Picture Cellar, in the foreground mural by Harald Metzkes and Manfred Böttcher © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018, photo: Andreas FranzXaver Süß
31 Aug 2022 – 17 Dec 2025
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Guided Tours

Picture Cellar

Murals by Manfred Böttcher, Harald Metzkes, Ernst Schroeder, Horst Zickelbein

Guided tours
Wed 5 pm
For a maximum of 14 visitors

In German

€ 7.50/5

Insight into the display depot of the Architectural Archives © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, photo: Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
5 Nov 2024 – 27 Feb 2025
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Guided Tour

display depot architecture models

Guided tours

Tue 5 pm
4 Feb, 18 Feb

Thur 11 am
30 Jan, 13 Feb, 27 Feb

Further dates are released regularly.

Special themed tours and group tours can be arranged via baukunstarchiv@adk.de.

In German

€ 7,50/5

Tickets for guided tours

Aerial view of the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate, 1988/89 © BStU, MfS, HA I, Fo, Nr. 365, Bild 32
10 Dec 2024 – 2 Mar 2025
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Presentation

Pariser Platz

Max Liebermann Hall

Pariser Platz 4 A hotspot of German history

Tue – Sun 10 am – 7 pm

In German and English

Free admission

Top: Lea Grundig, Milker (Ruth), 1946, brush, ink, 26 x 25.2 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Lea Grundig 2762 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection / Below: Ellen Auerbach, Untitled [Portrait of a young Arab woman], 1933–1936, gelatin silver print on baryta paper, 30 × 20 cm, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection, Inv. Nr.: Auerbach 505 © Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Art Collection
25 Jan – 27 Apr
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Exhibition

Museum Eberswalde
Steinstraße 3
16225 Eberswalde

Ellen Auerbach and Lea Grundig - Two artists in Palestine

Opening
Fri 24 Jan 6pm
Prior registration is requested: museum@eberswalde.de

Tue – Sun
10 am – 1 pm & 2 – 7 pm

€ 10

Free admission for school classes

Guided tours by appointment: 03334 64-411

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 29 Jan
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

The American estate of Heinrich Mann, 1956; photo © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Thursday, 30 Jan
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Archive Presentation and Talk

7 pm

Werkstatt Exilmuseum
Fasanenstraße 24
10719 Berlin

A Suitcase for the Archives: Heinrich Mann

With Gabriele Radecke, Susanne Thier

In cooperation with Stiftung Exilmuseum

In German

Free admission

Blank placard dance, replay, reenactment by Anne Collod of Anna Halprin’s Blank Placard Dance (1967), Audience format of HAU Hebbel am Ufer as part of “Tanz im August” 2017; photo © Susanne Foellmer
Saturday, 1 Feb
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Discussion Forum

1:30 pm

Dance makes Berlin – An event by and for dance

Statements, choreographic interventions, panel discussion

In German, with DGS interpretation

Free admission

Cooperation: Tanzbüro Berlin, Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V.

Funded by Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion

Anna Seghers Museum in Berlin Adlershof, photo: © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Sunday, 2 Feb
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Guided Tour

11 am – 4 pm

Anna Seghers Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

Sundays at Seghers’

Guided tours at 11 am, 1 pm, 3 pm

Admission from 10 min before start

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

daniel’s destruction © Yannik Böhmer
8 – 9 Feb
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Performance

Sophiensaele
Sophienstraße 18
10178 Berlin

Unbestimmte Bewegung:
daniel’s destruction

8 Feb at 8 pm
9 Feb at 6 pm

Premiere

Duration: 70 min

In German with English surtitles

€ 10 – 25

Buy ticket online

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 12 Feb
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel-Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Brecht and his people

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Video still from Compassion and Inconvenience, 2024, © Vika Kirchenbauer, VG Bild-Kunst
Wednesday, 12 Feb
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Berlin Critics’ Week Opening Conference

6 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Back to the Class Issue – Film Culture and Social Inequality

With Nuray Demir, Heike-Melba Fendel, Katalin Gennburg, Andreas Kemper, Marco Müller, Jovana Reisinger, Francis Seeck

Welcome: Peter Badel

In German and English

€ 7,50/5

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Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Thursday, 13 Feb
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Anna Seghers Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

How Netty Reiling became Anna Seghers

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Left: Rainer Maria Rilke around 1900 / Right: Sigmund Freud (Photography of Freud's son-in-law Max Halberstadt, 1921)
Thursday, 13 Feb
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Reading and Talk

7:30 pm

Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
Am Sandwerder 5
14109 Berlin

The correspondence between Rilke and Freud

With Ulrich von Bülow, Matthias Weichelt

In German

€ 8/5

© Magal/Lazarovitz
Friday, 14 Feb
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Concluding Presentation

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Black Box

Valeska Gert Guest Professorship
Saar Magal

In cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program

In English

Free admission

Anna Seghers Museum, Berlin Adlershof, © Andreas [FranzXaver] Süß
Tuesday, 25 Feb
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Anna Seghers Museum
Anna-Seghers-Str. 81
12489 Berlin

Anna Seghers in the circle of her friends

Themed tour

Registration: annaseghersmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 5/2.50

Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof (Dorotheenstadt Cemetery), Berlin Mitte, © Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Wednesday, 26 Feb
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Guided Tour

2 pm

Brecht-Weigel Museum
Chausseestraße 125
10115 Berlin

Famous women

Cemetery tour

Meeting point: courtyard of the Brecht-Haus (Brecht House)

Registration: brechtweigelmuseum@adk.de

In German

€ 7/4

Video still from “In familiar surroundings” by Carola Bauckholt, photo © Carola Bauckholt
Wednesday, 26 Feb
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Talks and Artistic Contributions

7 pm

Pariser Platz

Plenary Hall

Academy Discussion: Real conditions

With Carola Bauckholt, Klemens Gruber, Helke Misselwitz, Cécile Wajsbrot, Anh-Linh Ngo, Manos Tsangaris et al.

