Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 27 Dec 2023
Guided Tours

Picture Cellar

Murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Horst Zickelbein

Guided tours on Wednesdays at 5 pm for a maximum of 14 visitors per tour

In German

€ 6/4

Flossenbürg concentration camp, forced labour in the quarry, around 1942. Photo: Beeldbank WO2, Amsterdam, 67144 – NIOD. Graphic design © Rimini Berlin
19 Apr – 16 Jul
Exhibition

POWER SPACE VIOLENCE. Planning and Building under National Socialism

Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Free admission

Guided Tours
Thur 5 pm, Sun 2 pm
4 June & 16 July, 4 pm
€ 3

11 June, 2 July, 2 pm (with translation into German sign language for deaf visitors)
Free admission for guests with a severely disabled pass

Curator’s Tours
11 June, 16 July, 4 pm
€ 3

Guided Tours for blind and visually impaired visitors
6 June, 4 July, 5 pm
Free admission

Tickets for accompanying programme

Marcel Odenbach, Unsere Stadt, 2011, collage, 36 x 48 cm © Marcel Odenbach, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023
7 May – 9 Jul
Exhibition

Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum
Schloss Rheinsberg
16831 Rheinsberg

Marcel Odenbach “Selbstverteidigung” für Alfred Apfel

Tue – Sun
10 am – 12:30 pm and
1 – 5:30 pm 

€ 4/3

Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal 
Thursday, 1 Jun
Exhibition Opening

7 pm

Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings

Performances by Sarah Ciston, Sahej Rahal, M Takara, Pedro Oliveira, Petja Ivanova, Iyo Bisseck, Rain Rose, Kaya Zakrzewska, Gugulethu Duma

Free admission

Brecht Haus. Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 2 Jun
Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal 
2 Jun – 9 Jul
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 1 + 2

Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings

Opening Thur 1 Jun, 7 pm 

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat & Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Guided Tours with Artist Talks: Tue & Thur 5 pm 

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 6 Jun
Tour

2 pm

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

Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 7 Jun
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 6/4

Hani Mojtahedy and Gascia Ouzounian, Sometimes you just have to give it your attention. © Photo: Jan St. Werner
Wednesday, 7 Jun
Music and Sound Performance

7 pm

History is Listening. Re-Sonifying Nuremberg

Music and Sound Performance, Talk

With Michael Akstaller, Louis Chude-Sokei, Yara Mekawei, Hani Mojtahedy, Gascia Ouzounian and Jan St. Werner

In English

€ 6/4

Buy ticket

Yugen Blakrok at the 20th poesiefestival berlin 2019 © Mirko Lux
9 – 16 Jun
Festival

24th poesiefestival berlin: no one is an island

With Arooj Aftab, Takako Arai, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Kim Hyesoon, Meena Kandasamy, Eileen Myles, Alice Notley et al. 

In cooperation with poesiefestival berlin / Haus für Poesie

In English and German

Karen Suender © Frieder Unselt
Saturday, 10 Jun
Award Ceremony

7:30 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Anna Seghers Prize 2023 Makenzy Orcel and Bonn Park

Introduction: Nathalie Mälzer, Moritz Malsch

Laudatio: Gernot Kamecke, Christine Wahl

Readings: Makenzy Orcel, Bonn Park

In German

Free admission

Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 14 Jun
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 6/4

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 15 Jun
Tour

2 pm

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

NSU 2.0 / A play development by Nuran David Calis, commissioned by Schauspiel Frankfurt / Mark Tumba, Ensemble. Photo: Jessica Schäfer
Friday, 16 Jun
Lecture and Discussion

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Art vs. the Right-wing

With Nora Sternfeld, Nuran David Calis, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Leon Kahane
Moderation: Aida Baghernejad

In German

€ 6/4

Buy ticket

Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, Frederiksberg / Dänemark, 1936. © Photo: Mordecai Gorelik
Saturday, 17 Jun
Guided Tours, Readings & Open Archive

3 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Summer Party at Brecht-Haus

With Regina Goldmann, Annett Gröschner, Daniel Kahn, Alexander Kluge, Michael Opitz, Steffen Popp, Oliver Reese, Katharina Schultens, Kristin Schulz, Carola Wiemers, Noah Willumsen and students from the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Art

In German 

Free admission

An_Akademie, Berlin, 2020; photo: Adam Kraft
Saturday, 17 Jun
Performances and Discussions

5 pm

Free Berlin

Publication launch and interventions with Brandon LaBelle, Gabu Heindl, Anaïs Florin, Adam Kraft et al.

