Press Releases 2019

16 December 2019

Akademie der Künste demands Julian Assange receive humane treatment under the rule of law

The Akademie der Künste is concerned for Julian Assange's welfare. The manner in which the journalist, publicist, and publisher is being held in unwarranted solitary confinement at London's Belmarsh maximum security prison indicates a lack … more

16 December 2019

Exhibition "Helga Paris, Photographer": Opening hours at the holidays

The Academy exhibition "Helga Paris, Photographer" at Pariser Platz is also open on Christmas Day and New Year's Day. The exhibition will only be closed on 24 and 31 December. Until 12 January 2020, the Akademie der Künste is presenting the … more

11 December 2019

Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020. Timm Ulrichs: Weiter im Text
Exhibition, 24 January until 1 March 2020
Invitation to the press preview:
Wednesday, 22 January 2020, 11 am

Exhibition hall open from 10.30 am Afterwards press tour with the artist Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Please register for the press preview at: Tel +49 (0)30 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de With Timm Ulrichs Wulf … more

10 December 2019

Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel supports Cuban film as by chairing jury at this year’s Havana film festival

Akademie president and filmmaker Jeanine Meerapfel is the jury president at the 41st International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana, which features over 300 films before ending on December 15. The Havana Festival is comparable to the … more

21 November 2019

Akademie der Künste discussion on the controversial reconstruction of Potsdam’s Garrison Church
With Thomas Albrecht, Wolfgang Huber, Saskia Hüneke, Detlef Karg, Philipp Oswalt, Hildegard Rugenstein, Matthias Sauerbruch and Ellen Schweda
Event on Wednesday, 4 December, Pariser Platz

The tower of Potsdam's Garnisonkirche, or Garrison Church, has been under reconstruction since 2017 under the auspices of the Bundespräsident. The public controversy surrounding this project, however, shows no sign of abating – on the contrary. … more

18 November 2019

Colonial Repercussions V: The Namibian Case
Symposium on 29 November 2019, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

The issue of (post)colonial injustice is more present than ever before in legal and cultural policy debates in both Germany and Europe. Still, this development towards addressing the past has not had much impact in the successor states of former … more

13 November 2019

Multimedia installation They tried to bury us by Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi as part of “Colonial Repercussions V: The Namibian Case”
29 November – 8 December 2019, Pariser Platz, Blackbox

Invitation to a press tour with the artist

Friday, 29 November 2019, 10 am With Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi, Johannes Odenthal In English Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin Please register for the press event at: Tel. 030 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de As part of the … more

11 November 2019

Busoni Composition Prize 2019 awarded to Hanna Eimermacher
Advancement Prize awarded to Hovik Sardaryan
Award Ceremony and Concert at 15 November, 8 pm
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

This year, the Busoni Composition Prize, endowed with 6,000 euros, goes to composer Hanna Eimermacher, who lives in Gelsenkirchen. The 2,500-euro advancement prize has been awarded to Hovik Sardaryan from Armenia. The award ceremony and concert will … more

30 October 2019

Moving Sand / Topos
An audiovisual essay of film, music, dance and text
Performance on Saturday, 09 November, at 7 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany

Artificial intelligence has a radical effect on nearly all areas of human life. The audiovisual essay Moving Sand / Topos ‒ by composer and musician Floros Floridis and filmmaker and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel ‒ is inspired by these … more

24 October 2019

Akademie der Künste Opens Peter Lilienthal Archive
Event on 29 October 2019, Hanseatenweg

The Akademie der Künste has taken over the archive of film director Peter Lilienthal, which it will open on 29 October with an event taking place on Hanseatenweg. The welcoming address will be held by Berlin Mayor Michael Müller and Jeanine … more

23 October 2019

Disintegration and Empathy
On Jewish Identities and Reactions to Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia
Academy Dialogue with Max Czollek, Anna Schapiro
and Jeanine Meerapfel

Wednesday, 30 October, 8 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin >> Press tickets at presse@adk.de, Tel. 030 200 57-1514 In her Akademie-Dialog series, Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel talks with author Max Czollek and visual … more

16 October 2019

Harpsichord and Other Keys
Two concerts on 25 and 26 October 2019, 8 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

