Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 / Photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 17 Dec 2025
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

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov 2024 – 29 Apr 2025
Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours

Tue 5 pm
1 Apr, 15 Apr, 29 Apr

Thur 11 am
27 Mar, 10 Apr, 24 Apr

Further dates are released regularly.

Special themed tours and group tours can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Top: Lea Grundig, Milker (Ruth), 1946, brush, ink, 26 x 25.2 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Lea Grundig 2762 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection / Below: Ellen Auerbach, Untitled [Portrait of a young Arab woman], 1933–1936, gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 30 × 20 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Auerbach 505 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection
25 Jan – 27 Apr
Exhibition

Museum Eberswalde
Steinstraße 3
16225 Eberswalde

Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig - Two artists in Palestine

Tue – Sun
10 am – 1 pm & 2 – 7 pm

€ 10

Free admission for school classes

Guided tours by appointment: 03334 64-411

Ludwig Schirmer, from the series Ein Dorf, 1950–1960 © Ludwig Schirmer/OSTKREUZ
28 Feb – 4 May
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 3

Ein Dorf 1950–2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Combined ticket with exhibition “what stands between us
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets (until 31 Mar)

Tickets (from 1 Apr)


Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 23 Mar, 30 Mar, 13 Apr, 20 Apr
each at 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Curator’s tour with Marit Lena Herrmann (for deaf and hearing guests with translation into German sign language)
Sun 4 May 2 pm

Guided tour for blind, visually impaired and sighted guests
Sun 23 Mar 2 pm

Guided tour for deaf and hearing guests with translation into German sign language
Tue 8 Apr 5 pm

Scenic Readings with Kerstin Hensel, students from the HfS Ernst Busch
Thur 6 Mar, 20 Mar, 3 Apr, 24 Apr
each at 5 pm
Sun 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 6 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided tours & Readings (until 31 Mar)

Tickets for Guided tours & Readings (from 1 Apr)


Education programme, workshops for school classes
at adk.de/kunstwelten


In the frame of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

In cooperation with OSTKREUZ Photographers Agency

Simon Lehner, Balance study with boy, 2018, from the series How far is a lightyear?, 2005 – 2019. Pigment-print, 90 x 72 cm, Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner
28 Feb – 4 May
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 1 + 2

EMOP Berlin: what stands between us.
Photography as a Medium for Chronicling

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

Combined ticket with exhibition “Ein Dorf 1950–2022
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets (until 31 Mar)

Tickets (from 1 Apr)


Guided tours
For all guided tours a free ticket is required which is available at the box office on site.

Sun 23 Mar, 6 Apr, 13 Apr, 20 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Sat 29 Mar, 3 May
each at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Curator’s tours with Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Sun 30 Mar 12 pm
Sun 4 May 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Event series “Tuesday Talks”
Tue 4 Mar, 11 Mar, 18 Mar, 25 Mar
each at 5 pm
Limited number of places
Free admission, ticket required, available at the box office on site
Meeting point: Foyer

Open Debate
EMOP Berlin x Akademie der Künste
Sat 22 Mar 7 pm
Studio Lobby
€ 7,50/5


Central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 26 Mar
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

Sara Stevanović, untitled © Sara Stevanović
Thursday, 27 Mar
Open Studios

6 pm – 10 pm

Hanseatenweg

Ateliers

JUNGE AKADEMIE Open Studios

With the fellows Nina Emge, Sara Stevanović und Franziska Wenning

Performance by Franziska Wenning
6:30 & 8 pm in Studio 1
Duration: 20 min

In English

Free admission

HG Merz, Gedenkstätte Sachsenhausen (Sachsenhausen memorial site), 2005, © Udo Meinel
Thursday, 27 Mar
Lectures and Talk

7 pm

Instituto Cervantes
Rosenstr. 18
10178 Berlin

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

With Belén Ilarri and HG Merz

Moderation: Hilde Léon

In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation

Free admission
Registration required

Reserve Ticket

Reading Room Pariser Platz, © Katja Strauß
Friday, 28 Mar
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

Kerstin Hensel and artist group BOOK-FACE: Das gefallene Fest, Leporello, 2010/2011, NB K. Hensel 191 © Kerstin Hensel / Photo: Roman Merz, 2019
Friday, 4 Apr
Guided Tours

6 pm – 10 pm

Night of the Libraries Discover private artists' collections!

Guided tours of the library, restoration workshop and stacks

In German

Free admission

© Piotr Nykowski
Saturday, 5 Apr
Performance, Music, Reading, Debate

2 pm

European Alliance of Academies
Polish Perspectives

With Weronika Adamowska, Joanna Bator, Phoebe Bognár, Olga Brzezińska, Jacek Dehnel, Karolina Golimowska, Julia Hanske, Nele Hertling, Agnieszka Holland, Dominika Kasprowicz, Anna Krenz, Lisa Palmes, Robert Piaskowski, Kathrin Röggla, Volker Schlöndorff, Katarzyna Sitko, Anna Smolar, Manos Tsangaris, Turkowski & Nowacka

In English, Polish and German

Cooperation: Polish Institute Berlin

Funded by: Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation

Supported by: Daniel Chodowiecki Foundation, Goethe-Institut Warsaw, Villa Decius Kraków, European Film Academy

Daypass (including film screening Green Border, excluding theatre performance JaWa)
€ 15/9

Buy Daypass

Due to the limited seating capacity, an additional single ticket must be booked for the JaWa theatre performance.