In English

Free admission

Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 21 Jun
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 6/4

Museums Tempelhof-Schöneberg © Gesche Würfel
Wednesday, 21 Jun
Readings and Discussion

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

SCHWER BELASTUNGS KÖRPER

With Ingo Schulze, Yoko Tawada and Cécile Wajsbrot
Welcome: Kerstin Hensel

In German

€ 6/4

Buy ticket

Angst, wie wir sie kennen, Graphic © Ira Ivanova
Thursday, 22 Jun
Readings, lectures and sound performances

6 pm – 10 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio + Studio Lobby

Performing Exiles: Fear As We Know It

Curated by Senthuran Varatharajah and Fabian Saul

With Alahmadi, Marica Bodrožić, Sophia Eisenhut, Athena Farrokhzad, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Karosh Taha and others

In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele

In English and German

€ 10/5

Video Still: Takbir, 2022 © Courtesy the artist / Experimenter Kolk
23 – 24 Jun
Lecture Performances, Talks und Listening Sessions

Hanseatenweg

Studio + Studio Lobby

Performing Exiles: All that is Musical in Us is Memory Of Exile, Kinship and (Un)Belonging

– 11 pm

Curated by Natasha Ginwala and Magnus Elias Rosengarten

With Taqi Akhlaqi, James Gregory Atkinson, Kholoud Charaf, Tobias Diener and Ina Herkenhoff, Lamin Fofana, Habibi Funk, Karina Griffith, Aziz Hazara, Viviana Medina Medina, Stella Nyanzi, Oksana Stomina and others

In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele

Various languages with English translation

€ 10/5

Mein Lehrer Alfred Döblin. © Günter and Ute Grass Stiftung/Steidl Verlag, 2009
Friday, 23 Jun
Reading

5:30 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall + Clubroom

Film-Collage: Der Pleitejazz (2009), directed by Leo van Maaren (NL). © Herrebout/van Maaren
Sunday, 25 Jun
Concert, Lecture, Film & Music

3 pm

John-Heartfield-Haus
Schwarzer Weg 12
15377 Waldsieversdorf

Join Dada! 20 Years of Heartfield in Waldsieversdorf

Welcome: Astrid Landsmann & Michael Krejsa

Lectures: Bob Sondermeijer & Klaus Staeck

Music: Ensemble Quillo

Director: Ursula Weiler & Helmut Oehring

Film collage: Der Pleite Jazz (2009) Herrebout / van Maaren (NL) 

In German 

Free admission

[Anna Seghers in Brazil, 1963], photo: not specified, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Anna-Seghers-Archive, no. 3448_01
Tuesday, 27 Jun
Tour

2 pm

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

Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 28 Jun
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 6/4

Mykola Ridnyi, Sketch of Raging Bull, Berlin 2023
Wednesday, 12 Jul
Discussions

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Entanglements of Power

With Hanna Aliieva, Oleksandr Burlaka, Sasha Kurmaz, Mykola Ridnyi

Moderation: Bettina Klein

In English

€ 6/4


Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Publication

Journal der Künste 19


Available online and as print copy free of charge. In German and English. Orders via email to info@adk.de.

