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

Information on access to the Academy building on Pariser Platz from 12 June to 14 July can be found here.

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

Guided tours on Wednesdays at 5 pm for a maximum of 14 visitors per tour

In German

€ 7.50/5

Bridget Riley, Measure for Measure 18, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 93.6 × 93.6 cm © Bridget Riley [2024]. All rights reserved. Courtesy Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London. Photo: Anna Arca
27 Apr – 14 Jul
Exhibition

Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum
Schloss 1
16831 Rheinsberg

Bridget Riley
Circles and Discs (1961–2023)

Tue – Sun
10 am – 12:30 pm & 1 pm – 5:30 pm

€ 5/4

Opening
Sat 27 April, 11 am
With Peter Böthig, Robert Kudielka, Angela Lammert

Event
Sun 23 Jun, 3 pm
Bridget Riley and Contemporary Music
With Michael Maierhof, Robert Kudielka, Malte Giesen
Admission with exhibition ticket

Michael Ruetz and Astrid Köppe, Film still from Facing Time, Documentary, 2023, Direction: Annett Ilijew, © Photo: Ines Thomsen, © Annett Ilijew and Michael Ruetz
9 May – 4 Aug
Exhibition

Poesie der Zeit. Michael Ruetz – Timescapes 1966–2023

Information on access to the Academy building on Pariser Platz from 12 June to 14 July can be found here.

Tue – Sun 11 am – 7 pm
Tue 16 Juli Hall 4 will be closed at 5 pm

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

Tickets

Guided Tours
Tue 5 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Artist's and Curator's Tours
Sun 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Closing Event
Guided Tour with Michael Ruetz
Sun 4 Aug 2 pm

Tickets for Guided Tours

Film Screening at Cinema Klick
Facing Time by Annett Ilijew
Thur 13 June 8 pm, Sat 15 June 8 pm, Sun 16 June 5:30 pm, Tue 18 June 5:30 pm, Fri 28 June 5:30 pm

KUNSTWELTEN
Family Sundays, Special Tours, Workshops and Offers for School Classes

Opening
Wed 8 May 7 pm
Free admission

Tour for blind and visually impaired visitors
Thur 16 May 5 pm
Free admission

Tour for hearing and deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
Tue 28 May 5 pm
Free admission

Film Screening at Cinema Babylon
Facing Time by Annett Ilijew
Fri 10 May 7:30 pm

Sandra Vàsquez de la Horra, Photo: Private © The Artist
Tuesday, 18 Jun
Award Ceremony and Exhibition Opening

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

The Murmur of the Cosmos.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023

With Magdalena Atria Barros, Jenny Graser, Ulrike Grossarth, Katharina Koselleck and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris

Free admission

Exhibition
19 Jun – 25 Aug
Hanseatenweg, Hall 1

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 19 Jun
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

Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, La mismisima Misericordia, 2018, Photo: Eric Tschernow © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2024 – The Artist
19 Jun – 25 Aug
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 1

The Murmur of the Cosmos.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2023

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat & Sun 11 am – 7 pm

€ 6/4
Free admission under 18 years, Tuesdays and every first Sunday of the month

Tickets

Award ceremony and exhibition opening
Tue 18 Jun 7 pm
With Sandra Vásquez de la Horra et al.

Guided Tours
Tue 5 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided Tours

Exhibition Tour with Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Fr 21 Jun 5 pm
Registration: bildendekunst@adk.de

Curator's Tour with Anke Hervol
Tue 9 & 23 Jun each 5 pm
Sun 25 Aug 12 pm

Tour for blind and visually impaired visitors (together with ABSV)
Fri 21 Jun 5 pm
Free admission

Tour for deaf visitors with translation into German sign language
Tue 9 Jul 5 pm
Free admission

Performance by Prinz Gholam (Serpentara Fellows 2009) at the anniversary celebration in Olevano Romano (Italy), 23.09.2023 © Akademie der Künste, Photo: Alessio Panunzi
Thursday, 20 Jun
Celebration and Book Presentation

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

In the snake grove – 150 years of Serpentara

With Prinz Gholam, Moshtari Hilal, Inger-Maria Mahlke, Terézia Mora, Sarah Nemtsov, Rike Scheffler, ensemble mosaik and installations by Anna Hetzer, Felix Lüdicke, Ruth Kaaserer

Welcome: Manos Tsangaris, President of the Akademie der Künste
Greetings: Ingo Mix, Julia Draganović

In German and Italian

Free admission
Remaining Tickets are only available at the ticket counter on the day of the event.

Manos Tsangaris: GIANT, the mini-stage, © Krzysztof Zielinski
21 – 22 Jun
Music Theatre Miniature

Otto-Spielplatz im Otto-Park
Alt-Moabit 34
10555 Berlin

Manos Tsangaris: GIANT, the mini-stage

Daily at 3 pm, 4:30 pm, 6 pm

For visitors of all ages

With Max Andrzejewski and Mariel Jana Supka, performers

Free admission

Fri 21 Jun 4 pm
Discussion round in the circus tent of the Otto-Spielplatz

With Stefanie Remlinger, Mayor of Mitte district of Berlin, Manos Tsangaris, President of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Bernd Brunner, Head of the Otto-Spielplatz

Moderation: Thomas Büttner

Collage © AnniKa von Trier
Sunday, 23 Jun
Performance, Music, Reading

3 pm

John-Heartfield-Haus
Schwarzer Weg 12
15377 Waldsieversdorf

Hannah Höch visits John Heartfield’s garden

With AnniKa von Trier, Helmut Oehring and Michael Krejsa

In German

Free admission

Cooperation: Freundeskreis John Heartfield Waldsieversdorf e.V.

Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Into The Violet Belly, 2022, film still, © Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi
Friday, 28 Jun
Talks, Lecture Performances, Concert, Book Presentation

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Human Machine
About Uncertain Landscapes and the Anarchy of the Soul

With Franziska Aigner, Maithu Bùi, Clara Herrmann, HSURAE, Elise Misao Hunchuck, Sonya Isupova, Tiara Roxanne, Helen Turner, Siegfried Zielinski

Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo

Moderation: Clara Herrmann, Petja Ivanova, Tiara Roxanne, Sinthujan Varatarajah

Music: Pedro Oliveira und Gugulethu Duma

In English

Free admission
Please make a reservation

Cooperation: E-WERK Luckenwalde und VISIT / E.ON Stiftung

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 2 Jul
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: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 3 Jul
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

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

Cooperation: Das Kleine Grosz Museum

€ 10/6

Writing workshop with Rolf Giegold and Anna Weidenholzer, 2024 © Rolf Giegold
Friday, 5 Jul
Performance

10 am

Regionale Schule Ehm Welk
Ueckerstraße 59
17373 Ueckermünde

Here and there in Ueckermünde. And very far away

Performances at 10 am & 11:30 am

In German

Free admission

Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Andeas Süß, 2019
Sunday, 7 Jul
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

Top: Sonja vom Brocke © Ronald Dick / Bottom: Dieter Langewiesche © Markus Scholz for Leopoldina
Sunday, 7 Jul
Award Ceremony

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Lion Feuchtwanger Prize 2024:
Dieter Langewiesche Weiskopf Wedding Prize 2024:
Sonja vom Brocke

With Dieter Langewiesche and Sonja vom Brocke

Welcome: Kerstin Hensel
Laudators: Friedrich Wilhelm Graf and Tobias Lehmkuhl

In German

Free admission

Marine and Cècile Madelin, Vocations Salon Oktober 2023 © Andrea Vollmer
Monday, 8 Jul
Performance, Music, Reading

6:30 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Vocations: Open Space

In German and English

€ 4/2

Cooperation: JUNGE AKADEMIE, silent green Kulturquartier & Kulturstiftung Wiepersdorf

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 10 Jul
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

24th Poesiefestival Berlin 2023 © Mirko Lux
Sunday, 14 Jul
Readings

3 pm – 5 pm

Hanseatenweg

Beech Garden

Poets’ Corner

With Volker Braun, Ann Cotten, Ulrike Draesner, Ursula Krechel, Monika Rinck, Kathrin Schmidt

Moderation: Matthias Kniep and Katharina Schultens

Cooperation: poesiefestival berlin

In German

Free admission

Jorge Láscar from Australia, Quartier 207 – Galeries Lafayette, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (detail)
Monday, 15 Jul
Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Akademie Discussion: On the question of the cultural reutilisation of the Galeries Lafayette department store in Berlin

With et al.: Senator for Culture Joe Chialo, Manos Tsangaris, Anh-Linh Ngo, Dominique Alba, Volker Heller, Regine Keller, Katharina Schultens

In German

€ 7,50/5

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 17 Jul
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Wednesday, 17 Jul
Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Akademie Discussion: On the offbeat...and its social power in the arts

With et al.: Manos Tsangaris, Anh-Linh Ngo, Johanna M. Keller, Akademie members and guests

In German

€ 7,50/5

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 18 Jul
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

© Michel Jimenez / Estudio Fortuna
Friday, 19 Jul
Presentation

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Hall 3

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship Amanda Piña: To Bloom () Florecimiento

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship: Closing presentation with students of the MA programme Dance Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

Cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)

In English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 24 Jul
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Brecht-Haus (Brecht House), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 26 Jul
Guided Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Discovering Brecht between Chausseestraße and the Berliner Ensemble

Literary walk from Brecht-Haus (Brecht House) to Berliner Ensemble

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß
Friday, 26 Jul
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

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 31 Jul
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Akademie der Künste, Berlin © Photo: Andeas Süß, 2019
Sunday, 4 Aug
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

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 7 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 8 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin-Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 13 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 14 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 21 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House 

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Brecht-Haus (Brecht House), photo: Ingeborg Fries
Friday, 23 Aug
Guided Tour

1 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Discovering Brecht between Chausseestraße and the Berliner Ensemble

Literary walk from Brecht-Haus (Brecht House) to Berliner Ensemble

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
24 Aug – 1 Sep
Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Photo: © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
24 – 25 Aug
Long Night

Long Night of Museums

6 pm – 2 am

In German

Cooperation: Berliner Museen & Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH

Tickets online
from 29 July: € 12/10
from 12 Aug: € 18/12
up to 12 years free

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 28 Aug
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point in the courtyard of the Brecht House

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Reading Room Pariser Platz, photo: © Katja Strauß
Friday, 30 Aug
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


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.