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

Tue 15 Apr, 29 Apr
each at 5 pm

Thur 24 Apr 11 am

From 1 May:
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

Tickets for guided tours (from 1 May)

Top: Lea Grundig, Milker (Ruth), 1946, brush, ink, 26 x 25.2 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Lea Grundig 2762 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection / Below: Ellen Auerbach, Untitled [Portrait of a young Arab woman], 1933–1936, gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 30 × 20 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Auerbach 505 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection
25 Jan – 27 Apr
Exhibition

Museum Eberswalde
Steinstraße 3
16225 Eberswalde

Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig - Two artists in Palestine

Tue – Sun
10 am – 1 pm & 2 – 7 pm

€ 10

Free admission for school classes

Guided tours by appointment: 03334 64-411

Ludwig Schirmer, from the series Ein Dorf, 1950–1960 © Ludwig Schirmer/OSTKREUZ
28 Feb – 4 May
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 3

Ein Dorf 1950–2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

Combined ticket with exhibition “what stands between us
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Guided tours
Tue 5 pm
Sun 13 Apr, 20 Apr
each at 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Curator’s tour with Marit Lena Herrmann (for deaf and hearing guests with translation into German sign language)
Sun 4 May 2 pm

Scenic Readings with Kerstin Hensel, students from the HfS Ernst Busch
Thur 6 Mar, 20 Mar, 3 Apr, 24 Apr
each at 5 pm
Sun 9 Mar, 16 Mar, 6 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 2 pm
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Tickets for Guided tours & Readings

Education programme, workshops for school classes
at adk.de/kunstwelten

In the frame of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

In cooperation with OSTKREUZ Photographers Agency

Simon Lehner, Balance study with boy, 2018, from the series How far is a lightyear?, 2005 – 2019. Pigment-print, 90 x 72 cm, Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner
28 Feb – 4 May
Exhibition

Hanseatenweg

Hall 1 + 2

EMOP Berlin: what stands between us.
Photography as a Medium for Chronicling

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

Combined ticket with exhibition “Ein Dorf 1950–2022
€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Guided tours
For all guided tours a free ticket is required which is available at the box office on site.

Sun 13 Apr, 20 Apr, 27 Apr
each at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Sat 3 May at 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Curator’s tour with Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Sun 4 May 12 pm
Free admission with exhibition ticket

Central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

5-5-5-5 cut Raimund Kummer/ Daniel Ott, SpaceSoundIntervention, Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2025, Photo: Frangipani Beatt, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
10 Apr – 14 May
SpaceSoundIntervention

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

Tue – Sat 2 – 7 pm
Sun, Holiday 11 am – 7 pm

Open at Easter

€ 10/7
Free admission for under 18s, Tuesdays

Tickets

Public tour
(Inclusive tours for deaf and hearing guests, with translation into German sign language, and for blind, visually impaired and sighted guests, with ABSV)
Wed 30 Apr, 7 May
each at 5 pm
With Anke Hervol
€ 5 plus exhibition ticket

Holders of a disabled person's pass and their accompanying attendant receive free admission.

Buy ticket 30 Apr
Buy ticket 7 May

Family Sunday
Sun 4 May 1 & 4:30 pm
Musicians present their instruments

Artist Talk
Tue 13 May 5 pm
With Raimund Kummer, Daniel Ott
Moderation: Anke Hervol
Free admission, Ticket required and available at the box office on site

Education programme at adk.de/kunstwelten

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 15 Apr
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

Viktor Ruban, © Kostya Us
Tuesday, 15 Apr
Opening Lecture

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Clubroom

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
Viktor Ruban

With Viktor Ruban, Lucia Ruprecht, Lindsey Drury

In English

Free admission

Cooperation: Freie Universität Berlin, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, photo: © Ingeborg Fries
Wednesday, 23 Apr
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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 24 Apr
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

Marieluise on a class trip, end of 10th grade, 1971 © Winfried Junge
Sunday, 27 Apr
Film and Talk

