Dance

Ballet Rambert

5 to 7 & 11 to 13 March 2020

Ballet Rambert is one of Britain’s most renowned dance companies. In March 2020, they will perform two German premieres at the Festspielhaus.

Festival

MaerzMusik – Festival for Time Issues

20 to 29 March 2020

MaerzMusik 2020 revolves around a simple and powerful idea: the beginning of time.

Dance

Rosas

2 to 4 & 7 to 9 April 2020

The Belgian company Rosas, headed by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, presents revivals of two of their most successful productions.

Festival

Musikfest Berlin

29 August to 23 September 2020

Advance ticket sales for selected events are already available.

Festival

Theatertreffen

1 to 17 May 2020

The ten remarkable productions for the 2020 Theatertreffen have been selected. The programm will be published on 3 April.

Exhibition

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air

7 February to 17 May 2020

The photography exhibition Six Songs, Swirling Gracefully in the Taut Air brings together works from various long-term series composed by Berlin-based Nigerian photographer Akinbode Akinbiyi, who has captured intimate scenes and communal life in cities such as Lagos, Berlin, Johannesburg, Bamako and Chicago, among many other locations.

Exhibition

Lee Mingwei: 禮 Li, Gifts and Rituals

27 March to 7 June 2020

Lee Mingwei’s artistic practice is primarily concerned with rituals of giving and receiving. The Gropius Bau will present a solo exhibition by the artist, showing his installations and performances from the last three decades. Central to the exhibition is an exploration of art’s potential to be a transformative gift.

Exhibition

The Cool and the Cold

Painting from the USA and the USSR 1960–1990.
Ludwig Collection
25 April to 6 September 2020

In the year marking the 30th anniversary of German reunification, the Gropius Bau will host a group exhibition uniting paintings created during the Cold War in both centres of global political power, including works by Andy Warhol, Il’ja Kabakov, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler and Erik Bulatov.

Berliner Festspiele

Seeing what’s ahead

A brief overview of who we are and what we do!

Edition No. 28

HEIMAT ist nicht immer die Antwort.
Was haben Migrant*innen und Ostdeutsche gemeinsam?
A talk in the Palast der Republik thirteen years after its dissapearance
with Naika Foroutan, Thomas Krüger uand Thomas Oberender
Now available at Haus der Berliner Festspiele!

Berliner Festspiele

The Berlin Declaration of The Many

Berlin theatres, art and cultural institutions and their associations take a clear stance against right-wing populism. We are one of them!