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After an eventful 2025 – with exhibitions by Diane Arbus, Vaginal Davis, Ligia Lewis and Yoko Ono, the launch of our free monthly event series Spätschicht, and the first anniversary of our admission-free children’s play space BAUBAU – we are delighted to announce our 2026 programme.&nbsp;“Our 2026 programme is defined by artists who cast an uncompromising gaze on society and break boundaries. Leila Hekmat opens the programme in March with a new performance in the atrium. In the spring, Marina Abramović takes centre stage with Balkan Erotic Epic, an exhibition showcasing the artist’s iconic, ongoing exploration of the body, ritual, eroticism and death. Eroticism and death – along with queer love – are also central to the œuvre of Peter Hujar, whose work is presented in dialogue with photographs by Liz Deschenes. Later in the year, we reflect on Germany’s history and present from a wide range of artistic perspectives, with solo exhibitions by Gabriele Stötzer and Christoph Schlingensief, as well as the group show Kreuzberg. This country’s stark social and cultural contrasts have prompted each of the exhibiting artists to explore alternative models for society through their work: Schlingensief blurred the line between political activism, performance and visual art, much as did Stötzer, who has used her body as a site of political action since the 1970s. In turn, the exhibition Kreuzberg brings together artists who engage with the topic of labour migration, drawing a connection to our current moment through works that address the ongoing struggles for inclusion and equality.”&nbsp;— Jenny Schlenzka, Director, Gropius Bau<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1eM/FaPD9T1S2i" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Leila Hekmat: Roses Rising – The Movement&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>6 and 7 March 2026&nbsp;</h4>How does the bourgeois longing for revolt take shape, when the faith in progress and reason is unsettled? And how tightly entwined are self-interest and radical dissent? Berlin-based artist and director Leila Hekmat explores these questions in her newly commissioned performance Roses Rising – The Movement, premiering on 6 and 7 March in the Gropius Bau’s atrium. Moving between concert and ballet, the piece transforms the space into a landscape hovering between bunker, rehearsal room and dreamscape and invites the audience to witness a dinner party unravel into a happening.&nbsp;With meticulously handcrafted costumes and stage designs, Roses Rising unfolds in Leila Hekmat’s distinctive style, traversing comedy, musical tableau vivant and performance. Developed through extensive research and collected materials on 1970s protest cultures, the work emerges as a performative collage that explores the conscious and unconscious strategies through which people respond to a world in crisis.&nbsp;Roses Rising is presented in two parts in collaboration with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. After The Movement at Gropius Bau, the stage production The Dinner will premiere at HAU1 on 15 April 2026.&nbsp;Roses Rising – The Movement is curated by Nora-Swantje Almes, Curator Live Programme and Outreach, with Alexandra Philippovskaya, Assistant Curator Live Programme and Outreach, and Edessa Malke, Curatorial Fellow Live Programme and Outreach<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1yI/9PDVXW36XR" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>19 March to 28 June 2026&nbsp;</h4>Bringing together the works of Peter Hujar and Liz Deschenes, Persistence of Vision opens an intergenerational dialogue on photography. Working in New York City between the Stonewall uprising of 1969 and the onset of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Peter Hujar captured a pivotal cultural moment in piercing black-and-white photographs. Alongside incisive images of animals, nature and urban ruins, he portrayed New York’s downtown avant-garde and queer communities, including figures such as Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and David Wojnarowicz.&nbsp;In the exhibition, Hujar’s photographs are interspersed with contemporary works by New York City-based artist Liz Deschenes. These interludes invite viewers to pause, slow down and consider Hujar’s work in a new light. Deschenes creates sculptures and non-representational photographic works that employ the fundamental properties of the medium – light, chemistry and time – to explore what a photograph can be. As the first major exhibition of both Hujar’s and Deschenes’ work in Berlin, Persistence of Vision proposes an expansive understanding of photography and highlights the uncompromising clarity of vision that defines both artists’ practices.&nbsp;Curated by Eva Respini, Co-CEO and Curator at Large, Vancouver Art Gallery, with Monique Machicao y Priemer Ferrufino, Curatorial Fellow Exhibitions, Gropius Bau&nbsp;In partnership with Gropius Bau, the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn presents Peter Hujar. Eyes Open in the Dark from 27 February to 23 August 2026.<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1yM/eT2RRDTfZ6" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>15 April to 23 August 2026&nbsp;</h4>One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political resistance.&nbsp;Women beat their chests and massage their breasts in lamentation, while a living naked body lies entwined with a skeleton: drawing on the folklore of Abramović’s native Balkans, the exhibition weaves together filmic and sculptural installations with live performance to explore eroticism as an offering that binds life and death, the self and the cosmos. It highlights the artist’s performances not merely as acts of personal endurance, but as imagined rituals that reposition the erotic body as carrier of spiritual, political and ecological meaning.&nbsp;Celebrating their <a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1za/9PDVXW36XR" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">75th anniversary</a>, the Berliner Festspiele unfold <a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1zb/FaPD9T1S2i" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Balkan Erotic Epic</a> in two parts: following the exhibition at Gropius Bau, the new multi-hour theatre production Balkan Erotic Epic. The Stage Version will open the Performing Arts Season in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in October 2026.