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Distributed on the streets of Western Europe by those excluded from the system, Arts of the Working Class is a newspaper covering Art, Poverty, Wealth and Precarity.

Two exhibitions in Berlin open up a gentle, expansive way of thinking about kinship:Nothing As Our Ground and Making Kin...
24/11/2025

Two exhibitions in Berlin open up a gentle, expansive way of thinking about kinship:

Nothing As Our Ground and Making Kin gather artists whose practices trace the ties we build across distances, cultures, and histories. These are bonds that don’t rely on bloodlines or the narrow frames of institutional family, but a shared decolonial struggle.

The exhibitions move through the ethnological collection of the Humboldtforum with autonomy, reciprocity, and shared resilience, drawing from knowledge that has often been pushed aside but continues to sketch a poetics of belonging that is multiple, fluid, and deeply human.

On the frame of ‘Beziehungsweise Familie’

Opening: 27.11.2025, 18:00 Humboldt Forum, 3rd Floor, Room 312, Schloßplatz 1

Featuring: Corç George Demir, Jaewon Kim, Su-Ran Sichling, Nhu Xuan Hua, Iden Sungyoung Kim, Sunil Gupta, Cheryl Mukherji, Lyno Vutho, Leonard Suryajaya, Sarnt Utamachote, and Rana Nazzal Hamadeh.


Images: Iden Sungyoung Kim, The next day after you died, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.

The Trap of EquivalenceIn his essay, Jean Kamba describes a persistent trap: when Western decolonial institutions attemp...
22/11/2025

The Trap of Equivalence

In his essay, Jean Kamba describes a persistent trap: when Western decolonial institutions attempt to legitimize African knowledge systems by proving they possess “science” or “technology,” they do so by applying Western definitions of those very terms.

In trying to establish an equivalence between former colonial and colonized cultures, they reinstate the hierarchy they claim to dismantle.

This logic accepts Western epistemology as the universal benchmark, forcing other knowledge traditions to justify themselves on colonial terms rather than on their own principles.

Read the full essay on artsoftheworkingclass.org

Published within the framework of 99 Questions South-to-South: A Meeting on African and Afro-diasporic Technologies, Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.
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Diane Cescutti, on fibril and vivid memory: From hard to soft connectivity at ISAM Institut Supérieur des Arts et de Métiers; held in collaboration with the Waza Art Centre (Lubumbashi) and the Humboldt Forum (Berlin); photo: Nathan Bushiru © South-to-South. Diane Cescutti, on fibril and vivid memory: From hard to soft connectivity at ISAM Institut Supérieur des Arts et de Métiers; held in collaboration with the Waza Art Centre (Lubumbashi) and the Humboldt Forum (Berlin); photo: Nathan Bushiru © South-to-South.

A**l PompidouBrussels, Fall, 2025: In front of a tiny stage in a packed room above Wallen, a Latin American restaurant i...
20/11/2025

A**l Pompidou

Brussels, Fall, 2025: In front of a tiny stage in a packed room above Wallen, a Latin American restaurant in the Sablon neighborhood, peers share a stage and are given the freedom to try out something new. It is A**l Pompidou, intimate, immediate, and perhaps the most vital art happening in the city, possible due to the statut d’artiste through which artists keep afloat by receiving a modest monthly stipend from the state. But as austerity looms on a federal level, the future of this social security is imperiled.

Satire won’t be enough to provide an alternative path for artists who want to make ends meet, or a decent living, but it exposes a dynamic of power. In this case, a cultural landscape in Brussels that is dependent on the many artists living here but which seems unable to adequately support artistic production.

Brenda Guesnet review on artsoftheworkingclass.org
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Images: A**l Pompidou photos by Juliette Viole

A deeper look into our current issue with: Mar ReykjavikAs a series of interrupted movements, absence, and the traces th...
19/11/2025

A deeper look into our current issue with: Mar Reykjavik

As a series of interrupted movements, absence, and the traces that hint towards it, Mar Reykjavik captures the poetics of the fugitive and ephemeral in To the Wind (2025). Inscribed with handwritten notes, her work, showcased at Loop Barcelona, becomes a documentation of temporality and space, perception and frame, and tender encounters of the artist.

more of the series in our latest issue.
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Mar Reykjavik, To the Wind (2025), © and courtesy of the artist.

