STOP THE WAR

Eszter Salamon in Sommerspiele (2023), directed by Eszter Salamon, filmed at Berlin Olympic Park in 2021/22, courtesy Eszter Salamon, film still © Marie Zahir
Eszter Salamon in Sommerspiele (2023), directed by Eszter Salamon, filmed at Berlin Olympic Park in 2021/22, courtesy Eszter Salamon, film still © Marie Zahir. Graphic: Rimini Berlin

POWER SPACE VIOLENCE.
Adjunct programme

19 Apr — 16 Jul 2023

Films, talks, concerts, readings

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Akademie der Künste is dedicating a programme of films, talks, concerts and readings to the artistic examination of architectural and ideological remains of National Socialism. It deals with politics of exclusion and repressed memory, the relationship between fascist aesthetics and violence, places of inconsolability and artistic resistance.

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Using numerous models, plans, photographs and films, the exhibition shows planning and building during National Socialist rule from 1933 to 1945. It examines building and biographical continuities and ruptures up to the present. In doing so, it refers not only to the German Reich but also to the occupied territories in Eastern Europe and draws comparisons with other countries during this period.

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Graphic: eps51
Graphic: eps51

Artistic Freedom.
A Core Element of the European Project

30 — 31 May 2023

Discussion, Reading, Film & Performance

Recent measures by the Hungarian government are endangering the country’s independent arts and cultural scene. Through public discussions, artistic interventions and dialogue with political actors, the members of the European Alliance of Academies want to draw attention to restrictions on artistic freedom in Europe. Livestream via allianceofacademies.eu. In English and Hungarian.

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Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal
Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal

Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings
2 Jun — 9 Jul 2023

Exhibition

The exhibition “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” is a presentation of ten new installations by JUNGE AKADEMIE fellows whose artistic research examines artificial intelligence. These speculative and experimental practices question and materialise how power and ethics are dealt with in the context of AI. Exhibition opening on 1 June at 7 pm. Free admission.

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© Heimann + Schwantes
© Heimann + Schwantes

The new issue focuses on how the arts deal with the relationship between power, space and violence: What is a poem in the face of a revolution? What responsibility does Berlin, as the “capital city of exiles”, have towards the émigré artists living here, especially in light of Germany’s history? Can architecture be neutral, and how do spaces affect our behaviour?

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum. Photo © Andeas Süß

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a fascinating insight into the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers. The Brecht-Weigel Museum in Berlin-Mitte and the Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof are both part of the Akademie der Künste.

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Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 419 members in its six Sections (Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts). It is an exhibition and event location. A key component of the Akademie are its Archives, which collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art.

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LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europemore

War in Ukraine: Support for Artists and Cultural Workersmore

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 30 May
Tour

2 pm

Anna-Seghers-Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

The theme of Anna Seghers’ work is the self-liberation of her literary characters. To what extent does this liberation have biographical features? An approach to the transformation from sheltered daughter to headstrong writer. In German.

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Graphic: eps51
30 – 31 May
Discussion, Reading, Film & Performance

Central European University
Nador utca 15
1051 Budapest
Hungary

Artistic Freedom. A Core Element of the European Project European Alliance of Academies

Recent measures by the Hungarian government are endangering the country’s independent arts and cultural scene. Through public discussions, artistic interventions and dialogue with political actors, the Alliance members want to draw attention to restrictions on artistic freedom in Europe and show their solidarity with Szépírók Társasága (Society of Hungarian Authors) on the ground. In English and Hungarian.

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Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 31 May
Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

The resting places of famous women in art and culture are the focus of this guided tour of the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof cemetery. It tells of the writers Christa Wolf and Annemarie Bostroem, the artists Beatrice Zweig and Doris Kahane, the opera director Ruth Berghaus and many others. In German.

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Ibou Diop, Photo: Thabo Thindi; Max Czollek, Photo: Björn Kuhligk
Wednesday, 31 May
Discussion

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

Spaces of Inconsolability

How do the German politics of remembrance manifest themselves within the urban space? Max Czollek and Ibou Diop advocate considering places of remembrance as places of inconsolation – because this history has happened and, as they make clear, no memorial or day of remembrance can undo it. Memory as inconsolability could remind us to organise the present in such a way that the violent past does not repeat itself. In German.

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Sahej Rahal, Anhad, 2023 © Sahej Rahal 
Thursday, 1 Jun
Exhibition Opening

7 pm

Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings

The “Broken Machines & Wild Imaginings” exhibition presents ten new installations by JUNGE AKADEMIE fellows, who artistically explore artificial intelligence. The focus is on speculative and experimental practices that articulate and question the handling of power and ethics in the context of AI. Opening with performances by Sarah Ciston, Sahej Rahal, M Takara, Pedro Oliveira, Petja Ivanova, Iyo Bisseck, Rain Rose, Kaya Zakrzewska, Gugulethu Duma.

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Brecht Haus. Photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 2 Jun
Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Discovering Brecht between Chausseestraße and the Berliner Ensemble

A two-hour walk leads from the Brecht House to the Berliner Ensemble in the footsteps of Bertolt Brecht. This is where the writer and director moved in the years after his return from exile, where he achieved his artistic breakthrough in the 1920s. In German.

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