Jury Korolyov, Cosmonauts, 1982
Exhibition

The Cool and the Cold. Malerei aus den USA und der UdSSR 1960–1990

Ludwig Collection

24 September 2021 to 9 January 2022

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Thea Djordjadze. He ne sa tu to me., 2014 (detail). Wood, steel, plaster, paint
Exhibition

Thea Djordjadze: all building as making

18 September 2021 to 16 January 2022

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Key visual “Everything Is Just for a While”
Exhibition

Everything Is Just for a While

70 years of Berliner Festspiele revisited

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Gropius Bau Journal

Ways of Seeing: A New Museum Story for Planet Earth

By Grace Ndiritu

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1 / 4
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Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing

Performances, Conversations and Workshops

From 4 to 7 November 2021, the Gropius Bau hosts a four-day programme that focuses on diverse approaches to the fields of care, repair and healing. Against the backdrop of an unprecedented global health emergency, with its social, political, economic and psychological consequences, Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing has invited organisations, researchers, activists and artists working in Berlin and beyond to be together and share their thoughts, experiences and ideas.

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Ámà: 4 Days on Caring, Repairing and Healing
Gropius Bau Journal
Hella Jongerius, Woven Brick (detail), 2019

Gropius Bau Journal

The Gropius Bau Journal is an online platform that aims to explore entangled futures, and ways of thinking and living together, using the broad themes of the exhibition programme as a lens to look at the wider world. Publishing new writing from artists, writers and thinkers, it looks to range across disciplines and to consider the role of an art institution in the 21st century.

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Current & Upcoming

Key visual “Everything Is Just for a While”
Exhibition

Everything Is Just for a While

28 May to 17 October 2021

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.

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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. From 18 September 2021, the Gropius Bau hosts an extensive exhibition of the Berlin-based artist’s work which will engage in a dialogue with the historic building.

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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 The Cool and the Cold: Painting from the USA and the USSR 1960–1990, an extensive group show that brings together works held by the Ludwig Collection from six international museums.

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Akwétè cubes
Installation

Emeka Ogboh

Ámà: The Gathering Place
20 October 2021 to 16 January 2022

From October 2021, a site-specific installation by artist Emeka Ogboh will occupy the Gropius Bau’s vast atrium – the heart of the institution’s historical architecture, which is freely accessible without an entry price, welcoming all visitors to the very center of the building.

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Zanele Muholi, Bester V, Mayotte, 2015
Exhibition

Zanele Muholi

26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022

Zanele Muholi self-identifies as a visual activist and has been documenting the life of Black LGBTQIA+ communities since the early 2000s in intimate and powerful photographs across South Africa and beyond. From 26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022, the Gropius Bau will host Muholi’s first major survey in Germany.

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Artist in Residence 2021
SERAFINE1369

visions

Following in the footsteps of Wu Tsang, Otobong Nkanga and Zheng Bo, SERAFINE1369 / Jamila Johnson-Small (previously known as Last Yearz Interesting Negro) will take up a studio in the Gropius Bau in 2021 as part of the In House: Artist in Residence programme. As an artist and dancer, SERAFINE1369 engages deeply with intimacy, movement and boundaries.

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SERAFINE1369, Last Yearz Interesting Negro_Heavy handed, we crush the moment

Digital Artist in Residence 2021
Ana Prvački

This year, the Gropius Bau is pleased to welcome Ana Prvački as its first Digital Artist in Residence. During her residency, Prvački is taking up a series of interventions that materialise the Gropius Bau’s overarching programmatic topics of hosting, natural structures and ecology.

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Hand Pollination Glove, 2018
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The Gropius Bau is one of Europe’s most important exhibition venues. With its acclaimed contemporary and archaeological exhibitions, the Gropius Bau has consistently opened up new realms of experience and established its international reputation. In view of its eventful history and the variety of institutions that have been active here over the years, the Gropius Bau is organised as an open framework for addressing a broad variety of artistic modes of thinking and their social implications. Through active collaboration with contemporary artists involved the programme, creative processes are revealed, new perspectives opened up and the possibilities of the institution reflected.

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The architecture of the International Congress Centre Berlin (ICC) in digitally modified form against a yellow circular background.
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) and open up from 7 to 17 October the long-disused building for live art, installations and films.

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Too Much Sugar for a Dime
Jazzfest Berlin

Here and Now

The Jazzfest Berlin presents improvised music from Cairo, São Paulo and Johannesburg as recordings and livestreams from 4 to 7 November, combined with a variety of live concerts in Berlin.

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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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