Strawberry Fields – forever known as sites of contemporary slaveryJulia Montilla’s new film lifts the plastic veil on an...
16/11/2025

Strawberry Fields – forever known as sites of contemporary slavery

Julia Montilla’s new film lifts the plastic veil on an industry built on known secrets: the systemic exploitation of jornaleras, the persistence of latifundios defining labor conditions, and the continuity between colonialism and extractivism.

In Huelva’s polyethylene tunnels (a literal sea of plastics), migrant women bend over the rows: “the strawberries are the queens and the pickers, their vassals.” Their rough, precise hands water the soil with sweat and, at times, blood. They are the backbone of a production that treats the field as factory, border, and mirror of a buried struggle.

Julia Montilla kindly shared part of the script with us for Issue 39, launching today at the Free Music School Barcelona, with the kind support of and on the frame of Nobolero no. 1

📽 It premiered yesterday at La Fabra Centre d’Art Contemporani .centredart as part of the

Interview: Filipa RamosIn our image-saturated age, the mirage has become the landscape. In this conversation with Filipa...
14/11/2025

Interview: Filipa Ramos

In our image-saturated age, the mirage has become the landscape. In this conversation with Filipa Ramos, explores with her how illusion, ecology, and visual politics intersect. This dialogue takes place through our joyful media partnership with Loop Barcelona in the context of the festival, fair and symposium ‘Miratges/Mirages.’

Festival 11 — 22 Nov. 2025
Fair 18 — 20 Nov. 2025
Symposium 19 — 20 Nov. 2025

Find our interview on artsoftheworkingclass.org, and more information at https://loop-barcelona.com/

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Portrait: Filipa Ramos ©gerdastudio
Billy Roisz, The Garden of Electric Delights, 2025, ©Billy Roisz, courtesy sixpackfilm
Bill yRoisz, Lunar Dust, 2024, © Billy Roisz

Join us in Barcelona, Düsseldorf, and Berlin this November and December!Across three gatherings, Arts of the Working Cla...
12/11/2025

Join us in Barcelona, Düsseldorf, and Berlin this November and December!

Across three gatherings, Arts of the Working Class transforms its pages into shared rooms — spaces where gestures, intellects, and community meet. Together with artists, families, and neighbors, we explore creativity as a form of wealth and the work of artists as its source.

Barcelona | Nov 16 | 5–11pm Free Music School, Carrer Lleida 39 Featuring NOBOLERO 2.1 (Chantal Yzermans, Aleksei Kazantsev, Manuel del Rincón) + a lineup of local & international artists.
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Düsseldorf | Dec 7 | 2–7pm Treppen, Leostrasse 65 SOULS Stories by Dina El-Kaisy Friemuth: a séance of the unsaid and the pursuit of belonging and the inaugural gathering of Treppen.
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Berlin | Dec 20 | 11am–4pm AWC NK Space, Schillerpromenade 10 ###mas Gift Workshop: stencils on T-shirts/totes, shared meals prepared by nowhere kitchen, plus conversation. Suggested donation: €20–25.
RSVP to dm@artsoftheworkingclass until December 10.

These gatherings are living, co-creative processes. Participation, attention, and care are at the heart of each event. Read more about every gathering on artsoftheworkingclass.org

Design: Manuel Bürger

OUT NOW: Issue 39 on Relationships
As we close our 2025 editorial cycle on Value Attachment, this issue turns toward Rel...
10/11/2025

OUT NOW: Issue 39 on Relationships

As we close our 2025 editorial cycle on Value Attachment, this issue turns toward Relationships, the emotional, political, and material ties that shape how we live, create, and resist together. The question is no longer if relationships have political significance, but whether politics is even possible without them. From acts of collective defiance, over relational infrastructures of care and solidarity, to the calling out of complicity relationships, this issue asks how connection itself becomes a site of struggle, imagination, and repair.

