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Commitment - artists of the season at Heimathafen Neukölln
Edna Al Najar, Lisa Kirchhoff, Hannah Sehl, Constanze Klar
4 July 2026 18:00–21:00
The Heimathafen Neukölln season theme “Commitment” is both an invitation and a statement. Somewhere between utopia and dystopia, we seek to move beyond the paralysis of being in-between and recognize what matters: the here and now. Commitment unfolds within a porous framework, along boundaries that shift, open, and are continually renegotiated.
The season’s artists engage with themes such as the Anthropocene, migration, motherhood, and social inequality. Working across multiple disciplines, they explore forms of coexistence. What connects them is a sharp political awareness and a willingness to address sensitive points while inviting the audience into the process.
On July 4, 2026, they welcome you to the Heimathafen Neukölln Studio.
Program
6:00 pm – Edna Al Najar
Participatory lecture performance on a work in progress exploring body postures and historical shelters during war and displacement. Drawing on research into Jewish–Muslim solidarities in Bosnia, the work examines postures shaped by confinement, fear, care, and mutual protection.
6:30 pm – Lisa Kirchhoff
the postself is the future of the present me — video compilation, reflecting on identity and the body in a post-natural age.
7:00 pm – Hannah Sehl & Constanze Klar
Lecture Performance – How do you live (well) as an artist? Increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, where dreams and reality are in constant competition, they ask about solidarity and commitment to a profession that is not a promise.
8:00 pm End of the “Artist of the Season” program
Our summer bar invites you to relax under the sun umbrellas.
8:15 pm – Guest performance: Giuliana Piel x Romina Geppert
Dance performance monster, exploring self-empowerment without reproducing sexualized behaviors. What does anger taste like? Where does it sit in the body?
The Installation “The Red Table” by Malisa Zymberi & Phil Göttsching can be seen in our courtyard (3.7., 7–10 pm; 4.7., 1–10 pm; 5.7., 1–7 pm).
The season’s artists engage with themes such as the Anthropocene, migration, motherhood, and social inequality. Working across multiple disciplines, they explore forms of coexistence. What connects them is a sharp political awareness and a willingness to address sensitive points while inviting the audience into the process.
On July 4, 2026, they welcome you to the Heimathafen Neukölln Studio.
Program
6:00 pm – Edna Al Najar
Participatory lecture performance on a work in progress exploring body postures and historical shelters during war and displacement. Drawing on research into Jewish–Muslim solidarities in Bosnia, the work examines postures shaped by confinement, fear, care, and mutual protection.
6:30 pm – Lisa Kirchhoff
the postself is the future of the present me — video compilation, reflecting on identity and the body in a post-natural age.
7:00 pm – Hannah Sehl & Constanze Klar
Lecture Performance – How do you live (well) as an artist? Increasingly squeezed into ever-shrinking spaces, where dreams and reality are in constant competition, they ask about solidarity and commitment to a profession that is not a promise.
8:00 pm End of the “Artist of the Season” program
Our summer bar invites you to relax under the sun umbrellas.
8:15 pm – Guest performance: Giuliana Piel x Romina Geppert
Dance performance monster, exploring self-empowerment without reproducing sexualized behaviors. What does anger taste like? Where does it sit in the body?
The Installation “The Red Table” by Malisa Zymberi & Phil Göttsching can be seen in our courtyard (3.7., 7–10 pm; 4.7., 1–10 pm; 5.7., 1–7 pm).
Biography
Edna Al Najar, Lisa Kirchhoff, Hannah Sehl, Constanze Klar
Constanze Klar is a visual artist. She explores relationships, behaviors, and contradictions. Her multimedia works invite self-reflection.
Hannah Sehl works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of language, text, and painting. She publishes poetry and prose, lives and teaches in Berlin, and researches storytelling related to identity, experience, and place.
Lisa Kirchhoff is a media artist. Her video works and installations examine post-natural questions of identity, body, and power from a feminist perspective and challenge anthropocentric systems.
Edna Al Najar is a multidisciplinary artist. Through self-portrait paintings, as well as video and object installations, she addresses identity, resistance, and female empowerment.
Hannah Sehl works interdisciplinarily at the intersection of language, text, and painting. She publishes poetry and prose, lives and teaches in Berlin, and researches storytelling related to identity, experience, and place.
Lisa Kirchhoff is a media artist. Her video works and installations examine post-natural questions of identity, body, and power from a feminist perspective and challenge anthropocentric systems.
Edna Al Najar is a multidisciplinary artist. Through self-portrait paintings, as well as video and object installations, she addresses identity, resistance, and female empowerment.
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