Drung at Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow Exhibition in Cologne, germany
Transfer Station - The missing Shadow
Gemeinde Köln, Photo by TSAI Ping Ju, 2024
Drung Tibetan Filmmakers Collective participated in Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow, a multidisciplinary exhibition held in Cologne, Germany, as part of the broader Inviting Borders project. The exhibition examined borders as lived experiences and conceptual spaces — sites shaped by movement, memory, identity, and cultural negotiation — through film, installation, and visual art.
The exhibition was curated by Tsai Ping-Ju and Li Kuei-Pi, whose curatorial practices engage with questions of migration, archives, and transnational histories across Asia and beyond. Their framework approached borders not as fixed geopolitical lines, but as dynamic zones of encounter, fracture, and exchange.
Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow was made possible with the support of Stadt Köln, NRW Kultursekretariat, and the National Culture and Arts Foundation. These institutions supported the project’s international scope and its focus on cross-cultural dialogue and artistic collaboration.
Within this context, Drung contributed film and moving-image works that resonated with the exhibition’s central concerns around displacement, mobility, and lived experiences of borders. The works reflected Drung’s ongoing engagement with stories rooted in exile and movement, situating Tibetan and Himalayan perspectives within wider global conversations.
By participating in Transfer Station – The Missing Shadow, Drung extended its presence into contemporary exhibition spaces, connecting cinematic storytelling with visual art practices and contributing Tibetan diaspora narratives to international dialogues on borders, belonging, and cultural exchange.
