For several years, contemporary art productions, projects, initiatives and programmes tackling the current migration movements have experienced increased attention. Numerous actors in the field of art are addressing migration-related issues and its protagonists. Additionally, various funding structures have evolved that aim to include refugees in artistic production, from grants for artists to large and small-scale project funding, often specifically targeting young people in projects of so-called cultural education combined with artistic practice. While the scope of activities is full of possibilities corresponding to apparent needs with hands-on practice in self-organised, community-based and activist ways, various sociopolitical framework conditions need to be challenged. What is for sure: Art matters and is a driver for social change enhancing societies in all their diversity, wherein migration is an integral part.

During a two-days practice-based workshop series, the participants took moment to critically reflect on current approaches and various forms of engagement with international and local experts. Curated and organised by Virág Major, Hannah Marquardt and Christine Rahn. The four modules that compose the two day workshop were moderated by: Áine O’Brien (co-director of Counterpoints Arts, London), Elena Agudio (co-curator of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin), Mary Ann DeVlieg (facilitator, consultant and arts rights advisor, Venice), Nasan Tur (artist and co-initiator of FLAX, Berlin), Persefoni Myrtsou (artist and researcher, Berlin, Istanbul), Khaled Barakeh (artist, coculture's director, Berlin), Ariane Jedlitschka (arts mediator and co-director of Honorary Hotel Leipzig), Amado Alfadni (artist and arts mediator, Cairo), Timo Köster (project manager and consultant, Berlin).

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