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Nan Goldin Bed, Paris/New York, 1992–2009, 2019 archive pigment print (114 x 167 cm) Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery © Nan Goldin

Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022. Nan Goldin
20 Jan — 16 Apr 2023

Exhibition

The Akademie will be showing photographs by Nan Goldin, recipient of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022, from five decades. The US artist occupies a central position in contemporary photography. Her focus is on the themes of love, sexuality, and violence. The exhibition features photographs from the early Boston years, New York, Berlin, and Asia, as well as recent large-scale works. Extended until 16 April.

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Basic Platform © The Seasteading Institute
Basic Platform © The Seasteading Institute

Zones and Memes: Right-Wing Spaces Off and Online
4 – 5 Apr 2023

Lectures and Discussions

Liberal democracies have been experiencing the rise of authoritarian and (neo)fascist movements and governments for some time. The “Right-wing Spaces” research project has been investigating its spatial dimensions since 2018. Over two evenings, economic, political and media aspects of the global shift to the right and the resistance against it will be discussed. With Theresia Enzensberger, Philipp Krüpe, Paul Mason, Niloufar Tajeri et al.

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Graphic design © Rimini Berlin
Graphic design © Rimini Berlin

Using numerous models, plans, photographs, films and other contemporary documents, the exhibition shows planning and building during National Socialist rule from 1933 to 1945. It examines building and biographical continuities and ruptures up to the present. In doing so, it refers not only to the German Reich but also to the occupied territories in Eastern Europe and draws comparisons with other countries during this period.

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum. Photo © Andeas Süß

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.

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Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 421 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.

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LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europemore

War in Ukraine: Support for Artists and Cultural Workersmore

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[Anna Seghers in Brazil, 1963], photo: not specified, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Anna-Seghers-Archive, no. 3448_01
Tuesday, 28 Mar
Tour

2 pm

Anna-Seghers-Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

Crossings – Anna Seghers’ travels to Brazil and her friendship with Jorge Amado

Anna Seghers and the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado had a special friendship ever since they met in Wroclaw in 1948. An intensive exchange of letters and mutual visits in the decades that followed bear witness to this. Anna Seghers’ journeys to Brazil in 1961 and 1963 are reflected literarily in the story Crossing. In German.

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György Dalos © Photo: Ekko von Schwichow
Tuesday, 28 Mar
Award Ceremony

7 pm

Heinrich Mann Prize 2023: György Dalos

The Heinrich Mann Prize 2023 goes to Hungarian author, historian and translator György Dalos. From the jury statement: “His work spans a wide range from the division of Europe to the collapse of the Soviet Union to the project of an illiberal democracy in his home country Hungary. Anyone who reads György Dalos not only gains new insights into contemporary European history—but into the entire genealogy of the present”. In German. 

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Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 29 Mar
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here; many whom he shaped, promoted and inspired or who supported him. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 4 Apr
Tour

2 pm

Anna-Seghers-Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Anna Seghers, who often appeared rather shy and cautious, found support among her friends, whom she trusted unreservedly, with whom she exchanged ideas and laughed unselfconsciously. The writer remained close to the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf until the end of her life. In German.

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Basic Platform © The Seasteading Institute
4 – 5 Apr
Lecture and Discussions

Zones and Memes: Right-Wing Spaces Off and Online

Liberal democracies have been experiencing the rise of authoritarian and (neo)fascist movements and governments for some time. The “Right-wing Spaces” research project has been investigating its spatial dimensions since 2018. From hate-fuelling memes in digital space to revisionist memory architectures and anti-democratic private city projects: Over two evenings, economic, political and media aspects of the global shift to the right—and the resistance against it—will be discussed. In English.

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Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 5 Apr
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here; many whom he shaped, promoted and inspired or who supported him. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

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POWER SPACE VIOLENCE. Planning and Building under National Socialism Exhibition: 19 Apr – 16 Jul 2023, Opening: 18 Apr 2023 more