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Wed 4 Dec 2024, 7 pm
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Can you help me? Times and Spaces – Vietnam and Germany 8 Nov 2024 – 18 Jan 2025
with Eva Bentcheva
Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator specialising in transnational archives, conceptualism, performance and participatory art in South/Southeast Asia and Europe. She is a lecturer at the Technical University of Dresden at the Chair of Image Science in a Global Context. She is also a postdoctoral researcher and publication coordinator for the international research project “Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation.”
Wed 11 Dec 2024, 5 pm
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Can you help me? Times and Spaces – Vietnam and Germany 8 Nov 2024 – 18 Jan 2025
Highlight tour with Maxime Lübke
Wed 8 Jan 2025, 7 pm
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Can you help me? Times and Spaces – Vietnam and Germany 8 Nov 2024 – 18 Jan 2025
with the filmmaker Kevin Köhrmann and Frank Momberg (NGO Fauna & Flora, South East Asia)
Forest rangers roam the forests of Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Vietnam. They are on the lookout for plant thieves who are illegally felling eaglewood trees. Eaglewood, oud or agarwood is on the CITES list of endangered species and is now threatened with extinction. The sweet-smelling resin of the trees is in great demand on the international perfume market. One kilo of the wood costs between 30,000 and 100,000 euros on the black market. The perfume industry has an annual turnover of 47 billion euros.
The buyers of the coveted fragrance are mostly based in Europe and China. However, like the fashion industry, the perfume industry is now increasingly confronted with the demand for environmentally friendly fragrances and has to react.
Many end customers have no idea that rare plants die to produce high-quality perfumes. So are perfumes partly to blame for the extinction of species?
Kevin Köhrmann
is a journalist and filmmaker and has been producing documentaries and reports all over the world for 20 years. He spent five years living and working in China, Malaysia and Thailand. His films deal with social issues, such as fundamentalist Christians or human rights and nature-related topics such as climate change and its various consequences, the death of turtles in the Mediterranean or animal-friendly agricultural products. The aim is always to create strong images and emotional stories that help us understand the increasingly complicated world a little better.
Frank Momberg
Frank Momberg started working on indigenous land rights mapping and community forestry almost two decades ago, initially in Lampung and West Kalimantan. He then worked as a land rights trainer with various organisations, training local communities and local NGOs and mapping community rights across Indonesia. He then focussed on biodiversity conservation, climate change and REDD. With the Flora & Fauna Institute, Momberg opened up new perspectives for community-based forest management in Vietnam and Cambodia, which did not yet exist in this form. In 2004, he returned to Indonesia as FFI’s Asia Director for Programme Development, based in Jakarta, and has since been responsible for Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar and Vietnam. FFI’s goal is to protect the diversity of life on earth to ensure the survival of the planet and its people. FFI works closely with local conservation partners in well over 40 countries to save nature together.
Fri 17 Jan 2025, 7 pm
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Can you help me? Times and Spaces – Vietnam and Germany 8 Nov 2024 – 18 Jan 2025
Finissage and performative lecture with Veronika Radulovic
