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Komische Oper Berlin V 2022 © Candida Höfer / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

Candida Höfer
Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024

Exhibition

14 Sep – 24 Nov, Pariser Platz

The Cologne-based photographer Candida Höfer was awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2024. With this prize, the Akademie der Künste honours one of the most internationally recognized German photographers, whose oeuvre, which has grown over five decades, is considered part of the contemporary photographic avant-garde. To mark the awarding of the prize, the Akademie der Künste is showing an exhibition of works by Candida Höfer until 24 Nov.  more

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß

display depot architecture models

Exhibition Opening

1 Nov, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

Exclusive insights into the Akademie der Künste's outstanding collection of architectural models are now possible at the Schaudepot (display depot). A selection of the more than 750 models from the Architectural Archives by over 50 artists will be on display. To mark the opening, a panel discussion will explore the value of architectural models for practice and research. With Amrei Buchholz, Werner Heegewaldt, Hilde Léon, Matthias Noell and Laura Puin. Welcome: Anh-Linh Ngo. In German.  more

Instrument detail: santur, photo © Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung from Berlin, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonS

Words and sound from east, west, north and south: Mamlok – Musayyebi (santur) – Schönberg – Mensching (texts)

Reading and Concert

9 Nov, 8 pm, Hanseatenweg

On the Saturday evening of its General Assembly, the Akademie der Künste will bring together artistic works of historical and contemporary significance. Emmanuelle Bernard and Clemens Hund-Göschel will perform Arnold Schönberg’s Phantasy for Violin and Piano op. 47. They will play Ursula Mamlok’s Panta Rhei (Time in Flux) with Constance Ricard. Kioomars Musayyebi adds two solo sets with classical Persian music on the santur. Steffen Mensching reads selected texts. Welcome: Manos Tsangaris. In German.  more

Elżbieta Sikora, photo © Bartosz Krupa

sample&hold #8: Klangmassen

Concert

19 Nov, 8 pm, Hanseatenweg

The term “sound mass” is central to electroacoustic music. This edition of the sample&hold series explores the aesthetics of sound masses: Two historical works by Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora are juxtaposed with a live electronic performance by Maximilian Marcoll. With his NUT | LAC series of works, he presents an extremely reduced and at the same time brute interpretation of sound masses.  more

Ursula Krechel, photo © Gerald Zörner

Ursula Krechel: “But who was murdered, and who killed?”

Archive Opening

20 Nov, 7 pm, Pariser Platz

Violence is a central theme in Ursula Krechel’s multifaceted work. The author talks to Andreas Platthaus about her language-artistic poem Stimmen aus dem harten Kern and reads from her new, highly political novel Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin, which will be published in early 2025. It tells the story of three women in antiquity and the present whose lives are characterised by violence suffered and practised. Gabriele Radecke introduces the Ursula Krechel Archive. In German.  more

Rebecca Horn, Hahnenmaske, 1973 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024

La Lune Rebelle – An evening for Rebecca Horn

Talk, Film Screening, Showcase Presentation

23 Nov, 6 pm, Hanseatenweg

Renowned personalities address the international relevance of Rebecca Horn's transmedia work. The recently deceased artist blurs the boundaries between performance, film, sculpture, large-scale installation, drawing, text and photography, as well as between man, machine and nature. Among the works to be shown are early film experiments and, for the first time, working material by Nana von Hugo for “Buster's Bedroom” (1990). In German and English.  more