Press

Welcome to the Akademie der Künste Press Room. Here, you can find press releases and statements on cultural policy issues, as well as information on the Akademie and the Akademie’s Archive. The Press Room also provides press releases on and photos of current exhibitions, events, and publications, as well as details of our press services including, e.g. how to reserve press tickets, subscribe to our press mailing list, or submit photography or filming enquires.

Press Releases

19 April 2018

Martin Rupprecht. Stage Design – Costumes – Painting
Book launch and archive presentation
Sunday, 22 April, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz   more

16 April 2018

Our Stories – Rewrite the Future
Reading and discussion about the Storytelling Partnerships with young refugees and German-language authors   more

12 April 2018

Carl Einstein archive at the Akademie der Künste digitalised   more

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News

Elfi Mikesch, Rosa von Praunheim, Werner Schroeter. Collage by Markus Tiarks made of photos by Elfi Mikesch and Rosa von Praunheim, © Markus Tiarks
Exhibition

By-Products of Love. An Exhibition of Works by Elfi Mikesch, Rosa von Praunheim and Werner Schroeter

18 May – 12 August 2018

Press material

Zorka Ságlová: "Throwing Balls (Házení míčů) in Bořín Pond, Happening in Průhonice", April 1969, © Jan Ságl / Collection of Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź
Exhibition Project

Underground and Improvisation. Alternative Music and Art after 1968

15 March – 6 May 2018

Press material

Marcel Odenbach: "Im Schiffbruch nicht schwimmen können", 2011 (Film Still). © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018. Courtesy of Galerie Gisela Capitain, Stampa Galerie and Videoart at Midnight Edition
Symposium

Colonial Repercussions

26 January – 24 June 2018

Press material

Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin playing chess, 1934, Skovsbostrand/Denmark, Photo: unknown © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv
Exhibition

Benjamin and Brecht. Thinking in Extremes

26 October – 28 January 2018

Press material

Otto Bartning, "Stahlkirche" on the grounds of the International Press Exhibition (Pressa), Cologne, 1928.Photo: Hugo Schmölz, © Otto-Bartning-Archiv TU Darmstadt
Exhibition

Otto Bartning (1883 – 1959). Architect of Social Modernism

31 March – 18 June 2017

Press material

Private film: Bertolt Brecht, around 1928 © Bertolt-Brecht-Erben
Archive

Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv
Preservation and Digitalisation of Brecht’s Film Heritage

21 April 2016

Press material