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The event and discourse programme for the exhibition General Idea is curated by Zippora Elders, Head of Curatorial Department &amp; Outreach, with support from the curatorial department &amp; Outreach.

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Andrea Geyer: Manifest (Banners / Gropius Bau / Berlin)

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Experiments with Sound, Image, Objects 1966–1986

Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. Circles of Light&nbsp;is the artist’s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date.

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light

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With&nbsp;How Love Moves, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. In the exhibition, the artist’s unique cinematic practice is in dialogue with spatial installations especially conceived for the Gropius Bau.

Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

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As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. In these works, movement resists categorisation, the theatre stage transformed into a skatepark and natural phenomena inspire dance. Advance ticket sale has started.

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Musikfest Berlin sees itself as a forum for the innovative creative work carried out by large-scale orchestras and ensembles in the genre of classical and modern music and ushers in the Berlin concert season spectacularly. The full programme is online. Advance ticket sale has started.

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The international literature festival berlin is one of the most important literature festivals in the world. Every year in September, the ilb brings international authors together in Berlin for book premieres, readings and panel discussions. The main venue is the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.&nbsp;The full programme is online. Advance ticket sales has started.

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Jazzfest Berlin is turning 60. The complete programme of this year’s festival edition with all concerts, the weekly programme of the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit, including a musical neighbourhood walk, and the detailed supporting programme for the Jazzfest Research Lab will be announced on 11 September.

Jazzfest Berlin

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Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves

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Becoming more accessible – with the help of Artificial Intelligence: the new AI-based app Gropius Bau Prisma allows users to translate exhibition texts into 36 languages, play them as audio, ask questions about the works on display and activate subtitles in various languages during events.

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Experiments with Sound, Image, Objects 1966–1986

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Nancy Holt: Circles of Light

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Located in the middle of Berlin, the Gropius Bau strives to be an open, vital place of exchange for a wide variety of people. A place where encounters and engagement with art and each other is possible. A place for play and participation, where not just the visual, but all the senses are equally important – feeling, hearing, tasting and touching.

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Enjoy the Gropius Bau’s summer programme for free! Starting 29 July, the installation&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{956ccc95-86d6-4f08-80c7-7156d81b07fe},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/gropius-bau/programm/2024/ausstellungen/andrea-geyer}}}">Manifest (Banners / Gropius Bau / Berlin)</a> by Andrea Geyer, located in the atrium and outside the Gropius Bau, invites us to reflect on what we truly want from cultural institutions. This includes opportunities to gather and spend time together, such as during our&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{58ddaa66-8698-4aa9-aa8e-c8255a2a2882},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/gropius-bau/programm/2024/veranstaltungen/summer-listening-sessions}}}">Summer Listening Sessions</a> with the Berlin record store and label Sound Metaphors. On three evenings, we’ll conclude the day with music at the Beba Pavilion. Come and join us! Until the start of the autumn programme, the exhibition hall and restaurant Beba will be open from 12:00 to 18:00. The Walther K&ouml;nig bookshop will be closed until 3 September.

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Challenging both the art world and society at large, General Idea remain a lastingly influential artist group whose groundbreaking practice spans 25 years. In the most comprehensive retrospective on the trio ever produced, the Gropius Bau presents more than 200 works from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.

Founded in 1969 in Toronto, the group &ndash; comprising Felix Partz (1945&ndash;1994), Jorge Zontal (1944&ndash;1994) and AA Bronson (b. 1946) &ndash; interrogated the production, circulation and consumption of images through a broad variety of media. Often through humour and satire, General Idea adressed various aspects of consumer culture, mass media, social inequalities, queer identity, the art economy and the AIDS crisis.

Developed in close collaboration with AA Bronson, the exhibition at the Gropius Bau brings together major installations as well as publications, videos, drawings, paintings, sculptures and archival material, providing an overview over the development of General Idea&rsquo;s artistic practice.

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The Berliner Festspiele organise a range of festivals and art exhibitions, concerts, dance and theatre performances, readings, lectures, debates and much more throughout the year. These events are presented at a range of locations across Berlin but are concentrated primarily at their own two venues: the Gropius Bau and the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