Ticket JaWa 4:30 pm

Ticket JaWa 9 pm

Film screening only:
€ 7,50/5

Ticket Green Border 9 pm

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 6 Apr
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Esther Kinsky, © Isabella de Maddalena
Tuesday, 8 Apr
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Esther Kinsky Heim.Statt

With Esther Kinsky and Nico Bleutge

Welcome: Kerstin Hensel

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 9 Apr
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, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 10 Apr
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

Raimund Kummer, Zerbrochener Blick, gespiegelte Knobelsdorffachse (Broken gaze, mirrored Knobelsdorff axes), 2016, showcases: float glass, steel / objects: Murano glass, showcase each: 215 x 113 x 243 cm, objects each: 80 x 80 x 200 cm, Raimund Kummer © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
10 Apr – 14 May
SpaceSoundIntervention

5-5-5-5 cut
Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott

Tue – Sat 2 – 7 pm
Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets


With Jone Bolibar Núñez (bass clarinet), Jana De Troyer and Ruth Velten (baritone saxophone), Rike Huy und Paul Hübner (trumpet), Josa Gerhard (viola), Adam Goodwin (double bass), Max Andrzejewski and Mikołaj Rytowski (drums)

Opening
Wed 9 Apr 7 pm
With Manos Tsangaris, Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott
Moderation: Anke Hervol
Free admission

Family Sunday
Sun 4 May 1 & 4:30 pm
Musicians present their instruments

Artist Talk
Tue 13 May 5 pm
With Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott

Education programme and inclusive offers at adk.de/kunstwelten

Pavilion for Japanese Art by Bruce Goff (with Bart Prince), Los Angeles 1978–1988 © Heinz Emigholz & Filmgalerie 451
12 – 13 Apr
Lecture and Film

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Arsenal on Location: Heinz Emigholz
Architecture and Film

Sat 12 Apr 7 pm
Sullivans Banken, Germany 1993–2000, 38 min, restored print
by Heinz Emigholz

The Fountainhead, US 1949, 114 min, OV
by King Vidor
Introduction: Heinz Emigholz

Sun 13 Apr 7 pm
Goff in der Wüste, Germany 2003, 110 min, restored print
by Heinz Emigholz

Lecture “Gibt es eine queere Architektur?”

Funded by the Capital Cultural Fund (HKF)

In German

€ 7,50/5

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 15 Apr
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

Viktor Ruban, © Kostya Us
Tuesday, 15 Apr
Opening Lecture

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
Viktor Ruban

With Viktor Ruban, Lucia Ruprecht, Lindsey Drury

In English

Free admission

Cooperation: Freie Universität Berlin, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 23 Apr
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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 24 Apr
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Marieluise on a class trip, end of 10th grade, 1971 © Winfried Junge
Sunday, 27 Apr
Film and Talk

3:30 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten. Drei Jahrzehnte mit den Kindern von Golzow und der DEFA. Ein Film über einen Film,
D 1961–1992, 284 min, restored print

With Barbara and Winfried Junge (Directors), Marieluise Seidel, Bernhard Guderjahn (Protagonists)

Moderation: Stefanie Eckert (DEFA Foundation)

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Top: Mark Lammert © Marcus Lieberenz / Below: Kerstin Hensel © Inge Zimmermann
28 – 30 Apr
Workshop

Evangelisches Schulzentrum „Katharina von Bora“
Waldstraße 20–22
17109 Demmin

KUNSTWELTEN in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald Homeland. Fear. How to carry on living?

28 – 30 Apr and 6 – 8 May

Art project with Kerstin Hensel, Mark Lammert and pupils of the 9th grade

Katharina Grosse's studio on the grounds of the Wunderblock Foundation, Groß-Kreutz (Havel), 2024, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Photo: Studio Katharina Grosse
Monday, 28 Apr
Book Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Rinderkombinat Völkerfreundschaft

With Annett Gröschner, Katharina Grosse

Moderation: Bernadette Conrad

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Péter Esterházy © Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Marianne Fleitmann
Tuesday, 29 Apr
Archive Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Péter Esterházy
“the wondrous afterlife of words”

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

Reading: Matthias Scherwenikas

Archive presentation: Katalin Madácsi-Laube

Talk: György Dragomán, Andreas Isenschmid, Terézia Mora, Ingo Schulze

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

© Mattis Bettels
26 – 29 Jun
Concerts, Performances, Sound Installations

KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Thur 26 Jun, Sat 28 Jun, Sun 29 Jun
Hanseatenweg

Fri 27 Jun
Pariser Platz

With Ensemble Ascolta, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Hanna Hartman, Thomas Schulz et al.

Compositions by Tony Elieh, Heather Frasch, Susanne Fröhlich, Hainbach, Annette Krebs, Arezou Rezaei, Gerriet K. Sharma

In collaboration with DEGEM, FU Berlin, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, HfM Saar, SWR Experimentalstudio, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf & Ensemble Ascolta

Funded by Musikfonds e.V.

With kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung

Tickets
Festival: € 70/50
Concerts: € 10–15/7–9
Installations: Free admission


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.