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Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß

31 Aug 2022 – 18 Dec 2024

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Guided Tours

Pariser Platz

Picture Cellar

Murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Horst Zickelbein

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

George Grosz, Montör, Figurine für laufendes Band, 1927, watercolour, gouache, reed pen, pen, 50 x 37 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, Inv.-Nr.: HZ 6214 © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

4 Jul – 25 Nov

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Exhibition

Das Kleine Grosz Museum
Bülowstr. 18
10783 Berlin

What kind of times are these? – Brecht, Grosz and Piscator

Thur – Mon 11 am – 6 pm

€ 10/6

Cooperation: Das Kleine Grosz Museum

Wolf Biermann as Prussian Icarus, 1973, © Roger Melis

4 Sep – 27 Oct

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Exhibition

Galerie Pankow
Breite Straße 8
13187 Berlin

Roger Melis
Artist Portraits

Tue – Fri 12 – 8 pm
Sat, Sun 2 – 8 pm

Free admission

Cooperation: Galerie Pankow, Leonhardi Museum Dresden

Guided tours
Wed 6 pm

Curator's tour
Sun 20 Oct 2 pm

Event
Thur 10 Oct 7 pm
Roger Melis in letters and documents.
Reading and archive presentation with Werner Heegewaldt (Director of the Archive at the Akademie der Künste), Erdmut Wizisla (literary scholar) and Mathias Bertram

Anja Steckel in Zurich’s zoo, 1943 © Akademie der Künste, Leonard-Steckel-Archiv

6 Sep – 1 Nov

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Exhibition

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

Children in exile

Wed – Fri 12 – 6 pm

Free admission

Cooperation: Stiftung Exilmuseum Berlin, KUNSTWELTEN, Archiv der Akademie der Künste

Guided tours
Thur 5 pm

Event
Thur 17 Oct 7:30 pm
Berlin – Portbou. Auf den Spuren Walter Benjamins
Documentary by Sophie Narr, Germany 2022, 86 min
Followed by a talk with Jeanine Meerapfel, Sophie Narr, Erdmut Wizisla et al.
In German

Guided tours, offers for school classes and events:
adk.de/kunstwelten

Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024, Exhibition view Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024, photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

14 Sep – 24 Nov

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Exhibition

Pariser Platz

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided tours

Curator's tours with Anke Hervol
Sun 10 Nov, 24 Nov at 2 pm

Tour for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
Tue 5 Nov 5 pm
Free admission

Tours for deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
Tue 1 Oct 5 pm
Sun 10 Nov 2 pm
Free admission

Special tours for groups, guided tours and workshops for school classes
Information and registration: kunstwelten@adk.de

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Sunday, 6 Oct

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Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Tuesday, 8 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Stefanie Thomas

Wednesday, 9 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Performance by Steloolive, Vocations open space, © The artist and Andrea Vollmer

Wednesday, 9 Oct

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Performance, Music, Reading

6:30 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Vocations: Open Space

In German and English

€ 4/2

Cooperation: JUNGE AKADEMIE, Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Haus für Poesie, silent green Kulturquartier & Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf

Wolf Biermann as Prussian Icarus, 1973, © Roger Melis

Thursday, 10 Oct

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Reading and Archive Presentation

7 pm

Galerie Pankow
Breite Straße 8
13187 Berlin

Roger Melis in letters and documents

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt (Director of the Archive at the Akademie der Künste)
Reading with Erdmut Wizisla (literary scholar) and Mathias Bertram (curator

In German

Free admission

Saturday, 12 Oct

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Performance, Music, Film, Reading, Talk

3 pm

Hanseatenweg

European Alliance of Academies
The Price of Freedom. Voices of the Hungarian Art Scene

With Zsófia Bán, Miriam Bruns, Dr. Anna Gács, Trio Dakoda, Nikolett Erőss, László Göndör, Kristóf Kelemen, Jakob Ladányi Jancsó, Gergely Nagy, Gábor Reisz, György Szabó, Kinga Tóth, Manos Tsangaris (digital), Diána Vonnák et al.

In German, Hungarian and English

Tickets

Day pass € 15/9
Buy ticket online

Performance Necromancy (only valid in combination with day pass) € 5
Buy ticket online

Film screening only € 7,50/5
Buy ticket online

Saar Magal © Wilfried Hösl

Monday, 14 Oct

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Opening Lecture

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
Saar Magal

With Saar Magal, Lucia Ruprecht, Lindsey Drury

Cooperation: Freie Universität Berlin, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Folkwang Universität der Künste, Essen

In English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Stefanie Thomas

Wednesday, 16 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Ingo Schulze © Jutta Müller-Tamm

Wednesday, 16 Oct

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Book Premiere

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Ingo Schulze
Zu Gast im Westen

With Ingo Schulze

Welcome: Ulf Stolterfoht

Moderation: Maren Jäger

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Thursday, 17 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

CPPD campaign in public space “Memory Matters“, Photo: Elena Krasnokutskaya

Saturday, 19 Oct

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Panel, artistic interventions

