Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 18 Dec 2024
Guided Tours

Picture Cellar

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

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

George Grosz, Montör, Figurine für laufendes Band, 1927, watercolour, gouache, reed pen, pen, 50 x 37 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, Inv.-Nr.: HZ 6214 © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
4 Jul – 25 Nov
Exhibition

Das Kleine Grosz Museum
Bülowstr. 18
10783 Berlin

What kind of times are these? – Brecht, Grosz and Piscator

Thur – Mon 11 am – 6 pm

€ 10/6

Cooperation: Das Kleine Grosz Museum

Anja Steckel in Zurich’s zoo, 1943 © Akademie der Künste, Leonard-Steckel-Archiv
6 Sep – 1 Nov
Exhibition

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

Children in exile

Wed – Fri 12 – 6 pm

Free admission

Cooperation: Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin, KUNSTWELTEN, Archiv der Akademie der Künste

Guided tours
Thur 5 pm

Event
Thur 17 Oct 7:30 pm
Berlin – Portbou. Auf den Spuren Walter Benjamins
Documentary by Sophie Narr, Germany 2022, 86 min
Followed by a talk with Jeanine Meerapfel, Sophie Narr, Erdmut Wizisla et al.
In German

Guided tours, offers for school classes and events:
adk.de/kunstwelten

Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024, Exhibition view Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024, photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
14 Sep – 24 Nov
Exhibition

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided tours

Curator's tours with Anke Hervol
Sun 10 Nov, 24 Nov at 2 pm

Tour for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
Tue 5 Nov 5 pm
Free admission

Tours for deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
Sun 10 Nov 2 pm
Free admission

Special tours for groups, guided tours and workshops for school classes
Information and registration: kunstwelten@adk.de

sauerbruch hutton: Jessop West, Sheffield © Jan Bitter
25 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Exhibition

draw love build / sauerbruch hutton
tracing modernities

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 11 am – 7 pm
closed on 24 & 31 Dec

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

Opening
Thur 24 Oct 7 pm
With Manos Tsangaris, Anh-Linh Ngo, Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton, Dirk van den Heuvel
Free admission

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm & Sun 12 noon
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for guided tours

Guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
3 Dec, 7 Jan at 5 pm
Free admission

Guided tours for deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
10 Dec, 14 Jan at 5 pm
Free admission

Exhibition tours with a thematic focus
Duration 90 min
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Guided tours and offers for school classes and groups: adk.de/kunstwelten

© Friederike Meese
27 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Workshop

KUNSTWELTEN draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities Biopolis – Residential City of the Future

Sunday workshops noon – 4 pm (no workshops on 22 and 29 Dec)

Led by Friederike Meese, Carina Kitzenmaier and Ingolf Watzlaw

Free admission

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

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

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

Literary walk from Brecht-Haus (Brecht House) to Berliner Ensemble

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

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

Plenary Hall

display depot architecture models

With Amrei Buchholz, Werner Heegewaldt, Hilde Léon, Matthias Noell, Laura Puin

Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

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

With Natalie Paneng, Paola Torres Nuñez Del Prado, Mareike Bernien 

Moderation: Clara Herrmann

Cooperation: JUNGE AKADEMIE, Goethe-Institut Irland/Studio Quantum, HKW

In English

Free admission

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

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Kiezsalon

Concert in 3 parts

With Ben Glas, Sofia Jernberg & Judith Hamann, Sheherazaad & Band

Curator: Michael Rosen

€ 10

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 3 Nov
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 5 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov – 12 Dec
Guided Tours

display depot architecture models

Tue 5 pm
5 Nov, 19 Nov, 3 Dec, 17 Dec

Thur 11 am
14 Nov, 28 Nov, 12 Dec

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 6 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Instrument detail: santur, photo © Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Saturday, 9 Nov
Reading and Concert

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Words and sound from east, west, north and south: Mamlok – Musayyebi (santur) – Schönberg – Mensching (texts)

With Emmanuelle Bernard, Clemens Hund-Göschel, Steffen Mensching, Kioomars Musayyebi, Constance Ricard

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

In German

€ 8/5

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

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

No Other Land

Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo, Johanna M. Keller

Talk with the filmmakers and Hanno Hauenstein

In English

Documentary by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor, Norway/Palestine 2024, 96 min
Original version in Arabic, Hebrew and English language with English subtitles

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

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

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

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

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

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

In German

Free admission

In cooperation with Stiftung Exilmuseum

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

6:30 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

bf-prize 2024

With Benita Braun-Feldweg, Matthias Wagner K, Thomas Girst, Reto Wettach

Moderation: Julia Leihener

In German

Free admission, registration is requested: mail@bf-preis.de

Anna Seghers on the roof terrace of her house in Mexico City, around 1945; photo: © Anne Radvanyi
18 – 19 Nov
Workshop and Reading

Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

&

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

Writing across borders. Anna Seghers

18 Nov, 2 pm &
19 Nov, 10 am: Workshop at Literaturforum im Brechthaus

With Wiebke von Bernstorff, Florian Kappeler, Gabriele Radecke, Stefanie Thomas et. al.

