Newsletter der Akademie der Künste

Kerstin Hensel and artist group BOOK-FACE: Das gefallene Fest, Leporello, 2010/2011, NB K. Hensel 191 © Kerstin Hensel / Photo: Roman Merz, 2019

Night of the Libraries

Guided Tours

4 Apr, 6 pm – 10 pm, Pariser Platz

Which books do artists collect? Which works inspire them to create works of their own? What artistic relationships can be identified from dedications? To mark the first nationwide Night of the Libraries, the Akademie der Künste is offering exclusive insights into its library holdings, showing unique specimens from private collections and giving tours of the restoration workshop and hidden stacks. In German.  more

© Piotr Nykowski

European Alliance of Academies
Polish Perspectives

Performance, Music, Reading, Debate

5 Apr, 2 pm, Hanseatenweg

On the occasion of the Polish EU Council Presidency, the European Alliance of Academies is organising a diverse programme to focus on the newly emerging artistic and cultural landscape in Poland. Artistic and discursive contributions will address the traces left behind by the PiS government's interference in artistic freedom and how the Polish art and culture scene is dealing with the political changes. In English, Polish and German.  more

Wolfgang Tillmans, Venus transit, 2009 © Wolfgang Tillmans

Akademie Talk:
Culture – the Blind Spot of Politics?

Talk

7 Apr, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

In the run-up to the coalition negotiations, culture hardly played a role. This is politically negligent – because few areas enjoy such broad support. This is the result of the “Relevance Monitor: Culture 2025” by the Liz Mohn Foundation, a nationwide, representative survey on the importance of cultural offerings. In the Akademie Talk, the results of the Relevance Monitor will be presented and the social significance of culture will be debated. With Carsten Brosda, Michel Friedman, Dorothea Gregor, Peter Laudenbach, Christiane Schenderlein, Anh-Linh Ngo and Manos Tsangaris. In German.  more

Esther Kinsky © Isabella de Maddalena

Esther Kinsky Heim.Statt

Reading and Talk

8 Apr, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

Esther Kinsky's Heim.Statt is a cycle of seven polyphonic long poems linked by short interludes. Esther Kinsky finds touching images for how departure, flight and loss have always been part of human existence and become the cause of hope and trauma. Esther Kinsky talks to Nico Bleutge about the recurring motifs of violence, injury and silencing in her poems. In German.  more

Raimund Kummer, Zerbrochener Blick, gespiegelte Knobelsdorffachse (Broken gaze, mirrored Knobelsdorff axes), 2016, showcases: float glass, steel / objects: Murano glass, showcase each: 215 x 113 x 243 cm, objects each: 80 x 80 x 200 cm, Raimund Kummer © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025

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

SpaceSoundIntervention

10 Apr – 14 May, Pariser Platz

The underlying spatial concept is an intervention in the 5 historical exhibition rooms at Pariser Platz, implementing a central axis through all the rooms – cut. Raimund Kummer uses the space for a vivid interplay of 5 sculptural fragments, in which Daniel Ott's site-specific composition is performed by up to 5 instrumentalists over a period of 5 weeks, for at least 5 hours a day. Opening on 9 Apr at 7 pm.  more

Katharina Grosse's studio on the grounds of the Wunderblock Foundation, Groß-Kreutz (Havel), 2024, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Photo: Studio Katharina Grosse

Rinderkombinat Völkerfreundschaft

Book Presentation and Talk

28 Apr, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg

The site of the former cattle combine of the Völkerfreundschaft Jeserig agricultural co-operative has belonged to the Wunderblock Foundation of the painter Katharina Grosse for three years. Annett Gröschner cuts a swathe through the history of the place, looks into archives, conducts interviews with contemporary witnesses and creates a collage of voices and documents. An event in the context of the exhibition “Ein Dorf 1950–2022”, which runs until 4 May at Hanseatenweg. In German.  more

Péter Esterházy © Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Marianne Fleitmann

Péter Esterházy
The wondrous afterlife of words

Archive Opening

29 Apr, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

Péter Esterházy’s works are characterised by an unmistakable language that internalises “the wondrous life of words”, advances its own thought process and likes to ironise. Texts by the Hungarian author as well as previously unknown documents from his estate are at the centre of the evening. After a reading and insights into the Esterházy Archive, Andreas Isenschmid will talk with György Dragomán, Terézia Mora and Ingo Schulze. In German.  more