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Wie weiter?
Gegenwart Erinnern
24 February, 7 October & 9 June

Entrance: 5:30 pm

In German

Free admission

Registration at cppdnetwork.com

Cooperation: Coalition for Pluralistic Public Discourse (CPPD)

Manfred Krug, 1972, Photo: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-L0221-0333 / Franke, Klaus / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Tuesday, 22 Oct

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Archive Opening

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Manfred Krug: A star in the East and West

With Uschi Brüning, Daniel Krug, Stephanie Krug, Krista Maria Schädlich, Jörg Stempel

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Stefanie Thomas

Wednesday, 23 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Thursday, 24 Oct

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Radio Play

6 pm

Fraunhofer
Heinrich-Hertz-Institut
Einsteinufer 37
10587 Berlin

In the Wave Field / The Ear to the Future Audio plays in 3D

Free admission

Please register at:
info@berliner-hoerspielfestival.de
stating your preferred screening time slot.

Top left: Hugo Häring, competition Hochhaus Friedrichstraße, Berlin, 1922. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Hugo Häring Archive © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024 / Top right: sauerbruch hutton, Kinetics, Boulogne-Billancourt, 2012, digital drawing © sauerbruch hutton; Bottom left: Hans Scharoun, The principles of architecture, for and against, 1919–1921. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Hans Scharoun Archive / Bottom right: sauerbruch hutton, Now is Here, Installation, How Soon is Now, Galerie Judin, Berlin, 2014, Photo © Jan Bitter

25 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025

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Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

draw love build / sauerbruch hutton
tracing modernities

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, public holiday 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and the first Sunday of the month

Opening
Thur 24 Oct, 7 pm
Free admission

With Manos Tsangaris, Anh-Linh Ngo, Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton, Dirk van den Heuvel

Guided tours and offers for school classes and groups:
adk.de/kunstwelten

Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß

Friday, 25 Oct

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Guided Tour

4 pm

Pariser Platz

Reading Room

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Leni Riefenstahl in an interview with CBC “Leni Riefenstahl in her own words“ (1965) © CBC

Saturday, 26 Oct

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Film and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Riefenstahl
Documentary film by Andres Veiel

Riefenstahl, Germany 2024, 115 min
Direction and screenplay: Andres Veiel
OV with English subtitles

Discussion with Nanna Heidenreich, Hajooj Kuka (D/Sudan), Andres Veiel, Karin Wieland

Welcome: Helke Misselwitz

Moderation: Rainer Rother

€ 7,50/5

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Stefanie Thomas

Wednesday, 30 Oct

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Brecht-Haus (Brecht House), photo: Ingeborg Fries

Friday, 1 Nov

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Guided Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Discovering Brecht between Chausseestraße and the Berliner Ensemble

Literary walk from Brecht-Haus (Brecht House) to Berliner Ensemble

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Sunday, 3 Nov

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Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Tuesday, 5 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Wednesday, 6 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Wednesday, 13 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Thursday, 14 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Wednesday, 20 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Wednesday, 27 Nov

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Friday, 29 Nov

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Guided Tour

4 pm

Pariser Platz

Reading Room

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Sunday, 1 Dec

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Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Tuesday, 3 Dec

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Wednesday, 4 Dec

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Wednesday, 11 Dec

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Thursday, 12 Dec

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Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Wednesday, 18 Dec

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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL: Life, Work, Legacy – A Transnational Reconstruction

Heinrich Mann’s estate is scattered throughout archives worldwide. Starting from the most important places of activity in his life, the virtual exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Archives tells the story of the estate and presents the “Heinrich Mann DIGITAL” international cooperation project. In German.

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Passport issued to Walter Benjamin, Berlin-Grunewald, 10 August 1928. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, photo: Nick Ash

DIGITAL

Archival Materials

Finds from the Archives

Selected text documents, special objects and works of art from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste representing all artistic disciplines.

Photo: Ellen Auerbach, Airwalk, 1946 (Renate Schottelius during the dance jump over rocks, La Cumbrecita). Modern Print, Argentina © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

digital.adk.de – images, sounds, art objects

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, which encompasses all art forms, collects and makes accessible the archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world.

DIGITAL

Digital Platform

junge-akademie.adk.de – The JUNGE AKADEMIE is online

The transdisciplinary and transcultural online magazine is a space to exhibit and experiment and a digital open studio, offering fellows the opportunity to network with each other and with Akademie members, to develop digital projects and to make the exchange of knowledge visible within the international network.

Der Zauberer John Heartfield [The Magician John Heartfield], 1943. Photo © Zoltan Wegner. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, John Heartfield Archive, No. 610

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

The online presentation "Kosmos Heartfield" complements the exhibition "John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite".

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

The graphic oeuvre of the political artist John Heartfield can be explored in a new online catalogue.

DIGITAL

Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

The interactive 360° panoramic tour leads through the exhibition “John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite” at Pariser Platz.

Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.