their own versions of the banners based on a drawing model by Na. Over the past five years, Na Chainkua Reindorf who is the Ghanaian born artist behind the banners, has constructed a personal mythology set in an evolving alternate world that guides her art practice. Drawing from the rich history of West African folktales, Vodún religion and Greek mythology, Reindorf invented a pantheon of seven supernatural beings called “skins.” Each uniquely allegorical, self-assured and motivated to intercede on behalf of those who call to them, these skins offer unbounded possibilities for self-expression, acting as conduits of agency. These skins you see on the seven banners in the foyer. Reindorf worldbuilds through their perspectives, defining them through unique aesthetics and their materials inspired by Ghanaian Asafo-flags. 🙏🏽✨Thank you to the HuF Team including Cluster Familie, Production and Tech❣️