Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 18 Dec 2024
Guided Tours

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

George Grosz, Montör, Figurine für laufendes Band, 1927, watercolour, gouache, reed pen, pen, 50 x 37 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Kunstsammlung, Inv.-Nr.: HZ 6214 © Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, N.J. / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
4 Jul – 25 Nov
Exhibition

Das Kleine Grosz Museum
Bülowstr. 18
10783 Berlin

What kind of times are these? – Brecht, Grosz and Piscator

Thur – Mon 11 am – 6 pm

€ 10/6

Cooperation: Das Kleine Grosz Museum

Candida Höfer. Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024, Exhibition view Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2024, photo: Roman März, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
14 Sep – 24 Nov
Exhibition

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 11 am – 7 pm

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

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

Tickets for Guided tours

Curator's tours with Anke Hervol
Sun 10 Nov, 24 Nov at 2 pm

Special tours for groups, guided tours and workshops for school classes
Information and registration: kunstwelten@adk.de

sauerbruch hutton: Jessop West, Sheffield © Jan Bitter
25 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Exhibition

draw love build / sauerbruch hutton
tracing modernities

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays 11 am – 7 pm
closed on 24 & 31 Dec

€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 12 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for guided tours

Guided tours for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
3 Dec, 7 Jan at 5 pm
Free admission

Guided tours for deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
10 Dec, 14 Jan at 5 pm
Free admission

Exhibition tours with a thematic focus
Duration 90 min
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Guided tours and offers for school classes and groups: adk.de/kunstwelten

© Friederike Meese
27 Oct 2024 – 19 Jan 2025
Workshop

KUNSTWELTEN draw love build / sauerbruch hutton tracing modernities Biopolis – Residential City of the Future

Sunday workshops noon – 4 pm (no workshops on 22 and 29 Dec)

Led by Friederike Meese, Carina Kitzenmaier and Ingolf Watzlaw

Free admission

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov – 17 Dec
Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours

Tue 5 pm
5 Nov, 19 Nov, 3 Dec, 17 Dec

Thur 11 am
14 Nov, 28 Nov, 12 Dec

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Anna Seghers on the roof terrace of her house in Mexico City, around 1945; photo: © Anne Radvanyi
18 – 19 Nov
Workshop and Reading

Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

&

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

Writing across borders. Anna Seghers

18 Nov, 2 pm
19 Nov, 10 am
Workshop with Wiebke von Bernstorff, Florian Kappeler, Gabriele Radecke, Stefanie Thomas et al.

In German

Free admission

19 Nov, 7 pm
Grubetsch
Reading at Anna Seghers Museum

With students of the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch

In German

€ 7,50/5

Elżbieta Sikora, photo © Bartosz Krupa
Tuesday, 19 Nov
Concert

8 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

sample&hold #8: Klangmassen

Works by composer Elżbieta Sikora

Live electronic performance by Maximilian Marcoll

€ 7,50/5

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 20 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Ursula Krechel, photo © Gerald Zörner
Wednesday, 20 Nov
Archive Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Ursula Krechel: “But who was murdered, and who killed?”

With Ursula Krechel, Andreas Platthaus, Gabriele Radecke

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Leipziger Straße, Berlin © Ralf Roletschek
Friday, 22 Nov
Celebration with Award Ceremony

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Peter Joseph Lenné Prize 2024

Admission from 4:30 pm

Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo, Vice-President of the Akademie der Künste

Keynote: Theresa Keilhacker
Ceremonial Address: Bas Smets
Moderation: Marco Seiffert

In German and English

Free admission, registration required at
www.lenne-veranstaltungen.de

Rebecca Horn, Hahnenmaske, 1973 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
Saturday, 23 Nov
Talk, Film Screening, Showcase Presentation

6 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

La Lune Rebelle – An evening for Rebecca Horn

Admission as of 5 pm

Welcome: Karin Sander
Introduction: Peter Raue

Contributions by Timothy Baum, Jana Baumann, Giuliana Bruno, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Wulf Herzogenrath, Annika Karpowski, Andre T. Lepecki, Rebecca Raue, Sandra Beate Reimann, Nicholas Serota, Nancy Spector, Martin Wuttke et al.