In German

€ 7,50/5

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Maya Schweizer, o. T., from the series Which Story Would You Prefer Not To Recall / An welche Geschichte würdest Du dich lieber nicht erinnern (ongoing since 2009), C-Print, 42 cm x 59 cm. © Maya Schweizer, VG Bild-Kunst, 2024
27 Feb – 2 Mar
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Festival

EMOP Opening Days

All events
Free admission

A project by Kulturprojekte Berlin

Werner Mahler, from the series Ein Dorf, 1977/78 © Werner Mahler/OSTKREUZ
28 Feb – 4 May
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Exhibition

Ein Dorf 1950–2022. Ute Mahler, Werner Mahler und Ludwig Schirmer

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Combined ticket with exhibition “what stands between us”
€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years and Tuesdays

Opening
Thur 27 Feb at 7 pm
Free admission

Curator’s tour with Marit Lena Herrmann
Sun 2 Mar at 2 pm

In the frame of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

In cooperation with OSTKREUZ Photographers Agency

Simon Lehner, Balance study with boy, 2018, from the series How far is a lightyear?, 2005 – 2019. Pigment-print, 90 x 72 cm, Courtesy KOW Berlin © Simon Lehner
28 Feb – 4 May
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Exhibition

EMOP Berlin: what stands between us.
Photography as a Medium for Chronicling

Tue – Fri 2 – 7 pm
Sat, Sun 11 am – 7 pm

Combined ticket with exhibition “Ein Dorf 1950–2022”
€ 10/7
Free admission under 18 years and Tuesdays

Opening
Thur 27 Feb at 7 pm
Free admission

Curator’s tour with Maren Lübbke-Tidow
Sun 2 Mar at 3 pm

Central festival exhibition of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2025

Artist Ilit Azoulay in her studio, 2022 © Ériver Hijano
Friday, 28 Feb
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Award Ceremony

7 pm

Ellen Auerbach Fellowship: Ilit Azoulay

With Hubertus von Amelunxen (Laudatio), Ilit Azoulay, Maren Lübbke-Tidow (Talk)

In English

Free admission

Please find below the Akademie der Künste's digital offers.

Silhouette by Arnold de Florence: Portrait of Heinrich Mann, c. 1910 © Akademie der Künste, Heinrich Mann Collection

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL: Life, Work, Legacy – A Transnational Reconstruction

Heinrich Mann’s estate is scattered throughout archives worldwide. Starting from the most important places of activity in his life, the virtual exhibition by the Akademie der Künste Archives tells the story of the estate and presents the “Heinrich Mann DIGITAL” international cooperation project. In German.

Subharchord. Photo © Kai Bienert

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Music, Makers & Machines

A digital exhibition on the history of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music at the Akademie der Künste

Passport issued to Walter Benjamin, Berlin-Grunewald, 10 August 1928. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Walter Benjamin Archiv © Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, photo: Nick Ash

DIGITAL

Archival Materials

Finds from the Archives

Selected text documents, special objects and works of art from the Archives of the Akademie der Künste representing all artistic disciplines.

Photo: Ellen Auerbach, Airwalk, 1946 (Renate Schottelius during the dance jump over rocks, La Cumbrecita). Modern Print, Argentina © Akademie der Künste, Berlin

DIGITAL

Online Presentation

digital.adk.de – images, sounds, art objects

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, which encompasses all art forms, collects and makes accessible the archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world.

DIGITAL

Digital Platform

junge-akademie.adk.de – The JUNGE AKADEMIE is online

The transdisciplinary and transcultural online magazine is a space to exhibit and experiment and a digital open studio, offering fellows the opportunity to network with each other and with Akademie members, to develop digital projects and to make the exchange of knowledge visible within the international network.

Der Zauberer John Heartfield [The Magician John Heartfield], 1943. Photo © Zoltan Wegner. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, John Heartfield Archive, No. 610

DIGITAL

Virtual Exhibition

Kosmos Heartfield

The online presentation "Kosmos Heartfield" complements the exhibition "John Heartfield – Photography plus Dynamite".

Graphics: Heimann + Schwantes

DIGITAL

Online Catalogue

Heartfield Online

The graphic oeuvre of the political artist John Heartfield can be explored in a new online catalogue.

Photo © Roman März

DIGITAL

Exhibition

360° Panoramic Tour

The interactive 360° panoramic tour leads through the exhibition “John Heartfield - Photography plus Dynamite” at Pariser Platz.