The Music Section of the Akademie der Künste devotes two concerts to the distinctive keyboard instruments harpsichord, accordion and piano. In dialogue with selected works for piano or accordion and electronics by Myriam Marbe, Younghi Pagh-Paan, … more

15 October 2019

etc is poetry: Poetry, Poetics, Positions
Focus on poetry at Akademie der Künste on 25–26 October

With Nico Bleutge, Nora Bossong, Michael Braun, Volker Braun, Ann Cotten, Ulrike Draesner, Harald Hartung, Kerstin Hensel, Julia Kadel, Ursula Krechel, Michael Lentz, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Angelika Niescier, Steffen Popp, Monika Rinck, Thomas … more

10 October 2019

Helga Paris, Photographer
8 November 2019 – 12 January 2020

Invitation to the Press Preview:
Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 11 am

Exhibition halls open at 10:30 am Followed by a press tour with the curator Inka Schube Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin Please register at: tel. 030 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de With Jeanine Meerapfel, filmmaker and President of … more

8 October 2019

Akademie der Künste acquires the György Konrád Archive

The Akademie der Künste has received the archive of its former president, the writer György Konrád (1933-2019). Wishing to make his extensive work in Berlin accessible to researchers and the public, Konrád donated it to the society of artists a … more

9 September 2019

13th Academy Discussion [and …]
Art + AI: ?

Kristoffer Gansing in discussion with Jake Elwes, Maya Indira Ganesh, Jeanine Meerapfel and Thomas Wiegand Wednesday, 18 September, 8 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin >> Press tickets at presse@adk.de, T +49 (0)30 200 57-1514 … more

21 August 2019

KONTAKTE '19
Advance ticket sales and programme for the Third Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art
25 – 29 September 2019, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

The Akademie der Künste is hosting the third edition of its International Biennal for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art with KONTAKTE '19. The event will take place from 25 to 29 September at the Hanseatenweg location. Over five days, around … more

21 August 2019

Magic Media – Media Magic
Video art since the 1970s from the Wulf-Herzogenrath-Archive
12 September – 13 October 2019

Invitation to the Press Preview:
Tuesday, 10 September 2019, 1 pm

Exhibition halls open at 12:30 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin Please register for the press date at: Tel. 030 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de With Wulf Herzogenrath, curator and director of the Fine Arts Section, Akademie der … more

19 August 2019

Heidi Specogna Awarded the 2019 Konrad Wolf Prize

Swiss documentary filmmaker and director Heidi Specogna receives the Akademie der Künste's Konrad Wolf Prize in 2019. The award ceremony for the prize, endowed with €5000, takes place in Berlin on 20 October 2019. Akademie members Alexander … more

13 August 2019

Busoni Composition Prize 2019 awarded to Hanna Eimermacher
Advancement Prize awarded to Hovik Sardaryan

The Busoni Composition Prize 2019 has been awarded to Frankfurt-based composer Hanna Eimermacher. The prize is endowed with 6,000 euros. The 2,500-euro advancement prize has been awarded to Hovik Sardaryan from Armenia. The jury consisted of members … more

12 August 2019

Thomas Florschuetz – Zwischenzeit
Exhibition opening on 24 August 2019 in Rheinsberg

Every year, the Visual Arts Section of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin presents the work of one of its members at the Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum at Rheinsberg Palace. This year's exhibition is dedicated to Thomas Florschuetz and includes a … more

7 August 2019

Helga Paris, Photographer
Retrospective featuring 275 works at the Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz
Opening on Thursday, 7 November 2019, 7 pm
Press preview on Wednesday, 6 November 2019, 11 am

From 8 November 2019 to 12 January 2020 at its exhibition halls at Pariser Platz, the Akademie der Künste will present the photographic work of Helga Paris from 1968 to 2011. Featuring 275 works, including many individual images and series that are … more

6 August 2019

The Century of Dance
Exhibition: 25 August – 21 September 2019
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

In a joint exhibition, dance archives in Cologne, Leipzig, Bremen and Berlin are showing unique centrepieces from their collections for the first time. Some of the highlights of these original exhibits include Mary Wigman's Hexentanz (Witch … more

30 July 2019

What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
Exhibition, Performances, Discourse
24 August – 21 September 2019

Invitation to the Press Preview
Thursday, 22 August 2019, 11 am

Exhibition halls open from10 am Followed by a press tour through the exhibition with the curators Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Registration for the press event is requested: Tel. + 49 (0)30 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de With: … more

