Resistance – From fine cracks to deep tremors
Artists: Homa Emami, Parastou Forouhar, Nazanin Noori, Anahita Razmi
in cooperation with the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück
Exhibition duration: 08.05.2026-01.08.2026
Exhibition opening on Friday, May 8, 2026, from 7 pm – admission free!
Welcome: Elisabeth Lumme (Chairwoman of Kunstraum hase29) and Shabnam Parvaresh (Director of Morgenland Festival Osnabrück) / Introduction: Jasmina Janoschka
The exhibition “Resistance – Of fine cracks and deep tremors” at the art space hase29 presents four artists with biographical connections to Iran, whose works deal with different, often ambivalent forms of resistance: Homa Emami, Parastou Forouhar, Nazanin Noori, Anahita Razmi.
Against the backdrop of ongoing political repression, the systematic restriction of civil liberties and the protest movements responding to this in Iran, various forms of (individual) resistance take on a special urgency.
The exhibition therefore focuses on the question of how forms of resistance can be experienced as artistic practice – be it through appropriation, subversion, visualization, or by working with fragments and ruptures. The works on display open up spaces in which social, political, and personal lines of conflict become tangible and multifaceted. Themes such as identity, belonging, and transformation enter into a field of tension between individual experience and collective history.
The unique perspectives of female artists in the Iranian diaspora are not perceived as a deficit when it comes to artistically responding to living conditions in Iran. Rather, the diaspora offers a productive space for the free artistic exploration of forms of resistance within a repressive society. Such art makes visible the diversity and quality of civil society responses, subtle codes that can unleash subversive forces within a repressive society.
The exhibition title "Of fine cracks and deep tremors" It becomes a programmatic metaphor: it refers both to the barely perceptible shifts in everyday life and to those profound, sometimes violent moments in which existing orders begin to crumble. Resistance here manifests itself not only in loud rebellion, but also in the subtle cracks that question existing narratives and open up new spaces for thought and possibility.
Motif: Parastou Forouhar, I Surrender, since 2006, photo: Presentation of the awardees of Villa Massimo, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2007
The exhibition is being held in cooperation with the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück instead.
Opening hours
Wed / Thu / Fri 14 pm – 18 pm
Sat 11 a.m. - 15 p.m.
Closed on Mondays, Sundays and public holidays.
Free entry!
Event program
Public guided tours of the exhibition
Public guided tours of the exhibition
Events
Sat 09.05. 11:30 am
Sun 10.05. 14 pm
Sat 30.05. 11:30 am
Sun 31.05. 14 pm
Sat 13.06. 11:30 am
Sun 14.06. 14 pm
Sat 27.06. 11:30 am
Sun 28.06. 14 pm
No registration required, participation is donation-based
Externer Veranstaltungshinweis: Podiumsdiskussion zur Menschenrechtslage im Iran – Mo, 18.05.2026, 19 Uhr / Aula der Universität im Schloss Osnabrück
Externer Veranstaltungshinweis:
Podiumsdiskussion zur Menschenrechtslage im Iran
Veranstalter: Stadt Osnabrück, Deutsche Stiftung Friedensforschung, Menschenrechtsorganisation Hawar.help, Center for the Study of Conflict & Peace (CeCoP) der Universität Osnabrück
Montag, 18.05.2026, 19 Uhr – Aula der Universität im Schloss Osnabrück
Im Rahmen Patenschaft der Stadt Osnabrück für die inhaftierte iranische Schriftstellerin und Menschenrechtsaktivistin Golrokh Iraee findet am 18. Mai 2026 um 19 Uhr in der Aula der Universität im Schloss Osnabrück eine Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Die aktuelle Entwicklung im Iran und die Herausforderungen für die Menschenrechtsarbeit“ statt.
Im Mittelpunkt des Abends stehen die aktuelle Situation der iranischen Zivilbevölkerung, mögliche politische Handlungsoptionen Deutschlands und der EU zur Verbesserung der Menschenrechtslage sowie Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten für die Zivilgesellschaft und Opposition im Iran. Auch die Rolle der iranischen Diaspora und die Auswirkungen aktueller Konflikte auf die Menschenrechtslage werden thematisiert.
Diskutieren werden:
- Dr. Lars Castellucci, Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Menschenrechtspolitik und humanitäre Hilfe
- Mariam Claren von der Menschenrechtsorganisation Háwar Help
- Diba Mirzaei vom GIGA-Institut für Nahost-Studien in Hamburg.
Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schneckener (CeCoP, Universität Osnabrück).
Der Eintritt ist frei. Eine Anmeldung ist nicht erforderlich, in der Aula stehen jedoch nur eine begrenzte Zahl an Plätzen zur Verfügung.
Reading “Dinosaur Child” (2025) with Maryam Aras – Wed, May 20, 2026, 7 pm
Reading of "Dinosaur Child" (2025) with Maryam Aras
in cooperation with the Literature Office West Lower Saxony
Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 7 p.m. – Kunstraum hase29
During a film screening, Maryam Aras spots her father on the cinema screen. He is sitting on the floor among other students at a protest against the Shah's visit to Berlin in 1967. For her, it is the beginning of a search for traces – of her childhood in the Iranian diaspora in Cologne, the certainty that her father cannot travel to Iran, and the story of his and her politicization.
In this literary essay, Maryam Aras writes her father's political biography, tracing narrative threads between the 1953 coup in Iran, a transnational 1968 movement, the Cologne working-class district of Mülheim, and a family history in which the luxury of apolitical living never existed. By illuminating erased history within both the Iranian diaspora and German historiography, Dinosaur Child enables a multi-perspective understanding of our political present.
Maryam Aras was born in Cologne in 1982, where she studied Islamic Studies, English Studies, and Political Science. She writes literary criticism, essays, and academic works, and examines, from a critical perspective on power dynamics, patterns of reception in German-language cultural journalism, feminist Persian-language literature, and postcolonial analyses of German perceptions of Iran. She received a working grant from the Arts Foundation of North Rhine-Westphalia for her project *Dinosaurierkind* (Dinosaur Child). In 2025, she was awarded the Kurt Tucholsky Prize.
Book table: Bookshop zur Heide
No registration required, participation is donation-based
Artist talk with Parastou Forouhar – Tue, June 9, 2026, 7 pm
Artist talk with Parastou Forouhar
Tuesday, November 09.06.2026th, 19, XNUMX p.m
Concert with Ava Rasti – Fri, June 12, 2026, 7 pm
Concert with Ava Rasti
Friday, February 12.06.2026th, 19, XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
Ava Rasti is an Iranian-born artist who lives and works in the capital city of Tehran. A pianist and bass guitarist, she founded a post-punk girl group in Tehran in her late teens. Since 2020, Rasti has been working as a solo artist, exploring the intersections of ambient, contemporary classical, and drone music. Her strong interest in storytelling has also led her to compose film scores, including the soundtracks for "The Great Yawn of History" and "1001 Frames," which was part of the... Berlinale was presented. After a series of sonically evolved singles, she self-released the albums "Ginestra" and "The Living Room". Meanwhile, the post-classical label 130701 from FatCat Records They signed her latest work, "The River".
No registration required, participation is donation-based
Film screening of “My Stolen Planet” – Tue, June 16, 2026, 7 pm / Lagerhalle Osnabrück
Film screening of "My Stolen Planet" (2024) by Farahnaz Sharifi (director, writer)
in cooperation with the European Media Art Festival
Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 7 p.m. / Warehouse Osnabrück
With friendly support
