The Akademie will be showing photographs by Nan Goldin, recipient of the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022, from five decades. The US artist occupies a central position in contemporary photography. The exhibition features photographs from the early Boston years, New York, Berlin, and Asia, as well as recent large-scale works such as landscapes and Grids. Award Ceremony on Friday, 3 March, at 8 pm. Free admission.

Where is the boundary between models of reality and lived experience? The collaborative exhibition by Alan Butler and Simone C Niquille as part of this year's transmediale festival “a model, a map, a fiction” questions the technical and socio-political implications of computer-vision technologies. The premiere of the two new large-scale video works can be seen at the Akademie at Hanseatenweg until 26 Feb.

What makes films good? When did the attitude of placing the content of a film above its aesthetic form emerge and where did it come from? Where is the appreciation of film art as a composition of images, colours and sounds? Jeanine Meerapfel and Dominik Graf talk with Thomas Heise, Nicolette Krebitz and Carolin Schmitz about the essence of cinema, about what makes films unique. In German.

The latest issue explores the prerequisites for preserving the role of public media as an instrument of democracy, the challenges of artificial intelligence, and the important role of (art) critique. Other topics are the fundamental consequences political radicalization in Europe has for artistic freedom, Nan Goldin's photographs and the exhibtion “Provenance Research”.

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 422 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.