&nbsp;Curated by Agnes Gryczkowska, curator and musician, and Jenny Schlenzka, Director, Gropius Bau, with Elena Franziska Setzer, Assistant Curator, Gropius Bau, and Savannah Thümler, Curatorial Assistant, Gropius Bau<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1yw/RAxAF9699L" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>19 June to 6 December 2026&nbsp;</h4>For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion. Opening at Gropius Bau in June 2026, Dabei sein und nicht schweigen will be the artist’s largest institutional solo exhibition to date.&nbsp;Stötzer’s artistic practice is inextricably linked to her social and political engagement. In 1976, she was detained for organising a petition, which the GDR authorities declared a “defamation of state.” Following a year-long imprisonment, she joined the literary and artistic underground and later co-founded the art collective Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt. Many of her works formulate radical counter-concepts to state repression and control by pushing boundaries through experimentation and making space for vulnerability and desire. With around 150 works, the exhibition highlights the diversity of her œuvre – encompassing painting, literature, photography, textile art, Super 8 film, performance and public interventions – and intends to catalyse the long-overdue broader recognition of this groundbreaking artist.&nbsp;Curated by Julia Grosse, Strategic Consulting and Conceptual Development, Gropius Bau, with Christopher Wierling, Assistant Curator, Gropius Bau&nbsp;Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1yA/3WXXmXFSRF" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Kreuzberg (WT)&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>10 September 2026 to 17 January 2027&nbsp;</h4>Nowhere were the social and cultural changes of 1960s and 1970s West Germany more powerfully manifest than in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Here, the broader transformations reshaping life in the Federal Republic through labour recruitment agreements with countries including Italy, Greece, and Turkey became visible at the local scale. Opening in autumn 2026, the group exhibition Kreuzberg (working title) focuses on the diverse and largely overlooked cultural production on the topic of labour migration and on how artists in the neighbourhood have responded to the tensions and issues of their time.&nbsp;Gropius Bau, located in Kreuzberg, presents more than 100 works in film, painting, photography, installation and performance that centre the lived realities of labour migrants and their descendants, exploring the struggles for inclusion and equality still being fought today. Featuring both historical and contemporary works by artists including Vlassis Caniaris, Azade Köker, Nuray Demir and Monika Sieveking, the exhibition demonstrates the international significance of Kreuzberg’s cultural production.&nbsp;Curated by Gürsoy Doğtaş, art historian and Creative Mediator, Manifesta 16, and Patrizia Dander, Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, Gropius Bau, with Sonja Borstner and Elena Franziska Setzer, Assistant Curators, Gropius Bau&nbsp;On the occasion of Kreuzberg, the Stadtmuseum Berlin presents the exhibition Geteiltes Leben at the Museum Ephraim-Palais from 11 September 2026 to 7 February 2027.&nbsp;Kreuzberg is funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1yi/x1fFhFA3W3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Christoph Schlingensief: ES IST NICHT MEHR MEIN PROBLEM, MACHT EURE SCHEISSE ALLEINE (WT)&nbsp;</a></h3><h4>9 October 2026 to 17 January 2027&nbsp;</h4>Over the course of his artistic career, Christoph Schlingensief relentlessly confronted the absurdities of the present. In autumn 2026, Gropius Bau presents his visionary work with ES IST NICHT MEHR MEIN PROBLEM, MACHT EURE SCHEISSE ALLEINE (working title), an exhibition that spans the range of his œuvre from sensational political actions to radical stage productions and the coalescence of performance and visual art. The exhibition is not a retrospective in the classic sense of the word; instead, it brings Schlingensief’s central bodies of work into conversation, highlighting the ways in which his artistic strategies permeated one another and constantly challenged audiences to take active positions. Thus, in the artist’s first comprehensive exhibition in Berlin in more than a decade, the focus is not on the completed work, but on the process of questioning, doubting and failing that characterised his practice. As Schlingensief himself put it, “One can fail with enthusiasm, joy and intent. […] Much will happen if one manages to accept that failure is necessary to harnessing strength.”&nbsp;Curated by Raphael Gygax, curator, in collaboration with Aino Laberenz, Christoph Schlingensief Estate, with Christopher Wierling, Assistant Curator, Gropius Bau<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1ym/WhSOiaRePT" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Spätschicht&nbsp;</a></h3>Spätschicht – Live Programme at Gropius Bau is a monthly series of free events with an interdisciplinary programme ranging from talks, book discussions and film screenings to concerts and DJ sets. Each edition of the event series is co-curated with an institution, collective or artist. Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, experimental and always open to clashing – a space to discover new things and shift perspectives.&nbsp;8.1.2026 Spätschicht x Schwules Museum&nbsp; 26.3.2026 Spätschicht x C/O Berlin&nbsp; Further editions on 4.6., 2.7., 6.8., and 1.10.2026.<h3><a href="https://news.gropiusbau.de/crm/service/t/BFS/3ktdfE/3dl2IC/en/1xT/OXR3xL9Jex" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BAUBAU&nbsp;</a></h3>A Play Space for Kids With colourful wallpapers, dinosaurs, fantastical beings and abstract elements, artist Kerstin Brätsch has created a free play space for kids: BAUBAU. As a permanent part of Gropius Bau, it invites children to play, laugh, make noise or simply do nothing – because here, more is allowed than forbidden. In this way, BAUBAU playfully questions the nature of a museum or art institution.<h3>Press Conference 2026&nbsp;</h3>We cordially invite you to the annual press conference of the Berliner Festspiele with Gropius Bau on 26 February 2026 at 11:00 in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.&nbsp;RSVP: Please register via <a href="mailto:presse@berlinerfestspiele.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">presse@berlinerfestspiele.de</a>.

