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In 2020, the HKW will intensify its examination of the pressing questions of the present and their historical conditions in a multitude of programmes with very diverse and specific thematic settings: The HKW presents the sensational reconstruction of Aby Warburg’s picture atlas Mnemosyne (together with the Gemäldegalerie) and proclaims the Bildungsherbst, it asks about the […]

On 23.01.2020 the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020 will be awarded to Timm Ulrichs in a public ceremony and exhibition opening. In the year of his 80th birthday, the Academy of Arts will honour the Berlin-born artist for his life’s work, which to this day remains a treasure trove and source of inspiration for subsequent generations […]

Until the 11th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art starts in Berlin on June 13, 2020, it will be preceded by three “Experiences” since autumn 2019. The 11th Berlin Biennale will then develop processually with exp. 1, exp. 2 and exp. 3, and from 13 June to 13 September 2020 it will bring these experiences together […]

50 artists will show their works for one week in the 50/50 group exhibition starting January 18, 2020 at Paul Fleischmann Haus in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen. The exhibition is curated by Grigori Dor and Mascha Naumova. It opens on Saturday, 18 January at 7 pm with vernissage, after-show and 50th B-Day party including cake at midnight. Fifty-fifty! […]

The transmediale 2020 entitled End to End (End2End) aims at a comprehensive re-evaluation of networks and their boundaries. In addition to the exhibition The Eternal Network at the House of World Cultures (20.01.-01.03.2020), a film and video programme, a Student Forum and a workshop programme at the HKW, transmediale presents a two-day symposium at the […]

The painter Marc Taschowsk was born in Frankfurt/Main in 1972 and grew up in Dortmund. From 1996 to 2001 he studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig and received a diploma in free art in 2002. He spent study visits in Korea and Japan, and in 2018 he was Artist in Residence in […]

In autumn 2019 the US-American painter Chris Hood was Resident Artist of 68projects, the Project Space of Galerie Kornfeld, in cooperation with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House e.V. During his several weeks’ stay in Berlin the Berlin Fellow of Villa Aurora created a new complex of works influenced by the city surrounding him. Following […]

Christmas I’m longing for a land of peace and security I think I knew it once, as I looked up at the starry sky and saw it clearly before my eyes, infinite space. And then something happened to me: I sensed, felt.., that everything: stars, mountain and valley, whether far-off lands, foreign people, be it […]

In January 2020, Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Friedrichwerder Church, which had been closed for years due to renovation work, will be on display again for the first time, before it will be used again as a museum by the National Gallery from summer 2020. On Saturday, 18 January, and Sunday, 19 January 2020, from 10 a.m. […]

Haus am Waldsee will continue its exhibition program with a focus on international contemporary art with five German, one American and one Russian artist in Berlin in the year 2020. Four painters, architects and sculptors face an architect and two sculptors. As in previous years, various media, painting, sculpture, and architecture of a generation born […]