"Aneignung ist ein ziemlich zwielichtiges Wort - die Welt ist nicht notierbar!" Reisen, Nachreisen, Unreisen – was passiert eigentlich, wenn wir reisen, sei es nach außen oder nach innen? Kommen wir tatsächlich irgendwo an? Aus unserem Projekt "Transformation & Identity" hervorgegangen ist das Buch "Unreisen": Im gemeinsamen Gespräch erkunden die Weltreisenden Felicitas Hoppe und Indra Wussow fremde und vertraute Landschaften, verorten die Sehnsucht nach dem Paradies und die Strapazen, die das sich auf den Weg machen mit sich bringt. Eine so kluge wie erhellende Selbstbefragung über Möglichkeiten und Grenzen kultureller Aneignung. Flankiert von Arbeiten des südafrikanischen Künstlers Jaco van Schalkwyk und einer Klanginstallation der südafrikanischen Pianistin und Komponistin Jill Richards. >> read more

Deconcile – Reconcile. We assume that with regard to Corona as with any other issue that moves people locally or world-wide, a consensus about its nature and the best way of dealing with it cannot easily be had. There is no conciliatory, least of all a unanimously shared opinion, but a set of ‘deconciling’ views and opinions. Our aim is to reconcile these conflicting views to each other, and thus answer to a near-future challenge that was still unforeseeable in the recent past, but has developed into arguably the pre-eminent To Do on the list of things to be dealt with in the 2020s. >> read more

Solomon "Sally" Perel was born in Peine, Germany in 1925 to a German Jewish family. He escaped persecution by the Nazis by masquerading as a non-Jewish German. Loosely based on his autobiography 'Ich war Hitlerjunge Salomon (I was Hitler Youth Salomon)', his life story is told in the 1990 Film "Europa, Europa" which was awarded the Golden Globe for best Foreign Language Film, and was nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar) for best screenplay in 1992. We invite you to three special events to meet and celebrate an extraordinarily courageous man. And we are very happy that the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre and the Goethe Institut are partners of this very special visit. >> read more

Following up the Transformation and Identity project the Sylt Foundation’s new international long-term project, Diverse People Remember, aims to share approaches to trauma and reconciliation through the arts. Telling our stories is fundamental to catharsis, healing and reconciliation on an individual, community, national and international level. Diverse People Remember will send small teams of writers, dancers, artists and psychologists into chosen communities in the six countries we work in with the task to collect and share memories, to address and heal trauma, to learn from our pasts and to share with other communities in other areas and countries. >> read more

Chilean writer-in-residence Rodrigo Naranjo speaks at Wits University about The Dynamics of Captivity and the American Imagination >> read more

Phyu Mon (b. 1960) is regarded as one of Myanmar’s most profiled conceptual artists. She is one of the very few women artists in Myanmar who currently works with digital photography, visual art, poem and writing as short story. As a fellow of the Sylt Foundation's Transformation and Identity Programme she will spend April and May 2018 at the foundation's headquarter on the german island of Sylt. >> read more

Daniela Contreras (Chile) - Judith Kuckart (Germany) - Itumeleng Mokgope (South Africa): three choreographers and dancers, whose lives and careers were extremely shaped by social and political changes in their countries embark on a physical and intellectual journey to scrutinize the inner self transformation. In Johannesburg there will be workshops and improvisations with other dancers and non professionals to examine how trauma and transformation changed our perceptions and our bodies and how healing can be enhanced through the power of dance. >> read more

Seven artists from Israel, Germany, Chile, Myanmar, Cambodia and South Africa meet, discuss their perception of transformation, trauma and reconciliation as mirrored through their works. They will use the time together on Sylt to also conceptualize a group show of their works that will be shown in Yangon and Phnom Penh in 2018 as part of our project. (picture: © Sao Sreymao, Bargaining) >> read more

Artists from Chile, Myanmar, Germany and Poland will meet to discuss themes of transformation and identity from a literary and philosophical view. >> read more

Phnom Penh/Cambodia is the next place after Yangon/Myranmar where the Sylt Foundation enables authors and artists from different countries to discuss matters of transformation and identity. Co-curators: Indra Wussow (Germany/South Africa) and Irene S. Leung (USA/Cambodia). In cooperation with Deutscher Literaturfonds e.V., the Goethe Institut Cambodia and others. >> read more

Violent Memories - Transformation and Trauma: How do artists and writers respond? Opening workshop and presentation of the Sylt Foundation's new long term exchange programme. Yangon/Myanmar, 25th April to 1st May 2017 >> read more

Poet Han Lynn from Myanmar is coming to Germany: In May and June 2017 he will spend a residency on the island of Sylt and join the the festival "Poetry on the Road" in Bremen. >> read more

Wie gehen Länder, deren Geschichte von Gewaltherrschaften geprägt ist, mit ihrer Vergangenheit um? In Workshops und internationalen Begegnungen werden in den nächsten Jahren Künstler, Schriftsteller, Komponisten und Kuratoren aus Kambodscha, Chile, Kuba, Deutschland, Haiti, Myanmar und Südafrika dieser Frage nachgehen. Der Deutsche Literaturfonds e.V. unterstützt das Projekt für die beteiligten deutschsprachigen Autoren. >> read more

Artists, writers, composers and curators will be part of a new exchange programme that negotiates our different approaches to reflect on our "burden of history" through the means of art. The programme will take place in Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, Germany, Haiti, Myanmar and South Africa. >> read more

What is Poetry? The IVth What is Poetry Festival is being postponed and will take place in April 2018 in Ubud/Bali. It is partner of the Sylt Foundations "transformation and identity" long term programme. >> read more