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Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies activates the two entrances of the Gropius Bau with sound works by Kapwani Kiwanga and Janine Jembere, creating an acoustic connection between the central entrance portal of the neo-Renaissance building and the step-free entrance. Drawing from the potential of porosity, this architectural intervention challenges the monumentality and statics of the building in an attempt to destabilise the divide between interior and exterior.&nbsp;Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies is conceived and curated by Julia Grosse and Carolin K&ouml;chling.

<h3>Kapwani Kiwanga: 500ft</h3>

<h4>31 July to 16 October 2023</h4>

How does architecture control the physical movement and psychological state of humans? In her sound piece 500ft,&nbsp;Kapwani Kiwanga puts different disciplinary tools of built environments and colonial strategies of separation into relation. Drawing from her research into public institutions such as hospitals, prisons and urban spaces, the artist traces how disciplinary architectures travel and mutate across times and geographies. A recurring motif is the way in which the interior is shaped in response to the exterior in an effort to govern human behaviour and nature. The title of the work refers to the minimum distance between areas designated for the local population and those for European settlers in the French colonies, defined during the International Conference on Colonial Urbanism (Paris, 1931). 
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<h3>Janine Jembere: endurance &ndash; a sound shower</h3>

<h4>18 October 2023 to 1 January 2024</h4>

For Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies, Janine Jembere develops a veritable sonic embrace, a shower of words in as many languages as possible.

&ldquo;The words that have been said to me reverberate in my head until I begin to tell them to myself. To find the strength to rebel, to fight and to endure, I need those words to nourish my anger and my love. These are the words I need to hear; these are the words I want you to hear.&rdquo; 
&mdash; Janine Jembere

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Soundshapes

Soundshapes: In Between Frequencies

Im Gespräch: Kapwani Kiwanga, Julia Grosse und Carolin Köchling

In Conversation: Kapwani Kiwanga, Julia Grosse and Carolin Köchling

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In this prelude to&nbsp;Pallavi Paul&rsquo;s upcoming major solo exhibition at the Gropius Bau in 2024, a scenography around the three-channel video installation Cynthia Ke Sapne / The Dreams of Cynthia (2017) transforms the historic Schliemannsaal into a twilight space between wakefulness and sleep.

Revolving around a contemporary poem of the same name composed by Anish Ahluwalia, the filmic work turns to spheres of love and tenderness as well as the brutality of state violence through three protagonists: an executioner, a trans artist and the literary figure of Cynthia. While the lives of the first two intertwine within the remnants of a post-industrial landscape in India, Cynthia emerges as an imaginative and ever-evolving character shifting across fields of place-making and dreaming.

How Love Moves: Prelude

Pallavi Paul

The artistic approach of Pallavi Paul, the Gropius Bau&rsquo;s<a href="${link:{uuid:{dd8c5d8f-4697-4faa-b394-35004564bb6e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/artist-in-residence/pallavi-paul}}}">&nbsp;Artist in Residence 2023</a>, meets at the crossroads of cinema, literary cultures and enduring political struggles.&nbsp;She engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how spiritual,&nbsp;technological and political regimes of &ldquo;truth&rdquo; are produced and sustained in public life. In her multi-disciplinary work &ndash; spanning film, installation, performance, drawing and writing &ndash; Paul is particularly interested in the tension between the document and its aesthetic manifestation: the documentary.

How Love Moves: Prelude&nbsp;is accompanied by the public programme&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{dd05f078-c9ac-4cf3-bf6f-98e6de6b22b7},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/artist-in-residence/pallavi-paul/veranstaltungen}}}">Six Days of Love</a>, unfolding as a series of cinematic readings, conversational formats,&nbsp;performances and sonic acts between summer 2023 and spring 2024.

