Companionship

Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with the project "Global Fascisms" at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)—scheduled for 2025—you have examined the rise of authoritarian structures. This phenomenon affects every political, social, and cultural sphere and is difficult to distinguish from the dynamics of a new fascism. How do you position yourself as an internationally active curator and the director of a cultural institution at a time when the cultural sector faces mounting political and financial pressure?
There is no alternative to steadfastly continuing the work we do. We must keep taking action! In doing so, we have to put our own bodies at the forefront—right in the line of fire. We have no other choice. Because the alternative would be capitulation. The alternative would be the ...