With contributions by: Octavia Abril, Anuscheh Amir-Khalili, Knut Birkholz, Chicks on Speed, Clemente Ciarrocca, Sepp Eckenhaussen, Michel Esselbrügge, Will Furtafo, Giulia Ottavia Frattini, Dina El Kaisy Friemuth, Gaza Bienniale, Gluklya, Tris Hedges, Russel Hlongwane, Lo-Def, Lo Höckner, Amelie Jakubek, Jean Kamba, Arturo Kameya, kina from ver.di, Francois Knoetze, Loop Barcelona, Dalia Maini, Julia Montilla, Diógenes Muniz, María Inés Plaza Lazo, Krishan Rajapakshe / Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße e.V., Lilo Ruminawi, Spore Initiative, Catwings, and Amy Louise Wilson.

Design: Manuel Bürger 

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Villa Stuck reopens with Chicks on Speed’s Utopia19th-century grandeur once codified hierarchy; Chicks on Speed disrupt...
07/11/2025

Villa Stuck reopens with Chicks on Speed’s Utopia

19th-century grandeur once codified hierarchy; Chicks on Speed disrupt it with femmepunk intervention. Beneath the deep purple-blue ceiling, utopia is a roulette: unpredictable, performative, and provisional. Apollonian order collides with Dionysian chaos, goddesses in batik move among solidarity flotillas, and rest becomes resistance.

Read “The Cosmology of a Life of Revolt and Leisure” by Lilo Ruminawi — link in bio.
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Chicks on Speed, Utopia, 2025. © and courtesy of the artist. Photo: Wolf-Dieter Grabner
Fig.1 Chicks on Speed, Utopia, Wheel of Fleeting Fortunes, 2025, Courtesy: Leslie Johnson
Fig.2 Chicks on Speed, Utopia, 2025
Franz Von Stuck Musiksalon. Orpheus Wand, Museum Villa Stuck, Jan Averwersen

Villa Stuck reopens with Chicks on Speed’s Utopia19th-century grandeur once codified hierarchy; Chicks on Speed disrupt ...
07/11/2025

Villa Stuck reopens with Chicks on Speed’s Utopia

19th-century grandeur once codified hierarchy; Chicks on Speed disrupt it with femmepunk intervention. Beneath the deep purple-blue ceiling, utopia is a roulette: unpredictable, performative, and provisional. Apollonian order collides with Dionysian chaos, goddesses in batik move among solidarity flotillas, and rest becomes resistance.

Read “The Cosmology of a Life of Revolt and Leisure” by Lilo Ruminawi — link in bio.
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Images

Chicks on Speed, Utopia, 2025. © and courtesy of the artist. Photo: Wolf-Dieter Grabner
Fig.1 Chicks on Speed, Utopia, Wheel of Fleeting Fortunes, 2025, Courtesy: Leslie Johnson
Fig.2 Chicks on Speed, Utopia, 2025
Franz Von Stuck Musiksalon. Orpheus Wand, Museum Villa Stuck, Jan Averwersen

Under the new moon, we present the AWC 2025 Annual Collection.A gesture of resilience in uncertain times, this subscript...
05/11/2025

Under the new moon, we present the AWC 2025 Annual Collection.

A gesture of resilience in uncertain times, this subscription gathers all five issues of 2025—Reset, Experience, Transfigurations, Choreography, and Relationships. Together, they form a living archive: a choreography of thought and imagery tracing the conditions that sustain our work, our neighborhoods, and our ties to one another.

Price: €50 (EU) | €75 (International)

If the subscription is beyond your means, please reach out—solidarity finds many forms, and we will do our best to get the collection into your hands.

Purchase via the link in our bio.
And keep an eye out: Issue 39 arrives to its pick up spots tomorrow.

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