The exhibition discusses contradictions between growth and ecology based on architecture’s material culture. It presents more than 40 positions from art, architecture, and spatial practices in which repair becomes a new design paradigm. There are increasing calls for new strategies to reduce resource consumption and preserve and repair what already exists.

For this evening, a public event at the General Assembly of the Akademie der Künste, members of the Literature Section have selected poems about love. A gesture against the sombreness of these times. Reading with Kerstin Hensel, Dagmara Kraus, Angela Krauß, Ursula Krechel, Michael Krüger, Monika Rinck, Aleš Šteger. Welcome by Jeanine Meerapfel. In German.

The exhibition is the prominent prelude of a new series of the Visual Arts Section in which works by Akademie members from diverse artistic disciplines confront one another. Belgian painter and curator Luc Tuymans has initiated a dialogue with German actress and director Edith Clever, an icon in theatre known for her strong women’s roles. Part of Berlin Art Week.

What contributions can artists make to demand a policy that addresses climate change efficiently and expediently? How can art encourage the necessary transformation of society? More than 40 Akademie members call on each and every individual to push for climate protection. Their statements can currently be read on the glass façade of the Akademie der Künste building on Pariser Platz.

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a fascinating insight into the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers. The Brecht-Weigel Museum in Berlin-Mitte and the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof are both part of the Akademie der Künste.

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 413 members in its six Sections (Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts). It is an exhibition and event location. A key component of the Akademie are its Archives, which collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art.