Picture Cellar

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

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

display depot architecture models

Guided tours

Thur 24 Apr 11 am
Tue 29 Apr 5 pm

From 1 May:
Thur 5 pm

Special themed tours and group tours can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Tickets for guided tours (from 1 May)

Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig - Two artists in Palestine

Tue – Sun
10 am – 1 pm & 2 – 7 pm

€ 10

Free admission for school classes

Guided tours by appointment: 03334 64-411

Ein Dorf 1950–2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

Combined ticket with exhibition “what stands between us”
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 20 Apr 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Curator’s tour with Marit Lena Herrmann (for deaf and hearing guests with translation into German sign language)
Sun 4 May 2 pm

Scenic Readings with Kerstin Hensel, students from the HfS Ernst Busch
Thur 6 Mar, 20 Mar, 3 Apr, 24 Apr
each at 5 pm
Sun 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 6 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided tours & Readings

Education programme, workshops for school classes
at adk.de/kunstwelten

In the frame of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

In cooperation with OSTKREUZ Photographers Agency

EMOP Berlin: what stands between us.
Photography as a Medium for Chronicling

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

Combined ticket with exhibition “Ein Dorf 1950–2022”
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Guided tours
For all guided tours a free ticket is required which is available at the box office on site.

Sun 20 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Sat 3 May at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Curator’s tour with Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Sun 4 May 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

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

Tue – Sat 2 – 7 pm
Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Public tour
(Inclusive tours for deaf and hearing guests, with translation into German sign language, and for blind, visually impaired and sighted guests, with ABSV)
Wed 30 Apr, 7 May
each at 5 pm
With Anke Hervol
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Holders of a disabled person's pass and their accompanying attendant receive free admission.

Buy ticket 30 Apr
Buy ticket 7 May

Family Sunday
Sun 4 May 1 & 4:30 pm
Musicians present their instruments

Artist Talk
Tue 13 May 5 pm
With Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott
Moderation: Anke Hervol
Free admission, Ticket required and available at the box office on site

Finissage “Cuts”
Sat 17 May 8 pm
Films, Readings, Audio Play
€ 10/7

Education programme at adk.de/kunstwelten

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten. Drei Jahrzehnte mit den Kindern von Golzow und der DEFA. Ein Film über einen Film

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten. Drei Jahrzehnte mit den Kindern von Golzow und der DEFA. Ein Film über einen Film,
D 1961–1992, 284 min, restored print

With Barbara and Winfried Junge (Directors), Marieluise Seidel, Bernhard Guderjahn (Protagonists)

Moderation: Stefanie Eckert (DEFA Foundation)

In German

€ 7,50/5

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KUNSTWELTEN in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald Homeland. Fear. How to carry on living?

28 – 30 Apr and 6 – 8 May

Art project with Kerstin Hensel, Mark Lammert and pupils of the 9th grade

Rinderkombinat Völkerfreundschaft

With Annett Gröschner, Katharina Grosse

Moderation: Bernadette Conrad

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Péter Esterházy
The wondrous afterlife of words

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

Reading: Matthias Scherwenikas

Archive presentation: Katalin Madácsi-Laube

Talk: György Dragomán, Andreas Isenschmid, Terézia Mora, Ingo Schulze

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

A Suitcase for the Archives: German-speaking exile theatre in the Soviet Union

With Andrea Clos and Anett Schubotz

In cooperation with the Stiftung Exilmuseum

In German

Free admission

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

“A little volcano”: Helene Weigel on her 125th birthday

With Johanna Schall, Matthias Braun, Volker Braun, Mina Guschke, Josefa Heinsius, Sabine Kebir, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Claudia Roth, Alexander Stillmark, Çiğdem Teke, Vera Tenschert, Holger Teschke, Maria Wischnewski et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission

Poesiefestival Berlin 2025

Events at the Akademie der Künste

Opening: Berlin Poetry Lecture
Tue 3 Jun 6 pm

Writing Sports
Sat 14 Jun from 2 pm

Poetry talks, readings, book market, Weltklang
Sun 15 Jun from 11 am

In cooperation with the Haus für Poesie

In German and English

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Cuts

Finissage „5-5-5-5 cut Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott“

With Katja Lange-Müller, Kathrin Röggla, Kathrin Schmidt, Katharina Schultens, Ulf Stolterfoht et al.

Films by Dieter Appelt, VALIE EXPORT, Jochen Kuhn, Bjørn Melhus, Marcel Odenbach et al.

