redeem رديم is a platform for ongoing conversations between voices from Beirut in Berlin and peers around the world. It acts upon a collaborative desire to amplify and deepen an already existing exchange between cultural workers who lived and worked in Lebanon before the country spiraled into its current economic and political void. Many of these conversations have already come a long way. redeem رديم aims to build a support structure through which they can be widely heard and inspired by each other. To that end, it supplies both runway and refuge for artistic positions via workshops, podcasts and a series of events. 

As a collective undertaking, redeem رديم always remains on the path to define its form and take the time to grow and understand its needs and demands. For now, it has nothing to proclaim. It only asks for your allyship with a growing community in need of safe spaces to reflect recent events and workable ideas of change.

Following a week-long workshop at Künstlerhof Frohnau in June 2021, this community created an event at Haus der Statistik in August 2021 in Berlin where a line-up of talks, films, music, readings and live performances took place. The main venue was located in Haus A facing Karl-Marx-Allee, selected programs and all films screenings took place in the magic bumper car turned cinema (Autoskino) behind the building.

With Panos Aprahamian, Marwa Arsanios, Mirene Arsanios, Jerôme Abi Saleh a.k.a Banega, Eric Baudelaire, Caitlin Berrigan, Felix Claßen, Ziad Chakaroun, Color Club, Toni Elieh, Clementine Butler-Gallie, ARC Gestaltung, Karam Ghossein, Zeina Hanna, Juliana Huxtable, DJ June as, Mazen Kerbaj, Lama al Khatib, Sami Khatib with Mira Adoumier, Jessika Khazrik, Maurice Louca, Ghassan Maasri, Ayman Nahle, Nancy Naser Al Deen, Wael Noureddine, Alberto Núñez, OSTHAFEN, DJ Wahid Paradis, Franziska Pierwoss, Fernando Renjifo, Lore D Selys, Setareh Shahbazi, Siska, TAP (Temporary Art Platform) & Amanda Abi Khalil, Philip Widmann, Sam Wilder, Yalda Youness, Raed Yassin, Leil Zahra and many more...

redeem رديم team - 

Siska - Co-curator, organizer, and artistic director
Jens Maier-Rothe - Co-curator and artistic director
Laure Deselys - Co-curator and facilitator 
Nancy Naser Al Deen - Designer 
Wahid Al Soloh aka Squat Deluxe - Technical director 
ARC Gestaltung - Poster graphic designer
Christelle Salem - Production assistant 
Karam Ghossein - Documentation 
Lena Stanges - Event management assistance (Haus der Statistik)

Made possible with the generous support of the Berlin Senate.