In the series sample&hold, Adam Krasz and Janine Eisenächer present their works, which were created within the framework of the residency programme of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music (SEM). The programme is complemented by a work by Ujif_notfound from the Studio for Electroacoustic Music in Kyiv and Bevor Ariadne kommt (Rondo), one of the most important electroacoustic works by Georg Katzer.

On this evening, Chinese composer Du Yun, currently a Fellow of the American Academy, and Austrian composer Olga Neuwirth, member of the Akademie der Künste, will meet for the first time. Both negotiate gender roles and traditions in their works, which are often characterised by music-theatrical and narrative components or tape recordings. In English.

The 12th Berlin Biennale Still Present! unfolds around a set of questions. How can the decolonization of art be conceived—from the restitution of plundered goods to an anticolonial culture of memory? What role can non-Western feminist movements play in the reappropriation of history and identity? How are climate crisis and colonialism related?

In the middle of the political "Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The works by the master students Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Werner Stötzer and Horst Zickelbein are unique testimonies to a youthful post-war awakening. In German.

1696–2021. The Akademie der Künste is taking its 325th anniversary as an opportunity to remember and to examine the current situation. In the form of calendar pages, events that have shaped the life of the artistic community are highlighted as caesuras or offer snapshots of its history. In English.

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.

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 421 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.