How do we want to live and grow older? How can people of different generations care for one another? What does it mean to live a good life – and for whom?
Through performance, dance and theatre, the festival “How to Make a Life?” explores how people can live, learn and imagine the future together: Jetse Batelaan, Tim Etchells, Danya Hammoud, Deborah Hay, Samara Hersch, Wen Hui, Faustin Linyekula, Phia Ménard and Eszter Salamon all pursue these questions, searching for answers in hidden memories, dreamlike images and moving encounters. They share their artistic knowledge of life’s paths and detours, opening up perspectives on how art, society and life have always been intertwined.
“How to Make a Life?” invites us to understand ageing not simply as an individual fate, but as an open question that inevitably arises between generations. For three weeks, Mousonturm becomes a place where people of different ages come together to attend performances, share their stories, cook, eat and debate together, and explore new ways of being together.
Sponsors and Supporters
Kuration: Boyzie Cekwana und Alexandra Hennig
Künstler*innen: Deborah Hay, Wen Hui, Faustin Linyekula, Eszter Salamon, Danya Hammoud, andpartnersincrime, Tim Etchells, Samara Hersch, Artemis, Phia Ménard u.v.m.
“How to make a life” ist gefördert durch die Kulturstiftung des Bundes, gefördert von dem Beauftragten für Kultur und Medien sowie gefördert durch den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, die Aventis Foundation im Rahmen der Vertrauensförderung, World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 und durch das Goethe-Institut Peking.
World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 wird gefördert durch das Land Hessen, die Stadt Frankfurt am Main und den Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain.
