Season start 2025/26 – (Un)gentle Learning

«KOMMANDO AJAX»
Cemile Sahin

In the style of an action film with fast cuts, Cemile Sahin tells the story of a traitor, revenge, love and friendship and a Kurdish family in exile.

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  • Sun 09/21 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Copyright: Miriam Marlene Waldner

At the end of (Un)gentle Learning, Cemile Sahin picks up the pace once again with a reading from her novel ‘KOMMANDO AJAX’. The story brings together the lives of a Kurdish family in exile in the Netherlands with the jet set of the international art world. A spectacular art heist, lost paintings, a Kurdish wedding and a sniper. In conversation with journalist and Head of Communication at the Gessnerallee Rahel Bains, Cemile explores the love of detail, betrayal and friendship and the question of how to write pictures as fast as shots.

Information on accessibility and language

The event will be held in German spoken language.

About the artist

Gessnerallee season start 2025/26

The (Un)gentle Learning festival will take place at Gessnerallee from 11 to 21 September to mark the start of the season. The festival will explore processes of transition, mourning and learning.

«Stars Are Never Sleeping, Dead Ones and the Living»
Theres Indermaur und Stephanie Müller
09/11 - 09/14
09/18 - 09/21
(Installation)

«Fourth Eye, 4.40 AM»
Ceylan Öztrük
09/11, 09/13, 09/14, 09/15
(Performance)

«PAS MOI»
Diana Anselmo
09/12, 09/13,
(Lecture-Performance)

«Muskeln aus Plastik - eine crip-queere Lesung»
Kay Matter
09/14
(Reading)

«Neutralitätstheater – Mythos Schweiz auf dem Tisch!»
Hannan Salamat und Fatima Moumouni
09/18
(Talk, Performance)

«Sleight of Hand (In deutscher Lautsprache)»
Jo Bannon
09/19
(Installation, Performance)

«Sleight of Hand (In englischer Lautsprache)»
Jo Bannon
09/20
(Installation, Performance)

«When the calabash breaks»
Tiran Willemse und Melika Ngombe Kolongo (Nkisi)
09/20, 09/21
(Performance, Dance)

«KOMMANDO AJAX»
Cemile Sahin
09/21
(Reading)

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