Single Events
Art From a Suitcase: 30 Berlin-based IKG artists with works from their suitcases
2 May 2 pm
Talks, Table Display, DE
For 50 years, the IKG meetings have been a unique hybrid of exhibition and debate with an opportunity to engage with different positions – both at home and abroad. Time and again, they provide a new arena where attitudes, ideas and diverse perspectives intersect, as part of an open process in which communication with and an interest in others are paramount.
Participants: Ina Bierstedt, Jens Brand, Claudia Busching, Claudia Chaseling, Alba D’Urbano, Anna Fiegen, Adib Fricke, Harriet Gross, Yoko Hata, Christian Henkel, Veronike Hinsberg, Gisela Kleinlein, Pauline Kraneis, Käthe Kruse, Angela Lubic, Nanne Meyer, Ulrike Mohr, Karin Sander, An Seebach, Andreas Schmid, Eva-Maria Schön, Petra Spielhagen, Nicola Staeglich, Nele Ströbel, Nanaé Suzuki, Petra Trenkel, Nicolé Velásquez, Albert Weis, Francis Zeischegg, Julia Ziegler
Hajnal Németh: BREAK DANCE BREAK
10 May 6 pm
Cyclical, repetitive training sessions
Break Dance Break is a mute breakdance training that alternates between recurring phases of warm-up, balance exercise, dance battle, rest and relaxation. Its four participants rely solely on body language to compose a shared poem. This text will be performed aloud on the last day of the breakdance workouts.
B-Girls, B-Boys: Sapphira Taskiran, Nataliia Zhdan, Ruben Engelke, Josei Faltin, Gabriel Manz
Closing Event
Speech and Singing: Júlia Koffler
Sasha Waltz: for the time being
13 May 3–6 pm
A workshop on experiencing the moment together
For professional dancers
Registration up to 10 May: bildendekunst@adk.de
Together with dancers and the musician Diego Noguera, Sasha Waltz has developed a practice for collectively experiencing the moment – for the time being. In this workshop, participants can discover and try out this practice.
29/5 – A composition for Hanseatenweg by Daniel Ott
17 May from 4 pm / 26 May from 1 pm
Open Rehearsals
Daniel Ott’s instrumental compositions for trumpet and double bass engage in a dialogue with Werner Düttmann’s architecture. The musicians move playfully through the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg. The result is a mobile sound intervention that brings together visitors, functional spaces and public areas.
Daniel Otts Komposition für Trompete und Kontrabass tritt in den Dialog mit der Architektur von Werner Düttmann. Die Musiker*innen bewegen sich spielend durch das Akademiegebäudes am Hanseatenweg. Es entsteht eine mobile Klangintervention zwischen Besucher*innen, Funktionsräumen und öffentlichen Bereichen.
Adam Goodwin (double bass), Paul Hübner (trumpet)
Brandon LaBelle: Sounding a Cosmic Life
26 May 2:30–5 pm
Seminar with students from MA Raumstrategien, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, DE/EN
The seminar sets out to follow sound as a living energy and to examine how it provides a means to create worlds. Sound is understood as a “cosmopoetic technique”, operating as a channel, a medium and a guide for evoking a cosmic sense of life.
How to Academy
27 May 5–7 pm
Closed Discussion Event
Members of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden in discussion.
Public Exercises by and with Ulrike Grossarth
28 May 4–6:30 pm
Movement Workshop, DE/EN
At the heart of this series of exercises is the individual who has been dismissed – effectively made “redundant” – and who becomes aware of themselves beyond societal structures. The goal is to integrate the “Other” and the unpredictable, as well as to facilitate transcultural experiences and practices. Topics include identity in the making, paradoxes, circular systems and playful gestures of the political.
Registration: bildendekunst@adk.de
Manuel de Villiers, Jakob Deider: Unwalling – A Manifesto by Lyrics
30 May 8 pm
Performative Concert, DE/EN
Constanze Haas and Arno Brandlhuber’s project “Unwalling” examines the accessibility of Werner Düttmann’s 1960 Akademie building and the hierarchies contained in it. Manuel de Villiers and Jakob Deider respond to the site with a “Manifesto by Lyrics”.
7 pm: Arno Brandlhuber conducts a dialogue to introduce the concert
Meeting point: foyer
Raimund Kummer and Daniel Ott: CUT 5-5-5-5 (working title)
31 May 2–7 pm
Video Projection
A work-in-progress film project by Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott and Anna Petzer
5 rooms, 5 sculptures, 5 instrumentalists, 5 hours daily over a 5-week period: In 2025, Raimund Kummer and Daniel Ott performed and choreographed a site-specific composition live at the Akademie am Pariser Platz, featuring fragments of works, films, and live instrumentalists. The spatial sound intervention, complete with a jointly produced soundtrack, has now been adapted into a multichannel video work.
Café Climate: What About the Future?
31 May 4 pm
Discussion, DE/EN
In a relaxed atmosphere, experts, artists and the audience gather around tables, just as they might in a café, to discuss the impact of the climate crisis on daily life, democracy, and art and culture. The discussions at the tables will focus on the themes of “weathering”, “futurology” and how we imagine the future.
Organised by the Climate Group of the European Alliance of Academies. With the participation of ICI Berlin (Institute for Cultural Inquiry).
With Manuele Gragnolati, Christoph Holzhey, Petja Ivanova, Jovana Popic, Iris ter Schiphorst, Cécile Wajsbrot
Dominique Hurth: Private Handbags may not be carried when on Duty
4 Jun 4 pm
Film and Talk, DE/EN
The film essay summarises Hurth’s long-standing research on the uniform of the female guard at the Ravensbrück Women’s Concentration Camp and weaves together research conducted at the Ravensbrück and Dachau memorial sites, the German Federal Archives, military history museums in Dresden, Paris and London and theatre storage facilities. The film’s title comes from an order issued in 1942 by the camp commandant, Max Koegel, to the female guards.
Private Handtaschen dürfen zum Außendienst nicht mitgetragen werden (Private Handbags May Not Be Carried When on Duty), 2025, 96 min
Talk with Arnold Dreyblatt and Insa Eschebach