with Rüzgâr Buşki

Meeting point: FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum
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Accessibility:
– The garden of the Kreuzberg Museum is located in Kreuzberg and is easily reachable via U-Bahn stations Kottbusser Tor (U1, U3, U8) and Moritzplatz (U8). Both stations offer step-free access. Several bus lines (e.g. Bus 140, 147) also serve the area. For real-time information on barrier-free access, please check the BVG website.
– The garden area is wheelchair accessible.
– Accessible bathrooms are available inside the museum.
– Seating will be provided in the garden.
– On-site support personnel will be available to assist visitors with disabilities.
– Please contact us with your access needs: cruisingcurators@gmail.com

This screen printing ritual is a collective prayer—a shared act of dreaming toward a world without police or prisons. It is also an offering in honor of all those who have shown up in their own ways: marching in the streets, educating their communities, raising funds for the people of Gaza, or simply sharing solidarity online—for Palestine, the most dissident path in contemporary Germany.

For two days, Rüzgar Buşki will be screen printing, and you are warmly invited to join them, take home a print, and spend time together. This prayer finds place in the museum’s garden, honoring decades of migrant life in the Kotti neighborhood—a place many call home, shaped by resilience, community, and the shadows of police presence and violence.

We’ll also be reading excerpts from Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean.

Rüzgâr Buşki, born in Istanbul is a Berlin based artist whose practice focuses on printmaking, video, and performance. Their work have been shown in numerous spaces and institutions, which include Künstlerhaus Bethanien,  Savvy Contemporary, documenta14 - Parliament of Bodies, DOK Leipzig, Translations Seattle Transgender Film Festival, Schwules Museum, Badischer Kunstverein, Silent Green, Galerie Wedding and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. They have received several accolades, including LABA Berlin Residency (2024), Close-Up Program Fellowship for NonFiction Cinema (2020-2021), the first prize of the Karl Hofer Society Grant (2019), and the Zeliş Deniz Queer Cinema Award at Pink Life Queer Film Festival (2019). Buşki graduated with a Meisterschüler title from the class of Prof. Dr. Hito Steyerl at Berlin University of Arts.

PATH 3: STREETS AND PROTEST (on movements and demonstrations)
With contributions from Elena Biserna, Carolin Genz, Mahshid Mahboubifar, Suelen Calonga, Rüzgâr Buşki

Protest means disturbing, interrupting, or altering social rhythms; it sets something static into motion or halts something that is moving too fast. Streets are a stage for protest, and today, they become ever more critical spaces where collective movement through public space creates a context for citizens from different backgrounds and social spheres to urgently assert their voices and seek change.

This Path explores how walking, marching, occupying, and gathering in public space become acts of resistance. From women walking at night as a gesture of reclamation (Elena Biserna), protesting gentrification and the housing crisis in Berlin (Carolin Genz); to collecting evidences of police violence against peaceful demonstrations (Mahshid Mahboubifar), disrupting the institutional forgetting embedded in colonial museum collections (Suelen Calonga), and community screenprinting of protest banners (Rüzgâr Buşki) ‒ each contribution reimagines how movement resists, remembers, and reclaims.