Look here - Poetry in Braille

As part of International Museum Day.

Under the title Seeing Words, Reading Images, works from the Deutsche Bank Collection are currently on display at PalaisPopulaire in collaboration with the Written Art Collection, one of the most significant private collections of text-based art.

On International Museum Day, editor Marco Sagurna, in a poetic intervention accompanying the exhibition, will present the newly released anthology "Look here - Poetry in Braille" (Kulturmaschinen Verlag 2026) at PalaisPopulaire, together with poets Clara Cosima Wolff and Salean A. Maiwald. The anthology collects poems in black print and Braille. The poems by the 25 represented blind and sighted poets* – including Ilma Rakusa, Volker Sielaff, and Rüdiger Stüwe – are not only tactilely readable, but also conceptually refer to seeing and hearing, to the invisible and the visible. The anthology was created in collaboration with the Lower Saxony Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired and was awarded the publishing prize of the Free State of Bavaria.

In addition to the reading, the Lower Saxony Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired will offer a Braille workshop for children at 11 am, and PalaisPopulaire will offer an exhibition tour for blind and visually impaired people starting at 2 pm.

A joint event with PalaisPopulaire and the Blind and Visually Impaired Association of Lower Saxony e.V.

In cooperation with Haus für Poesie.

Meeting point: PalaisPopulaire

Price info: Limited seating capacity. Registration via the link.

Next date:

• Date Sunday, 17/May/2026 13:00 bis 14:00
• Venue PalaisPopulaire
• Address Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin-Mitte