The Cologne-based photographer Candida Höfer will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. With this prize, the Akademie der Künste honours one of the most internationally recognized German photographers, whose oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, is considered part of the contemporary photographic avant-garde. To mark the awarding of the prize, the Akademie der Künste is showing an exhibition of works by Candida Höfer.

Akademie members and partners of the European Alliance of Academies are showing their solidarity with the Hungarian art and culture scene, which has seen artistic freedom in their country increasingly threatened. Together they engage in dialogue with those affected by the cultural policy situation, while artistic contributions show that the Hungarian art scene is characterised by diversity and dynamism despite political restrictions.

On the occasion of the transfer of their advance legacy to the Academy’s Architectural Archives, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch have reconceived their retrospective exhibition “draw love build” and extended it significantly: access to the archives generates surprising dialogues between iconic architectural visions from the first half of the 20th century and the projects by the Berlin-based architectural team.

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a chance to view the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers, largely kept in their original condition. The tours provide an insight into how these three major international figures in the arts world of the 20th century lived and worked.

In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein can be visited as a unique testimony to unofficial art in the GDR and as part of the eventful history of the institution and the building. Guided tours in German.

The Library of the Arts is one of the largest special libraries on culture and the modernist arts. Its holdings are characterised by media from every artistic genre from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, as well as valuable private libraries, which are accessible to everyone free of charge. The voyage of discovery through its treasures begins in the Reading Room and leads into the hidden stacks. Guided Tour in German.

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 433 members in its six Sections Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts. It is an exhibition and event location. Its Archives collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art. Founded in 1696, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.