Paolo Monti, “Composition Nature morte”, 1950

ENDOR

Anna Prohaska
Nicolas Altstaedt
Francesco Corti

19.12.21, 20:00

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Emeka Ogboh, Ámà: The Gathering Place, 2021, installation view, Gropius Bau, Berlin
Installation

Emeka Ogboh. Ámà: The Gathering Place

A Village Square in the Gropius Bau’s Atrium

20 October 2021 to 16 January 2022
Free admission

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Zanele Muholi, Bona, Charlottesville, 2015
Exhibition

Zanele Muholi

26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022

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Keyvisual Jazzfest Berlin on Demand
Concerts

Jazzfest Berlin on Demand

Recordings of the concerts

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What’s On
Video still The Sun Machine Is Coming Down recap

The Sun Machine Is Coming Down

Art at the ICC

From 7 to 17 October 2021, the Berliner Festspiele opened the International Congress Centrum Berlin (ICC) for ten days and, together with Berlin and international artists, transformed the high-tech architectural icon from 1979 which has been closed for years into an experiential space filled with music, performances, installations, and films. This recap video will give some impressions of this exceptional project.

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A person wrapped in clothing, wearing a mask and with their hands raised.

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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Keyvisual Jazzfest Berlin on Demand

Jazzfest Berlin 2021 on Demand

You can still access the concerts and music videos featured at this year’s festival edition, with a programmatic focus on the metropolises of Cairo, Johannesburg and São Paulo as well as leading protagonists of the New York and Berlin avant-garde, free of charge on ARTE Concert and Berliner Festspiele on Demand.

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Further information
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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Paolo Monti, “Composition Nature morte”, 1950

Paolo Monti, “Composition Nature morte”, 1950

© Paolo Monti – serie fotografica (Venezia, 1950) – BEIC 6346778, detail, CC BY-SA 4.0

ENDOR

On 19 December 2021, soprano Anna Prohaska, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and harpsichord player Francesco Corti will present their concert programme ENDOR at the Chamber Music Hall at the Berlin Philharmonie, which unfortunately had to be postponed on 4 September.

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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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Tiny House Workshop: Einfach Bauen
Berliner Festspiele

EMAS Certificate

Also this year, the Berliner Festspiele with the Gropius Bau received the annual confirmation from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce that they can continue to use the EMAS Certificate for Ecological Management with the registration number DE-107-00140.

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