Berlin Carousel
The Academy as Living Artistic Practice
30 Apr 2026, 7 pm
Over 50 international artists from various disciplines create simultaneous, non-linear events in a composition developed by Arnold Dreyblatt based on John Cage.
Opening with “staircase” speeches, performances and party
A project by Arnold Dreyblatt and the Akademie der Künste in cooperation with raumlaborberlin
- Location:
Hanseatenweg - ElevatorWheelchair accessible
- Date:
30 Apr 2026 - Time:
7 pm - Cooperation(s):
raumlaborberlin - Languages: German, English
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Free admission
7 pm
Opening with Manos Tsangaris, Arnold Dreyblatt, raumlaborberlin
Marc Matter, Sound Practice Research Collective (SPRK) at the Folkwang University of the ArtsFrom 9 pm
DJ set with Anna Butter, Mouse on Mars(Exhibition Vessel & Voyager open until midnight)
Opening hours Berlin Carousel 1 May – 7 Jun
Tue–Sun and Whit Monday from 2 pm
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 50 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.
