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Stuttgart
Charlottenplatz 17
70173 Stuttgart

Berlin
Linienstraße 139-140
10115 Berlin

14/03/2026

Join our closing events! Survival Kit by Ken Aïcha Sy is an ever-unfolding body of work. It keeps moving, vibrating, reverberating. Let’s take the exhibition’s closing as a chance to get together one last time within the exhibition space and reflect on what seeds have been planted in Stuttgart. And of course: Let’s celebrate with curiosity of what’s to come!

20th March, 4:30PM: Guided tour with .adam.art
20th March, 7PM: Performance by
21th March, 12PM - 6PM: Free entrance to the exhibition
21th March, 6PM - 1AM: Come by during and experience Survival Kit one last time. Guided tours take place every full hour from 7PM to 11PM. Admission after 6PM is only permitted with a ticket for .

📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Credits: Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025

09/03/2026

Join our Family Art Sunday at ifa-Gallery Stuttgart!

This Sunday, 15th March
10:30AM – 12:30 PM

The tone sets the scene: Together, we draw inspiration from Senegalese painting and artists. Layer upon layer, spontaneous drawings and paintings are superimposed on cardboard. We work with our eyes open and closed, accompanied by music.

In Cooperation with JUKUS Jugendkunstschule & Kreativwerkstatt.

This event is fully booked! The next Family Art Sunday is on the 10th May. Registration via .

Last days to visit the show that runs until 21th March!
📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Photo 1: © FKS, 2025

20/02/2026

New Date! This event is postponed to 20th March, 7PM. Please note so you won’t miss out on this one-time event!

‘Languages that know us’ is a performance by Amina Ousman-Daouda and Naemi Mirene Makiadi (). Get ready for an archaeological search for mother tongues and colonial languages between memory, rhythm, and poetry.

This event is an inherent part of the Public Program of Ken Aïcha Sy’s exhibition ‘Survival Kit – Monochrome of Negritude or the Introduction to the Modernists’.

The show runs until 21th March, come visit now!
📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

17/02/2026

Have a closer look at one of the artworks on display in Ken Aïcha Sy’s exhibition ‘Survival Kit – Monochrome of Negritude or the Introduction to the Modernists’:

Chérif Thiam: Gonye Birame Coumba, 1982, Senegal.

‘Authentic art from Black Africa is not imitative and does not copy observed reality.’ –Pierre Lods

The École de Dakar emerged in Senegal at the dawn of independence and is informed and conditioned by Léopold Sédar Senghor, Gustave Iba N’Diaye, Papa Ibra Tall and Pierre Lods, among others. The movement is driven by a sense of freedom in practice and research, the use of improvisation and spontaneity as methods and the refusal of figurative representation.

‘Gonye Birame Coumba’ is on loan from at the University of Bayreuth.

The show runs until 21th March, better visit now!
📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Credits: Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025

03/02/2026

‘What remains unsaid? Who gets to speak? How can art help us remember — or reimagine?’

🗝️ Some objects don’t just reflect history, they carry it. In this presentation, Temidayo Oyeniran reflects on ethnographic museum collections not as static displays but as story-carriers. Positioned between memory and imagination, the contribution invites us to think with the object.

Temidayo Oyeniran is a curator and transdisciplinary artist focusing on African art, ethnological museum collections, and their contemporary relevance.

In February and March, the Public Program of ‘Survival Kit’ will revolve around survival frequencies that can be found in Objects, Voices and Afterlives.

Thursday, 5th February, 7pm
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🔗 More info via the link in our bio!

