STOP THE WAR

Top: Luc Tuymans, Candle, 2017, Oil on canvas, 134,6 x 108,5 cm, Courtesy: Private collection; right: Edith Clever in: Die Nacht, 1985, a film by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. 35 mm-Film, Colour and Black & White, 367 min. Courtesy: Syberberg Clever Monologe, film@syberberg.de
Left: Luc Tuymans, Candle, 2017, Oil on canvas, 134,6 x 108,5 cm, Courtesy: Private collection; right: Edith Clever in: Die Nacht, 1985, a film by Hans Jürgen Syberberg. 35 mm-Film, Colour and Black & White, 367 min. Courtesy: Syberberg Clever Monologe, film@syberberg.de

Luc Tuymans  Edith Clever
15 Sep — 26 Nov 2023

Exhibition

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.

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Neda Jebreili in Tentative Title: Brasch, photo: Parto Joghata
Neda Jebreili in Tentative Title: Brasch, photo: Parto Joghata

From motifs of Marion Brasch’s autobiographical story, the staging by Narges Hashempour extracts the drama of a society that has contaminated its own future promise deep into the private sphere. Dramatist Keyvan Sarreshteh and director Hashempour tell the emblematic East German family story as a universally human one. In Farsi, with German and English surtitles.

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Demonstration and counterprotest on Pariser Platz, photo: Florian Boillot
Demonstration and counterprotest on Pariser Platz, photo: Florian Boillot

The election and poll results of the AfD are frightening. For years, the number of right-wing attacks and acts of violence in Germany has been on the rise. Right-wing populism is growing. How can we make our democracy more defensible and protect our open society? With Jeanine Meerapfel, Seda Başay-Yıldız, Michaela Hailbronner, Wilhelm Heitmeyer and Peter Laudenbach. Moderated by Djamila Benkhelouf.

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Djenné Mosque, 2010, photo: © Bas Princen
Djenné Mosque, 2010, photo: © Bas Princen

The Great Repair
14 Oct 2023 — 14 Jan 2024

Exhibition

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. Opening on 13 Oct at 7 pm.

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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 © Jeanette Gonsior
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Jeanette Gonsior

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 414 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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Villa Decius, photo: Paweł Mazur
Friday, 22 Sep
Roundtable Talks

11 am

Villa Decius
Ul. 28 Lipca 1943 17A
30-233 Krakow

European Alliance of Academies: Cultural Rights in Times of Political Change

In the run-up to the Polish parliamentary elections, Alliance members want to advocate for the freedom of the arts in Poland. Talks with cultural workers whose artistic work is affected by political and financial pressures provide insights into their daily struggles. The findings will be discussed at a public round table with representatives of political parties, independent cultural institutions and artists. In English and Polish.

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Photo: Anderson, ca. 1890, Archivi Alinari, Firenze
Saturday, 23 Sep
Celebration

3:30 pm

Villa Serpentara
Via Joseph Anton Koch, 169
00035 Olevano Romano
Italy

150th Anniversary of the Serpentara

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the acquisition of the Serpentara oak grove – today’s location of the artist residence “Villa Serpentara” of the Akademie der Künste – the Akademie and the German Academy in Rome Villa Massimo invite to a ceremony in Olevano with artistic contributions. In German.

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Neda Jebreili in Tentative Title: Brasch, photo: Parto Joghata
23 – 24 Sep
Play

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Narges Hashempour Tentative Title: Brasch

From motifs of Marion Brasch’s autobiographical story, the staging by Narges Hashempour, which premiered in Tehran in June 2022, extracts the drama of a society that has contaminated its own future promise deep into the private sphere. From the wounded relationships, a young woman’s will for freedom is carefully, yet decisively, formed. Dramatist Keyvan Sarreshteh and director Hashempour tell the emblematic East German family story as a universally human one. In Farsi, with German and English surtitles.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 27 Sep
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery) 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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Photo: Andrei Cucu
Wednesday, 27 Sep
Concert

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studiofoyer

sample&hold #5: Ten Years of E-Studio on Hanseatenweg

A decade has already passed since the Akademie der Künste’s Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the moved into the building on Hanseatenweg. On the occasion of this anniversary, the studio presents works that were created at Hanseatenweg and whose composers are still closely associated with the studio today, and looks back on the last ten years in a round of talks.

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