5-5-5-5 cut
Raimund Kummer /
Daniel Ott

10 Apr – 14 May

SpaceSoundIntervention

5 rooms, 5 sculptures, 5 instrumentalists, 5 hours a day over a five-week period: in “5-5-5-5 cut”, sculptor Raimund Kummer and composer Daniel Ott interact sculpturally, spatially, acoustically and with digital projections in the historical exhibition halls at the Akademie der Künste’s Pariser Platz venue. This experiment entices visitors to discover spatial and auditory encounters with the musicians within the space.

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Ludwig Schirmer, from the series Ein Dorf, 1950–1960 © Ludwig Schirmer/OSTKREUZ
Ludwig Schirmer, from the series Ein Dorf, 1950–1960 © Ludwig Schirmer/OSTKREUZ

The exhibition is a long-term project by three photographers on the Thuringian village of Berka, that extends far beyond the borders of that village. The more than 120 photographs in the exhibition interweave personal destinies and world history, autobiographical references and artistic approaches. All works depict one location over a period of 70 years. As part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025.

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Tobias Zielony, untitled. From the series: Das, was euch am Leben erhält, ist was bei uns zu Asche zerfiel, 1997–2005. C-print, 15x10 cm. Courtesy of: KOW, Berlin
Tobias Zielony, untitled. From the series: Das, was euch am Leben erhält, ist was bei uns zu Asche zerfiel, 1997–2005. C-print, 15x10 cm. Courtesy of: KOW, Berlin

In times of crisis, we let ourselves to be polarised by images. We want to use our own voice – and images – to counter the increasing division. But what knowledge can photographic images still convey? Isn’t it the camera that stands between us? This central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025 presents projects by around 20 artists that stand for listening and learning from Others through their own voices.

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Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

The Schaudepot (display depot) provides an exclusive insight into the Akademie der Künste’s outstanding collection of architectural models. The highlights of the collection can be seen in a permanent exhibition with a selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 artists. Temporary exhibitions explore current topics relating to architecture and urban planning. Guided tours in German.

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Paintings on cellar walls
Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, Photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß

Picture Cellar
Wednesdays, 5 pm

Guided Tour

In the middle of the political “Tauwetter-Periode” (thaw period), the master students of the German Akademie der Künste celebrate carnival in the coal cellar in 1957 and 1958. The murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder and Horst Zickelbein can be visited as a unique testimony to unofficial art in the GDR and as part of the eventful history of the institution and the building. Guided tours in German.

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Anna Seghers Museum
Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

Bertolt Brecht's study, Helene Weigel's conservatory, Anna Seghers' “crow's nest” : Regular tours offer visitors a chance to view the homes and studies of the writer Bertolt Brecht, actress and theatre director Helene Weigel and the writer Anna Seghers, largely kept in their original condition. The tours provide an insight into how these three major international figures in the arts world of the 20th century lived and worked. In German.

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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 425 members in its six Sections Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts. It is an exhibition and event location. Its Archives collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art. Founded in 1696, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe.

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 23 Apr
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

The Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Berlin – not least because Brecht's last resting place is here. But many of his comrades-in-arms are also laid to rest here. If one were to draw threads between the graves, a densely interwoven web would emerge. The tour aims to trace these lines, references and influences. In German.

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Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 24 Apr
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

“Through books that will come into being here, I want to help prevent the mistakes of the past from ever being repeated”, Anna Seghers said after she arrived in Berlin in 1947. She had returned as a world-famous author from exile to Germany. For many authors in the young GDR, including Christa Wolf and Heiner Müller, her multi-layered work offered a source of literary inspiration. In German.

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Marieluise on a class trip, end of 10th grade, 1971 © Winfried Junge
Sunday, 27 Apr
Film and Talk

3:30 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten

Completed in 2007, the chronicle of the Children of Golzow, who started school in 1961 shortly after the Berlin Wall was built, is the oldest long-term observation in film history. In 18 biographies GDR history is condensed into individual portraits. As a workshop report, this tenth of 19 films also reflects for the first time the unique upheavals of the years 1989/90 and the resulting problems for the chroniclers. In German.

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Katharina Grosse's studio on the grounds of the Wunderblock Foundation, Groß-Kreutz (Havel), 2024, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Photo: Studio Katharina Grosse
Monday, 28 Apr
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studiofoyer

Rinderkombinat Völkerfreundschaft

In the Havel Valley lies a site with stables and barns that has belonged to the Wunderblock Foundation of the painter Katharina Grosse for three years. From 1961 to 1991 it was the cattle combine of the Jeserig Völkerfreundschaft agricultural co-operative. Annett Gröschner cuts a swathe through the history of the place, looks into archives, visits the cattle breeding museum, conducts interviews with contemporary witnesses and creates a collage of voices and documents. In German.

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Péter Esterházy © Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Marianne Fleitmann
Tuesday, 29 Apr
Archive Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenarsaal

Péter Esterházy
The wondrous afterlife of words

Péter Esterházy’s works are characterised by an unmistakable language that internalises “the wondrous afterlife of words”, advances its own thought process and likes to ironise. Texts by the Hungarian author as well as previously unknown documents from his estate are at the centre of the evening. After a reading and insights into the Esterházy Archive, Andreas Isenschmid will talk with György Dragomán, Terézia Mora and Ingo Schulze. In German.

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 4 May
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Sundays at Seghers’

The writer Anna Seghers lived in Berlin Adlershof for almost three decades. Her former flat in an apartment building has been open to the public as a museum since 1985. Most of her apartment remains unchanged. The extensive library can be viewed in the living room and study. In 2025, the Anna Seghers Museum will continue to open every first Sunday of the month from 11 am to 4 pm and offer guided tours in German.

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Aspects of Presence. Art in Times of Militarization
Symposium: 5–6 June 2025, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Exhibition: October 2025 – January 2026, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Publication: Summer 2026
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Exhibition: 4 Jul – 2 Aug 2025
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Every Artist Must Take Sides – Resonances of Eslanda and Paul Robeson
Exhibition: 14 Nov 2025 – 25 Jan 2026, Festival: 23 – 25 Jan 2026
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