Credits
Photo 1: Temidayo Oyeniran © Oyeniran, 2024
Photo 2: Amadou Ba: La vendeuse d’Oiseaux, Senegal, 1983. Photo by Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025
Photo 2: Amadou Ba: La vendeuse d’Oiseaux (reversed), Senegal, 1983. Photo by Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025

02/02/2026

“For me, an archive is very existential for futuristic ideas because time is not linear, it’s circle.” - Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly

📡 In January, Prof. Dr. Natasha A. Kelly visited the exhibition ‘Survival Kit’ by Ken Aïcha Sy and was a special guest at the public event ‘Survival Frequencies II: Gestures, Echoes, Remains’. In this interview, she responds to ‘Survival Kit’ from within the exhibition space.

Her reflections resonate with conversations that unfolded throughout ‘Survival Frequencies II’. Living archives are complex and fragile ecosystems. They are steadily shaped, conditioned and contextualized by institutions, researchers, artists and the public.

Dearest thanks to all speakers and guests, especially to Regis Hitimana and Cornelia Lund, for being part of Survival Frequencies II, a discursive afternoon of lectures and collectivizing thoughts at ifa Gallery Stuttgart.

‘Survival Kit’ by Ken Aïcha Sy is on view at ifa Gallery Stuttgart until 21 March 2026, and was previously exhibited at from 20 June – 31 August 2025.

Visit now!

Credits
🎥 © ifa, 2025
Graphic: .plus.mueller © ifa, 2025

18/01/2026

🕸️ The Public Program of the exhibition ‘Survival Kit’ by Ken Aïcha Sy continues with ‘Survival Frequencies II : Gestures, Echoes, Remains’– an afternoon of collective thinking! We gather for another series of lectures with Dr. Cornelia Lund (Fluctuating Images), Alexandra Kuhnke (Kunstmuseum Bayreuth) and Regis Hitimana (, .bayreuth, ) on living archives as 'fragile ecosystems where survival is negotiated' (Regis Hitimana). The lectures are followed by an open conversation with all guest speakers and the public.

🕸️ Archives are not mute. You are warmly invited to listen and to share your knowledge!

🕸️ Drinks and snacks will be provided.

24 January, 2-6 pm
📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart
🔗 More info via link in our bio!

Photo 1: Graphic Design by Robert (@) © ifa, 2025
Photo 2: Exhibition View by Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025
Photo 3: Cornelia Lund © Raquel Graston
Photo 4: Regis Hitimana © Regis Hitimana
Photo 5: Alexandra Kuhnke © Alexandra Kuhnke, 2025

10/01/2026

🎥 Iya Tundé, The Mother Came Back (Film screening, 52 min)

This documentary traces the journey of Germaine Acogny, French-Senegalese choreographer and iconic figure of contemporary African dance. Through her teaching, creations, and the pivotal moment of her 70th birthday (when she fully committed to her own artistic path) the film offers an intimate portrait of an extraordinary life dedicated to dance.

From workshops at Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw to masterclasses across Africa, Asia, and Europe, and through testimonies from close collaborators, the film reveals the vision, strength, and legacy of an artist who has shaped generations.

Directed by Laure Malécot, produced by Moctar Nidouga Bâ-Mediatik (Dakar, 2017).
Screening in cooperation with Filmwinter Stuttgart and Produktionszentrum Tanz + Performance.

This screening is part of Survival Kit, an exhibition by dedicated to transmission and transformation, positioning Senegalese modernism as a vital force in global art history.

Join this special film screening!

17 January, 7pm
📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Photo 1: © Ecole des Sables, 2025
Photo 2: © Médiatik, 2017
Photo 3: © Ecole des Sables, 2025
Photo 4: © Médiatik, 2017
Photo 5: Léopold Sédar Senghor, president of the Republic of Senegal from 1960 to 1981. He developed support programs across different art forms, investing in dance while also encouraging visual arts, shaping an important context for Acogny’s legacy. © Peter Jordan/Popperfoto, via Getty Images
Photo 6: Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025
Photo 7: Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025

20/12/2025

‘Survival Kit’ curated by Ken Aïcha Sy () has been on view for two months already! Since its opening, the exhibition space became a porous container for collective thinking: How can this archive be shared?

