A Conversation on Displacement and Loneliness

The displacement of large populations — through labor migration, flight, or forced resettlement — occurs not only across national borders, but also within them, especially between large cities and rural areas. Resettlement affects both sides: those who leave often face legal insecurity, uprooted social networks, discrimination, estrangement, and precarization; for families left behind, the absence of the younger and middle generations often creates gaps in existing care and support structures.Yet, displacement is not solely geographic; it is also an ongoing cultural and political condition. How can the existential loneliness shaped by living and working conditions – or the emotional dissonance of feeling “at home” yet out of place – be articulated artistically?In relation to  a bereavement in his family in Vietnam, the German-Vietnamese artist Minh Duc Phams work “Be Right Back” retraces the history of Vietnamese contract workers in the former GDR . In “I Understand”, the Chinese artist Hao Jingban  reflects on her experience of anti-Asian racism during the Covid pandemic. Danil Usmanov’s photographic work “Valley of the Winds” centers on the children of migrant workers in rural Kyrgyzstan.

60 mins.

Next date:

• Date Saturday, 30/May/2026 17:45
• Venue Hebbel am Ufer - HAU2
• Address Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg