People in a room with artworks
Visitors to the exhibition “The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within” © Silke Briel

The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within
1 Mar – 1 Apr

Exhibition & Events

In an exhibition and events, international JUNGE AKADEMIE scholarship holders will present their new works. The title “The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within” (John Hejduk), emphasises the field of tension between body and space, politics and poetry, but also mysticism and nature, introspection and the outer gaze, in which the participating artists move.

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A man’s eyes in a rear-view mirror
Gundula Schulze Eldowy Robert Frank’s eyes in the rear view mirror, New York, 1990 from the series Keep a Stiff Upper Lip! © Gundula Schulze Eldowy

The exhibition reconstructs Schulze Eldowy's career as she moved from East Berlin to New York, from straight photography to a poetic visual vocabulary. In addition to films and documents, around 230 photographs by Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Robert Frank, with whom she had a close friendship among artists, will be presented. In her film installation, director Helke Misselwitz portrays the photographer.

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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.

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] 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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Reading Room Pariser Platz
Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß

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.

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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 409 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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Statement by the Visual Arts Section on the proposal for the Berlin Senate's new anti-discrimination clausemore

Statement by the Senate of the Akademie der Künstemore

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 3 Apr
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery). It tells of the writers Christa Wolf and Annemarie Bostroem, the artists Beatrice Zweig and Doris Kahane, the opera director Ruth Berghaus and many others. Thematic guided tour in German.

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Brecht-Haus (Brecht House), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 5 Apr
Guided Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Discovering Brecht between Chausseestraße and the Berliner Ensemble

A two-hour walk leads from the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House) to the Berliner Ensemble in the footsteps of Bertolt Brecht. This is where the writer and director moved in the years after his return from exile, where he achieved his artistic breakthrough in the 1920s. Meeting point ist the courtyard of the Brecht-Haus. In German.

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Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Andeas Süß, 2019
Sunday, 7 Apr
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

The writer Anna Seghers lived in Berlin Adlershof for almost three decades. Her working and living quarters have been preserved largely unchanged and house her extensive library. On Museum Sunday the Anna Seghers Museum offers hourly guided tours in German. The tours focus on her writing during the Weimar Republic, her time in exile in France and Mexico and her return to Berlin.

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Aris Fioretos, photo: © Heike Bogenberger (Munich)
Tuesday, 9 Apr
Book Premiere

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

Aris Fioretos Die dünnen Götter

When rock musician Ache Middler receives a call from a dying ex-girlfriend, he looks back on his life: his childhood in Delaware and his drinking mother, his rise to fame in 1970s New York, his never-ending money worries – and the three women who shaped him. A life between swashbuckling masculinity and vulnerability. A novel that pulsates with the frenzy of the underground, both electrifying and melancholic. In German.

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