Achim Freyer, photo: Lucie Jensch
Achim Freyer, photo: Lucie Jansch

As an exception, the Performing Arts Section honours its 2022 Awardee, the painter, stage designer and director Achim Freyer with a delay. The jury: Freyer possesses “[...] a pictorial inventiveness that [...] placed visual art and theatre in a new, egalitarian relationship.” With: Friedrich Dieckmann, Achim Freyer, Nele Hertling, Barrie Kosky, Gerd-Harry “Judy” Lybke. In German.

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Djenné Mosque, 2010, photo: © Bas Princen
Djenné Mosque, 2010, photo: © Bas Princen

The Great Repair
14 Oct 2023 — 14 Jan 2024

Exhibition

The exhibition discusses contradictions between growth and ecology based on architecture’s material culture. It presents more than 40 positions from art, architecture, and spatial practices in which repair becomes a new design paradigm. There are increasing calls for new strategies to reduce resource consumption and preserve and repair what already exists.

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Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, No. 365, Image 32
Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, No. 365, Image 32

Pariser Platz 4. A hotspot of German history
5 Dec 2023 — 1 Jan 2024

Presentation

The Akademie der Künste building at Pariser Platz reflects recent German history in a unique way. Traces of the changing uses and structural changes since 1907 are still visible today. A multimedia presentation shows how the ruptures and caesurae of the 20th century were inscribed in the history of the site and which personalities left their mark on the place. In German and English.

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Photo: Rimini Berlin
Photo: Rimini Berlin

The 21st issue with a new design focuses on questions of sustainability: with texts and photo series on “The Great Repair by Anh-Linh Ngo, Zara Pfeifer and Mierle Laderman Ukeles and literary contributions by Ulrike Draesner and Cécile Wajsbrot. Also: conversations with Luc Tuymans and Gundula Schulze Eldowy, short essays by Anna Hetzer, Moshtari Hilal as well as news from the Archives.

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What contributions can artists make to demand a policy that addresses climate change efficiently and expediently? How can art encourage the necessary transformation of society? More than 40 Akademie members call on each and every individual to push for climate protection. Their statements can currently be read on the glass façade of the Akademie der Künste building on Pariser Platz.

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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 © Jeanette Gonsior
Akademie der Künste at Pariser Platz. Photo © Jeanette Gonsior

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 413 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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Now available: Journal der Künste 21more

Akademie der Künste Autumn General Assembly 2023: Solidarity with Israel – Combating antisemitismmore

Speech by Jeanine Meerapfel, President of the Akademie der Künste, at the plenary session of the 61st General Assembly on 10 November 2023 in Berlinmore

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Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, No. 365, Image 32
5 Dec 2023 – 1 Jan 2024
Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max-Liebermann-Saal

Pariser Platz 4. A hotspot of German history

The Akademie der Künste building at Pariser Platz reflects recent German history in a unique way. Traces of the changing uses and structural changes since 1907 are still visible today. A multimedia presentation shows how the ruptures and caesurae of the 20th century were inscribed in the history of the site. In German and English.

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 12 Dec
Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Anna Seghers, who often appeared rather shy and cautious, found support among her friends, whom she trusted unreservedly, with whom she exchanged ideas and laughed unselfconsciously. The writer remained close to the actresses Steffie Spira and Helene Weigel, the author Berta Waterstradt and the politician Lore Wolf until the end of her life. Themed tour in German.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 13 Dec
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 (Dorotheenstadt 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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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 20 Dec
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 (Dorotheenstadt 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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Keep a Stiff Upper Lip! Gundula Schulze Eldowy and Robert Frank Exhibition, 25 Jan – 1 Apr 2024 more

Michael Ruetz – Poesie der Zeit. Timescapes 1966–2023 Exhibition: 9 May – 4 Aug 2024 more