Free admission

19 Nov, 7 pm: Reading at Anna-Seghers-Museum

With students of HfS Ernst Busch

In German

€ 7,50/5

Elżbieta Sikora, photo © Bartosz Krupa
Tuesday, 19 Nov
Concert

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

sample&hold #8: Klangmassen

Works by composer Elżbieta Sikora

Live electronic performance by Maximilian Marcoll

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 20 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Ursula Krechel, photo © Gerald Zörner
Wednesday, 20 Nov
Archive Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Ursula Krechel: “But who was murdered, and who killed?”

With Ursula Krechel, Andreas Platthaus, Gabriele Radecke

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Rebecca Horn, Hahnenmaske, 1973 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Saturday, 23 Nov
Talk, Film Screening, Showcase Presentation

6 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

La Lune Rebelle – An evening for Rebecca Horn

Admission as of 5 pm

Start: 6 pm
Welcome: Karin Sander; Introduction: Peter Raue
Texts/talks/readings/statements and film recordings

Contributions by Timothy Baum, Jana Baumann, Giuliana Bruno, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Wulf Herzogenrath, Annika Karpowski, Andre T. Lepecki, Rebecca Raue, Sandra Beate Reimann, Nicholas Serota, Nancy Spector, Martin Wuttke et. al.

In German and English

8 pm
Film screening: Rebecca Horn “Buster’s Bedroom” (1990), 104 min., in English
With Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Martin Wuttke and Amanda Ooms

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 27 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

© Die Vielen
Thursday, 28 Nov
Workshops, Panels, Working Groups

10 am – 8 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

ADVICE OF THE MANY:
Action against right-wing extremism

Cooperation: DIE VIELEN and further institutions & initiatives

In German

Free admission

Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß
Friday, 29 Nov
Guided Tour

4 pm

Pariser Platz

Reading Room

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Top: Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga © Maximiliano Soto / below: Lauren Siess © Lauren Siess
Saturday, 30 Nov
Award Ceremony and Concert

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Busoni Composition Prize

With Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga (award winner), Lauren Siess (sponsor award winner)

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

Laudationes: Chaya Czernowin, Hanna Hartman, Cornelius Schwehr

Concert with works by the award winners and by Ferruccio Busoni & Aribert Reimann

With ensemble mosaik, Alexey Potapov, Magnus Lodgaard (conductor)

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 1 Dec
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 3 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 4 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Hana Yoo, Limbo Sketch © Hana Yoo
Thursday, 5 Dec
Open Studios

6 pm – 10 pm

Hanseatenweg

Ateliers

JUNGE AKADEMIE: Open Studios

With the fellows Hana Yoo, Franziska Aigner & Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Jug Đorđević

In English

Free admission

© Piffl Medien / Schramm Film – “Afire” by Christian Petzold
Thursday, 5 Dec
Film and Talk

7 pm

Cine Circus Köthen
Weintraubenstraße 15
06366 Köthen

Christian Petzold: Afire

Roter Himmel, Germany 2023, 103 min.
Director: Christian Petzold

With Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Matthias Brandt

Afterwards discussion with the director

In German

Free admission

Cooperation: Kino Köthen, Mitteldeutsche Filmfreunde & Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld

Lange//Berweck//Lorenz © Jasper Kettner
7 – 8 Dec
Concerts and Discussions

Hanseatenweg

Studio + Studio Lobby

Winter Music – Echoes of Tomorrow

Mit Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, Seth Josel, RAGE Thormbones, Martin Smith, Samuel Stoll, Fabrik Quartet, Aaron Cassidy (conductor)

Talks with Akademie members, moderated by curators

In German

7 Dec
5:45 pm: talk
7 pm: concert

8 Dec
4 pm: concert
5:45 pm: talk
7 pm: concert

Concerts € 15/9

Day ticket 8 Dec € 20/12 (combined ticket)

Aerial view of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
10 Dec 2024 – 2 Mar 2025
Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4 A hotspot of German history

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 11 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Adania Shibli: Eine Nebensache © Berenberg Verlag
Wednesday, 11 Dec
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Academy Dialogue: Adania Shibli and Eva Menasse

Reading in German

Talk in English

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 12 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 18 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4


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

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

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.

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.

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

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

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

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

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

Photo © Roman März

DIGITAL

Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

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