Palästina zwischen Augen

Palästina zwischen Augen is an exhibition and public programme bringing together film and video, installation, sound, photography and drawing. It invites us to question and widen the ways we have learned to see, and with them the stories we tell about ourselves.

The curators describe the exhibition as follows: “Palästina zwischen Augen examines the social structures that shape how we perceive, and how these structures determine whose humanity becomes visible, recognizable and worthy of empathy.

Despite the overwhelming availability of visual evidence, testimony and live-streamed footage from Gaza and the wider region, the acknowledgment that these document a genocide is broadly withheld in dominant German discourse. This refusal is sustained by a normalized disavowal of Palestinian subjectivity. The exhibition asks how this is possible.
Palästina zwischen Augen intervenes in the realm of perception. It brings together artistic practices that confront racial hierarchies and the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine; trace continuities of coloniality through public and family archives; address Palestinian diaspora and histories of solidarity with Palestinian liberation in the GDR; reclaim narratives of destruction from within erased lifeworlds; and draw on collective perseverance and anticolonial internationalism as forms of resistance.

Palästina zwischen Augen insists on the necessity of a public space in which we can question the limits placed on our gaze — and reassemble, together, as a collective sensorium.”

Artists: Mohamed Abusal, Shiva Addanki, Basma al-Sharif, Sophie Ataya, Yuval Carasso, Pary El-Qalqili, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Dirar Kalash, Talya Lubinsky, Jumana Manna, Stellar Meris, Joshua Schwebel

Curators: Hannah Beilharz (until July 2026), Yuval Carasso, Talya Lubinsky, Joshua Schwebel, Gabriela Manda Seith