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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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 – 17 Dec

Guided Tour

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 with a selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 artists. Temporary exhibitions explore current topics relating to architecture and urban planning. Guided tours in German.

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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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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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No Other Land © Yabayay Media / Antipode Films
Tuesday, 12 Nov
Film and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

No Other Land

Palestinian lawyer and activist Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham documented the repeated destruction of Masafer Yatta, a village in the West Bank, over a period of five years. They tell the story of the people‘s everyday lives, their seemingly hopeless fight for justice and their friendship. No Other Land won the Best Documentary Award and the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlinale 2024. The film will be followed by a talk with the filmmakers (online) and Hanno Hauenstein. In English.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 13 Nov
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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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 14 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

The theme of Anna Seghers’ work is the self-liberation of her literary characters. To what extent does this liberation have biographical features? An approach to the transformation from sheltered daughter to headstrong writer. Guided tour in the writer’s home and study as it was, when she lived there from 1955 until her death in 1983. In German.

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Anna Seghers (left), Gisl and Egon Erwin Kisch in Versailles, August 1935, photo: © Anne Radvanyi
Thursday, 14 Nov
Reading

7 pm

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

News from exile

The biographies of artists who were forced to flee during National Socialism are characterised by persecution and farewell, by a lack of place, and speechlessness. What experiences do they have on the run and in the countries of exile? Is it possible to create art in a foreign country? Christoph Gawenda and Anja Schneider read from letters, works and diary entries by artists in exile whose archives are held at the Akademie der Künste. In German.

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© Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg Stiftung
Friday, 15 Nov
Award Ceremony

6:30 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

bf-prize 2024

Set up 20 years ago, the bf-prize for designcritical writing has been published for the 9th time. A jury of renowned members of the design community has selected one of the entries for the bf-preis 2024 – Between the Lines and its author Charlotte Singer-Fischer will be presented in the course of the award ceremony. With Benita Braun-Feldweg, Matthias Wagner K, Thomas Girst, Reto Wettach. Moderation: Julia Leihener. In German.

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