'Migration is the 21st Century Revolution' with Ivan Krastev

Unlike past revolutions requiring manifestos, parties, or collective action, this one is driven by individuals and families empowered by mobile phones and real-time glimpses of better lives elsewhere, enabling “exit” over political change. In this sense, migration becomes both a personal strategy and a quiet form of protest, reshaping societies without a direct confrontation. As more people choose mobility over voice, the political, economic, and cultural consequences challenge traditional notions of sovereignty, solidarity, and belonging.

The talk will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Vasyl Cherepanyn, Kyiv Biennial.

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and Albert Hirschman Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group, the European Investment Bank Global Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He is a Financial Times contributing editor and the author of Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020), The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (co-authored with Stephen Holmes, Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), After Europe (Penn Press, 2017), and In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders? (TED Books, 2013).

Meeting point: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 4th floor

Booking: Registration online

Next date:

• Date Monday, 29/June/2026 19:00 bis 20:30
• Venue KW - Institute for Contemporary Art
• Address Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin-Mitte