A Journey of Objects. Film still © Mara Louise Atkins

DIGITAL

Presentation

A Journey of Objects Valeska Gert Guest Professorship Anne Collod

Closing film of the dance studies students of FU Berlin

Cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and DAAD

In English

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

Prospective archeology vs. global synchronization

Discussion with Siegfried Zielinski, Margit Rosen, Franziska Latell and Aneta Panek

In German

Live stream from 10 Aug 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

Film is memory work

Artist talk with Edgar Reitz and Bettina Böhler

In German

Live stream from 3 Aug 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

Schule und Haus

Artist talk with Mirosław Bałka and Julian Heynen

In English

Live stream from 27 July 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Lecture

Max Czollek: Militant Art and the Archive of the Present

Lecture with Max Czollek and talk with Werner Heegewaldt

In German

Live stream from 20 July 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

What Stays – Archiving Care

Talk with Maya Indira Ganesh, Clara Herrmann, Nora O Murchú and Sinthujan Varatharajah as well as presentations by the artists Aditya Surya Taruna, Romi Ron Morrison, Francois Knoetze and Amy Louise Wilson

In English

Live stream from 13 July 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Readings and Discussion

Rewriting Memories

Readings and discussion with Ulrike Draesner, Ingo Schulze, Meena Kandasamy and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Moderation: Daniela Dröscher

In German and English

Live stream from 22 June 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussions

Archive Carousel …inspired by John Cage’s Rolywholyover Pictures of an Exhibition – The Installation “Entfernte Verwandte”

Artist talk with Arnold Dreyblatt

Film screening and artist talk with Thomas Heise

In German

Live stream from 15 June 2021

Syowia Kyambi, Kaspale/The Lecture Room Intervention, Video Still. Photo: Carl Kühl, MARKK Museum, 2019

DIGITAL

Symposium

UNEXPECTED LESSONS – Decolonizing Memory and Knowledge

Talks, Lectures, Films, Artistic Interventions

In English

Video recordings from 11 and 12 June 2021 on www.talkingobjectslab.org

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Lecture and Discussion

Images of Remembering and Forgetting

Lectures and discussion with Aleida Assmann, Cristina Baldacci and Sharon Macdonald

In English

Live stream from 8 June 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

From Memory to Political Imagination

Artist talk with Alice Creischer and Eduardo Molinari

In English

Live stream from 5 June

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

Memory Works On Us

Artist talk with Alexander Kluge, Erdmut Wizisla and Johannes Odenthal

In German

Live stream from 5 June 2021

Graphic design © Ta-Trung, Berlin

DIGITAL

Discussion

Going Through the Heart. An Introduction

Artist talk with Jeanine Meerapfel and Cécile Wajsbrot

Introduction: Johannes Odenthal and Werner Heegewaldt

In German

Live stream from 2 June 2021

Paul and Eslanda Robeson with their son Paul Jr. in front of their house in Enfield, Connecticut, beginning 1940th. Photo: Frank Bauman, FrankBauman.com © Akademie der Künste, Paul-Robeson-Archiv

DIGITAL

Discussion

Resonating Struggles: Paul and Eslanda Robeson in East Berlin

Discussion with Matana Roberts, George Lewis, Doreen Mende and Kira Thurman

In English

Live stream from 1 June 2021

Ingo Schulze, photo © gezett.de

DIGITAL

Book Release

Ingo Schulze: Tasso im Irrenhaus

Reading: Ingo Schulze

Introduction and discussion: Lothar Müller

In German

Live stream from 26 May 2021

Bernhard Sallmann. Photo: Judica Albrecht

DIGITAL

Film Discussion

Bernhard Sallmann: Über Deutschland

Film talk with Sebastian Markt and Bernhard Sallmann

In German

Anne Collod. Photo: Pauline Magdeleinat

DIGITAL

Opening Event

Disruptive Constellations – Practices of Reinterpretation Valeska Gert Guest Professorship Anne Collod

Opening panel with Anne Collod, Gabriele Brandstetter, Virve Sutinen and Nele Hertling

In English

Filmstill, Open Studios Video, JUNGE AKADEMIE, 2021

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

Open Studios Drawing for Foxes, Industrial Landscapes & the Unseen

Presentation by JUNGE AKADEMIE fellows Philipp Valente, Nida Mehboob and Jennifer O'Donnell with Jonathan Janssens

In English

Jeanine Meerapfel, Photo: Marcus Lieberenz; Christina von Braun, Poto: Milena Schloesser; Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Photo: Daniel Grad (f.l.t.r.)

