Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
3 Oct 2018 – 31 Dec 2020
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Exhibition

Picture Cellar

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

Guided tours on Wednesday, 6 pm

In German

€ 6/4

© Arnold Dreyblatt
1 Oct 2019 – 30 Apr 2020
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Multimedia Installation

Arnold Dreyblatt: REPERTOIRE

Daily 10 am – 8 pm

Installation view: Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020. Timm Ulrichs: “Weiter im Text”. Akademie der Künste, Berlin © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020. Photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
24 Jan – 1 Mar
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Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 1

Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020.
Timm Ulrichs: “Weiter im Text”

Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Guided tours:
Wed 5 pm, Sun at noon.
€ 3 plus exhibition ticket

€ 5/3
Free admission for under 19s and Tuesdays, from 3 pm

Ingo Schulze. Photo © Gaby Gerster
Wednesday, 4 Mar
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Book Release

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Ingo Schulze: Die rechtschaffenen Mörder

Reading: Ingo Schulze

Discussion with Ulrike Vedder and Thomas Rosenlöcher

In German

€ 6/4

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Letters and postcards by Franz Kafka to Paul Kisch, 1902/1903. © Akademie der Künste, Photo: Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk, 2016
Saturday, 7 Mar
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Guided Tours

11 am – 3 pm

Akademie der Künste
Robert-Koch-Platz 10
10115 Berlin

10th Day of the Archives Communication. From Dispatch to Tweet

Lectures, films and guided tours through the storage areas and reading rooms of the archives of the Akademie der Künste

In German

Free admission

Cymatics. Photo: Caspar Johannes Walter
12 – 18 Mar
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Festival

Labor Beethoven 2020 Festival of Contemporary Music for the Beethoven Anniversary

Concerts, exhibition, installations, lectures, music theatre, performances

Younghi Pagh-Paan. Photo © Harald Rehling
Wednesday, 18 Mar
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Award Ceremony

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Berlin Art Prize 2020
Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948

Award ceremony for Younghi Pagh-Paan et al. presented by Jeanine Meerapfel and Klaus Lederer

In German and English

Free admission

Jose Dávila, The Act of Perseverance VII, 2019 © Jose Dávila. Courtesy of the artist and KÖNIG GALERIE Berlin, London, Tokyo
Thursday, 19 Mar
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Symposium

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Building culture? Between committed architectural practice and critical discourse

In German

€ 6/4

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John Heartfield, Krieg und Leichen, die letzte Hoffnung der Reichen, double page from the Arbeiter-Illustrierten-Zeitung, 1932, No. 18 © The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Friday, 20 Mar
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Exhibition Opening

7 pm

John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite

Exhibition opening with Jeanine Meerapfel, Werner Heegewaldt

In German

Free admission

John Heartfield, Krieg und Leichen, die letzte Hoffnung der Reichen, double page from the Arbeiter-Illustrierten-Zeitung, 1932, No. 18 © The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
21 Mar – 21 Jun
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Exhibition

John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite

Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Open on 13 Apr and 1 June 2020

€ 10/5. Free admission for under 19s and Tuesdays from 3 pm

Guided tours, Wed 5 pm, Sun at noon. € 3 plus exhibition ticket

John Heartfield, Gewehre, Bajonette, Dolche, Kanone und Hand, 1925–1968, mounting material from Heartfield's estate, photographers unknown © The Heartfield Community of Heirs / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020
Saturday, 21 Mar
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Archive Presentation

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite Heartfield. A Pecha Kucha Montage

Online and catalogue presentation with Richard Deacon, Tacita Dean, Maria Gough, Prem Krisnamurthy, Erdmut Wizisla, Andres Zervigon et al.

In German and English

€ 6/4 / € 12/7

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Lutz Seiler. Photo © Heike Steinweg / Suhrkamp Verlag
Tuesday, 24 Mar
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Book Release

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Lutz Seiler: Stern 111

Reading: Lutz Seiler

Introduction and discussion: Lothar Müller

Welcome: Friedrich Christian Delius

Music: Gogolin Jazz Quartett

In German

€ 6/4

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Wolfgang Kohlhaase. Photo © Inge Zimmermann
Tuesday, 24 Mar
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Radio Play

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Die Grünstein-Variante
Eine Geschichte in Erinnerung an Geschichten, die Ludwig Turek erzählt hat

Radio play by Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Directed by Günther Rücker, Barbara Plensat

DDR 1976, 50 min.

