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The 12th Berlin Biennale for Contempoary Art will take place from 11 June to 18 September 2022 at various venues in Berlin and will be curated by Kader Attia. Colonialism continues to have an impact in the present, long after people in the Global South have achieved political independence. More than 500 years of colonial […]

“Glutton? Thinking society without growth (> Nimmersatt? Gesellschaft ohne Wachstum denken)” opens at the end of November 2021. As a cooperation between the Kunsthalle Münster, the LWL Museum of Art and Culture and the Westfälischer Kunstverein, “Nimmersatt?” spans three institutions. The exhibition focuses on how human activity and constant growth change our coexistence and the […]

A much-acclaimed work of art in the exhibition Points of Resistance, which was presented in April 2021 in the Zionskirche in Berlin, was the “Little Burden Bear” by the stone sculptor Stefan Rinck. Feedback on this work gave rise to the idea of a symbolic, large version of the Lastenbär for public spaces, which could […]

The Berlin Gemäldegalerie is implementing an innovative lighting concept over the next two years. The museum will remain open to the public to a limited extent during this time. A reduction in the entrance fee is intended to make it attractive to visit the halls and cabinets, which will remain open. When and for how […]

From 4 November 2021, the artist Serkan Sarier, who was born in Germany (Hanau) and now lives in New York, will show his exhibition “Generation Kanacke / DER SPIEGEL Nr.31 / 29. Juli 1973” at the Zwölf-Apostel Kirche in Berlin. The exhibition with the challenging title presents works by the artist, which contextualize a continuous […]

With “The Sun Machine Is Coming Down”, the Berliner Festspiele will open the International Congress Centrum (ICC), which has been closed for years, for ten days and revive the futuristic architectural icon from 1979 with new and adapted art in the fields of performance, artistry, music, film and installation with national and international artists. The […]

The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) invites you to the festival “The Sound of Distance” with concerts, sound installations and talks from 21 to 24 October 2021. Evening tickets and festival passes will be available from the HKW from 04.10.2021. Admission to the sound installations is free. If the HKW were one big instrument […]

Already at the end of last year, the Executive Board of the ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations) unanimously elected Gitte Zschoch as the Institute’s new Secretary General. She took office on 1 October 2021. Gitte Zschoch will work at the ifa locations in Stuttgart and Berlin. The 37-year-old Gitte Zschoch comes from EUNIC (European […]

KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V., the support association of both the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, is delighted to announce the internationally acclaimed artist Katharina Grosse in her new function as chairwoman of the board. Katharina Grosse is succeeding Olafur Eliasson in this function, who is renouncing his responsibilities as […]

The director and choreographer Arila Siegert, together with the artists’ group Violett, undertakes for the first time the scenic realisation of Wassily Kandinsky’s stage composition Über die Mauer (Over the Wall) from 1913/14. The production was created as part of the academy’s focal point „Arbeit am Gedächtnis – Transforming Archives“ as a co-production of the Akademie der […]