The Sun Machine Is Coming Down
Art at the ICC
7.10.–
17.10.21
To the programme
Scenes of Now
4.11.–
7.11.21
To the programme
Everything Is Just for a While
70 years of Berliner Festspiele revisited
28.5. -
17.10.21
To the exhibition
The Cool and the Cold. Malerei aus den USA und der UdSSR 1960–1990
Ludwig Collection
24 September 2021 to 9 January 2022
To the exhibition
Thea Djordjadze: all building as making
18 September 2021 to 16 January 2022
To the exhibitionWhat’s On
Visual concept and design: Eps51
CGI: bus.group
© Berliner Festspiele
The Sun Machine Is Coming Down
To mark their 70th anniversary, the Berliner Festspiele will take over the International Congress Centre Berlin (ICC) from 7 to 17 October and open up the long-disused building for Live art, installations and films. Many younger people and a significant number of Berliners have never seen this architectural icon designed by Ursulina Schüler-Witte and Ralf Schüler from the inside. In a time dominated by coronavirus the project that takes its title from a line in David Bowie’s song “Memory Of A Free Festival” (1969) will offer light, space and transformation.
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.
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.
Coming Soon
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.
Seeing what’s ahead
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.