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After an eventful 2025 – with exhibitions by Diane Arbus, Vaginal Davis, Ligia Lewis and Yoko Ono, the launch of our free monthly event series Spätschicht, and the first anniversary of our admission-free children’s play space BAUBAU – we are delighted to announce our 2026 programme.

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How does the bourgeois longing for revolt take shape, when the faith in progress and reason is unsettled? And how tightly entwined are self-interest and radical dissent? Berlin-based artist and director Leila Hekmat explores these questions in her newly commissioned performance Roses Rising – The Movement, premiering on 6 and 7 March in the Gropius Bau’s atrium. Moving between concert and ballet, the piece transforms the space into a landscape hovering between bunker, rehearsal room and dreamscape and invites the audience to witness a dinner party unravel into a happening.&nbsp;With meticulously handcrafted costumes and stage designs, Roses Rising unfolds in Leila Hekmat’s distinctive style, traversing comedy, musical tableau vivant and performance. Developed through extensive research and collected materials on 1970s protest cultures, the work emerges as a performative collage that explores the conscious and unconscious strategies through which people respond to a world in crisis.&nbsp;Roses Rising is presented in two parts in collaboration with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. After The Movement at Gropius Bau, the stage production The Dinner will premiere at HAU1 on 15 April 2026.&nbsp;Roses Rising – The Movement is curated by Nora-Swantje Almes, Curator Live Programme and Outreach, with Alexandra Philippovskaya, Assistant Curator Live Programme and Outreach, and Edessa Malke, Curatorial Fellow Live Programme and Outreach

A selection of press images is available for media coverage of Leila Hekmat: Roses Rising – The Movement. Please contact&nbsp;<a href="mailto:presse@gropiusbau.de">presse@gropiusbau.de</a>&nbsp;to request the login data to download high res press images.The images can be downloaded and used free of charge prior to and during the exhibition period. Please note that images may not be cropped, overprinted or modified. We look forward to receiving any digital or hardcopy samples of publications.Please forward or send them to the following address:Gropius Bau Birgit Schapow /&nbsp;Press Office Niederkirchnerstra&szlig;e 7 10963 Berlin <a href="mailto:presse@gropiusbau.de">presse@gropiusbau.de</a>

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Located in the centre of Berlin, the Gropius Bau is a lively place for encounters with art and each other. As an internationally renowned exhibition centre, it offers space for major exhibitions and performances by contemporary artists.