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Der schnellste Weg zu unseren Festivals, Ausstellungen und Programmreihen: The quickest way to our festivals, exhibitions and programme series:<ul> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{55f81055-59ad-4284-b7c4-a3019f95610e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/gropius-bau}}}">Gropius&nbsp;Bau</a></li></ul><ul> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{26e11d22-b6fe-47cb-a18a-b6b29d9136a7},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/jazzfest-berlin}}}">Jazzfest&nbsp;Berlin</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{3295227e-266e-442b-9094-c484230f623f},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/maerzmusik}}}">MaerzMusik</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{6633a1a2-5791-4d37-85a7-e0b06fa105f2},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/musikfest-berlin}}}">Musikfest&nbsp;Berlin</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{af5afe78-6bdd-4e71-aae7-9589124d87bd},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/performing-arts-season}}}">Performing Arts Season</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{fa672cb2-855e-469b-8212-4dec36fe248c},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/theatertreffen}}}">Theatertreffen</a></li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{4edae657-6eda-4c0e-bca1-0ce354742029},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/treffen-junge-szene}}}">Treffen junge Szene</a>&nbsp;</li></ul>Dar&uuml;ber hinaus geht es hier zu den folgenden Seiten: In addition, click here to go to the following pages:<ul> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{f9e53754-08cb-44b3-8aef-d1bc11968779},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/}}}">Startseite</a>&nbsp;(Home Page)</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{9e5a1240-2f96-4b76-be7b-a8c3f2a22bbd},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/programm/kalender}}}">Kalender</a>&nbsp;(Calendar)</li> <li><a href="${link:{uuid:{1c781ff7-4d77-4925-af10-b8f846eb2b8a},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/en/besuch/anfahrt-kontakt}}}">Anfahrt &amp; Kontakt</a>&nbsp;(Visit &amp; Contact)</li> <li><a href="https://tickets.kbb.eu/kbb.webshop/webticket/shop?language=de">Webshop</a>&nbsp;(Online Shop)</li></ul>Falls das auch nicht hilft, finden Sie unsere Veranstaltungen auch auf externen Seiten: If that doesn't help you can find our event on external pages:<ul> <li><a href="http://www.berlin-buehnen.de/de/spielplan/?locations=80" target="_blank" title="Berlin B&uuml;hnen">Berlin B&uuml;hnen</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/de/museen/martin-gropius-bau/#section-exhibitions" target="_blank" title="Museumsportal Berlin">Museumsportal Berlin</a></li></ul>M&ouml;chten Sie uns helfen? Schicken Sie uns gerne eine Nachricht mit dem Hinweis, wo der Fehler aufgetreten ist: You want to help us? Please send us a message with a hint where the error occurred: <a href="mailto:online-plattformen@berlinerfestspiele.de">online-plattformen@berlinerfestspiele.de</a><ul></ul>

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Curated by&nbsp;Meron Mendel and Saba-Nur Cheema&nbsp;

From 13 to 16 June 2024, the interdisciplinary themed days “Reflexes &amp; Reflections” on the Israel-Palestine conflict and its consequences for society in Germany took place at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. You can now find video and audio recordings of the discourse events in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library!

Reflexes &amp; Reflections. 7 October, the war in Gaza and the debate in Germany

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As a long-standing media partner of the Theatertreffen, 3sat presents specially produced television recordings of three productions invited to the festival in its programme under the title “Starke St&uuml;cke”. The recordings of “Bucket List”, “Laios. ANTHROPOLIS II” and “Macbeth” are accessible in the Media Library until 30 August 2024 (“Bucket List” until 2 May 2027).

“Starke St&uuml;cke”

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To mark its 60th anniversary, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating the cultural diversity of the neighbouring district of Moabit in collaboration with around 35 official partners and initiatives and with over 350 participants of all ages.&nbsp;In June 2024, interviews were conducted with 20 partners who presented their perspectives, wishes and ideas for the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. You can get a first impression with this film.

Introducing: Jazzfest Research Lab

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The international Jazzfest Research Lab&nbsp;welcomes academics and students to take a critical look at the festival’s archive, its programmes, creators, musicians and – last but not least – its myths. In two seminars during the summer semester of 2024, students from the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Hildesheim have explored the festival’s history from various perspectives. In this film, the participants give a first look at how they dealt with their research subject.

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Concerts, Performances, Installations, Discourse Formats

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The 10 Remarkable Productions 2024

On 26 January, the Theatertreffen’s jury of critics announced their selection of 10 remarkable productions for the 2024 Theatertreffen at a press conference. Our congratulations go to the nominated production teams and all participants! The programme will be published on 5 April.

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“Radical Playgrounds”, an art parcours at the Gropius Bau, is spending eleven weeks exploring the differences between the concepts of play as competition and free play. Visitors are invited to walk and climb on the various installations and sculptures, to activate them and to shape the project collectively.

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The massacre, hostage-taking and rocket attacks by Hamas have shaken us deeply. The grue-some attack on Israel on 7&nbsp;October left us stunned and initially lost for words.

The Berliner Festspiele on Current Events in Israel, Gaza and Germany

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.

Support of the Ukrainian Cultural Scene

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<h3>Theatertreffen</h3><h4>2 to 20 May 2024</h4>The 10&nbsp;remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26&nbsp;January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5&nbsp;April, advance ticket sales will start on 19&nbsp;April at 14:00

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As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. In these works, movement resists categorisation, the theatre stage transformed into a skatepark and natural phenomena inspire dance. Advance booking is now open.

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Every year in September, the festival brings international authors together in Berlin for book premieres, readings and panel discussions.&nbsp;The full programme is online. Advance ticket sale has started.

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The second season, presented between October 2024 and January 2025, will concentrate on memory and heritage in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on New York’s dance and performance scene.

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Around 40 concerts, 160 works, 80 composers

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<h3>Radical Playgrounds: From Competition to Collaboration</h3><h4>27 April to 14 July 2024</h4>Berlin is known for its numerous “Spielpl&auml;tze” for kids, but the project “Radical Playgrounds” is a place where play gets serious.&nbsp;It arrives at Gropius Hain for eleven weeks like an itinerant, temporary funfair: both melancholic and light-hearted, sad and joyful, funny and serious.&nbsp;

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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.

Sustainable Environmental Performance

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Start of the new campaign

Active since 2018, the national network DIE VIELEN formulates clear positions against enmity, right-wing extremism and attacks against artistic freedom. With the campaign “SHIELD &amp; SHINE”, the alliance is calling out to take an even stronger stance in support of a plural, democratic orientation of the world.

SHIELD &amp; SHINE – We Are Many