Lettering ‘draw love build’ in front of the image of a colourful glass house facade
sauerbruch hutton: Jessop West, Sheffield © Jan Bitter

On the occasion of the transfer of their advance legacy to the Academy’s Architectural Archives, Louisa Hutton and Matthias Sauerbruch have reconceived their retrospective exhibition “draw love build” and extended it significantly: access to the archives generates surprising dialogues between iconic architectural visions from the first half of the 20th century and the projects by the Berlin-based architectural team.

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Several large-scale photographs hang on the white walls of an exhibition space with a glass roof
Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024, Exhibition view Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024, photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

14 Sep – 24 Nov

Exhibition

The Cologne-based photographer Candida Höfer will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. With this prize, the Akademie der Künste honours one of the most internationally recognized German photographers, whose oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, is considered part of the contemporary photographic avant-garde. To mark the awarding of the prize, the Akademie der Künste is showing an exhibition of works by Candida Höfer.

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Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

display depot architecture models
5 Nov — 12 Dec

Guided Tours

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models. The highlights of the collection can be seen in a permanent exhibition, while temporary exhibitions explore current topics relating to architecture and urban planning. Access to the display depot architecture models is only possible on a guided tour. In German. Exhibition opening on 1 Nov at 7 pm.

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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 chance to view the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers, largely kept in their original condition. The tours provide an insight into how these three major international figures in the arts world of the 20th century lived and worked.

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Paintings on cellar walls
Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß

Picture Cellar
Wednesdays, 5 pm

Guided Tour

In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein can be visited as a unique testimony to unofficial art in the GDR and as part of the eventful history of the institution and the building. Guided tours in German.

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View of the Brandenburg Gate through large glass windows from the upper floor
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 433 members in its six Sections Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts. It is an exhibition and event location. Its Archives collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art. Founded in 1696, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Stefanie Thomas
Wednesday, 30 Oct
Guided 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. 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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Brecht-Haus (Brecht House), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 1 Nov
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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Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Friday, 1 Nov
Exhibition Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

display depot architecture models

Exclusive insights into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models are now possible at the Schaudepot. A selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 architectural artists will be on display. To mark the opening, a panel discussion will explore the value of architectural models for practice and research followed by short, guided tours of the Schaudepot. With Amrei Buchholz, Werner Heegewaldt, Hilde Léon, Matthias Noell and Laura Puin. Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo. In German.

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Natalie Paneng © Natalie Paneng
Saturday, 2 Nov
Panel

5 pm

Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

Into the Void Quantum World-building & Iridescent Dreams

AI is already omnipresent in the arts; now quantum technology is providing the next technological leap with new spatiotemporal dimensions. What shifts and fundamental changes can be observed in the arts with this new paradigm? On the panel, artists from various disciplines will discuss current research and projects. With Natalie Paneng, Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado and Mareike Bernien. Moderation: Clara Herrmann. In English.

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Sofia Jernberg and Judith Hamann: MADEIRADiG Festival 2023 © Victoria Alexandrova
Saturday, 2 Nov
Concert

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Kiezsalon

At the last Kiezsalon of the year, unconventional Swedish-Ethiopian vocal artist Sofia Jernberg and Australian cellist Judith Hamann will collaborate in Berlin for the first time. The contemporary folk-pop synthesis of musician and composer Sheherazaad creates South Asian diaspora soundscapes. The programme will be complemented by a set by Berlin-based sound researcher and composer Ben Glas.

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