12 July 2019

New members of the Akademie der Künste 2019

This year, the Akademie der Künste elected 17 new members, ten of which are women, to its society of artists. The elections took place at the 53rd Members' Assembly of the Akademie der Künste (10 - 11/05) in Berlin. All newly elected members … more

10 July 2019

Magic Media – Media Magic
Video art since the 1970s from the Wulf-Herzogenrath-Archive
Exhibition from 12 September – 13 October 2019
Opening: 11 September, 9 pm, Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

As a curator, Wulf Herzogenrath has made a crucial contribution to the establishment of video art in Germany. In his archive, which is held by the Archives of the Akademie der Künste and is privately owned, highlights of video art and sculpture … more

4 July 2019

What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
Advance Ticket Sales and Programme of the Special Event Series
24 August to 21 September 2019, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

The Akademie der Künste's month-long special event series includes an exhibition on 20th-century dance history showing archival collections, iconic photographs and film clips, accompanied by performances of more than 20 current dance … more

21 June 2019

Turkey: Start of the Trial against Osman Kavala and 15 Other Members of Civil Society on Monday, 24 June – Federal Government Intervention Required

Amnesty International, the Akademie der Künste, the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (German Book Trade Association), the Deutsche Journalistinnen- und Journalisten-Union (dju, German Journalists' Union) in ver.di, the KulturForum … more

20 June 2019

The Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020 from the Akademie der Künste goes to Timm Ulrichs
Award ceremony and opening on 23 January 2020
Exhibition from 24 January to 1 March, Hanseatenweg

Timm Ulrichs is to receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2020, endowed with 12,000 euros. In the year of his 80th birthday, the artist born in Berlin is to be honoured for his life's work, which has proven to be a treasure trove and source of … more

18 June 2019

KONTAKTE '19
25 – 29 September 2019
Third Biennial for Electro-Acoustic Music and Sound Art at the Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10

Akademie der Künste to become a five-day venue and experimental laboratory for electro-acoustic music / the performative arts, communication and participation From 25 – 29 September, the Akademie der Künste will present the third edition of its … more

17 June 2019

20 Years of the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Akademie der Künste e.V.

Under the motto "Friendship! For 20 years already”, the Gesellschaft der Freunde der Akademie der Künste (Society of the Friends of the Akademie der Künste) is celebrating its anniversary. On 19 June, an evening event with invited guests will be … more

11 May 2019

Akademie der Künste Spring General Assembly

The 53‏rd General Assembly of the Akademie der Künste took place on 10 and 11 May 2019 in Berlin. On the agenda were the meetings of the Art Sections, the election of new members and two plenary sessions. A total of seventeen new members were … more

10 May 2019

Myths – Bauhauses – Dogmas
Symposium with panels discussions, a play reading, and a reception
24th and 25th May, Pariser Platz

This year, the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus is being celebrated as if it invented modernity by itself. The energy which the members of the Bauhaus expended to work on their own myth ranks among their astounding achievements. What the Bauhaus was … more

8 May 2019

winzig und der Elefant
Music Theatre Miniatures by Manos Tsangaris, part of “Wo kommen wir hin” (Where are We Headed)
Premiere on 18 Mai 2019; other dates on 19th, 24th, 25th and 30th May Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

On five evenings, Manos Tsangaris, composer and director of the Music Section at the Akademie der Künste, is transforming the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg into a dense web of music theatre miniatures. winzig und der Elefant is the title of his … more

7 May 2019

Kathrin Röggla: Der Elefant im Raum

An Exhibition Project with Performances as Part of “Wo kommen wir hin” Opening, 17 May 2019, 18 May – 2 June, with Schnappschuss, a performance by Eran Schaerf and Der Elefant aus dem Raum, a performance by Kathrin Röggla in conversation with … more

6 May 2019

Moving Sand / Topos
Premiere of the audiovisual essay by Floros Floridis and Jeanine Meerapfel
Part of “Wo kommen wir hin”
Wednesday, 29 May at 8 pm, further performances on 30 and 31 May 2019
Public rehearsal on 16 May at 7 pm, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

Artificial intelligence has a radical effect on nearly all areas of human life. The audiovisual essay Moving Sand / Topos ‒ by composer and musician Floros Floridis and filmmaker and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel ‒ is inspired by these … more

