Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018 / Photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 17 Dec 2025
Guided Tours

Picture Cellar

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

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov 2024 – 26 Jun 2025
Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours
Thur 5 pm

Special themed tours and group tours can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

© Natalia Reich
15 May – 15 Jun
Festival

Poesiefestival Berlin 2025

Events at the Akademie der Künste

Opening: Berlin Poetry Lecture
Tue 3 Jun 7:30 pm

Writing Sports
Sat 14 Jun from 2 pm

Poetry talks, readings, book market, Weltklang
Sun 15 Jun from 11 am

In cooperation with the Haus für Poesie

In German and English

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 1 Jun
Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

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

Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Aerial image of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
2 Jun – 7 Sep
Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Ingeborg Fries, 2021
Wednesday, 4 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

© Goethe-Institut in Lithuania, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Akademie der Künste; design by Vytautas Volbekas
5 – 6 Jun
Symposium

Aspects of Presence.
Art in Times of Militarisation

Thur 5 Jun from 5:30 pm

Fri 6 Jun from 3 pm

With Nabil Ahmed, Asia Bazdyrieva, Teresa Koloma Beck, Maithu Bùi, Anna Engelhardt (online), Philipp Goll, Clara Herrmann, Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Svitlana Matviyenko, Ali Akbar Mehta, Eglė Elena Murauskaitė, Deimantas Narkevičius, Magda Szpecht, Tomas Venclova, Tobias Zielony et al.

Film programme daily from 11 am, featuring works by Mohammed Almughanni, Anna Engelhardt, Mark Cinkevich, Bjørn Melhus, Deimantas Narkevičius

Performance by Lina Lapelytė

In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut in Litauen and the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius

Supported by the Lithuanian Cultural Attaché in Germany and the Lithuanian Culture Institute (LCI)

In English

Day ticket: € 7,50/5

Liina Magnea © Nathan Ceddia
Monday, 9 Jun
Performance, Music, Reading

6 pm

silent green Kulturquartier
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin

Vocations – open space Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

With Julia Rebekka Adler, Andrea Conangla, Tehila Nini Goldstein, Ariane von Graffenried, Rebeka Kupihár, Anna Julian Mendlik, María Negroni, Jascha Nemtsov, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Liina Magnea, David Odiase, Koleka Putuma, Valentin Schuster

Readings and performances in original language with English translation

Cooperation: Haus für Poesie, JUNGE AKADEMIE, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, silent green Kulturquartier and Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf

Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds

€ 9/7

Buy ticket

Manos Tsangaris, Kugelbahn, installation view, KOLUMBA Kunstmuseum, © Stefan Kraus
Wednesday, 11 Jun
Talks and Artistic Contributions

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Exhibition Hall

Akademie Talk: Triggering

With Cornelia Jentzsch, Karin Sander, Simon Steen-Andersen, Johanna M. Keller, Anh-Linh Ngo and Manos Tsangaris

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 12 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Atelier Christoph Meckel, © Gila Funke-Meckel
Friday, 13 Jun
Archive Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

In the Amber – On the estate library of Christoph Meckel

With Gila Funke-Meckel, Marit Heuß, Adela Sophia Sabban, Susanne Thier

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission
Registration at bibliothek@adk.de

Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht in Lidingö, 1939 © unknown
Saturday, 14 Jun
Summer Party

3 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Summer Party at Brecht House

Music, Guided tours, Readings, Open Archive and more

With Andreas Dresen, Jürgen Kuttner, Helke Misselwitz, students from the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Stefanie Thomas, 2024
Wednesday, 18 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

© gezett.de
Wednesday, 18 Jun
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Beech Garden

Long night of reading by the Alfred Döblin fellows

With Ines Berwing, Fabienne Dür, Karl Wolfgang Flender, Friedrich Klingenhage, Nora Deetje Leggemann, Anna Melikova, Najem Wali and Julia Willmann

Moderation: Nathalie Mälzer

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 19 Jun
Guided Tour

2 pm

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

Anna Seghers and The Power of Words

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

© Reinhardt & Sommer
Thursday, 19 Jun
Discussion Forum

7 pm

Maison Heinrich Heine
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris
27 C, Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris

European Alliance of Academies
Café Climate Paris

With Matteo Barsuglia, Liesbeth Bik, Kirsten Reese, Iris ter Schiphorst, Lucie Taïeb, Cécile Wajsbrot et al.

In German, French and English

In cooperation with the Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris

Free admission

Barkow Leibinger, TRUMPF Training centre, Ditzingen, © Simon Menges & Nino Tugushi, Berlin
Thursday, 19 Jun
Lectures and Talk

7 pm

Instituto Cervantes
Rosenstr. 18
10178 Berlin

Spanish-German architectural dialogues

With Marta Peris (PERIS+TORAL ARQUITECTES), Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger)

Moderation: Hilde Léon

In Spanish and German with simultaneous translation

Free admission
Registration required

Reserve ticket

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 24 Jun
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

© Mattis Bettels
26 – 29 Jun
Concerts, Performances, Sound Installations

KONTAKTE 2025
Festival for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art

Thur 26 Jun, Sat 28 Jun, Sun 29 Jun
Hanseatenweg

Fri 27 Jun
Pariser Platz

With Burkhard Beins, Tony Buck, Teresa Carrasco, Andrei Cucu, Marina Cyrino, Georgios Dimitriadis, Ketevan Dolnikova-Hahn, Tony Elieh, Ensemble Ascolta, Heather Frasch, Susanne Fröhlich, Owen Gardner, Emilio Gordoa, GrauSchumacher Piano Duo, Frank Gratowski, Hainbach, Hanna Hartman, Marisol Jiménez Becerra, Mazen Kerbaj, Matthias Koole, Annette Krebs, Magda Mayas, Valeria Merlini, Julia Mihály, Hugo Morales, Niko de Paula Lefort, Maria Pelekanou, Arezou Rezaei, Thomas Schulz, Gerriet K. Sharma, Ming Tsao, Ute Wassermann, Christian Winther Christensen, Raed Yassin, Viola Yip, JD Zazie

In collaboration with DEGEM, FU Berlin, HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin, UdK Berlin, TU Berlin, HfM Saar, SWR Experimentalstudio, Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf & Ensemble Ascolta

Funded by Musikfonds e.V.

With kind support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation

Ticket prices:
Festival: € 70/50
Concerts: € 10–15/7–9
Installations: Free admission

Festivalticket

Tickets for concerts

Reading Room Pariser Platz, © Katja Strauß
Friday, 27 Jun
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

John Heartfield, Prague, 1936, Foto: AdK, JHA, Nr. 587
Sunday, 29 Jun
Lecture, Concert, Performance

3 pm

John-Heartfield-Haus
Schwarzer Weg 12
15377 Waldsieversdorf

Heartfield yesterday?
Heartfield today!

With Katja Erfurth, Michael Krejsa, Helmut Oehring, Manos Tsangaris, Hermann Zwerschke

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.