Press Releases
Dayanita Singh: Dancing with my Camera
The Gropius Bau is pleased to present Dancing with my Camera, the first major survey of the internationally renowned artist Dayanita Singh.
20 January 2022MaerzMusik Explores Relations
Berliner Festspiele’s MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues 2022 (18 to 27 March) has been co-developed by the Egyptian-Polish curator and writer Kamila Metwaly and artistic director Berno Odo Polzer. The ten-day programme in ten venues in Berlin – with silent green Kulturquartier as the festivals centre, and opening at the Gropius Bau – focuses on the visible and invisible relations that hold everything together, in music and beyond.
18 January 2022Invitation to the Press Conference
Live stream press conference:
The jury’s selection for the 59th Theatertreffen will be streamed live on Thursday, 3 February 2022 at 11:00.
Exhibition Programme 2022
We are pleased to announce the Gropius Bau’s exhibition programme for 2022. Key topics include establishing common ground, making space for one another, rituals of individual and collective caring and healing, and sites of memory and repair.
16 December 20212022 Theatertreffen-Blog: Open Call
Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen is looking for new blog-editors for the next festival edition. The deadline for applications is 6 February 2022.
8 December 2021TT20 Epilogue
Berliner Festspiele’s Theatertreffen will present two selected productions from the 2020 festival edition’s selection of ten in December 2021 and January 2022. “TANZ. Eine sylphidische Träumerei in Stunts” by Florentina Holzinger will be presented at Berlin’s Sophiensæle from 11 to 13 December 2021. The production “Chinchilla Arschloch, waswas” by Rimini Protokoll (Helgard Haug) will be shown at Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam for the first time from 12 to 14 January 2022.
16 November 2021Worldwide Open Call for the 2022 Stückemarkt
For more than four decades, Theatertreffen’s Stückemarkt has been committed to a sustainable promotion of authors and/or (since 2012) theatre collectives at the outset of their creative careers. After a break caused by the pandemic, the Open Call for the 2022 Stückemarkt now starts with an open international competition, searching for new forms of authorship and innovative theatre languages.
14 October 2021Zanele Muholi
This November, Gropius Bau opens the first major survey in Germany of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi. Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that tell stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa and beyond.
13 October 2021Emeka Ogboh. Ámà: The Gathering Place
From 20 October 2021, a site-specific installation by artist Emeka Ogboh will occupy the Gropius Bau’s vast atrium – the heart of the institution’s historical architecture, which is freely accessible without an entry price, welcoming all visitors to the very center of the building.
11 October 2021Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing
From 4 to 7 November 2021, the Gropius Bau will convene Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing.
30 September 2021Matthias Pees to be appointed as new Director of Berliner Festspiele
Today, the board of directors of Kulturveranstaltungen des Bundes in Berlin (KBB) GmbH, chaired by Monika Grütters, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, appointed the dramaturg, curator and theatre manager Matthias Pees as the new director of Berliner Festspiele. On 1 September 2022, he will take over the position from Thomas Oberender, who has been director of Berliner Festspiele since 2012 and will leave the institution at the end of the year at his own request.
23 September 2021The Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990. Ludwig Collection
Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990. Ludwig Collection, exhibited at the Gropius Bau in collaboration with the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, is a substantial group exhibition bringing together art from the Cold War’s two duelling global powers, exploring the relationship between East and West from the perspective of art history.
25 August 2021Thea Djordjadze: all building as making
At the Gropius Bau, Thea Djordjadze to open an expansive solo exhibition exploring the mutability of space, memory and material
23 July 2021SERAFINE1369 and Ana Prvački are the Gropius Bau’s Artists in Residence 2021/22
The Gropius Bau is pleased to announce two Artists in Residence for 2021 working at the intersections of intuition, bodily knowledge and our experiences of site and history: SERAFINE1369 and Ana Prvački.
13 July 2021Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社
“We cannot continue living in the fantasy that humans own this planet. How can art institutions move towards a more-than-human future?” – Zheng Bo, 2021
3 June 2021Takeover. Plastic Catches Mushroom
Kick-off for the project Takeover with Roberta Busechian and Tue Greenfort on the south terrace outside the Gropius Bau
27 May 2021Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective – A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
Gropius Bau to open major Yayoi Kusama retrospective in April with her most complex immersive exhibition to date.
11 March 2021Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos
Over three decades, the artist and industrial designer Hella Jongerius has engaged with urgent topics such as sustainable innovation, responsible production and societal regeneration. With the solo exhibition Woven Cosmos, the Gropius Bau presents to a broad public this unique and path-breaking figure from the realm of design and applied arts.
3 February 2021