Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama
A Retrospective

A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe

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Hella Jongerius Woven Cosmos – Woven Window, 2020

Exhibition

Hella Jongerius
Woven Cosmos

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Exhibition

Everything Is Just for a While

70 years of Berliner Festspiele revisited

28.5. -
17.10.21

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Key visual Musikfest Berlin 2021

28.8.–
20.9.21

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Everything Is Just for a While – 70 years of Berliner Festspiele revisited

Previously little-known video footage from our own, public and private collections are boldly edited together in ‘Everything Is Just for a While’ to mark the Berliner Festspiele’s 70th birthday and offer a new perspective on artistic positions from around the world that continue to amaze us today. The exhibition will be on view in the Gropius Bau from 28 May to 17 October 2021.

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Visual Berliner Festspiele Digital

New Digital Venue of Berliner Festspiele

On our new platform Berliner Festspiele Digital, you can still watch many Theatertreffen-discourse events and the short portraits of the authors featured in Stückemarkt. To do this, click on the menu item “Programme” and navigate to the event you wish to see. Under the menu item “Meet” you will find the 3D stage designs of “Graf Öderland” and “Einfach das Ende der Welt”. The virtual Festival Garden is also still open.

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Gropius Bau What’s On

Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama: Eine Retrospektive

A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe
23 April to 15 August 2021

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. In April 2021, the Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work.

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Hella Jongerius Woven Cosmos – Woven Window, 2020

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Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos

29 April to 15 August 2021

At the heart of Hella Jongerius’s artistic practice is the connection between industry and craft as well as traditional knowledge and technology. In spring 2021, the Gropius Bau will present a solo exhibition devoted to the artist and designer that will continue to develop over the course of time.

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Zheng Bo drawing on Lantau Island, 2020

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Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社

21 June to 12 September 2021

As In House: Artist in Residence 2020, the artist and theoretician Zheng Bo embarked on the question of how plants practice politics. In 2021, his exhibition Wanwu Council 萬物社 will expand upon themes that Zheng Bo worked on during his one-year residency at the Gropius Bau.

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Key visual Musikfest Berlin 2021

Musikfest Berlin

The Musikfest Berlin 2021 will take place from 28 August to 20 September in cooperation with the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s death, the festival will devote a special focus to the composer. It presents his rarely performed late works, surrounded by compositions by Bach, Händel, Gesualdo and Palestrina. The music of our time is represented by composers such as Heiner Goebbels, Ann Cleare, Clara Iannotta, Lisa Streich, Enno Poppe, Wolfgang Rihm, Olga Neuwirth, George Benjamin and Rebecca Saunders. The Berlin orchestras and choirs as well as renowned international orchestras and choirs from the Netherlands, England and France can be heard.

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Seeing what’s ahead
– Berliner Festspiele stand for a cultural programme where the new becomes visible.
The Berliner Festspiele Edition

Berliner Festspiele

Edition No. 31

Angela Rosenberg about Gerhart von Westerman, art manager and first artistic director of the Berliner Festwochen

View of the main stage from the second gallery

Berliner Festspiele

General Refurbishment of Haus der Berliner Festspiele

For the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, the penultimate phase of technical and energy-related general refurbishments, which began in 2010, started in June 2020 and is expected to be completed in February 2022.

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More Berliner Festspiele

Solar system on the roof of the Gropius Bau

Berliner Festspiele

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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Berliner Festspiele

Statement by the “Initiative GG 5.3 Weltoffenheit”

As representatives of public cultural and research institutions in Germany, we share a mandate from the state to promote arts and culture, historical research and democratic education and to make these accessible to the general public. Toward this end, we rely on a public sphere that welcomes controversial debates in accordance with the norms of the German constitution. At the center of our initiative lies a common struggle against antisemitism, racism, right-wing extremism and any form of violent religious fundamentalism.

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We are many * Every single one of us.

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!

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