Current Events

Drum belonging to Oskar Matzerath (played by David Bennent), from Volker Schlöndorff’s film adaptation (1979) of Günter Grass’s novel Die Blechtrommel (The Tin Drum) (1959) © Akademie der Künste / Photo: Roman März

8 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026

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Exhibition

Pariser Platz

Out of the Box – 75 Years of the Archives of the Akademie der Künste

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays

An audio guide for the exhibition in German and English is available here

Tickets

Guided Tours
Tue 5 pm
Fri 5:30 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Guided tour for blind, visually impaired and sighted guests
Tue 2 Dec 5 pm

Curator's tours
Sun 12 pm

Tickets for guided tours

Workshop talks with Archives staff
Fri 4 pm
Sun 2 pm

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

Archive boxes by the artist Klaus Staeck, 2025 © Akademie der Künste / Photo: Roman März

8 Oct 2025 – 18 Jan 2026

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Workshop Talks

Pariser Platz

Out of the Box – 75 Years of the Archives of the Akademie der Künste

Workshop talks with Archives staff

Fri 4 pm
Sun 2 pm

In German

Free admission with exhibition ticket

Tickets

Issues of SINN UND FORM © Gernot Krämer

Thursday, 27 Nov

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Reading and Talk

7 pm

Literaturhaus Berlin
Alt-Moabit 62
10555 Berlin

A Long Evening for the Diary

With Sven Hanuschek, Felicitas Hoppe, Stephan Wackwitz, Lina Scheynius, Pascal Janovjak, Ron Winkler, Laura Lichtblau, Hanna Engelmeier and Matthias Weichelt

Cooperation with Literaturhaus Berlin

In German and English

€ 9 / 6

29 – 30 Nov

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Film

Hanseatenweg

Studio

But Elsewhere Is Always Better – An Exhibition of the Work of Vivian Ostrovsky

Experimental short films

Sat 29 Nov, 5 pm and 8 pm
Day ticket € 7,50 / 5

Sun 30 Nov, 4 pm, 6 pm and 8 pm
Day ticket € 7,50 / 5

With Vivian Ostrovsky, Ulrike Ottinger, Elena Baumeister, Madeleine Bernstorff, Esther Buss, Heinz Emigholz and Birgit Kohler
Curated by Stephan Ahrens, Petra Palmer and Sissi Tax

In English

Amanda Becker at Vocations – open space 2024 © Andrea Voller

Tuesday, 2 Dec

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Performance, Music, Reading

6:30 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Vocations – open space

Poetic sounds and sound experiments

With Rachel Fenlon, Hypochondrische Ängste (Jan Frisch, Philipp Martin, Jorinde Minna Markert), Björn Kuhligk and Frank Schültge, Claudia Rankine, Helena Sorokina, Aga Ujma, XIVIS (Salvador Burrell, Sophie Dreisorner), Ramina-Abdulla Zadé

Authors and composers: Miron Białoszewski, Sinan Samali, Iris ter Schiphorst, Karin Spielhofer, Sergey Yessenin

Cooperation with Haus für Poesie, silent green Kulturquartier, Berliner Künstler*innenprogramm des DAAD, Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf

In German and English

€ 9 / 5

Times Square © Mischief Films

Sunday, 7 Dec

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Films and Talk

4 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Henry Fonda for President

Henry Fonda for President
Director: Alexander Horwath

Où en êtes-vous, Christian Petzold?
Short film by Christian Petzold, Christoph Hochhäusler

Talk with Alexander Horwath and Christian Petzold

In German and English

€ 7,50 / 5

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin-Adlershof © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Thursday, 11 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

Design for „The Shredder“, memorial sculpture for the Lustgarten, Mobile Akademie 2022

12 – 13 Dec

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Theatre Performance

Hanseatenweg

MEMORY, SPEAK! On the Present and Some Future Events

Fri 12 Dec, 7–11 pm
€ 15/9

Sat 13 Dec, 3–10 pm
€ 15/9 (each 3–6 pm; 7–10 pm)
€ 20/10 (Day ticket)

A project by the Mobile Academy Berlin in collaboration with: Aliaksei Bratachkin, Guillaume Cailleau, Vaginal Davis, Anselm Franke, Lamin Leroy Gibba, Shadi Habib Allah, Karin Harrasser, Alice Hasters, Heinrich Horwitz, Hannah Hurtzig, Marian Kaiser & Florian Stirnemann, Anna Jermolaewa, Aurélia Kalisky, Nina Katchadourian & Sina Najafi, Sarah Lewis Cappellari & Anton Kats, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Mukenge/Schellhammer, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Jakob Racek, Susanne Sachsse, Eran Schaerf and Cécile Tuseku.

In German and English with simultaneous translation

Fly with Pacha, Into the Aerocene, 2017–ongoing, directed by Maximiliano Laina & Tomás Saraceno.</br>Courtesy Aerocene and the Indigenous Communities of Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 by Aerocene Foundation.

Saturday, 13 Dec

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Symposium

11 am – 6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Utopia. The Right to Hope – A Symposium

With Andreas Beitin, Friedrich von Borries, Lisa Garforth, Andreas Greiner, Folke Köbberling, Sebastian Mühl, Veronika Mehlhart, Marina Naprushkina, Anh-Linh Ngo, Karin Sander, Ludgar Schwarte, Dino Steinhof, Tilo Wesche et al.

Cooperation with Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

In German and English

€ 7,50 / 5

Tuesday, 16 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

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.