WIR SIND HIER (WE ARE HERE) Installation

The artist Talya Feldman’s installation shows video and audio material from the digital project  WE ARE HERE. In it she uses the voices and perspectives of survivors and the families of victims of racist and antisemitic violence to call for places of active remembrance and resistance in public space—from the renaming of streets to the design of memorials. The survivors, families, and initiatives are fighting for the right to be heard and to be seen and for change: in policy, in society, in the justice system, and in law enforcement.  

The living archive provides an overview of far-right terrorism and police violence in the Federal Republic of Germany and the former GDR in the past forty years. It includes cases that have yet to be recognized as hate crime by the state authorities.

Talya Feldman is a media artist from Denver, Colorado. She obtained her Master’s in Fine Arts at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg and her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Through her intercultural and collaborative practice Feldman seeks to set in motion a process of social change via artistic and educational projects that offer an alternative narrative to violence. Her works against far-right terror, for which she collaborated with activist and research-based networks in Germany and abroad, have won her international recognition. Feldman has received many awards, including the Bundespreis für Kunststudenten in Deutschland (2023), the Berenberg Kulturpreis (2022), the Stipendienpreis des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienstes (DAAD), and the DAGESH Kunstpreis (both 2021).