Visual Performing Exiles

Performing Exiles

15.6.–
25.6.23

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Guest Performance / Dance

Tanz im August

34th International Festival Berlin

12.8.–
23.8.23

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Daniel Boyd, Untitled (PAITA), 2022

Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)

24 March to 9 July 2023

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Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

Indigo Waves and Other Stories

Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora

6 April to 13 August 2023

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26.8.–
18.9.23

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Visual Shared Landscapes
Theatre, Performance, Music

Shared Landscapes

Seven pieces between fields and forests

19.8.–
10.9.23

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Gropius Bau

Daniel Boyd, Untitled (PAITA), 2022
Exhibition

Daniel Boyd: RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION)

24 March to 9 July 2023

RAINBOW SERPENT (VERSION) is the most comprehensive exhibition of Daniel Boyd’s artistic practice in Europe to date. It provides an overview of Boyd’s image-making that counters the colonial narrative of Australia’s history, engages transnational networks of resistance, Indigenous knowledge production and personal family histories, which he reflects in relation to the context and architecture of the Gropius Bau.

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Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora
Exhibition

Indigo Waves and Other Stories

6 April to 13 August 2023

Taking the stories and histories of the Indian Ocean as its departure point, the group exhibition Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora brings together several contemporary artists, musicians, writers and thinkers to investigate, unpack and shed light on some of the smaller and bigger historical, cultural and linguistic links between the continents of Africa and Asia.

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Programme

A Programme on Artificial Intelligence

2023

The Gropius Bau’s first programme on artificial intelligence (AI) focuses on AI’s utopian and poetic possibilities. From June 2023, the first part of the programme, Ether’s Bloom, kicks off a sequence of new projects including a Writer in Residence, artistic explorations, a podcast, lectures and conversations. The development of an app with a special focus on education and accessibility forms the programme’s second pillar.

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Theatertreffen

Digital Guide

The question of “Who has the privilege to not know?” was of special significance during the concept phase of this year’s festival edition. With no claims of being complete, this Digital Guide provides room for answers, viewpoints and considerations of young culture makers who attended the 2023 Theatertreffen.

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Gropius Bau

Gropius Bau Journal

The Gropius Bau Journal is an online platform that aims to explore entangled futures, and ways of thinking and living together, using the broad themes of the exhibition programme as a lens to look at the wider world.

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Theatertreffen

Jury essay

In their essay “The Reconquest of Art in a Time of Uncertainty,” Petra Paterno and Sabine Leucht – jury members for this year’s Theatertreffen – examine theatre’s role in the midst of the polycrisis in general and the thematic positions of the 10 most notable productions in particular.

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Lucia Dlugoszewski
MaerzMusik

Digital Guide

How not to become famous – our Digital Guide “Lucia Dlugoszewski” provides some introductory insights into the life and works of this composer, performer, inventor of instruments, writer and choreographer who will be a focal figure of MaerzMusik 2023 and 2024.

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Performing Exiles

Of Hope and Resistance

"Performing Exiles" presents music from Ukraine: with literary ska-punk by "Zhadan i Sobaky" around the author Serhij Zhadan and the trio project "Vesna" by Mariana Sadovska, Christian Thomé and Markus Braun, which brings ancient music into a dialogue with electronic sounds.

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Upcoming

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Performing Exiles 2023

From 15 to 25 June, the interdisciplinary festival “Performing Exiles” will examine the concept of exile in the light of continual global changes and multiple migration movements with the devices of theatre, performance, discourse and concert. The programme is curated by the festival’s artistic director Matthias Lilienthal in consultation with performance artist Rabih Mroué.

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© Tomas Castelazo

Tanz im August

35th International Festival Berlin

As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2023. Advance booking is open,

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Visual Shared Landscapes

Shared Landscapes

With “Shared Landscapes”, curator Caroline Barneaud and director Stefan Kaegi (Rimini Protokoll) invite the audience to leave the theatre and venture out into Berlin’s green surroundings on eight dates in August and September 2023. From early afternoon to sunset, seven productions by European artists will address the (re-)discovery of landscape.

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Detail of the London Symphony Orchestra, in the foreground two cellists are visible in front of their sheet music.

© Fabian Schellhorn

Musikfest Berlin 2023

The Musikfest Berlin 2023 will take place from 26 August to 18 September. Experience 25 instrumental and vocal ensembles from the international and Berlin music scene and over 50 soloists in 28 events at the Philharmonie Berlin and the Gethsemanekirche. The complete programme is now online and advance booking is open.

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The Berliner Festspiele

All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses – the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstraße and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz – and other venues in the city.

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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

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

With this letter of intent, we, the signing cultural organizations, express our intention to welcome, host and stage Ukrainian theatre artists in our venues, to make Ukrainian dramatic work visible to the European community.

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