Prospects for 2023

At a press conference for the beginning of Matthias Pees’ tenure as artistic director, the artistic leadership team of Berliner Festspiele gave an insight into the programme planning and projects for 2022 and 2023.

YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

16 September 2022 to 15 January 2023

The large-scale exhibition, featuring 25 international artists, touches on issues such as the politics of health, the resilience of Indigenous knowledge systems, forms of kinship, decoloniality and the non-human, all entangled with various concepts of care, repair and healing.

LOVETRAIN2020

With “LOVETRAIN2020”, Emanuel Gat has created a visually powerful dance spectacle that, with the unmistakable music of the British duo Tears for Fears, is also a choreographic ode to the sound of the 1980s. In an extraordinary visual language, 14 dancers from the Emanuel Gat Company create new references to world-famous hits such as “Shout” or “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”. After its premiere at the Montpellier Danse Festival in October 2020, the contemporary “musical” will be performed at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on 21 January 2023.

Rhapsody in Yellow

In a ping-pong double concert, accompanied by archival film and sound recordings, two pianists explore the role of European classical music, modernism and myth-making in the rise of China and the USA in the 20th century. From table tennis and television to tanks and trade wars, Ming Wong traces the volatile political balance between the United States and China in his lecture performance “Rhapsody in Yellow”, visiting the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on 27 and 28 January.

73rd Berlin International Film Festival

as a guest at Haus der Berliner Festspiele

From 12 to 26 February 2023 the Haus der Berliner Festspiele serve as a cinema again for the Berlinale.