DIGITAL

Discussion

Academy Dialogue: Gender / Film / Political Narratives

Discussion with Christina von Braun, Liliana Ruth Feierstein and Jeanine Meerapfel

In German

 

ECOEIN, photo: Gilmar Gonzales

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Naturvölker

First broadcast of the film production Naturvölker by Carlos Gutierrez, with ECOEIN, Ute Wassermann, Sabine Vogel

Live-Performance in the outdoor area of the Akademie der Künste by Tony Buck and Naturvölker by Carlos Gutierrez with Sharon Mercado, Jorge Villaseca, Sabine Vogel, Ute Wassermann

Live stream from 9 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Graphic design: Eps51

DIGITAL

Discussion

European Alliance of Academies
 Artistic Freedom in Europe – Mission (in)complete!?

Discussion with Liesbeth Bik, Ferenc Czinki, Marion Döring, Gyözö Ferencz, Wolfgang Kaleck, Dominika Kasprowicz, Christoph Markschies, Jeanine Meerapfel, Norbert Palz, Aleš Šteger, Marina Warner et al.

Music: Floros Floridis (Clarinets), Elena Kakaliagou (French Horn), AoA Impro Group

In English

Três Sóis, Plástica Sonora von Walter Smetak (1969, Replica 2017), Foto: Albrecht Hotz

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Brazil – Europe

First broadcast of the film productions Anestesia by Walter Smetak / Marco Scarassatti and Luiz Pretti and Dialoge by Thomas Kessler, with Ensemble Modern and Silvia Ocougne

Live performances in the outdoor area of the Akademie der Künste by Ute Wassermann & Sabine Vogel, Silvia Ocougne and Guilherme Vaz

Live stream from 8 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Maja S.K. Ratkje & Katarina Barruk © Sofie Verstad

DIGITAL

Concert

Memories in Music Avant Joik

Premiere of the film production Avant Joik by and with Maja S. K. Ratkje, Katarina Barruk, Matti Aikio

Live performances at Akademie der Künste by Annette Schmucki / Ernst Surberg und Tony Buck / Tony Elieh

Live stream from 7 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Cobourg Nets, Research Trip. Photo: Kirsten Reese

DIGITAL

Opening Concert

Memories in Music Leichhardt in Australien

Festival opening and live streaming of the concert Leichhardt in Australien with works by Kirsten Reese and Erkki Veltheim and the Ensemble Adapter on the Internet

Live stream from 6 May 2021 on YouTube and Facebook

Paul Hamann: Portrait Relief of an Unknown Man, London, 1930 © Akademie der Künste, Art Collection

DIGITAL

Presentation

Provenance Research Day. Where Do the Works of Art Come From?

On the occasion of International Provenance Research Day, the Art Collection offers digital insights into its collection holdings. The focus is on selected paintings and sculptures whose eventful ownership histories were reconstructed. In German.

Left: Kathrin Passig. Photo © Norman Posselt. Right: Eva Horn. Photo: Helmut Grünbichler © Eva Horn

DIGITAL

Award Ceremony

Heinrich Mann Prizes 2020 and 2021. Awarded to Eva Horn and Kathrin Passig

Video on demand

Laudations: Anselm Haverkamp, Hanna Engelmeier

Conversation with the laureats

In German

Photo © H Arquitectes

DIGITAL

Lecture

HARQUITECTES. Winner of the Berlin Art Prize 2021 for Architecture

Video on demand

Introduction and discussion: Enrique Sobejano

In English

Heinrich Mann in Heringsdorf, 1928. Drawing by Erich Büttner. Source: Akademie der Künste, Art Collection