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Our 2026 programme preview is now online! We look forward to exhibitions by Marina Abramović, Peter Hujar, Christoph Schlingensief, Gabriele St&ouml;tzer and many other artists who cast an uncompromising gaze on society.

Programme 2026

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Advance sales are now live: tickets for ten selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which in 2026 will also mark the 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, are now available. The programme includes Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti’s grotesquely humorous anti-opera Le Grand Macabre and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

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Performers and life-sized dolls – living creatures and inanimate objects – come together in Gisèle Vienne’s and Étienne Bideau-Rey’s dance-theatre performance. The choreography in slow motion – composed in dialogue with original music by Peter Rehberg – is diffracting time and thus enabling usually unseen parts of experiences to be seen.

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In Thorsten Lensing’s new play, Ursina Lardi, Karin Neuh&auml;user, Sebastian Blomberg, André Jung and drummer Willi Kellers play characters careening their way from one disaster to the next. What defines them is an absurd blend of brutality and tenderness, anarchy and metaphysical curiosity, existential pain and zest for life.

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As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once. In Último helecho, European Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

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With Bishop Black, Hugo Tepest, Perel, River Roux, Ulrike Ottinger – Free Admission

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The Practice – What Moves Artists

The Practice – What Moves Artists&nbsp;is a book series by Gropius Bau that invites artists to showcase a practice that they pursue, that has influenced them or that has been with them for a long time. In the second volume of the series, artist, performer and author Vaginal Davis looks back on the saucy underground scenes of Los Angeles and Berlin together with former bandmates.&nbsp;On Dangerous Ground recounts past gigs, spectacular live performances and well-kept secrets.

Vaginal Davis: On Dangerous Ground

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Widely regarded as one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century, Diane Arbus’ bold black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. With&nbsp;Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, Gropius Bau presents the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date.

Diane Arbus: Konstellationen

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Ligia Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts. Her solo exhibition&nbsp;I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR… at Gropius Bau&nbsp;brings&nbsp;together new and existing works that explore themes of race, gender, violence and resistance.

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With BAUBAU, the artist Kerstin Br&auml;tsch designed an&nbsp;admission-free play space for kids, where more is allowed than forbidden. On Gropius Bau’s ground floor, colourful wallpapers, structures, objects and open-ended material called “loose parts” configure flexible spaces that are shaped by children’s activities.

BAUBAU:A&nbsp;Play Space for Kids

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What is and has been the role of play in public space? Gabriela Burkhalter’s&nbsp;Playing in the City&nbsp;presentation traces the history of playgrounds since their emergence in 1900 to today. The free presentation is open to all and can be seen in two rooms next to BAUBAU’s entrance.

Playing in the City:A Short History from 1900 to the Present

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Widely regarded as one of the most original and influential artists of the 20th century, Diane Arbus’ bold black-and-white photographs demolish aesthetic conventions and upend all certainties. With Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, Gropius Bau presents the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Featuring 454 prints, many of them shown here for the first time, Konstellationen offers new perspectives on Arbus’ iconic images and the wide range of her portraiture.

Ligia Lewis is a central figure in redefining performance within the context of the visual arts. In her multifaceted practice, she combines performance, live installation and film. From autumn 2025, Gropius Bau presents I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…, the artist and choreographer’s most comprehensive solo exhibition to date. It brings together new and existing works that explore themes of race, gender, violence and resistance.

Ligia Lewis: I’M NOT HERE FORRRRR…

Current Exhibitions

With Bishop Black, Hugo Tepest, Perel, River Roux, Ulrike Ottinger

On 8 January, we’re kicking off the new year with another edition of our event series Sp&auml;tschicht, which we’re organising in collaboration with Schwules Museum. This edition centers the body as a place of negotiation, militantly rejecting society’s norms.

