Berliner Festspiele

Performers are on and on top of a climbing wall, above which a performer lies on a rope stretched across the stage.

Dance

Corps extrêmes

Compagnie de Chaillot / Rachid Ouramdane

16.1.18.1.2024

Three performers examine passport documents labelled “Republic of China” and “Taiwan” on an almost empty stage.

Theatre

Dies ist keine Botschaft (Made in Taiwan)

Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll)

24.1.27.1.2024

Now on view at Gropius Bau

3 persons with dark make-up around the eyes, who wear caps with long earflaps

Exhibition

General Idea

22 September 2023 to 14 January 2024

The artist group General Idea challenged the art world and society at large. Often through humour and satire, they adressed various aspects of consumer culture and social inequalities. On 22 September, the Gropius Bau opens the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced.

Janine Jembere, Untitled (from the series Residence Time), 2013

Sound installations

Soundshapes – In Between Frequencies

Volume I

Until 14 January 2024

Soundshapes – In Between Frequencies activates the two entrances of the Gropius Bau with sound works by Kapwani Kiwanga and Janine Jembere, creating an acoustic connection between the central entrance portal and the step-free entrance. Drawing from the potential of porosity, this architectural intervention challenges the monumentality and statics of the building.

Installation

Pallavi Paul

How Love Moves: Prelude

Until 14 January 2024

During Pallavi Paul’s time as Artist in Residence 2023, the Gropius Bau presents a prelude to her upcoming solo exhibition in 2024. In How Love Moves: Prelude, a scenography around the three-channel video installation Cynthia Ke Sapne / The Dreams of Cynthia (2017) transforms the historic Schliemannsaal into a twilight space between wakefulness and sleep.

Installations

Ether’s Bloom

A Programme on Artificial Intelligence

Until 14 January 2024

Ether’s Bloom marks the first part of the Gropius Bau’s Programme on Artificial Intelligence, which focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of AI. As part of Ether’s Bloom, works by the artists Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha are showcased in freely accessible spaces of the Gropius Bau and here on our website.

Preview

Musikfest Berlin

24 August to 17 September 2024

In 2024, the Musikfest Berlin will once again open the concert season in late summer with top-class international orchestras, celebrated conductors and remarkable soloists. Tickets are already available to purchase for selected concerts. The full programme will be published in April 2024.

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MaerzMusik

15 to 24 March 2024

MaerzMusik 2024 examines the conscientious listening experience and highlights border-pushing artistic approaches found accross different music trends and disciplines. The festival programme, consisting of concerts, performances, installations, discourse formats and much more, is published!

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The Berliner Festspiele

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses – the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstraße and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz – and other venues in the city.

Learn more

More Berliner Festspiele

Berliner Festspiele

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7 October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

Berliner Festspiele

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

The photovoltaic system on the roof of the Gropius Bau.

jirka-jansch.com, 2011

Sustainable Environmental Performance

We have been following EMAS guidelines for sustainable environmental performance since 2013. Find out more about our goals and the measures that we have already taken on the website of our umbrella organisation.

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