In German and English

8 pm
Film screening
Buster’s Bedroom, Germany 1990, 104 min, in English

Buy ticket

General Panel System, drawing of a lorry at a construction site, around 1945, photograph of a drawing [Wachsmann-Konrad 98 F.11] © Ray Wachsmann
Tuesday, 26 Nov
Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

The Power of the Archives

With Matthias Sauerbruch, Amrei Buchholz, Anke te Heesen, Dirk van den Heuvel

In German and English

€ 7,50/5

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Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 27 Nov
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

© Die Vielen
Thursday, 28 Nov
Workshops, Panels, Working Groups

10 am – 8 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

COUNSEL OF THE MANY: TAKING ACTION AGAINST RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM

Cooperation: DIE VIELEN and further institutions & initiatives

In German

Free admission, ticket required

Sold out; remaining tickets may be available at the reception

Buy ticket

Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß
Friday, 29 Nov
Guided Tour

4 pm

Pariser Platz

Reading Room

The Library of the Arts

Library tour

Meeting point: Reading Room 1st Floor

In German

Free admission

Top: Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga © Elza Loginova / below: Lauren Siess © Lauren Siess
Saturday, 30 Nov
Award Ceremony and Concert

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Busoni Composition Prize

With Maximiliano Alejandro Soto Mayorga (award winner), Lauren Siess (sponsor award winner)

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

Laudationes: Chaya Czernowin, Hanna Hartman, Cornelius Schwehr

Concert with works by the award winners, Ferruccio Busoni and Aribert Reimann

With ensemble mosaik, Alexey Potapov, Magnus Lodgaard (conductor)

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 1 Dec
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Museum Sunday at the Anna Seghers Museum

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 15 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 3 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 4 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Hana Yoo, Limbo Sketch © Hana Yoo
Thursday, 5 Dec
Open Studios

6 pm – 10 pm

Hanseatenweg

Ateliers

JUNGE AKADEMIE: Open Studios

With the fellows Hana Yoo, Franziska Aigner & Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Jug Đorđević

In English

Free admission

© Piffl Medien / Schramm Film – Afire by Christian Petzold
Thursday, 5 Dec
Film and Talk

7 pm

Cine Circus Köthen
Weintraubenstraße 15
06366 Köthen

Christian Petzold: Afire

Roter Himmel, Germany 2023, 103 min
Director: Christian Petzold
Actors: Thomas Schubert, Paula Beer, Matthias Brandt

Followed by a talk with Christian Petzold

In German

Free admission

Cooperation: Kino Köthen, Mitteldeutsche Filmfreunde & Landkreis Anhalt-Bitterfeld

Lange//Berweck//Lorenz © Jasper Kettner
7 – 8 Dec
Concerts and Talks

Hanseatenweg

Studio + Studio Lobby

Winter Music – Echoes of Tomorrow

With Aaron Cassidy, Fabrik Quartet, Seth Josel, Lange//Berweck//Lorenz, RAGE Thormbones, Martin Smith, Samuel Stoll

Talks with Akademie members, moderated by the curators

In German

7 Dec
5:45 pm: talk
7 pm: concert

8 Dec
4 pm: concert
5:45 pm: talk
7 pm: concert

Concerts
€ 15/9

Day ticket 8 Dec
€ 20/12 (combined ticket)

Aerial view of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
10 Dec 2024 – 2 Mar 2025
Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4 A hotspot of German history

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 11 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Adania Shibli: Eine Nebensache © Berenberg Verlag
Wednesday, 11 Dec
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Academy Dialogue: Adania Shibli and Eva Menasse

Reading in German

Talk in English

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 12 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 18 Dec
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

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

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4


Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.

Silhouette by Arnold de Florence: Portrait of Heinrich Mann, c. 1910 © Akademie der Künste, Heinrich Mann Collection

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL: Life, Work, Legacy – A Transnational Reconstruction

Heinrich Mann’s estate is scattered throughout archives worldwide. Starting from the most important places of activity in his life, the virtual exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Archives tells the story of the estate and presents the “Heinrich Mann DIGITAL” international cooperation project. In German.

Subharchord. Photo © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Passport issued to Walter Benjamin, Berlin-Grunewald, 10 August 1928. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, photo: Nick Ash

DIGITAL

Archival Materials

Finds from the Archives

Selected text documents, special objects and works of art from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste representing all artistic disciplines.

Photo: Ellen Auerbach, Airwalk, 1946 (Renate Schottelius during the dance jump over rocks, La Cumbrecita). Modern Print, Argentina © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

digital.adk.de – images, sounds, art objects

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, which encompasses all art forms, collects and makes accessible the archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world.

DIGITAL

Digital Platform

junge-akademie.adk.de – The JUNGE AKADEMIE is online

The transdisciplinary and transcultural online magazine is a space to exhibit and experiment and a digital open studio, offering fellows the opportunity to network with each other and with Akademie members, to develop digital projects and to make the exchange of knowledge visible within the international network.

Der Zauberer John Heartfield [The Magician John Heartfield], 1943. Photo © Zoltan Wegner. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, John Heartfield Archive, No. 610

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

The online presentation "Kosmos Heartfield" complements the exhibition "John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite".

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

The graphic oeuvre of the political artist John Heartfield can be explored in a new online catalogue.

Photo © Roman März

DIGITAL

Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

The interactive 360° panoramic tour leads through the exhibition “John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite” at Pariser Platz.