Zanele Muholi, Bona, Charlottesville, 2015
Exhibition

Zanele Muholi

26 November 2021 to 13 March 2022

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SERAFINE1369, 2020
Gropius Bau Journal

Everything Gets Eaten, One Way or Another

By SERAFINE1369

New Contribution in the Gropius Bau Journal

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Emeka Ogboh, Ámà: The Gathering Place, 2021, installation view, Gropius Bau, Berlin
Installation

Emeka Ogboh. Ámà: The Gathering Place

A Village Square in the Gropius Bau’s Atrium

20 October 2021 to 16 January 2022
Free admission

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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

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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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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

Ayumi Paul composing simultaneity, 2021
Singing sculpture

The Singing Project

21 August to 31 December 2022

The Singing Project is an ever-changing singing sculpture unfolding at the Gropius Bau since August 2021. Violinist and artist Ayumi Paul invites everybody to workshops at the Gropius Bau.

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Emeka Ogboh, Ámà: The Gathering Place, 2021, installation view, Gropius Bau, Berlin
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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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 an extensive group show that brings together works held by the Ludwig Collection from six international museums.

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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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SERAFINE1369, A Continual Cry, Installation view, 2021, Gropius Bau
Video installation

SERAFINE1369: A Continual Cry

4 November 2021 to 16 January 2022

The video installation A Continual Cry explores liveness in the absence of the performer’s live presence. Programmed so as not to repeat, the video is a jarring, fragmented work, ever unfolding in the here and now.

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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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More Berliner Festspiele

Paolo Monti, “Composition Nature morte”, 1950
Musikfest 2021

ENDOR

On 19 December, soprano Anna Prohaska, cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and harpsichord player Francesco Corti will present their centuries spanning concert programme ENDOR at the Chamber Music Hall.

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Filmstill from “The Wall” by Gordon Matta-Clark, 1976
Berliner Festspiele 70

Breaking News, Talking Heads and Arts

In the eight video works, film makers Thilo Fischer and David von der Stein tackle the capricious 70-year history of the Berliner Festspiele.

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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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