DIGITAL

Reading

Thinker, Poet, Democrat. Heinrich Mann on his 150th birthday

Reading, Music

With Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Jeanine Meerapfel, Matthias Brandt, Jenny Schily, Matan Porat

In German

Recording of the livestream from 25 Mar 2021

Annett Gröschner. Photo: Susanne Schleyer

DIGITAL

Award Ceremony

Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948

Video on demand

Award ceremony for Annett Gröschner, Sajan Mani, HARQUITECTES, Petra Strahovnik, Lea Schneider, Gina Haller and Susann Maria Hempel, presented by Jeanine Meerapfel, Michael Müller

In German and English

Silhouette by Arnold de Florence: Portrait of Heinrich Mann, c. 1910 © Akademie der Künste, Heinrich Mann Collection

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL: Life, Work, Legacy – A Transnational Reconstruction

Heinrich Mann’s estate is scattered throughout archives worldwide. Starting from the most important places of activity in his life, the virtual exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Archives tells the story of the estate and presents the “Heinrich Mann DIGITAL” international cooperation project. In German.

Subharchord. Photo © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Left: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Photo © PIK/Karkow, 2020. Right: Matthias Sauerbruch. Photo © Inge Zimmermann

DIGITAL

Discussion

On the Duty and the Power of Architecture: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

Video on demand

Discussion with Matthias Sauerbruch

In German

Yvan Sagnet performing as Jesus during the movie shoot of "The New Gospel" by Milo Rau in Matera (Italy), 2019. © 2019 Fruitmarket/Langfilm/IIPM. Photo: Armin Smailovic

DIGITAL

Films and Discussions

School of Resistance

In search of strategies of resistance, Milo Rau, the IIPM and the NTGent founded a globally networked "School of Resistance". As a symbolic institution of the future, it has now come to the Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Discussions with activists and artists as well as film screenings. In German and English. Livestreams from 24 to 28 Feb 2021.

Tapes of Brecht’s last rehearsals. Photo © Anett Schubotz

DIGITAL

Audio Book Presentation

Brecht rehearses Galilei 1955/56

From the recordings of Brecht’s last rehearsal work, Stephan Suschke has created a documentation and, together with Joachim Werner, a feature. The practical Brecht is to be experienced: no theory, but rather the desire to intervene, humour and sensuality. Audio book presentation with Marion Brasch, Thomas Krüger, Luise Meier and Stephan Suschke. Introduction: Werner Heegewaldt. In German. Recording of the live stream on 23 Feb 2021.

Photo © Thomas Meyer/OSTKREUZ

DIGITAL

Curator's Tour

CONTINENT – In Search of Europe

In the current exhibition of the OSTKREUZ agency of photographers, the collective examines the present of the continent of Europe. Curator Ingo Taubhorn presents the different positions of the OSTKREUZ photographers on a guided tour through the currently closed exhibition. In German.

Photo: Gernot Krämer

DIGITAL

Reading and Discussion

Minsk. Contradictions of Utopia

According to Stephan Wackwitz in his essay in Sinn und Form, Belarus is still the least known country in Europe despite the current media interest. The West knows nothing of the reinvention of an entire national culture. Reading and discussion with Stephan Wackwitz, Maryna Rakhlei and Yaraslava Ananka. Moderation: Matthias Weichelt. In German.

Suitcase by Walter Benjamin – Application for a trip to Portbou. Photo © KUNSTWELTEN

DIGITAL

Exhibition Tour

ON MY WAY – Stories from Europe

The exhibition about travelling invites young people to engage in cross-border exchange within Europe. The exhibition has had to remain closed to date but can be accessed as a video tour. Pictures, film and radio play excerpts, music pieces, models and objects by school pupils from European and German cities can be experienced. In German.