30 April 2019

What the Body Remembers. Dance Heritage Today
Exhibition, performances, workshops, discursive programme and master class
24 August – 21 September 2019, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

At the conclusion of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes' (German Federal Cultural Foundation) eight-year programme Tanzfonds Erbe, which has realised 60 individual projects, the Akademie der Künste is hosting a series of special events including an … more

29 April 2019

AGORA ARTES: An Invitation from the Junge Akademie
Final Presentations of the 2018 Fellows
on Saturday, 4 May 2019, 6:30 – 10 pm

Exhibition from 5‒11 May 2019, Hanseatenweg Performance of S.C.H.U.U.L.E. on 11 and 12 May 2019, 7 pm, Pariser Platz The Junge Akademie invites the public to AGORA ARTES, the final presentations of its 2018 fellows. Featuring 15 international … more

17 April 2019

Akademie der Künste for Europe

More than 50 members of the Akademie take part in a projection on the façade at Pariser Platz 4. As of today, pro-Europe statements can be seen on the glass façade of the Akademie building on Pariser Platz. They were voiced by more than 50 members … more

17 April 2019

"Telling Art and Futures – Die Dialektik des Utopischen"
An event and exhibition project by Karin Sander
as part of "Wo kommen wir hin"

30 April – 12 May, Tue – Sun 11 am to 7 pm and 18 May – 2 June, daily 3 pm to 10 pm Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg. Concept artist Karin Sander places the utopian at the centre of the event and exhibition project “Telling Art and … more

14 April 2019

Alliances of culture for a common European action:
A Soul for Europe Conference 2019 highlights the power of cultural alliances to purposefully influence the European process

In order to make better use of the specific potential art and culture have to create encounters between people and to thus become more effective for the European project, cultural actors need to forge alliances. Like any alliance, cultural alliances … more

11 April 2019

Walter Benjamin Digital / New edition of Berliner Chronik and Berliner Kindheit um neunzehnhundert

Press Conference Invitation Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 11 am Walter Benjamin Archive, Luisenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin With Jan Philipp Reemtsma, chairman of the executive board of the Hamburg Foundation for the Advancement of Research and Culture, Nadine … more

11 April 2019

Andrei Tarkovsky: Stalker – Film and State of Emergency
Symposium and Film Programme
26 and 27 April 2019, from 5 pm, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg

Forty years after the release of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979), the Akademie der Künste is addressing its significance and current interpretations in a two-day symposium and accompanying film programme on 26 and 27 April. This film – … more

27 March 2019

Eileen Gray – E.1027 Master Bedroom, 1:1 Installation
12 April – 10 June 2019
Invitation to the Press Preview
Thursday, 11 April, 11 am, with Wilfried Wang, architect and curator

Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin Registration for the press event is requested: Tel. + 49 (0)30 200 57-1514 or presse@adk.de At the same time that the Bauhaus building was being established in Dessau in 1926, the Anglo-Irish … more

26 March 2019

Book Release:
“Baba, wie lange fahren wir noch? Erzählungen”
Publication of the narration partner project “Our Stories – Rewrite the Future” by young refugees and German-speaking authors

The newly released publication Baba, wie lange fahren wir noch? Erzählungen (Baba, how much longer 'til we get there? Stories) is the culmination of an unusual Akademie der Künste project: Teenagers and young adults, who have fled their homes … more

12 March 2019

Wo kommen wir hin
Special Events in the Music Section

Talks and music on 21 and 24 March, and on 12 April 2019, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg As part of the artistic research laboratory “Wo kommen wir hin” (Where are We Headed?), the Music Section at the Akademie der Künste is inviting the … more

11 March 2019

Wo kommen wir hin

Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg becomes a stage for artistic research Concept: Kathrin Röggla, Karin Sander and Manos Tsangaris 21 March – 2 June 2019, Hanseatenweg venue. Strategies of artistic action continually evolve and redefine … more

27 February 2019

On the Duty and the Power of Architecture
The Architecture Section’s lecture series will continue on 28 February 2019 with Christiane Thalgott and Arno Brandlhuber
Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz

This year, the Architecture Section of the Akademie is continuing its lecture series, giving its international members and award winners the opportunity to present their current work to the Berlin public. Under the title "On the Duty and the Power of … more

