CLOSE TO HOME.
Remittance Spaces Between Arrival and Return

EXHIBITION 
WITH Lizza May David, Akshita Garud, Hasan Gündoğan & Deniz Örün, Samuel Hilari, Patrick Jimenez Krämer, Pegah Keshmirshekan, Ilaaf Khalfalla, Van Bo Le-Mentzel, Yairan Montejo, Tra My Nguyen, Canan Öztekin, Jeanne-Ange Wagne

OPENING  10.09.2025  19:00
ON SHOW  11.09.–19.10.2025   THURSDAY–SUNDAY  14:00–19:00

FREE ENTRY  Donations welcome
ACCESS  Our space is accessible by wheelchair

SAVVY TOURS IN SAVVY TONGUES

14.09.2025  15:00  TOUR IN ENGLISH  With the curators Patrick Jimenez Krämer and Lukas Feirreiss
25.09.2025  17:00  TOUR IN ENGLISH  With Abraham Tettey
02.10.2025  16:00  TOUR IN ENGLISH  With Matthew Hansen
04.10.2025  16:00  ARCHITEKTUR–TOUR AUF DEUTSCH  Mit Kurator Patrick Jimenez Krämer
11.10.2025  15:00  TOUR AUF DEUTSCH  Mit Shahnas Claus
16.10.2024  17:00  TOUR AUF DEUTSCH  Mit Anna Jäger 

SAVVY facade | Photo: Marvin Systermans
SAVVY facade | Photo: Marvin Systermans
PATRICK JIMENEZ KRÄMER Bahay Kubo | Photo: Marvin Systermans
PATRICK JIMENEZ KRÄMER Bahay Kubo | Photo: Marvin Systermans
left: HASAN GÜNDOĞAN AND DENIZ ÖRÜN Çavê ta paçtaka – Lost Kisses & right: PEGAH KESHMIRSHEKAN Imaginary Homeland | Photo: Marvin Systermans
left: HASAN GÜNDOĞAN AND DENIZ ÖRÜN Çavê ta paçtaka – Lost Kisses & right: PEGAH KESHMIRSHEKAN Imaginary Homeland | Photo: Marvin Systermans
HASAN GÜNDOĞAN AND DENIZ ÖRÜN Çavê ta paçtaka – Lost Kisses | Photo: Marvin Systermans
HASAN GÜNDOĞAN AND DENIZ ÖRÜN Çavê ta paçtaka – Lost Kisses | Photo: Marvin Systermans
PEGAH KESHMIRSHEKAN Imaginary Homeland | Photo: Marvin Systermans
PEGAH KESHMIRSHEKAN Imaginary Homeland | Photo: Marvin Systermans
YAIRAN MONTEJO The Long Way Home | Photo: Marvin Systermans
YAIRAN MONTEJO The Long Way Home | Photo: Marvin Systermans
SAMUEL HILARI Yatiyawi Museum | Photo: Marvin Systermans
SAMUEL HILARI Yatiyawi Museum | Photo: Marvin Systermans
TRA MY NGUYEN Amidst the Threads, our Names Become‬ | Photo: Marvin Systermans
TRA MY NGUYEN Amidst the Threads, our Names Become‬ | Photo: Marvin Systermans
TRA MY NGUYEN Hung the Moon Behind the Curtain‬ | Photo: Marvin Systermans
TRA MY NGUYEN Hung the Moon Behind the Curtain‬ | Photo: Marvin Systermans

The exhibition project CLOSE TO HOME: REMITTANCE SPACES BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND RETURN is an exploration of everyday migrant worlds, an appreciation for transnational care practices and an invitation to rethink the idea of home as something that is not only left or found, but also created, inherited and shared. It invites us to understand migration not only as a movement of people, but also as a multi-layered exchange of meanings, forms and memories. At its core, it considers remittance beyond financial transfers: as emotional, cultural, and creative flows moving between places of origin and arrival. They manifest themselves in architecture, music, textiles, food, objects and everyday cultures – and thus shape urban spaces as well as individual identities.

CLOSE TO HOME brings together various artistic positions that take up, reflect and transform these multi-layered aspects of remittances. The exhibition is not intended to establish a linear narrative or an ordered structure, but to be experienced as a dense collage of voices, images, objects and sounds – a place where space is given to the fragmentary, the untranslatable and the contradictory.

 

ILAAF KHALFALLA SDF / Das Schwarze Journal – Trommeln in der Nacht | Photo: Marvin Systermans
ILAAF KHALFALLA SDF / Das Schwarze Journal – Trommeln in der Nacht | Photo: Marvin Systermans
left: Sonic Remittance Booth & right: VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
left: Sonic Remittance Booth & right: VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
VAN BO LE-MENTZEL Artist Wallidency | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Sari-Sari | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Sari-Sari | Photo: Marvin Systermans
AKSHITA GARUD Cross My Palm With Silver | Photo: Marvin Systermans
AKSHITA GARUD Cross My Palm With Silver | Photo: Marvin Systermans
AKSHITA GARUD Cross My Palm With Silver | Photo: Marvin Systermans
AKSHITA GARUD Cross My Palm With Silver | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Two More Years | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Two More Years | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Sari-Sari | Photo: Marvin Systermans
LIZZA MAY DAVID Sari-Sari | Photo: Marvin Systermans
CANAN ÖZTEKIN imaginaries-digital.info | Photo: Marvin Systermans
CANAN ÖZTEKIN imaginaries-digital.info | Photo: Marvin Systermans
JEANNE-ANGE WAGNE Wörterverzeichnis or Glossary | Photo: Marvin Systermans
JEANNE-ANGE WAGNE Wörterverzeichnis or Glossary | Photo: Marvin Systermans
Installation View | Photo: Marvin Systermans
Installation View | Photo: Marvin Systermans

Team

CONCEPT & CURATION  Patrick Jimenez Krämer, Lukas Feireiss 
CURATORIAL TEAM Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Billy Fowo, Anna Jäger 
PRODUCTION  Matthew Hansen
PRODUCTION TEAM  Jessie Omamogho, Dušan Rodić
PROJECT MANAGEMENT  Anna Fasolato, Patrick Jimenez Krämer  
GENERAL MANAGEMENT  Lema Sikod
ACCOUNTING Matthias Rademacher
COMMUNICATIONS & TRANSLATION  Anna Jäger 
Graphic Design Aziza Ahmad
SAVVY.doc  Sagal Farah
Fellowship  Abraham Tettey
INTERNSHIP  Shahnas Claus
TECH  Bert Günther
LIGHT  Shun Perrotta

VISUAL  Aziza Ahmad

CoOPEration   The exhibition opening is taking place in the framework of Berlin Art Week. 

FUNDING  The project is funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.