Photo: Akademie der Künste

DIGITAL

Academy Discussions

16th Academy Discussion: About Cinema Landscapes and Streaming Worlds

How can cinemas and streaming offers inspire each other? How can the cinema be saved for the future? Akademie president Jeanine Meerapfel will discuss these issues with Jon Barrenechea, Christine Berg, Meret Ruggle, Christoph Terhechte and Anna Winger. The discussion will be moderated by film critic Andreas Kilb. In English. Recording of the live stream on 9 Feb 2021.

Falk Richter. Photo © Esra Rotthoff

DIGITAL

Text Performances

ICH BIN EUROPA

In his texts, Falk Richter deals with the questions of divided societies: How has Europe inscribed itself in our biographies? How do we live the concepts of home, family, religion and community? Text performance with Falk Richter and Ensemble. In German.

Toshiki Okada. Photo © Kikuko Usuyama

DIGITAL

Filmic Presentation

Portrait of a House. Valeska-Gert-Gastprofessur Toshiki Okada

In an open revision of Toshiki Okada's piece The Vacuum Cleaner, the Dance Studies students of the Freie Universität Berlin present the fruits of their research on the choreographic power of imagination.

Left side: Kjetil Trædal Thorsen. Photo © Pål Laukli. Right side: Matthias Sauerbruch. Photo © Inge Zimmermann

DIGITAL

Lecture and Discussion

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen (Snøhetta)

The lecture and discussion series “On the Duty and the Power of Architecture” will continue digitally this year with Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, who is a member of the Architecture Section. Lecture followed by a discussion with Matthias Sauerbruch. In English.

Sahej Rahal, Bashinda, 2020, AI Simulation. Courtesy: The Artist and Chatterjee & Lal

DIGITAL

Online Panel

The Machinery of Myth

In his “Citizen Strange” project, Indian artist Sahej Rahal, a fellow of the “Human Machine” programme by the JUNGE AKADEMIE, interweaves artificial intelligence with shamanic creatures and questions the mythological narrative of Hindu nationalism. Short inputs and discussion with Morehshin Allahyari, Nishant Shah and Sahej Rahal. In English.

© Thomas Meyer/OSTKREUZ

DIGITAL

Discussions

CONTINENT – Perspectives

Journalist Anja Maier talks to OSTKREUZ photographers about their work in the “CONTINENT - In Search of Europe” exhibition and their thematic approaches, motivations and references to the social and political present. In German.

Still, JUNGE AKADEMIE, Studio Visits Winter 2020, film: Elisabeth Börnicke & Julia Milz

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

Open Studios Grammar, Apology, and the West

For the digital Open Studios by the JUNGE AKADEMIE, artists Ada Mukhina, Nazanin Noori, Mia Sanchez, and Cássio Diniz Santiago present works-in-progress in artist talks and performances as well as silent insights into the studios. They present various research and stories they worked on this autumn/winter 2020. In English.

Recording of the non-public concert on 13 May 2020 as part of "Labor Beethoven 2020" at the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz, Black Box, with Ensemble Adapter, Uli Fussenegger, Anda Kryeziu, Chris Moy. Photo: Mutesouvenir-kb © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Festival & Virtual Exhibition

Labor Beethoven 2020

With Ensemble Adapter, Novoflot, Werner Cee, Uli Fussenegger, Alice Belugou, Zoé Pouri, et al.

Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

DIGITAL

Exhibition Tour

urbainable – stadthaltig. Positions on the European City for the 21st Century

The exhibition at Hanseatenweg has already been dismantled, but our halls can still be accessed digitally. A cinematic tour of the exhibition has been produced for all those interested who were unable to see "urbainable – stadthaltig" or would like to experience it again with comments by the curators. In German.

Former runway at Tempelhof Field, Berlin, 2017. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

DIGITAL

Online Discussion

urbainable – stadthaltig Sustainability in Construction – Greenwashing or Progress?

Matthias Sauerbruch in conversation with Thomas Auer, Annette Gigon, Christian Kühn, Christine Lemaitre, Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber and Werner Sobek. In German. Online discussion on YouTube.