3:30 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten. Drei Jahrzehnte mit den Kindern von Golzow und der DEFA. Ein Film über einen Film

Drehbuch: Die Zeiten. Drei Jahrzehnte mit den Kindern von Golzow und der DEFA. Ein Film über einen Film,
D 1961–1992, 284 min, restored print

With Barbara and Winfried Junge (Directors), Marieluise Seidel, Bernhard Guderjahn (Protagonists)

Moderation: Stefanie Eckert (DEFA Foundation)

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Top: Mark Lammert © Marcus Lieberenz / Below: Kerstin Hensel © Inge Zimmermann
28 – 30 Apr
Workshop

Evangelisches Schulzentrum „Katharina von Bora“
Waldstraße 20–22
17109 Demmin

KUNSTWELTEN in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald Homeland. Fear. How to carry on living?

28 – 30 Apr and 6 – 8 May

Art project with Kerstin Hensel, Mark Lammert and pupils of the 9th grade

Katharina Grosse's studio on the grounds of the Wunderblock Foundation, Groß-Kreutz (Havel), 2024, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Photo: Studio Katharina Grosse
Monday, 28 Apr
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio Lobby

Rinderkombinat Völkerfreundschaft

With Annett Gröschner, Katharina Grosse

Moderation: Bernadette Conrad

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Péter Esterházy © Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Marianne Fleitmann
Tuesday, 29 Apr
Archive Opening

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Péter Esterházy
The wondrous afterlife of words

Welcome: Werner Heegewaldt

Reading: Matthias Scherwenikas

Archive presentation: Katalin Madácsi-Laube

Talk: György Dragomán, Andreas Isenschmid, Terézia Mora, Ingo Schulze

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 4 May
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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 6 May
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

Performance of Wo ist Emilie? by Hans Drach and Hans Hauska, Dnipropetrovsk, 1935 / Photo: unknown [Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Exil-Sammlung 3070]
Tuesday, 6 May
Archive Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

A Suitcase for the Archives: German-speaking exile theatre in the Soviet Union

With Andrea Clos and Anett Schubotz

In cooperation with the Stiftung Exilmuseum

In German

Free admission

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Ingeborg Fries, 2021
Wednesday, 7 May
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

Helene Weigel's 65th birthday party © Vera Tenschert / Akademie der Künste
Sunday, 11 May
Film, Guided Tours, Readings, Open Archive

3 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

“A little volcano”: Helene Weigel on her 125th birthday

With Volker Braun, Matthias Braun, Johanna Schall, Sabine Kebir, Alexander Stillmark, Maria Wischnewski et al.

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 15 May
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

Bjørn Melhus, FREEDOM & INDEPENDENCE, 2014, Filmstill, © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025
Saturday, 17 May
Films, Readings, Audio Play

8 pm

Cuts

Finissage „5-5-5-5 cut Raimund Kummer / Daniel Ott“

With Katja Lange-Müller, Kathrin Röggla, Kathrin Schmidt, Katharina Schultens, Ulf Stolterfoht et al.

Films by Dieter Appelt, VALIE EXPORT, Jochen Kuhn, Bjørn Melhus, Marcel Odenbach et al.

€ 10/7

Typewriter in Brecht-Weigel Museum, © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Sunday, 18 May
Guided Tours

11 am – 6 pm

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

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestr. 125
10115 Berlin

International Museum Day

Guided tours

Brecht-Weigel Museum
11 am – 6 pm every hour
Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

Anna Seghers Museum
11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm
Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

Free admission

Paul Wiegler (around 1943), Photographer unknown
Tuesday, 20 May
Archive Presentation, Reading, Talk

8 pm

Brecht-Haus
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Paul Wiegler: Gabriele – A novel from the estate

With Gernot Krämer, Gabriele Radecke

Welcome: Christian Hippe and Sabine Wolf
Reading: Max von Pufendorf
Moderation: Sieglinde Geisel

