In the exhibition Pillar of Societies, the collective Center for Peripheries explores gestures of the appropriation of places by minorities in ethnic enclaves in cities of the global West. Unlike strategies or tactics, which presume a form of organisation, a defined goal and a structured plan, gestures are acts of our daily lives that are charged with moments of resistance. In the Neue Galerie, Center for Peripheries looks at these everyday rituals of resistance, which oppose the vanishing of migrant communities and identities and often coincide with forced integration. The exhibition Pillar of Societies is part of the annual programme The Resistance of Nothingness curated by Bettina Siegele.