Programme Overview
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30 Apr 7 pm
Opening with “staircase” speeches, performances and party
With Manos Tsangaris, Arnold Dreyblatt, raumlaborberlin
Marc Matter, Sound Practice Research Collective (SPRK) at the Folkwang University of the Arts
From 9 pm DJ set with Anna Butter, Mouse on Mars
DE/EN
1 May – 7 Jun
Conversely Yours, Jan Werner, 2024
In-house Intervention
Unhörbar, Käthe Kruse, 2026
Open Studio
Unwalling Hanseatenweg, Arno Brandlhuber, Constanze Haas, Manuel de Villiers
Research Project
fm-scenario.net, Eran Schaerf, 2013
Listening & Editing
DE/EN
Wehende Gedanken, Raul Walch, 2026
Interventions
Portrait Archive – a video work for Berlin Carousel, Gary Hurst, 2026
Opening Space / Promoting Encounters, Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK)
Podcasts
DE/EN
1 May – 3 Jun 2–7 pm
Unfolding No. 1 (Live)
Performative Process
With Ari Benjamin Meyers and Dani Gal (1 May), Nico von Wersch (3 May), Tony Buck and Magda Mayas (10 May), Manos Tsangaris (15 May), Labour (16 May), Marina Rosenfeld (17 May), Christian Naujoks (25 May)
Closing Presentation: 3 Jun 8:30 pm
1–3 May 2–7 pm
Sound Practice Research Collective (SPRK) at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Jan St. Werner
Performances
2 May 2 pm
Art From a Suitcase, 30 Berlin-based IKG artists (International Artists’ Committee) with works from their suitcases
Talks and Table Display
DE
5–10 May
La fête permanente. A mini-Filliou-school
Curators: An Paenhuysen and Benedetta Castrioto
With Tomas Bächli, Greta Casà, Charlotte Dualé, Helga Franza
Workshops, Talks, Performances, Concert
DE/EN
5–10 May 5–7 pm
BREAK DANCE BREAK, Hajnal Nemeth
Cyclical, repetitive training sessions
B-Girls, B-Boys: Ruben Engelke, Josei Faltin, Gabriel Manz, Sapphira Taskiran, Ilja Voronov, Nataliia Zhdan
Breakdance Workouts: 5–9 May 5–7 pm
Closing Event: 10 May 6 pm
EN
5 May 7 pm
Vom Leck-Mich zum IstdochgarnichtsoübeldieseDDR, Jan Faktor and Christoph Tannert
Talk
DE
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including Kontaktbögen)
5 May 8:30 pm
Kontaktbögen, Steffen Reck and Dr. Claus Löser about the East Berlin theatre group Zinnober, Super 8 and VHS footage
Film and Talk
DE
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including Vom Leck-Mich zum IstdochgarnichtsoübeldieseDDR)
9 May 7 pm
Anton Lukoszevieze is performing Solo for Balloons (1962) by George Mačiunas
Introduction and Talk: Hubertus von Amelunxen
EN
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including The Filliou Review)
9 May 8 pm
The Filliou Review, Tomas Bächli (piano) and the mini-Filliou-school
Concert
With Greta Casà, Benedetta Castrioto, Charlotte Dualé, Helga Franza and An Paenhuysen
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including Solo for Balloons)
12 May – 7 Jun 10 am – 7 pm
Live on Tape
Video Works (foyer / cloakroom)
With Joseph Beuys, Frieder Butzmann, Michael Geißler, Mona Hatoum, Nan Hoover, Allan
Kaprow, John Miller, Nam June Paik, Lia Perjovschi
Curator: Anna Lena Seiser, n.b.k. Video-Forum
12–17 May
Patrizia Bach Making Drawings
Open Studio
12–15 May
Spoken Matter Radio by Andreas Bülhoff and Marc Matter
With Alfredo Costa-Monteiro, Adrienne Herr, DJ Shlucht
Artistic support: Silja Beck
Performance: 14 May 8 pm
DE/EN
€ 7,50/5
13 May 3–6 pm
for the time being, Sasha Waltz
A workshop on collectively experiencing the moment
For professionally trained dancers
Register by 10 May at: bildendekunst@adk.de
17 May from 4 pm / 26 May from 1 pm
29/5 – A composition for Hanseatenweg by Daniel Ott
Open Rehearsal
Adam Goodwin (double bass), Paul Hübner (trumpet)
17 May 5 pm / 21 May 6 pm
Discursive Dinner by and with raumlaborberlin (Clubroom)
Co-hosted by Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux (17.5.)