<a href="${link:{uuid:{adf7c71e-c4a0-4a00-9b50-182c45b9ef7a},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/artist-in-residence/pallavi-paul/impressum}}}">To the imprint</a>

Pallavi Paul: How Love Moves: Prelude

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the <a href="${link:{uuid:{2530681e-98b4-46ea-b69b-4b9033b0a33e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz}}}">Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a> (AI) at the Gropius Bau. From 10 August 2023, the works Technologies of Care (2016) and Cleaning Emotional Data (2020) by Elisa Giardina Papa as well as These Networks in Our Skin (2021) and The Cloth in the Cable (2022) by Mimi Ọnụọha will be showcased in freely accessible spaces of the Gropius Bau.&nbsp;Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits? (2017), the last work in Papa&rsquo;s video trilogy, is a series of sixteen short video fragments. They appear daily at sunrise and sunset on the Gropius Bau website.

From 12 October 2023,&nbsp;Madre Drone&nbsp;(2019&ndash;2020) by Patricia Dom&iacute;nguez along with a work by Berlin-based duo kennedy+swan, which is created especially for&nbsp;Ether&rsquo;s Bloom, will also be on view.

In addition, from 25 to 28 August 2023, the Fabmobil will offer <a href="${link:{uuid:{46533e65-e61e-4f8f-8a15-a203b195ce9e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz/veranstaltungen/fabmobil-am-gropius-bau}}}">supervised workshops</a>&nbsp;for children and teenagers that promote technical understanding and open up new creative possibilities for collaborating with AI. A conversation between Elisa Giardina Papa and Mimi Ọnụọha,&nbsp;Missing Data, Cleaning Data, Leaving Data, will take place on 1 September 2023.

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom&nbsp;also includes various online formats, such as a residency format (<a href="${link:{uuid:{42949ae0-e825-4566-8da7-1e863905064f},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/artist-in-residence/k-allado-mcdowell}}}">Writer in Residence: K Allado-McDowell</a>)&nbsp;and the podcast&nbsp;Beyond and Within: AI Talks.

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom&nbsp;is accompanied by the thinking and contemplation of cultural scientist, researcher and writer&nbsp;Maya Indira Ganesh, who is present throughout the year with new content and publications in various forms.

<a href="${link:{uuid:{7bfe9964-4b4b-42ef-8d49-500acaece994},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz/impressum}}}">To the imprint</a>

Ether's Bloom: Ein Programm zu Künstlicher Intelligenz

Ether’s Bloom

<h3>Elisa Giardina Papa</h3>

Elisa Giardina Papa&rsquo;s work traces how extractive forms of AI capitalism have strained our capacities for imagining, desiring and labouring. Through political yet poetic framing, she calls attention to those aspects of our lives which, nonetheless, remain radically unruly, untranslatable and incomputable.Her video trilogy Technologies of Care (2016), Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits?? (2017) and Cleaning Emotional Data (2020)&nbsp;explores how labour and care are reframed by digital economies and artificial intelligence.

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<h3>Mimi Ọnụọha</h3>

Mimi Ọnụọha investigates the gaps in systems of labour, ecology and relations, questioning notions of progress as it pertains to digital and archival media. The short film These Networks in Our Skin (2021) portrays women who re-wire physical cables as a way of reformatting the world and opening up new paradigms for the experiences of Black, Indigenous and hybrid histories. In showing the rewiring of the cables of history, the artist explores a ritual of awakening, trust and forgotten narratives.&nbsp;In the accompanying installation&nbsp;The Cloth in the Cable&nbsp;(2023), Ọnụọha embeds cables with spices, fabrics, dust and other materials, rewiring them with new meanings and ontologies.&nbsp;The site-specific version of the installation was realised with contributions of the Berlin-based&nbsp;interdisciplinary writer and poet&nbsp;hn. lyonga.

Ether’s Bloom: Ein Programm zu Künstlicher Intelligenz

General Idea Ausstellungstexte

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On this page you can find all exhibition texts in German Sign Language.

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General Idea

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.

Curated by Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada and Beatrix Ruf, with the collaboration of Zippora Elders, for the Gropius Bau 
Organised by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Gropius Bau

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Curated by Adam Welch, National Gallery of Canada and Beatrix Ruf, with the collaboration of Zippora Elders, for the Gropius Bau 
Organised by the National Gallery of Canada in collaboration with the Gropius Bau

General Idea Resourcensammlung

Links to sources on sexual health, prevention and treatment

Eröffnung: General Idea

Opening: General Idea

Führung in Deutscher Gebärdensprache - General Idea

Guided Tour in German Sign Language

Führung in deutscher Sprache - General Idea

Guided Tour in German

Führung in Einfacher Sprache - General Idea

Guided Tour in Easy German Language

Führung in englischer Sprache General Idea

Guided Tour in English

Führung mit der Kuratorin Beatrix Ruf

Guided Tour with Curator Beatrix Ruf

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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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Key Visual Tanztreffen der Jugend 2023

Ten dance ensembles will present their work at the 10th edition of the Tanztreffen der Jugend.