19 February 2019

The Akademie der Künste awards the Heinrich Mann Prize 2019 to Danilo Scholz

The Akademie der Künste is awarding the Heinrich Mann Prize 2019 to historian of ideas, author and translator Danilo Scholz. This decision was made by the jurors Steffen Martus, Gustav Seibt and last year's winner, Christian Bommarius. The prize for … more

13 February 2019

Publication about the auteur Karl Fruchtmann released

Book and archive presentation, 26 February, 7 pm, Pariser Platz Karl Fruchtmann. Ein jüdischer Erzähler – The first monograph about the auteur has now been released as the third volume in the series entitled "Fernsehen. Geschichte. Ästhetik", a … more

7 February 2019

German Design Award 2019 for the publication Baukunst im Archiv

The book Baukunst im Archiv has been honoured with this year's German Design Award. The award ceremony will take place tomorrow, Friday, 8 February, in Frankfurt/Main. With this 2016 publication released by DOM publishers, the Akademie der Künste … more

31 January 2019

Researching the estate of Imre Kertész at the Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der Künste has established a dedicated position to research and index the estate of the Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész held by Katalin Madácsi-Laube. She is also responsible for user support, continuing Maren Horn's work to date on … more

30 January 2019

„Anhörung!“ Radio plays and talks in February
7 February 2019: Heiner Müller / Heiner Goebbels Der Mann im Fahrstuhl
19 February 2019: Ines Geipel and Heike Tauch, based on texts by Inge Müller Ach du lieber Augustin, wie fröhlich ich bin

each 7 pm, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg The Film and Media Art Section of the Akademie der Künste invites this year with a series of events on the topic of audio art under the title „Anhörung!", to listen to some exemplary pieces, to … more

29 January 2019

Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2019. Hito Steyerl
Exhibition Opening and Award Ceremony at 20 February, 7 pm
Exhibition until 14 April 2019

Invitation to the Exhibition Opening and Award Ceremony: Wednesday, 20 February 2019, 7 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin Press preview of the exhibition from 11 am to 1 pm Press briefing with the artist: 6 pm to 6.30 pm Due … more

24 January 2019

12th Academy Discussion [and ...]
Funding for Art Films Now!

Rüdiger Suchsland in conversation with Feo Aladag, Claas Danielsen, Titus Kreyenberg, Jeanine Meerapfel, Mariëtte Rissenbeek and Andres Veiel Tuesday, 5 February, 8 pm Akademie der Künste, Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin >> Press tickets at … more

23 January 2019

Akademie der Künste presents Kunstpreis Berlin
Jubiläumsstiftung 1848/1948
(Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948)
Renée Gailhoustet awarded the Großer Kunstpreis Berlin 2019 (Berlin Grand Art Prize 2019)
Awards ceremony on 18 March with the Governing Mayor of Berlin,
Michael Müller, and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel

French architect and urban planner Renée Gailhoustet is to receive the Großer Kunstpreis Berlin (Berlin Grand Art Prize) 2019. The Akademie der Künste awards the prize, endowed with 15,000 euros, on an annual basis and in rotation among its six … more

14 January 2019

RUNDFUNK AETERNA X
A Radio Opera by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
World premiere as an installation at the Akademie der Künste
and kick-off of the new event series for audio art "Anhörung!"

Friday, 1 February 2019, 7 pm, Hanseatenweg Further events until June 2019 The Akademie der Künste presents the symphonic-spatial recomposition of the radio opera RUNDFUNK AETERNA X by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag. The artist, composer and theorist … more

11 January 2019

New programme focus “Wo kommen wir hin”.
An Artistic Research Laboratory at the Akademie der Künste

Concept: Kathrin Röggla, Karin Sander and Manos Tsangaris 12 January 2019: Free International Drumming II, Pariser Platz 21 March – 2 June 2019, Hanseatenweg What about the potential for resistance from the arts in the political arena? Where are … more

10 January 2019

100 Years of Bauhaus. The opening festival
16 – 24 January 2019, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Press conference: Monday, 14 January 2019, 11 am Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin Registration and press contact: Yvonne von Duehren yvonne.vonduehren@vdpr.de, Tel. (030) 163 55 23 221 The Akademie der Künste is hosting the … more