We are looking forward to welcoming you back in mid-March with the reopening of our play space, <a href="${link:{uuid:{df42e57d-a14a-4b44-a5e4-9d3e7dcab5a6},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/baubau}}}">BAUBAU</a> (on 22 March), and two exhibitions, <a href="${link:{uuid:{55d64239-53fe-4b12-8567-a63191c6cae4},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2025/ausstellungen/vaginal-davis}}}">Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt</a> (from 21 March) and <a href="${link:{uuid:{9618c701-bd05-432e-b688-5943e1f7fc57},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2025/ausstellungen/yoko-ono}}}">YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND</a> (from 11 April). For details on opening hours and tickets, please visit our <a href="${link:{uuid:{62c3018b-bb40-46ce-8019-646ec5cd2e4a},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/besuch/informationen}}}">Information &amp; Tickets</a> page. We look forward to seeing you soon!

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Located in the centre of Berlin, Gropius Bau is an internationally renowned institution that stages large-scale exhibitions and performances by contemporary artists. Its diverse events focus on exchange and discussion, bringing together local and global perspectives.

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Playing, laughing, making noise, letting off steam, doing nothing – all in an exhibition venue! With BAUBAU, the artist Kerstin Br&auml;tsch designed an&nbsp;admission-free play space for kids, where more is allowed than forbidden. On Gropius Bau’s ground floor, colourful wallpapers, structures, objects and open-ended material called “loose parts” configure flexible spaces that are shaped by children’s activities.

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What has been the role of play in public space, both historically and in the present? Complementing BAUBAU, our free play space for kids, Gabriela Burkhalter’s&nbsp;Playing in the City&nbsp;presentation traces the history of playgrounds since their emergence in 1900 to today. The free presentation is open to all and can be seen in two rooms next to the play space’s entrance.

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Welcome to the press section of Gropius Bau.You can&nbsp;book a free press ticket&nbsp;in our&nbsp;<a href="https://tickets.kbb.eu/kbb.webshop/webticket/shop?page=timeslot&amp;language=en">online shop</a>. After you have decided on a date, you can select the category “Press ticket” in the “Discounts” section.<a href="https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/ueber-uns/presse#gb_pressekontakt">Contact</a> <a href="https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/gropius-bau/ueber-uns/presse#gb_presseverteiler" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Press Mailing List</a> &nbsp;

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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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You can listen to some of our events this year digitally in the Berliner Festspiele Media Library after the live concerts.&nbsp;In addition, On Demand offers from past years are available.

Musikfest Berlin in the Media Library

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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.

Introducing: Jazzfest Research Lab

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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.

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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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Musikfest Berlin will take place from 28&nbsp;August to 23&nbsp;September 2026 in co-operation with the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and marks the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele. Tickets are already available now for ten selected concert highlights at the Philharmonie Berlin. These guest concerts include some of the world’s best symphony orchestras and choirs from Finland, Spain, England, South Africa, the USA, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. The complete festival programme will be announced on 21&nbsp;April 2026.

Musikfest Berlin 2026: Tickets for First Concert Highlights Available Now!

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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.

Theatertreffen 2024

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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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Thorsten Lensing

Tanzende Idioten

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As an international co-production, artists Nina Laisné and François Chaignaud and singer Nadia Larcher have developed a performance that is carried by music, singing and dance at once. In “Último helecho”, European Baroque meets South American folklore and mythology.

Último helecho

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A dance collage by John Neumeier which explores aspects of German expressive dance through music, texts and songs and commemorates the victims of Nazi rule. Guest performance of the National Youth Ballet John Neumeier.

The Invisibles

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Advance sales are now live: tickets for ten selected concert highlights of the Musikfest Berlin, which in 2026 will also mark the 75th&nbsp;anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, are now available. The programme includes Gy&ouml;rgy Ligeti’s grotesquely humorous anti-opera Le Grand Macabre and George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

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Once more, like every year, the Berlinale will be a guest at Haus der Berliner Festspiele with a diverse film programme. On this occasion the house will be transformed into a high tech cinema. The spectrum of films at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele ranges from premieres and reruns of the Competition, Berlinale Special and Berlinale Special Gala to the Panorama section.

76th Berlin International Film Festival

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Annual Preview 2026

Contact

Leila Hekmat, Roses Rising, 2025