25 April 2024
UTOPIA. Keep on Moving
Exhibition, talks, readings and performances with Carolin Emcke, Wolfgang Kaleck, Dima Albitar Kalaji, Jeanine Meerapfel, Eva von Redecker, Katharina Schultens, lynn t musiol and many more besides
Friday – Sunday, 3 – 5 May 2024
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz and Hanseatenweg
On the first weekend in May, the Akademie der Künste is presenting the next instalment in the “UTOPIA. Keep on Moving” programme. On Friday, 3 May, the exhibition accompanying the programme opens at 6 pm in the Akademie building on Pariser Platz, in the Foyer and the Black Box. Curator Diana Wechsler is showing works by Christin Berg, Ingo Dunnebier, Gabriela Golder, Ali Kazma, Kapwani Kiwanga, Enrique Ramírez and Regina Silveira. Kathrin Röggla and Leopold von Verschuer make use of the lifts to stage the installation Fahrstuhlmusik (Elevator Music). After the exhibition opening, Carolin Emcke will read from her new book Was wahr ist: Über Gewalt und Klima, in which she argues for the ethics of storytelling and for thinking in utopian terms. This is followed at 8 pm by a discussion with Jeanine Meerapfel. Throughout the evening the Broken Frames Syndicate ensemble will be presenting pieces by Mary Bauermeister, Sarah Hennies, Angélica Castelló and Pauline Oliveros.
On Saturday, 4 May, at 4 pm children from the Hermann-Boddin-Schule are performing Gesine Bey’s stage adaptation of a story by Andrea Bajani and Brecht’s poem Bitten der Kinder (Children’s Requests), presented in the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg. Afterwards, at 5 pm, philosopher Eva von Redecker and Wolfgang Kaleck, lawyer and general secretary of the ECCHR, will talk about concrete utopias. At 7.30 pm Akademie members and fellows of the JUNGE AKADEMIE – lynn t musiol, Nazanin Noori with Andrea Belfi, Katharina Schultens, Sophie Seita and Steloolive – will discuss utopian stories and conceptions of society, both new and forgotten.
On Sunday, 5 May – Museum Sunday – exiled authors Atefe Asadi, Dima Albitar Kalaji and Ahmed Awny from the “Weiter Schreiben” (Write On) project will combine with musician Milad Khawam in literary performative interventions that mesh with the exhibition in the Akademie building on Pariser Platz (5 pm).
Further information: adk.de/utopia
Event details
Friday, 3 May
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
6 pm
Exhibition opening
with Jeanine Meerapfel, Kathrin Röggla, Diana Wechsler, the Broken Frames Syndicate ensemble; free admission
8 pm
Was wahr ist. Über Gewalt und Klima
Reading, discussion and music with Carolin Emcke, Jeanine Meerapfel, the Broken Frames Syndicate ensemble; admission €7.50/€5
3 May – 26 May 2024
Exhibition
Videos and installations by Gabriela Golder, Kapwani Kiwanga, Ali Kazma, Christin Berg, Kathrin Röggla and Leopold von Verschuer, Enrique Ramírez, Regina Silveira, Ingo Dunnebier. Kuratorin: Diana Wechsler
Opening times: Tue–Sun, 11 am – 7 pm; free admission
Curator tour: Sunday, 5 May 2024, 11 am
Pariser Platz, Foyer / Black Box / lift
Saturday, 4 May
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
4 pm
Building Blocks of the World, Children’s Requests
Theatre performance with school children; free admission
5 pm
Concrete Utopias – Eva von Redecker and Wolfgang Kaleck
Talks and discussion; admission €7.50/€5, day pass €12/€8
7.30 pm
New Forgotten Utopias
Readings, performances and music with lynn t musiol, Nazanin Noori, Andrea Belfi, Katharina Schultens, Sophie Seita and Steloolive
Admission €7.50/€5, day pass €12/€8
Sunday, 5 May
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin
5 pm
“Weiter Schreiben”: Utopia doesn’t look you in the eye
Readings and performances with Atefe Asadi, Dima Albitar Kalaji, Ahmed Awny and Milad Khawam
In German, Arabic and Farsi
Free admission
See press release from 11 April 2024