Kenan Khadaj
Based in Berlin
A curator working on literature as a space for public encounter and for negotiating belonging and memory.
Kenan Khadaj is a Berlin-based curator, writer, journalist, and translator whose work explores literature as a space for public encounter and for negotiating belonging, memory, and political change.
Born in Swaida, Syria, he has lived in Germany since 2015 and works as Curator of Literature and Oralture Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt. At HKW he develops interdisciplinary literary programmes that bring writing into conversation with performance, music, film, oral traditions, exhibition, and critical thought.
With Dzekashu MacViban he forms the curatorial collective House of Half Ideas, which curates Those Who Move Through Matter at Bardo Projektraum. During the exhibition the two give the guest lecture Curating the Unfinished.