The transnational artists’ platform WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV is dedicated since its launch in summer 2018, to the central themes and questions surrounding the visibility and representation of diasporic and non-European as well as East European (post)socialist narratives in culture and media.

The artists of WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV are united by a strong mutual desire to explore and challenge their different artistic approaches and to develop new forms of collective memory and storytelling.

From this desire, several different researches, interventions and projects have emerged, in and about the disciplines of dance, composition, media art, music, mediation, and culture of remembrance, hybrid and analogue, through multiple perspectives on the complex, global present.

WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV consists of a core team, constantly gathering new artistic perspectives of collaboration, learning from each other, unlearning together and growing into a platform for independent performing, medial and visual arts. For their last international co-production WHY NOT? SUPER SONIC STORYTELLING they received an award as part of the Artists in Residency Ruhr Program 2021 of the KREATIVCAMPUS.RUHR of ecce — european centre for creative economy.

Currently, is WHY NOT? KOLLEKTIV working in NRW on a new dance and media art performance on non-European rotating dances, as well as in an exhibition on untold perspectives of “special children's homes” in the former German Democratic Republic and their after-effects on today's society, to be launched at the nGbK, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, in Berlin.

Das transnationale Kollektiv Why Not? widmet sich seit seiner Gründung im Sommer 2018 den zentralen Themen und Fragen um Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentation außereuropäischer und diasporischer sowie (p)ostsozialistischer Narrative in Kultur und Medien.

In den Disziplinen Tanz, Komposition, Medienkunst, Musik, Vermittlung und Erinnerungskultur entstehen unterschiedliche Recherchen, Forschungen und Projekte, hybrid oder analog, für multiple Perspektiven auf eine komplexe, globale Gegenwart.

Mit ihrer letzten internationalen Koproduktion im Bereich der freien darstellenden Künste gewann das Kollektiv mit der Arbeit WHY NOT? SUPER SONIC STORYTELLING (2021) im Programm des Kreativcampus/Ruhr European Centre for creative economy einen Award.