Arnold Dreyblatt: Berlin Carousel
The Academy as a Living Artistic Practice
4/30/2026, 7 PM

OpeningOpen SpaceBerlin Carousel

Over 40 international artists from various disciplines create simultaneous, non-linear events in a composition developed by Arnold Dreyblatt based on John Cage.

Opening with speeches on the staircase, performances and party

  • Location:Hanseatenweg
  • Date:4/30/2026
  • Time:7 PM
  • Cooperation(s):raumlaborberlin
  • Languages: German, English
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  • Free admission

  • Opening hours Berlin Carousel 1 May – 7 Jun
    Tue–Sun and Pentecost Monday from 2 pm

Illuminated letters reading Künste (arts).
Photo: Akademie der Künste

Since the 1990s, Arnold Dreyblatt has worked with the scoring of overlapping time sequences in various performative installation projects. John Cage’s groundbreaking work Theatre Event No. 1 (Black Mountain College, 1952) remains an important reference for Dreyblatt’s artistic practice to this day.

In this work, artists performed simultaneous activities of their own choosing within predefined time frames among the audience. Berlin Carousel takes up Cage’s processes of circulation and further develops the idea of a non-centered composition. More than 40 international artists from different disciplines generate simultaneous, non-linear events. The public project space in Hall 3, conceived by raumlaborberlin, becomes a site of production where the boundaries of artistic categories are crossed and expanded. The interdisciplinarity of the overall work and the time-based art forms that can be experienced in the process form the core of the project.