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

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

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

Tickets for guided tours

Guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
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

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov 2024 – 27 Feb 2025
Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours

Tue 5 pm
17 Dec, 7 Jan, 21 Jan, 4 Feb, 18 Feb

Thur 11 am
12 Dec, 16 Jan, 30 Jan, 13 Feb, 27 Feb

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

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

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

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

Peter Pfankuch, 18 March 1940; photo: private
Wednesday, 15 Jan
Book Premiere

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Privileged discrimination: The diaries of Peter Pfankuch

With Wolfgang Benz, Susanne Pfankuch (Talk), Justus Pfankuch (Reading)

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

In German

€ 7,50 / 5

Untitled (Wind), 1953, 1990, Photo by Giulia Baresi and Giorgia Palmisano, Courtesy of Archivio Conz, Berlin 2024
Sunday, 19 Jan
Reading, Film, Happening

12 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

GO concrete: A Eugen Gomringer matinée

With Kerstin Hensel & Karin Sander (welcome), Ulrike Draesner, Nora Gomringer, Dagmara Kraus, Michael Lentz, Robert Kudielka, Ulf Stolterfoth, Hubertus von Amelunxen

In cooperation with Archivio Conz, Berlin

In German

€ 7,50 / 5

Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann, 2023 © Andreas Rost
Wednesday, 22 Jan
Reading and Talk

6 pm

Musikgalerie an der Goitzsche
Ratswall 22
06749 Bitterfeld-Wolfen

KUNSTWELTEN in the district of Anhalt-Bitterfeld Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann: Three East German women get drunk and found the ideal state

Wit Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler, Wenke Seemann

In cooperation with Musikgalerie an der Goitzsche

In German

€ 3

Ellen Auerbach, no title [Portrait of a young Arab woman], 1933–1936, Silver gelatine print on baryta paper, 30 × 20 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv.-Nr.: Auerbach 505 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection
24 Jan – 27 Apr
Exhibition

Museum Eberswalde
16225 Eberswalde

Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig in Palestine 1933–1948

Tue – Sun 10 am – 1 pm
& 2 – 7 pm

€ 10

Der Amerika-Nachlass von Heinrich Mann, 1956; Foto © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Thursday, 30 Jan
Archive Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

A Suitcase for the Archives: Heinrich Mann

With Gabriele Radecke, Susanne Thier

In cooperation with Stiftung Exilmuseum

In German

Free admission

Anna Halprin I Anne Collod: Blank Placard Dance, replay, Audience format of HAU Hebbel am Ufer as part of Tanz im August 2017; photo © Susanne Foellmer
Saturday, 1 Feb
Statements, Choreographic Interventions, Talks, Panel Discussion

2:30 pm

Dance makes Berlin – An event by and for dance

With Joe Chialo, Senator for Culture and Social Cohesion of Berlin, et al.

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

Free admission

Sigmund Freud (Photography of Freud's son-in-law Max Halberstadt, 1921)
Thursday, 13 Feb
Reading and Talk

7:30 pm

Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
14109 Berlin

The correspondence between Rilke and Freud

With Ulrich von Bülow, Matthias Weichelt

In German

€ 8/5


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.