€ 10/7

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International Museum Day

Guided tours

Brecht-Weigel Museum
11 am – 6 pm every hour
Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

Anna Seghers Museum
11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm
Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Paul Wiegler: Gabriele – A novel from the estate

With Gernot Krämer, Gabriele Radecke

Welcome: Christian Hippe and Sabine Wolf
Reading: Max von Pufendorf
Moderation: Sieglinde Geisel

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

€ 6/4

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Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

„Erfreut sich die Ausstellung weiterer Unbeliebtheit?“
Moderne Kunst in schwierigen Zeiten

With Durs Grünbein and Matthias Weichelt

In German

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025 Readings in competition

With Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Experts: Leander Berger, Anne Sauer, Jeffrey Trehudic, Isabel Wanger, Laura Weber

In German

€ 9/5

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KULA Compagnie: Dibbuk – between (two) worlds

Based on the play by Salomon An-Ski

Direction: Robert Schuster
Stage design: Sascha Gross
Dramaturgy: Yotam Gotal
Dramaturgical support: Zainab Qadiri
Music: Max Bauer

Coproduction: dasvinzenz Theater, KULA Compagnie

In Moroccan-Arabic, Persian, German, French, Hebrew, Russian and Yiddish with German and English surtitles

€ 15/9

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Alfred Döblin Prize 2025

With the Award winner

Finalists: Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Lecture: Jan Kuhlbrodt

In German

Free admission

Diva in grey

With Helke Misselwitz, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer

Works by Helga Paris, Elke Erb, Thomas Heise, Thomas Plenert et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

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The war and the position of literature

With Marcel Beyer, Thomas Ehrsam, Kateryna Mishchenko, Henrik Mrochen, Zalina Sanchez

Moderation: Elisa Primavera-Lévy

Welcome: Gustav Seibt

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Welcome in – a musical excursion

Artistic direction: Christopher Fox, Julia Gerlach

With works, performances, installations by
Peter Ablinger, Lore Ammenabar Larrañaga, Birke Bertelsmeier, Annesley Black, Sofia Borges, Nikolaus Brass, Raven Chacon, Huihui Cheng, Sidney Corbett, Axel Dörner, Dominic Flynn, Malin Grass, Sofia Gubaidulina, Steve Heather, Benjamin Kautter, Carina Khorkhordina, Veli Kujala, Liudas Mockūnas, Kirsten Reese, Martin Riches, Daniel Rothman / Carola Bauckholt, Sofia Salvo, Iris ter Schiphorst, Annette Schmucki, Sol-i So, Nurit Stark, Kristine Tjøgersen, Casper Johannes Walter / Dragana Tomic, Kathryn Williams, Yiran Zhao et al.

Free admission

Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Pariser Platz 4

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Aspects of Presence
Art in times of militarisation

Thur 5 Jun from 5:30 pm

Fri 6 Jun from 3 pm

With Nabil Ahmed, Maithu Bùi, Philipp Goll, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ali Akbar Mehta, Oleksiy Radynski, Magda Szpecht, Tobias Zielony et al.

In cooperation with the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius an the Goethe-Institut Litauen

In English

Day ticket: € 7,50/5

Akademie Talk: Triggering

With Karin Sander, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johanna M. Keller, Anh-Linh Ngo, Manos Tsangaris et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

In the Amber – On the estate library of Christoph Meckel

With Gila Funke-Meckel, Marit Heuß, Adela Sophia Sabban, Susanne Thier

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission
Registration at bibliothek@adk.de

Summer Party at Brecht House

Music, Guided tours, Readings, Open Archive and more

With Andreas Dresen, Jürgen Kuttner, Helke Misselwitz, students from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Long night of reading by the Alfred Döblin fellows

With Ines Berwing, Fabienne Dür, Karl Wolfgang Flender, Friedrich Klingenhage, Nora Deetje Leggemann, Anna Melikova, Najem Wali and Julia Willmann

Moderation: Nathalie Mälzer

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

European Alliance of Academies
Café Climate Paris

With Matteo Barsuglia, Liesbeth Bik, Kirsten Reese, Iris ter Schiphorst, Lucie Taïeb, Cécile Wajsbrot et al.

In German, French and English

In cooperation with the Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris

Free admission

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

With Marta Peris (PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES), Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger)

Moderation: Hilde Léon

In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation

Free admission
Registration required

Reserve ticket

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Thur 26 Jun, Sat 28 Jun, Sun 29 Jun
Hanseatenweg

Fri 27 Jun
Pariser Platz

With Andrei Cucu, Annette Krebs, Arezou Rezaei, Burkhard Beins, Christian Winther Christensen, Emilio Gordoa, Ensemble Ascolta, Frank Gratowski, Gerriet K. Sharma, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Hainbach, Hanna Hartman, Heather Frasch, Hugo Morales, JD Zazie, Julia Mihály, Ketevan Hahn, Magda Mayas, Maria Pelekanou, Marisol Jimenez, Matthias Koole, Mazen Kerbaj, Ming Tsao, Niko De Paula Lefort, Owen Gardner, Raed Yassin, Susanne Fröhlich, Teresa Carrasco, Thomas Schulz, Tony Buck, Tony Elieh, Ute Wassermann, Viola Yip, Yorgos Dimitriadis

In collaboration with DEGEM, FU Berlin, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, HfM Saar, SWR Experimentalstudio, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf & Ensemble Ascolta

Funded by Musikfonds e.V.

With kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Ticket prices:
Festival: € 70/50
Concerts: € 10–15/7–9
Installations: Free admission

Tickets for concerts

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Heartfield yesterday?
Heartfield today!

With Katja Erfurth, Michael Krejsa, Helmut Oehring, Manos Tsangaris, Hermann Zwerschke

In German

Free admission