Silver and Gold Baby, Silver and Gold

5.–
8.11.20

Jazzfest Berlin 2020 will take place online.

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Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22

Exhibition

Masculinities

Liberation through Photography

Until
10.1.21

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Otobong Nkanga, Solid Maneuvers, 2015

Exhibition

Otobong Nkanga

There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Until
13.12.20

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11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Exhibition

11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

The Crack Begins Within

Until
1.11.20

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Music in Conversation

Talks

Music in Conversation

Talks on
Musikfest Berlin on Demand

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What’s On

Jazzfest Berlin 2020 Will Take Place Online

Due to new nationwide Covid-19 regulations, the 2020 Jazzfest Berlin will not be able to welcome its audiences at its venues, but it will be broadcast live on the radio and made available for video-streaming online, free of charge – on ARTE Concert and Berliner Festspiele on Demand.
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Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22

Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22. From the series Christopher Street, 1976

© Sunil Gupta & VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2020, Courtesy: the artist & Hales Gallery

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Until 10 January 2021; temporarily closed from 1 November

Featuring works by Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien, Annette Messager and Wolfgang Tillmans, a comprehensive group exhibition at the Gropius Bau titled Masculinities: Liberation through Photography explores the ways in which masculinity is experienced, performed and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.
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Matana Roberts: stay true…

Available from 30 October 2020

Matana Roberts describes her combination of instrumental music, singing, spoken word and visual imagery as “panoramic sound quilting”.In her exclusive video for the Jazzfest Berlin, where she was a guest four years ago, she also has a clear socio-political message for us.
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Film still from: "Matana Robert: stay true..."
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Edition No. 29, Berliner Festspiele 2020

Edition No. 29

Recently published!

Significant Voices: In the latest issue of Edition, artist and author Elske Rosenfeld, philosopher and publisher Klaus Wolfram and author and editor Jan Wenzel discuss the ways in which the citizens’ movements of 1990 created a draft constitution and a public forum for unheard voices (in German).

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Silver and Gold Baby, Silver and Gold

Jazzfest Berlin

5 to 8 November 2020

In the face of the current Covid-19 crisis, this 57th edition of Jazzfest Berlin counts on transatlantic dialogue, focussing on the creative centres of New York and Berlin. The festival will assume new forms in 2020 in order to make the creative music scene accessible to the widest possible audience.
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Berliner Festspiele

Refurbishing of the Haus der Berliner Festspiele

The building will be refurbished until February 2022. During the construction work, some of our festivals and events will take place at alternative venues and/or online.

 Further information

Berliner Festspiele

Hygiene Rules

Please note our current hygiene rules for the Gropius Bau.

Exhibitions at Gropius Bau

Otobong Nkanga, Solid Maneuvers, 2015

Exhibition

Otobong Nkanga: There’s No Such Thing as Solid Ground

Until 13 December 2020
Temporarily closed from 1 November

Otobong Nkanga’s interest lies in the complex relationship between humans and land. In her works, she explores this relationship within the tension between exploitative extraction processes and structures of care and repair. Following her one-year stay as In House: Artist in Residence 2019 at the Gropius Bau, a solo exhibition will offer insights into the central issues of her work.

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11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Exhibition

11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: The Crack Begins Within

Until 1 November 2020

Since September 2019, the 11th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art has been unfolding as a process with “exp. 1”, “exp. 2”, and “exp. 3”. From 5 September to 1 November 2020, the upcoming exhibition, the epilogue, will bring together these experiences and the issues they raise in four locations, including the Gropius Bau.

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Sunil Gupta, Untitled 22

Exhibition

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Until 10 January 2021
Temporarily closed from 1 November

Featuring works by Laurie Anderson, Richard Avedon, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Isaac Julien and Annette Messager, a comprehensive group exhibition at the Gropius Bau titled Masculinities: Liberation through Photography explores the ways in which masculinity is experienced, performed and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day.

 To the exhibition

More Berliner Festspiele

Berliner Festspiele

Seeing what’s ahead

A brief overview of who we are and what we do!

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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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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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