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In Berlin, the season opens right on time for Berlin Art Week with the exhibition What does it mean for a place to be loved? Anita Muçolli, Sevil Tunaboylu, and Ian Waelder explore the experiences of second- and third-generation migrants. Among other things, they address the contradictions of belonging to a place and question the meaning of home. The opening is on September 10 during Berlin Art Week. From October 4 to 14, the ifa Gallery in Stuttgart will show works by Otto Dix. In the exhibition Was in Wirklichkeit ist (What is Reality), his cycle of works Der Krieg (The War) enters into a special dialogue with contemporary works from the ifa’s art collection. The works open up new levels of meaning and broaden the view to include contemporary perspectives. In addition, the second part of Ken Aïcha Sy’s highly complex and personal exhibition Survival Kit will be presented in Stuttgart starting on October 31. Based on her family archive, it highlights important key moments in contemporary Senegalese painting between 1960 and 1990. The first part of the exhibition can be seen at the ifa Gallery in Berlin until August 31.
Anita Muçolli, Sevil Tunaboylu and Ian Waelder: Was bedeutet es für einen Ort, geliebt zu werden?
Opening: Wednesday, September 10, 6–10 pm
Exhibition dates: Thursday, September 11, 2025, to Sunday, January 11, 2026
Guided tour with artists and curator: September 11, 2025, 6 pm
Curated by Hana Halilaj
ifa-Galerie Berlin
In an age of fractured geographies and contested histories, what does it mean to love one’s homeland? Is home a place of longing or a burden of history? In this exhibition, Anita Muçolli, Sevil Tunaboylu, and Ian Waelder explore the contradictions of belonging, where love is interwoven with alienation and connection clashes with criticism. By addressing exile, resistance, and fluid identities, the artists question the meaning of home—not as a fixed place, but as a shifting terrain of politics and emotions.
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Image above: Ausstellungsansicht Connecting Roots: Collective Stories, Individual Identities, ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, 2025 © ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Foto: Anton Avdieiev.
