Migrant resistance – in Hamburg in the 1990s
Exhibition from 13 October to 7 November 2025 | ULB Schloss
2025/10/15
Twelve wall panels illustrate the anti-fascist, anti-racist and self-organised resistance of migrants, refugees and young people in the 1990s in the Hamburg area and beyond.
Conceived as a wall newspaper by Hamburg sociologist and activist Gürsel Yildirim, the exhibition documents, among other things, the protests by migrants following the racist arson attacks in Mölln (1992), Solingen (1993) and Lübeck (1996), the struggles of refugees against forced redistribution and for the right to remain, as well as struggles over memory politics in the wake of racist murders.
In the 1990s, Gürsel Yıldırım was also a member of the migrant collective that published the magazine köXüz from 1995 to 2000 as a platform for migrants and refugees. Since then, Gürsel Yıldırım has been working in anti-racist remembrance work. He pays particular attention to the renaming of public places in memory of the victims of right-wing violence. The travelling exhibition ‘Migrant Resistance in Hamburg in the 1990s’ was created in cooperation with the Internationale Kunstfabrik Kampnagel and was funded by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg as part of the STADT MIT COURAGE initiative. It has already been exhibited many times and can now also be seen in Yıldırım's hometown of Darmstadt.
Event accompanying the exhibition
The Asta student union at TU Darmstadt invites you to a discussion with the curator on 15 October 2025 at 6 p.m. in the Schlosskeller. Gürsel Yildirim will talk about the background to the exhibition and highlight current aspects of migrants' struggles against right-wing violence and racism.
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ULB Schloss
S3|12 Foyer
Residenzschloss 1
64283 Darmstadt
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Monday to Friday 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
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