Speakers: Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Nicholas Bussmann, Elisabeth Gallón Droste, Daniela Marcozzi and Clemens Winkler (17 May, DE/EN), Christopher Dell, Emiko Gejic, Adam Page & Eva Hertzsch, and Margerita Tsomou (21 May, DE)
€ 7,50/5
19–25 May 2–7 pm
Discussique: Listening to the Days – Den Tagen zuzuhören, Jeremy Woodruff
Workshops
Open singing lessons with
Geetha Sridharan: 19 May 2–2:30 pm, South Indian – Carnatic
Vizma Zvaigzne: 19 May 5–5:30 pm, Classical art song
Cağlasu Aslan: 20 May 3–3:30 pm, Türkü
Elisabeth Lanfredini: 21 May 2–2:30 pm, Experimental/Improv
Amir Mardaneh: 21 May 5–5:30 pm, Persian classical (dastgāh)
Maria Ustenko: 22 May 3–3:30 pm, Ukrainian folk
Moussa Coulibaly: 23 May 3–3:30 pm, Griot, Burkina Faso
DE/EN
Closing Presentation: 25 May 5 pm
19–24 May 2–7 pm
Papiertheater, Versatorium – Association for Poetry and Translation
With Sophia Barthelmes, Anna Eble, Marion Maurin, Mathias Müller, Felix Reinstadler and guests
Workshops
DE/DK
26 May 2:30–5 pm
Sounding a Cosmic Life, Brandon LaBelle
Seminar with students from MA Raumstrategien, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
26–28 May 2–3:30 pm
Kunst und Autonomie, Aktivismus, Akademie, Ambient, Anti-Avantgarde, Stefan Römer's reading group, joint reading and discussion of relevant texts on art and self-organisation
Participatory Workshop
DE
27 May 5–7 pm
How to Academy, members of the Akademie der Künste and the Sächsische Akademie der Künste
Closed Event
28 May 4–6:30 pm
public exercises by and with Ulrike Grossarth
Movement Workshop
DE/EN
Registration: bildendekunst@adk.de
28 May 7 pm
ReCoding Everything, ReCoder of Life, ReCoder of Art, 2019–26, 47 min, Stefan Römer
DeCoder, 1984, 87 min, Muscha
ReCoding Everything, 2026, 15:32 min, Film premiere with Valérie Renay, FM Einheit, Isabella Pedersen and Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Film and Talks
DE
€ 7,50/5
29–30 May 2–7 pm
Spring General Assembly of the Akademie der Künste
Closed Event
30 May 8 pm
Unwalling – A Manifesto by Lyrics, Manuel de Villiers, Jakob Deider
Performative Concert
EN
7 pm: Arno Brandlhuber conducts a dialogue to introduce the concert
Meeting point: foyer
DE/EN
31 May 2–7 pm
CUT 5-5-5-5 (working title), Raimund Kummer and Daniel Ott
A work-in-progress film project by Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott and Anna Petzer
31 May 4 pm
Café Climate: What About the Future?
Discussion
With Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph Holzhey, Petja Ivanova, Jovana Popic, Iris ter Schiphorst, Cécile Wajsbrot
DE/EN
2–7 Jun
Ethan Braun
Open Studio
Flachmeer, hohe Kapsel (working title)
Filming for a non-commercial film project by Steffen Reck
2–6 Jun 2–7 pm
Zugabe, since 2010, Nanne Meyer and Eva-Maria Schön
Postcard Correspondence
Open Studio
DE
Closing Presentation, Video Projection, Performance and Talk with Helen Adkins: 6 Jun 4 pm
3 Jun 7 pm
3927 Wörter
With Käthe Kruse (voice), Myriam El Haik (piano), Edda Kruse Rosset (drums)
Performance
DE
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including Unfolded)
3 Jun 8:30 pm
Unfolded, Dani Gal and Ari Benjamin Meyers with Nico von Wersch, Tony Buck and Magda Mayas, Manos Tsangaris, Labour, Marina Rosenfeld, Christian Naujoks
Listening Session
EN
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including 3927 Wörter)
4 Jun 4 pm
Private Handbags may not be carried when on Duty, Dominique Hurth
Film and Talk with Arnold Dreyblatt and Insa Eschebach
DE/EN
5 Jun 7 pm
John Cage’s Musicircus in Bonn (1979) and Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg (1990)
With Arnold Dreyblatt, Jakob Ullmann, Walter Zimmermann
Talk, Music and Projection
DE
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including Circuit Stories)
5 Jun 8:30 pm
Circuit Stories, Malte Giesen and Dustin Zorn on historical and modern instruments from the Studio for Electroacoustic Music
Live Electronic Lecture-Performance
DE
€ 7,50/5 (for the whole evening, including John Cage’s Musicircus in Bonn (1979) und Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg (1990))
7 Jun 2–7 pm
Finissage
Artist Talks with Arnold Dreyblatt, Anna Lena Seiser, Gary Hurst and Ethan Braun
3 pm
Akademie [Arbeitstitel], Anna Lena Seiser, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2018
4:30 pm
Portrait Archive – A Video Work for Berlin Carousel, Gary Hurst, 2026
6 pm
Concert by Ethan Braun
Introduction: Arnold Dreyblatt