Philipp Horn and Anna Helfer generously shared their research. Fluctuating Images invited to a beautifully curated listening session. In December, art and community workers from facilitated a Grief Circle on communal bonds and their significance in archival practices. Students from ( and Fachklasse für Performative Praxis) engaged in a Movement Improvisation facilitated by , current fellow at , and . Over three encounters, the group explored the distance between archival documents and the subterranean force of artistic legacies—always alive and always in motion.

We are grateful to all artists and practitioners for being in such a dedicated conversation with ‘Survival Kit’. Thank you for transmitting your tools, knowledge and energy.

Mark your calendars! The Public Program continues in January. You are warmly invited to join this collective search.

📍ifa Gallery Stuttgart
On view until 21 March 2026
Wed-Sun, 12-6 PM

❄️ During holiday season, the gallery is closed between:
December 24-26
December 31-January 1

Slide 1 © ifa, 2025
Slide 2 © ifa, 2025
Slide 3 © ifa, 2025
Slide 4 © ifa, 2025
Slide 5 © ifa, 2025
Slide 6 © Tectonic Movement, 2025
Slide 7 © Tectonic Movement, 2025
Slide 8 © Tectonic Movement, 2025
Slide 9 © ifa, 2025
Slide 10 © ifa, 2025

04/12/2025

🔊 “This project is not a fixed tribute, nor a silent museum. It is made of voices, fragments, tensions, and echoes. It is rooted in the personal, but carried by a collective will – the will to transmit and transform. Survival Kit, at once personal and political, is a living tool – to help us understand, narrate, and imagine what a truly shared art history might become” ––Ken Aïcha Sy

🔊 Ken Aïcha Sy presents Survival Kit– an exhibition, a curatorial research project, a vibrant space of collective survival and shared imagination.

📍 On view at ifa Gallery Stuttgart until 21.03.2026
Survival Kit: Monochrome of Négritude or the Introduction to the Modernists by Ken Aïcha Sy ()
🔗 More info via link in our bio!

🎥 Adrian Schmidt ()

30/11/2025

Join us for a Grief Circle with Tectonic Movement on 07th December 2025 at 3 PM as part of SURVIVAL KIT, curated by Ken Aïcha Sy ().

💧 “Grief often forces us to return to the traces left behind by those we have lost.” –Ken Aïcha Sy

💧 The loss of Ken Aïcha Sy’s mother is the starting point of SURVIVAL KIT, which led her back to the archives: her mother’s archives, her father’s archives, and eventually those of the cultural scene from the 1960s to the 1990s.

💧 The collective Tectonic Movement (Stuttgart, Accra) shares Ken Aïcha’s uses of grief. They tend to grief as a method to think together: How do we make sense of the losses we experience? Where does our grief guide us to?

💧 The Grief Circle invites us to sit with the grief that arises when communities are constrained in their ability to self-organize, leading to shared or individual experiences of loss.

💧 The session will be in German and English, we help each other with translation.
Register now by sending an e-mail to [email protected]!

📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart

Photo 1 : AJB & Ken, Personal Archive © 1994
Photo 2: Nana Boahene © 2025
Photo 3: Elikem Akpalu © 2025

23/11/2025

🫀 Opening impressions from SURVIVAL KIT: Monochrome of Négritude or the Introduction to the Modernists at ifa Gallery Stuttgart. The night carried the spirit of what this exhibition is about: Living archives, collective storytelling, shared knowledge.

🫀 A warm thank-you to everyone who shaped the night with presence, questions, and conversation — from the welcome remarks by , , , and to the final record playing.

🫀 The exhibition is now open — not as a conclusion, but as a beginning. Come and dig into the archive!

📍 ifa Gallery Stuttgart
On view until 21 March 2026
Wed–Sun, 12–6 PM

🔗 More info via link in bio!

📸 Jürgen Bubeck © ifa, 2025

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