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Solaranlage auf dem Dach des Gropius Bau

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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

Ukaine-Motiv

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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.

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More Berliner Festspiele

Janine Jembere, Untitled (aus der Serie Residence Time), 2013.

In Between Frequencies

Soundshapes &ndash; In Between Frequencies activates the two entrances of the Gropius Bau with sound works by Kapwani Kiwanga and Janine Jembere, creating an acoustic connection between the central entrance portal of the neo-Renaissance building and the step-free entrance. Drawing from the potential of porosity, this architectural intervention challenges the monumentality and statics of the building in an attempt to destabilise the divide between interior and exterior.

Soundshapes

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How Love Moves: Prelude

During her time as the Gropius Bau&rsquo;s&nbsp;Artist in Residence 2023, Pallavi Paul further deepens her research on love and its embodied counterpart &ndash; the breath. From August 2023, the Gropius Bau will present a prelude to her upcoming major solo exhibition in 2024. In How Love Moves: Prelude, a scenography around the three-channel video installation Cynthia Ke Sapne / The Dreams of Cynthia (2017) transforms the historic Schliemannsaal into a twilight space between wakefulness and sleep. The installation is freely accessible.

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A Programme on Artificial Intelligence

Ether&rsquo;s Bloom marks the first part of the&nbsp;<a href="${link:{uuid:{2530681e-98b4-46ea-b69b-4b9033b0a33e},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz}}}">Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a> (AI) at the Gropius Bau. From 10 August 2023, the works Technologies of Care (2016) and Cleaning Emotional Data (2020) by Elisa Giardina Papa as well as These Networks in Our Skin (2021) and The Cloth in the Cable (2022) by Mimi Ọnụọha will be showcased in freely accessible spaces of the Gropius Bau. Taking place both online and offline, the&nbsp;programme focuses on the utopian and poetic possibilities of artificial intelligence.

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A poem about grieving the death of a loved one: South African choreographer and performer Steven Cohen creates a sacred site for his deceased partner Elu with whom he shared twenty years of his life. In a mourning ceremony of unbearable beauty, he faces his sorrows entirely alone.

Put your heart under your feet... and walk!

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Dimitris Papaioannou

These performances of &ldquo;INK&rdquo; mark the Berlin-debut of the internationally renowned and multiple award-winning&nbsp;Greek director and artist&nbsp;Dimitris Papaioannou.&nbsp;The piece is informed by the aesthetics of science fiction and horror, awakening hidden nightmares in our subconscious minds.

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All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses &ndash; the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstra&szlig;e and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz &ndash; and other venues in the city.

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<h3>Jazzfest Berlin &ndash; Spinning Time</h3>

<h4>2 to 5 November 2023</h4>

The 60th edition of Jazzfest Berlin provides a space for music that is playful and intuitive, bringing different generations together in 36&nbsp;projects.&nbsp; 
International greats meet the avantgarde of the Berlin jazz scene in a series of exclusive artistic encounters, outstanding established artists share the stage with strong voices from the younger generation, while this edition of the festival also puts children at the centre of the action for the first time. &nbsp; 
The complete programme is now online. Tickets are on sale.

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As part of <a href="${link:{uuid:{011b1681-384d-474e-9a61-d141e76ef7ba},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/gropius-bau/programm/2023/ausstellungen/kuenstliche-intelligenz/veranstaltungen/ethers-bloom}}}">Ether&rsquo;s Bloom: A Programme on Artificial Intelligence</a>, Elisa Giardina Papa&rsquo;s video series Labor of Sleep, Have you been able to change your habits?? takes over Gropius Bau&rsquo;s website every day at sunrise and sunset.