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INTERVIEW NOWA AMERIKA, MICHAEL KURZWELLY
Nowa Amerika is the name of a reality construction that has succeeded in gaining new space on both banks of the river Oder. In the second half of the 18th century, Frederick the Great contributed with the Second Polish Partition to the demise of the Polish state, a political act that is to be condemned. On the other hand, he also managed to gain territory without military force, for example the Oderbruch region.
Manipulate reality
To reorder space one needs to redefine space. For this kind of artistic intervention I use the term “applied art”, which means art applied in public context and space. This is to describe an artistic strategy focussing problems in society to then intervene, interact and transcend into another construction of reality. I create tools to create this new reality in other peoples minds…
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BOOK NOWA AMERIKA
After 22 years, a book about Słubfurt, New America, the white zone, Loch Netz, about the ideas and strategies behind it. First of all, I would like to thank the Arsenal Municipal Gallery in Poznań and its director Marek Wasilewski. As partners, they made the book possible and supported me. I would also like to thank everyone who accompanied me with advice and deed during the creation of this book, including: Uta Kurzwelly, Jonatan Kurzwelly, Volkmar Köhler, Uwe Jung, Tomasz Stefański. Nowa Amerika, the New World – what a wonderful promise…
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News
Africa in the heart
A video installation with 14 Africans who live in Frankfurt (Oder) and talk about their two homelands.
Bridge Square 2025
With a final celebration, the ‘Słubfurt city society’ bid farewell to the old gymnasium between Bischofstraße and Carl-Friedrich-Emanuel-Bach-Straße, which had been its home since 2016.
Activities 2023-2024 – Summary
In 2023–2024, we carried out a variety of initiatives – from projects to exhibitions – filled with challenges, inspiration, and fresh ideas. It was a time of hard work, new experiences, and results we’re truly proud of. Take a look at what we’ve achieved!
Transbordering laboratory
Transbordering Laboratory is a network of individuals and
non-governental organisations to link borderland areas of national
states as cross border regional entities In Between. To achieve this
goal we develop transbordering structures, platforms and projects to
gather, exchange experiences and promote our idea.
Brochure about Słubfurt Gardens
Brochure about Słubfurt Gardens
Słubfurt New Year’s reception
Samstag | Sobota | Saturday, 21.01.2022
18:00 | 6pm
Brückenplatz | Plac Mostowy
Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Straße 11A
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
New brochure about Bridge Square
In 1999 the city of Słubfurt was founded based on the former cities of Frankfurt and Słubice. Thus Słubfurt is the first city where one half is located in Poland and the other in Germany. Since 2010, Słubfurt has been the capital of Nowa Amerika…
Transbordering Laboratory
Transbordering Laboratory is a research on and between European cities that are divided by borders. We aim to address the idea of forming new realities in such cities and areas. Hard borders became an issue again with the rise of nationalism and the pandemic, especially for citizens in border territories.
FESTIVAL OF DIVERSITY 2022- World Music Festival
24.9. at the Brücken Plac Mostowy ( Frankfurt Oder )
Live concerts & programme for the whole family
More info in the event. FREE ADMISSION. Come by
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/815865632771941/
Sometimes I laugh at the wrong time
Sunday 25.9.2022 16:00
Brücken Plac Mostowy, C-P-E-Bach-Str. 11A, D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
Reading by Yasser Niksada (Afghanistan/Iran) with Manfred Möck, actor in collaboration with The Poetry Project Berlin.
Yasser Niksada (*2002) comes from the Panshir Valley in Afghanistan. More than ten years ago, the Niksadas fled to Tehran, where they still live as refugees. “But that’s no life,” says Yasser, so the family sent the then 13-year-old on a journey to Europe, an arduous escape over water and land. One of the biggest differences between Tehran and Berlin for Yasser is the absence of his two brothers and sisters, but above all he misses his parents. Today, after finishing school, he has started his education. In the poems he writes in his mother tongue, Persian, Yasser deals with the feeling of being torn apart and processes the experiences of his flight. In Eastern cultures, poetry allows people to express their own feelings, even if they seem unspeakable at first. Even children are familiar with this art because their elders tell them stories in verse.
In the Poetry Project Berlin, Yasser found the space to formulate his figurative language in poems and present it to the public.
Together with actor Manfred Möck, he has now composed a reading in which Niksada’s texts can be experienced in Persian and German.
Projects
Verdienstkrzyż am Sznurku
In 2019, Michael Kurzwelly received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany from Federal President Frank Walter Steinmeier.
Since then, it has been awarded to deserving citizens of Słubfurt and Nowa Amerika…
Poznań – Słubfurt
The project aims to bring together cultural actors from the independent scene in Poznań and Słubfurt. They visit each other, get to know each other, exchange ideas and network. By sharing experiences, the project can inspire new approaches and approaches.
Lively initiatives and projects directly from the population promote participation and democracy. The Galeria Miejska Arsenał, the city of Poznań with its Centrów Inicjatyw Lokalnych (Centres of Local Initiatives) funding structure and the adult education centre (Volkshochschule) in Frankfurt (Oder) have understood this.
Africa in the heart
A video installation with 14 Africans who live in Frankfurt (Oder) and talk about their two homelands.
People from many different regions of the great continent of Africa live in Frankfurt (Oder). They have come in different ways to stay. There are also Germans who have lived in Africa for a long time. Anyone who meets them with an open mind quickly realises the cultural wealth they have brought with them. At the same time, it’s shocking how little I know about Africa. Frankfurt (Oder) played an important role in the recruitment of soldiers and generals, who were particularly needed for the colonisation of Cameroon.
Transbordering laboratory
Transbordering Laboratory is a network of individuals and
non-governental organisations to link borderland areas of national
states as cross border regional entities In Between. To achieve this
goal we develop transbordering structures, platforms and projects to
gather, exchange experiences and promote our idea.
Bridge Square, the agora of Słubfurt
The “Bridge Plaza“ can be viewed as a laboratory for artists. It is here that new socio-political structures emerged that have stood the test of time in our micro-society. For example, the Parliament of Słubfurt where everyone who attends a parliamentary session automatically becomes a city representative with the right to vote…
Laboratory – Bridge Square
Laboratorium Brückenplatz by Slubfurt e.V. with the Kleist Forum Frankfurt/Oder: HATE SPEECH – CIVIL WAR?
The consequences of civil wars, post colonial exploitation and unresolved international conflicts stand as refugee movements before our borders. That is why we want to examine…