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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.