In cooperation with the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus

In German

€ 6/4

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Stefanie Thomas, 2024
Wednesday, 21 May
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

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 22 May
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

Magazines of SINN UND FORM © Gernot Krämer
Thursday, 22 May
Talk

6:30 pm

Museum Gunzenhauser
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Theaterplatz 1
09111 Chemnitz

Günter Grass, Mein Lehrer Alfred Döblin, © Günter and Ute Grass Foundation / Steidl Verlag, 2009
Saturday, 24 May
Readings

10 am – 5 pm

Literarisches Colloquium
Am Sandwerder 5
14109 Berlin

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025 Readings in competition

With Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Experts: Leander Berger, Anne Sauer, Jeffrey Trehudic, Isabel Wanger, Laura Weber

In German

€ 9/5

Buy ticket

KULA Compagnie, Dibbuk – between (two) worlds © kulacompagnie.eu / photo: Felix Grünschloss
Saturday, 24 May
Theatre guest performance

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

KULA Compagnie: Dibbuk – between (two) worlds

Based on the play by Salomon An-Ski

In Moroccan-Arabic, Persian, German, French, Hebrew and Russian with German and English surtitles

Direction: Robert Schuster
Stage design: Sascha Gross
Dramaturgy: Yotam Gotal
Dramaturgical support: Zainab Qadiri
Music: Max Bauer

Coproduction: dasvinzenz Theater, KULA Compagnie

€ 15/9

Günter Grass, Mein Lehrer Alfred Döblin, © Günter and Ute Grass Foundation / Steidl Verlag, 2009
Sunday, 25 May
Award Ceremony

11:30 am

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Alfred Döblin Prize 2025

With the Award winner

Finalists: Andrea Rea Arežina, Sophia Merwald, Martin Piekar, Lina Schwenk, Janna Steenfatts and Karosh Taha

Jury: Ekkehard Knörer, Lara Sielmann, Shirin Sojitrawalla

Lecture: Jan Kuhlbrodt

In German

Free admission

Große Klausstraße, from the series Häuser und Gesichter, Halle 1983–1985, © Nachlass / estate Helga Paris (www.helga-paris.de)
Tuesday, 27 May
Photographs, Texts, Film

7 pm

Hanseatenweg

Studio

Diva in grey

With Helke Misselwitz, Corinna Harfouch, Hermann Beyer

Works by Helga Paris, Elke Erb, Thomas Heise, Thomas Plenert et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Buy ticket

Brandenburger Tor, free for personal and commercial use
Wednesday, 28 May
Reading and Talk

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

The war and the position of literature

With Marcel Beyer, Thomas Ehrsam, Henrik Mrochen, Zalina Sanchez

Moderation: Elisa Primavera-Lévy

Welcome: Gustav Seibt

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Walter-Rossow-Garden, Akademie der Künste at Hanseatenweg © Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk
Saturday, 31 May
Festival

4:30 pm – 10 pm

Welcome in – a musical excursion

Artistic direction: Christopher Fox, Julia Gerlach

With works, performances, installations by
Peter Ablinger, Lore Ammenabar Larrañaga, Birke Bertelsmeier, Annesley Black, Sofia Borges, Nikolaus Brass, Raven Chacon, Huihui Cheng, Sidney Corbett, Axel Dörner, Dominic Flynn, Malin Grass, Sofia Gubaidulina, Steve Heather, Benjamin Kautter, Carina Khorkhordina, Veli Kujala, Liudas Mockūnas, Kirsten Reese, Martin Riches, Daniel Rothman / Carola Bauckholt, Sofia Salvo, Iris ter Schiphorst, Annette Schmucki, Sol-i So, Nurit Stark, Kristine Tjøgersen, Casper Johannes Walter / Dragana Tomic, Kathryn Williams, Yiran Zhao et al.

Free admission

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

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

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

Tickets for concerts


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.