Photo: Gernot Krämer

DIGITAL

Publication

SINN UND FORM

SINN UND FORM is offering free online access to texts from the journal's extensive archive. New articles, linked by a specific topic, will be added every week.

Passport issued to Walter Benjamin, Berlin-Grunewald, 10 August 1928. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, photo: Nick Ash

DIGITAL

Archival Materials

Finds from the Archives

Selected text documents, special objects and works of art from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste representing all artistic disciplines.

Georg Katzer, workshop of electroacoustic music, Kontakte I, 1980, Konrad-Wolf-Saal, East German Academy of Arts © Akademie der Künste, Photo: Christian Kraushaar

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

Video presentation in honour of Georg Katzer, founder of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music

The Akademie der Künste remembers composer Georg Katzer (1935–2019) with a series of videos released on its YouTube channel. Katzer was one of the pioneers of electroacoustic music in the GDR and founded the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Academy of the Arts in 1980.

Photo: Ellen Auerbach, Airwalk, 1946 (Renate Schottelius during the dance jump over rocks, La Cumbrecita). Modern Print, Argentina © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

digital.adk.de – images, sounds, art objects

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, which encompasses all art forms, collects and makes accessible the archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world.

DIGITAL

Digital Platform

junge-akademie.adk.de – The JUNGE AKADEMIE is online

The transdisciplinary and transcultural online magazine is a space to exhibit and experiment and a digital open studio, offering fellows the opportunity to network with each other and with Akademie members, to develop digital projects and to make the exchange of knowledge visible within the international network.

Ökozid. Film still © 2020 zero one film / Julia Terjung

DIGITAL

Discussion

Discussion Panel on Ökozid, a Courtroom Drama by Andres Veiel

Discussion with Alexandra Kemmerer, Rainer Baake, Jutta Doberstein, Andres Veiel and Stefan Wolf. Moderation: Ulrike Herrmann. In German.

Graphics © Heimann + Schwantes

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Online Anniversary

60 Years Käthe Kollwitz Prize

Presentation of a wide-ranging collection of archival material, including previously unpublished texts and images as well as audio recordings relating to all the prize winners from 1960 to 2020.

Espen Eichhöfer, Bil, from the series Papa, Gerd and the Northman, 2017–2020. Photo © Espen Eichhöfer/OSTKREUZ

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Podcasts

CONTINENT – In Search of Europe

Podcast series on the eponymous exhibition of OSTKREUZ – Agentur der Fotografen and Akademie der Künste (2 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021).

Fabian Knecht, Isolation (52°33’44.1”N 14°03’12.8”E). 2019, installation in public space. Courtesy alexander levy

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Roundtable Talks

urbainable – stadthaltig EC(centri)CITY – The Eccentric City

Nadim Samman and Matthias Sauerbruch developed a series of roundtable discussions within the framework of EC(centri)CITY – The Eccentric City, in which the city, social aspects, nature and public space as a compressor for artists and architects are discussed with international partners. In English and German. In cooperation with Berlin Art Week, Innogy Stiftung and MONOPOL.

Der Zauberer John Heartfield [The Magician John Heartfield], 1943. Photo © Zoltan Wegner. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, John Heartfield Archive, No. 610

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Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

The online presentation "Kosmos Heartfield" complements the exhibition "John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite".

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

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Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

The graphic oeuvre of the political artist John Heartfield can be explored in a new online catalogue.

Photo © Roman März

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Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

The interactive 360° panoramic tour leads through the exhibition “John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite” at Pariser Platz.

John Heartfield, Zum Krisen-Parteitag der SPD (On the SPD Party Crisis), page from the AIZ, 1931 © The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

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Online Symposium

Goodbye Photomontage?

To accompany the exhibition “John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite”, an online symposium addresses topical issues and questions derived from a re-examination of select aspects of John Heartfield’s works and their impact. Conceived by Angela Lammert in collaboration with Ute Eskildsen, Florian Ebner and Charlotte Klonk.