In German

€ 6/4

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Younghi Pagh-Paan. Photo © Harald Rehling
Thursday, 26 Mar
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Concert and Discussion

8 pm

Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Schaperstraße 24
10719 Berlin

Großer Kunstpreis Berlin 2020 at MaerzMusik. Younghi Pagh-Paan

Concert with Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin and Angela Postweiler

Artist talk with Lydia Jeschke and Younghi Pagh-Paan

In German

€ 20/15

Tickets: Berliner Festspiele online shop

Eva Horn. Photo: Helmut Grünbichler © Eva Horn
Friday, 27 Mar
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Award Ceremony

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Heinrich Mann Prize 2020. Eva Horn

Laudatory address: Anselm Haverkamp

Acceptance speech and discussion

In German

Free admission

Wolfgang Kieling, film still
Wednesday, 1 Apr
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Film and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Standgericht

Film by Rolf Busch

GER 1966, 103 min

Followed by discussion with Britta Hartmann, Ralf Oberndörfer, Hans Helmut Prinzler

In German

€ 6/4

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Kerstin Hensel. Photo © Susanne Schleyer / autorenarchiv.de
Wednesday, 1 Apr
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Book Release

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Clubroom

Kerstin Hensel: Regenbeins Farben

Reading: Kerstin Hensel

Introduction and discussion: Carola Opitz-Wiemers

In German

€ 6/4

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John Heartfield. Das Berliner Adressbuch 1950 bis 1968 © Quintus-Verlag
Thursday, 2 Apr
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Book Presentation

7 pm

John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite John Heartfield. The Berlin Address Book, 1950 to 1968

Book presentation with Christine Fischer-Defoy, Michael Krejsa, Kirsten Block, Christian Steyer, Christian Kesten

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

In German

€ 6/4 / € 12/7

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Stamps and adhesive stamps on the reverse of paintings from the Art Collection © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 8 Apr
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Tour

10:30 am

Kunstsammlung
Luisenstraße 60
10115 Berlin

2. Provenance Research Day

Depot tours with Carolin Faude-Nagel and Anna Schultz

In German

Free admission

Sergej Eisenstein, Strike, 1924, source: Deutsche Kinemathek
Tuesday, 21 Apr
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Films and Discussions

6:30 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite “Montage of Attractions" – and Time Shifts

6:30 pm: La Jetée, Film by Chris Marker, F 1962, 26 min

8 pm: Strike, Film by Sergej Eisenstein, UdSSR 1925, 82 min

Piano: Jürgen Kurz

Lecture: Gusztáv Hámos, Naum Kleeman, Ulrich Gregor

In German

€ 6/4 / € 12/7

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Alfred-Döblin Haus, Wewelsfleth. Photo © Maria Cecilia Barbetta
Tuesday, 21 Apr
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Reading

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Clubroom

2019 Alfred Döblin Fellows

Reading with Franz Friedrich, Tomer Gardi, Anja Kümmel, Svenja Leiber, Ilija Matusko, Katerina Poladjan, Katharina Schlender, Lars Werner, Ron Winkler

Moderation: Jörg Feßmann

In German

Free admission

Thomas Heise, Material, 2009, documentary, film still © Thomas Heise
Saturday, 25 Apr
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Discussions

7:30 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Crash of the Utopias

Discussions, film and music with Jeanine Meerapfel, Gabriela Massuh, Sergio Ramírez, Aleš Šteger, Uwe Timm, Alberto Barrera Tyszka et al.

In German and Spanish

€ 8/6

Corpus Christi, film still © Arsenal Filmverleih
Thursday, 30 Apr
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Opening Event

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

filmPOLSKA

Festival opening

Corpus Christi, Film by Jan Komasa with Bartosz Bielenia

PL 2019, 115 min., OmU

In German

Free admission

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