Press Releases
Theatertreffen | Save the Date: The Jury's Selection on 9 February 2021
This year’s Theatertreffen of Berliner Festspiele is scheduled to take place from 7 to 23 May 2021 – in the great hope that we will be able to carry out an analogue as well as a digital festival programme.
21 January 2021
Exhibition Programme 2021
We are pleased to announce the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme for 2021. Key themes include probing, transgressing and dissolving boundaries, as well as rituals of healing and visions for new ways of living together.
3 December 2020
Berliner Festspiele 70
Berliner Festspiele will turn 70 in 2021. To celebrate this occasion and in the hope of a positive development concerning the pandemic, Berliner Festspiele will launch their anniversary year at Gropius Bau with an interdisciplinary programme lasting several days and a “living archive” in March, and with international guest performances at the Festspielhaus featuring renowned artists as well as those as yet unknown in Germany. At the same time, Gropius Bau will hold the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The opera performance “Sun & Sea”, winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennial, will be presented as part of the series Immersion in June.
30 November 2020
Taylor Mac: Holiday Sauce... Pandemic! A Virtual Vaudeville on 12 December 2020 via live stream
The Berliner Festspiele and other prestigious cultural institutions worldwide will be presenting Taylor Mac’s “Holiday Sauce... Pandemic!,” a live-streamed special event produced by Pomegranate Arts, on 12 December 2020, 20:00 (CET). The program will be followed by an after-show party with Olympia Bukkakis and Cheryl Offoffoff-Broadway. After the live-stream, the show will be available for on-demand online viewing from 13 December 2020 to 2 January 2021.
27 November 2020
Thomas Oberender will remain Director of Berliner Festspiele until 2026
The Federal Government has extended the contract for 5 years until 2026. Thomas Oberender will hold the position of Director of Berliner Festspiele until 31 December 2026.
26 November 2020
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most important artists of our time. From 19 March to 1 August 2021, the Gropius Bau will stage the first major retrospective of Kusama’s work in Germany, providing an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and highlighting the significance of her art in Europe – and, indeed, Germany in particular.
19 November 2020
The Gropius Bau will be closed from 2 to 30 November 2020
Due to current developments in connection with the coronavirus, we are closing the Gropius Bau to the public from 2 November and hope to welcome you back in December 2020.
30 October 2020
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography
This autumn, the Gropius Bau presents Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, a comprehensive group exhibition that explores the diverse ways in which masculinity is experienced, performed and socially constructed through photography and film from the 1960s to the present day.
23 September 2020
BPA at Gropius Studios
BPA at Gropius Studios is a new collaboration between the Gropius Bau and BPA // Berlin program for artists, which begins in autumn 2020. Running up until the end of that year, eleven participating artists will use rooms at the Gropius Bau as studios and show their work in public presentations.