Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

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Yayoi Kusama
A Retrospective

A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe

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Zheng Bo drawing on Lantau Island, 2020

Exhibition

Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社

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Hella Jongerius, Woven Cosmos, Exhibition view, Woven Windows and Frog Table, 2021

Exhibition

Hella Jongerius
Woven Cosmos

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Exhibition

Takeover
Plastik hört auf Pilz

Within the framework of
Kids Curate_Takeover

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Wages for Housework Campaign

Gropius Bau Journal

The Collective of Care: Responsibility, Pleasure, Cure – Part 1

By iLiana Fokianaki

New Essay

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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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Tickets for our exhibitions Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective, Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos / Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社 and Everything Is Just for a While are available exclusively in our online shop. New tickets are released every second Friday at 12:00.

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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

Yayoi Kusama, “Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field”, 1965

Exhibition

Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective

23 April to 15 August 2021

Yayoi Kusama is one of the world’s most important contemporary artists. In April 2021, the Gropius Bau will devote the first comprehensive retrospective in Germany to Kusama’s work. Presented across almost 3000 m², the exhibition will offer an overview of the key periods in her oeuvre, which spans more than 70 years, and feature a number of current works as well as a newly realised Infinity Mirror Room.

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Hella Jongerius, Woven Cosmos, Exhibition view, Woven Windows and Frog Table, 2021

Exhibition

Hella Jongerius: Woven Cosmos

29 April to 15 August 2021

At the heart of Hella Jongerius’s artistic practice is the connection between industry and craft as well as traditional knowledge and technology. In spring 2021, the Gropius Bau will present a solo exhibition devoted to the artist and designer that will continue to develop over the course of time.

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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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Exhibition

Takeover. Plastik hört auf Pilz (Plastic Catches Mushroom)

7 June to 26 September 2021

Seeing and understanding the world through children’s eyes – the exhibition Takeover explores this desire. It’s a collaboration between the Gropius Bau and the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor, the Cultural Foundation of Berliner Sparkasse.

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Zheng Bo drawing on Lantau Island, 2020

Exhibition

Zheng Bo: Wanwu Council 萬物社

21 June to 23 August 2021

As In House: Artist in Residence 2020, the artist and theoretician Zheng Bo embarked on the question of how plants practice politics. In 2021, his exhibition Wanwu Council 萬物社 will expand upon themes that Zheng Bo worked on during his one-year residency at the Gropius Bau.

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Education

Traces in the time to come!

24 June to 30 July 2021

As part of the educational project Gropius Bau Giving Space, the dance collective Grupo Oito has designed a space that offers various multimedia stations where visitors can get creative themselves and help shape the space.

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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, 2020

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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Musikfest Berlin

The 2021 Programme

The focus of the festival, taking place from 28 August to 20 September, will be on the late works of Igor Stravinsky, combined with music by Carlo Gesualdo to contemporary works by Heiner Goebbels and Olga Neuwirth.

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Film still from: “This Is Not a Game”

Berliner Festspiele

This Is Not a Game

Playing with reality: in his video essay, Arne Vogelgesang looks at the history of and background to QAnon and considers the elements that have contributed to the rapid spread of this conspiracy theory.

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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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