Talya Feldman, WIR SIND HIER: Can Leyla. Film still, courtesy of the artist

WIR SIND HIER (WE ARE HERE) Installation

Installation by Talya Feldman 
Sept. 11 to Dec. 1, 2024

About the 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.

About the artist

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).

Information

Duration
September 11 to December 1, 2024

Curator
Juliane Bischoff

Place
Munich Documentation Center, 1st floor


WIR SIND HIER is a project by Talya Feldman sponsored by the Verband der Beratungsstellen für Betroffene rechter, rassistischer und antisemitischer Gewalt e.V. (Association of Counseling Centers for Victims of Right-wing, Racist and Antisemitic Violence in Germany, VBRG e.V.)

Booklet on the installation

A publication was issued in conjunction with the installation containing transcripts of the contributions by the families and friends of the victims. It includes texts by Yasmani Torriente, Ngu Trọng, Zühal Bilir-Meier, Aynur Satır, Özlem and İbrahim Arslan, Orhan Çalışır, Burak Bektaş, Abu Jabbi, Sibel and Hasan Leyla, Gisela Kollmann, Yasemin and Engin Kılıç, and Emiş Gürbüz. The texts are supplemented by an extensive selection of images from the project. 

The booklet can be purchased for free at the Documentation Center.

Accompanying program

Ausstellungsgespräch

WIR SIND HIER

Impuls und Gespräch zur Installation von Talya Feldman
Ausstellungsgespräch

WIR SIND HIER

Impuls und Gespräch zur Installation von Talya Feldman
Ausstellungsgespräch

WIR SIND HIER

Impuls und Gespräch zur Installation von Talya Feldman
Ausstellungsgespräch

WIR SIND HIER

Impuls und Gespräch zur Installation von Talya Feldman

Views of the installation

© NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Photo: Connolly Weber Photography

© NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Photo: Connolly Weber Photography

© NS-Dokumentationszentrum München, Photo: Connolly Weber Photography