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Denise Onen: Understanding, © Lili Bo Ming

Oscillations. Cape Town – Berlin. Sonic Inquiries and Practices

Sound Art Exhibition

27 Apr – 19 May, Hanseatenweg

During a two-year process, ten artists from South Africa and Germany created new sound works in collaborations and artist residencies. Indigenous sound practices and spirituality were combined with the latest technologies and contemporary forms of artistic expression. At the opening of the exhibition on 26 and 27 April, the installative sound works will be accompanied and augmented by performances, artist tours, talks and DJ sets.  more

Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Andeas Süß, 2019

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided Tour

5 May, 11 am – 4 pm, Anna Seghers Museum

The writer Anna Seghers lived in Berlin Adlershof for almost three decades. Her working and living quarters have been preserved largely unchanged and house her extensive library. The guided tours focus on her writing during the Weimar Republic, her time in exile in France and Mexico and her return to Berlin. Please register at annaseghersmuseum@adk.de. The number of participants is limited.  more

Michael Ruetz and Astrid Köppe, Film still from Facing Time, Documentary, 2023, Direction: Annett Ilijew, © Photo: Ines Thomsen, © Annett Ilijew and Michael Ruetz

Poetry of Time. Michael Ruetz – Timescapes 1966–2023

Exhibition

9 May – 4 Aug, Pariser Platz

Since the mid-60s Michael Ruetz has observed the transformation of natural and urban habitats in a large-scale photographic study, capturing the changes in a series of photographic snapshots and inventory images. At the heart of the exhibition are the Timescapes of Berlin. The photo series present a particularly powerful consolidation of the far-reaching transformation of German society in the post-war period, after reunification and up to the present day.  more

Mario Wirz, Photo: © Huy Don Ho Pham, 2010

“Let us live” – An evening for Mario Wirz

Talk, Reading and Archive Presentation

28 May, 8 pm, Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

Overshadowed by illness from an early age, Mario Wirz (1956–2013) led an intense, sensual life. Love, transience and death are the major themes of his texts. Every line, every sentence is a confession of his personality. Peter Geist and Holger Wicht talk about the writer's life and work, André J. Walther reads and Gabriele Radecke presents the Akademie der Künste's Mario Wirz Archive. In German.  more

© Mattis Bettels

NODES – Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Festival

1 Jun – 2 Jun, Hanseatenweg

At the beginning of summer, Hanseatenweg will be hosting a dense programme of electro-acoustic music, performances and sound art. The focus is on the diversity of the Berlin scene. With Kalma, Manfred Miersch, Stefan Streich, Viola Yip, Katharina Zimmerhackl, Berlin Loudspeaker Orchestra and Radio Industry. DEGEM presents a selection of works on the occasion of the 80th birthday of Folkmar Hein, former head of the legendary TU Berlin studio.  more