Jazzfest Berlin 2021 – key visual 1

Scenes of Now

4.11.–
7.11.21

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Jury Korolyov, Cosmonauts, 1982
Exhibition

The Cool and the Cold. Malerei aus den USA und der UdSSR 1960–1990

Ludwig Collection

24 September 2021 to 9 January 2022

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Thea Djordjadze. He ne sa tu to me., 2014 (detail). Wood, steel, plaster, paint
Exhibition

Thea Djordjadze: all building as making

18 September 2021 to 16 January 2022

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What’s On
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70 Years of Berliner Festspiele

Breaking News, Talking Heads and Arts

This film project, marking the 70th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, is the result of sifting through about 1,000 hours of audiovisual material from public and private archives. More than five hours of sound recordings, images and films have been restored and edited to produce eight new videos presenting news, talks and art from those 70 years which can be watch until 3 January 2022 on Berliner Festspiele on Demand

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Spider’s web inside a ŋgam dù divination chamber

Spider’s web inside a ŋgam dù divination chamber, 2019. Courtesy of the spider, diviner and “Nggàm dù”. Photography by Studio Tomás Saraceno

Nggàm dù

Spider divination with Somié, Cameroon

“Nggàm dù” is a web portal by the spider diviners of Somié, Cameroon who are willing to share their practice of divination with others. The project has been made at their request, with the “Arachnophilia” community and its founding member Tomás Saraceno.

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Gropius Bau What’s On

Ayumi Paul composing simultaneity, 2021
Singing sculpture

The Singing Project

21 August to 18 December 2021

The Singing Project is an ever-changing singing sculpture that will begin to unfold at the Gropius Bau from August 2021. The artist-violinist, Ayumi Paul, will host workshops every month at the Gropius Bau and in Gropius Wood.

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Thea Djordjadze, He ne sa tu to me., 2014 (detail)
Exhibition

Thea Djordjadze: all building as making

18 September 2021 to 16 January 2022

Thea Djordjadze’s artistic practice can be understood as a process of continually reusing, reconfiguring and rearranging objects.

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Jury Korolyov, Cosmonauts, 1982
Exhibition

The Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960–1990

Ludwig Collection
24 September 2021 to 9 January 2022

30 years after the demise of the Soviet Union, the Gropius Bau presents an extensive group show that brings together works held by the Ludwig Collection from six international museums.

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Coming Soon
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Jazzfest Berlin 2021 – key visual 1

Jazzfest Berlin 2021

From 4 to 7 November, Jazzfest Berlin 2021 will focus on the jazz and experimental music scenes of Cairo, Johannesburg and São Paulo, as well as leading voices of the New York and Berlin avant-garde. The result is a hybrid programme of live concerts, live streams, multi-channel video contributions and discourse formats.

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Seeing what’s ahead
– Berliner Festspiele stand for a cultural programme where the new becomes visible.
The book “Down to Earth” stands on end on a tabletop.
Berliner Festspiele

Sustainability

The new publication “Down to Earth” brings together fourteen blueprints for a culture of sustainability from art, activism, science, and politics that are committed to practicing an ecological turn. Among the contributors are Bruno Latour, Tino Sehgal and Joulia Strauss.

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Cover of the book “Changes”
Berliner Festspiele

Changes

In the new reader “Changes. Berliner Festspiele 2012–2021”, the changes in how festivals and exhibitions are now organised are considered in terms of five key concepts: formats, digital culture, identity politics, immersion and sustainability. Among the contributors are Signa Köstler, Donna Haraway and Brian Eno.

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Matthias 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.

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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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