{"id":94218,"date":"2026-05-13T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stadtmuseum.de\/?post_type=article&#038;p=94218"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:07:01","slug":"artists-statement","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/staging.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/article\/artists-statement","title":{"rendered":"Artists\u2019 Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"block block-header-article block-header-article-natural  has-highlight-color-bg padding-top-half padding-bottom-half block-header-article-align-pullLeft\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row middle-xs\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-6 first-md\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"block-header-article-image block-header-article-image-natural\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<lazy-media-inline inline-template data-id=\"92924\">\n\t\t\t<figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" id=\"media_6a67c5321ee55\" data-md-src=\"https:\/\/staging.stadtmuseum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-300x225.png\" data-md-alt=\"\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\" ref=\"data\">\n{\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-300x225.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":225,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":56261},\"large\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-1024x768.png\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":768,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":382349},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-768x576.png\",\"width\":768,\"height\":576,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":249669},\"small\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-440x330.png\",\"width\":440,\"height\":330,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":105702},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-580x435.png\",\"width\":580,\"height\":435,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":162984},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px-720x540.png\",\"width\":720,\"height\":540,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/png\",\"filesize\":222693},\"original\":{\"file\":\"BG_FF_TimeMachine_SSB-Website_EN_1200x900px.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":900}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/04\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"hls\" : \"\",\n\"hls_autoplay\" : \"\",\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}\n<\/script>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"height-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:75%;  \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<lazy-media v-if=\"sizes\" :inline=\"true\" :alt=\"alt\" :sizes=\"sizes\" :scale=\"scale\" :zoom=\"zoom\" :brightness=\"brightness\" :path=\"path\" :video=\"video\" :autoplay=\"autoplay\" :youtube=\"youtube\" :hls=\"hls\" :hls-autoplay=\"hlsAutoplay\" :crop=\"crop\" :youtubelabel=\"youtubelabel\" :annotations=\"annotations\" :background=\"background\"><\/lazy-media>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-label\">Open Space &#8220;Time Machine Infinitum \u2013 Queer migrant Berlin&#8221; in BERLIN GLOBAL at the Humboldt Forum<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"lazy-media-image-description\">\u00a9 Noam Gorbat, Omar Nicolas, Sama Ahmadi | Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Design: Groupe Dejour <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t<\/lazy-media-inline>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 first-xs margin-bottom-third  block-header-article--text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"zeplin-subHead01 font-medium margin-bottom-sixth\">Artists\u2019 Statement<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy margin-bottom-third\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cTime Machine Infinitum \u2013 Queer migrant Berlin\u201d is an installation on an Open Space in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition. It takes visitors on a journey through time, exploring the history, presence and future through the lens of queer migrant Berliners. This work moves through different times, blending a linear narrative. It highlights and honors the presence and cultural heritage of queer migrants and BIPoC in the city.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\" \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"zeplin-category\">von<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/autor\/noam-gorbat\" class=\" text-decoration-none zeplin-category\">Noam Gorbat<\/a>, \n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/autor\/omar-nicolas\" class=\" text-decoration-none zeplin-category\">Omar Nicolas<\/a>, \n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.stadtmuseum.de\/en\/autor\/sama-ahmadi\" class=\" text-decoration-none zeplin-category\">Sama Ahmadi<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"block block-headline block-no-margin\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">Installation<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>At the heart of the time machine are video works about spaces and collective structures that have evolved in the city across different eras. These are centres of ideas, self-organization and visibility. The videos show queer, migrant and BIPoC initiatives that have shaped Berlin for generations. Instead of appearing as static sites, the spaces take the form of a networked social landscape. Fragments from the lives of queer BIPoC in the 1920s engage with the political struggles of queer movements in the 1980s, with the visibility of queer migrant identities today, and with young queer BIPoC generations\u2019 visions for the future.<br>The installation illuminates these perspectives both individually and in concert, showing queer migration as a continuous yet changing current. Earlier meeting places and sociopolitical structures are juxtaposed with today\u2019s self-organized projects and community places. The result is a moving fabric of individual and collective stories and narratives.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-headline block-no-margin\" >\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"h3\">Queer migrant visibility<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy\">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<p>The combination of \u201cBIPoC\u201d and \u201cqueer\u201d is often seen as a recent phenomenon \u2013 as if it had never existed before. This perception is closely linked to forms of political archiving: that which is documented and preserved shapes our understanding of history.<br><br>Migrant histories and narratives are often simplified by museums. They appear as artifacts, survivors, perpetrators, or one-dimensional stories \u2013 or else they remain invisible. By contrast, \u201cTime Machine Infinitum \u2013 Queer migrant Berlin\u201d opens an attempt to read these stories as stories of continuations, multiple layerings and collective memories.<br><br>Despite a growing cultural presence and visibility, the daily lives of many queer BIPoC continue to be marked by stigmatization and racist discrimination as well as queer- and transphobia. By shining light on counternarratives, the installation sees itself as part of a self-directed history that resists a final form.<br><br>The visibility of queer people, and especially of queer migrants, has never been a matter of course. It has been forged and fought for: by collective work, by self-organization and by the creation of designated spaces and structures. This installation not only awakens memories of these processes, but also relocates them within the context of a museum.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"block block-copy-info \">\n\t<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n\t\t<div class=\"row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-3 padding-top-sixth margin-bottom-sixth\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>BIPoC<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-7 col-md-offset-1 padding-top-sixth margin-bottom-sixth\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"box\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"copy editor\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) is a political self-designation for people who face racism. 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