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© Johanna Ryynänen
Johanna and Aleksandra investigate rhythm as a space of encounter and friction — a way of connecting without erasing difference. Drawing from Teshkoto, a traditional male folk dance from North Macedonia, and Jenkka, a traditional couple dance from Finland,... moreabout: reinkommen
© Gianmarco Bresadola, 2024
A new play by Robert Lepage, devised in collaboration with actors from the Schaubühne ensemble. When rehearsals began, there was no text, no story, no characters, and just one object: a deck of cards. Lepage assigned the themes of love, faith, war and... moreabout: Glaube, Geld, Krieg und Liebe (Faith, Money, War and Love)
© Archiv Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
The exhibition “Designing for Berlin” explores a central aspect of design: the training of designers. moreabout: Designing for Berlin
© Promo
An Italian Hamlet? Yes, indeed: in the early 18th century, the Venetian poet Apostolo Zeno created his Ambleto, a libretto based on the story’s original medieval Danish source rather than the Shakespearean play. It was set to music multiple times, but... moreabout: ROBERTA MAMELI & LE CONCERT DE L’HOSTEL DIEU
© Gabriele Stötzer, Mir gegenüber – Selbst im Spiegel, 1985 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of resistance and feminist self-assertion.... moreabout: Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen
© Berliner Festspiele
Seemingly transparent, delicate and almost floating, the music of Peinture propelled Edison Denisov to become one of the leading modernists of what was then the Soviet Union – he formed the USSR’s troika of the non-conformist avantgarde together with... moreabout: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin I
© Promo
Specialist for internal medicine Bernhardi, the director of a prestigious private clinic, refuses to allow a priest into the room of a patient to whom the priest wants to give the last rites. moreabout: Professor Bernhardi
© Promo
Heroines of Sound 2026 creates resonant spaces for formative new voices in electronic music and sound art – featuring artists whose radical sound worlds and aesthetic positioning play a significant role in forming current discourses. Through concerts... moreabout: Heroines of Sound 2026
© Berliner Festspiele
Seemingly transparent, delicate and almost floating, the music of Peinture propelled Edison Denisov to become one of the leading modernists of what was then the Soviet Union – he formed the USSR’s troika of the non-conformist avantgarde together with... moreabout: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin
© Myriam Thürigen
The ways in which we live together are evolving, and our homes are transforming along with us. The Federal Bauakademie Foundation and the Humboldt Forum are joining forces to take a look at housing in the past and the future: what did family life look... moreabout: What kind of housing do we want?
© Gianmarco Bresadola, 2026
»Bluets« starts with a love that has been lost, caring for a friend who has met with an accident and an obsession with the colour blue. The unnamed main character of the text has been left by the »prince of blue«. Her broken heart is juxtaposed by the... moreabout: Bluets
© Berliner Festspiele
Igor Stravinsky’s Histoire du Soldat is a unique work: not an opera, but a play “to be read, to be played and to be danced”. Matthias Bundschuh’s staging of the music theatre can now be seen at this year’s Musikfest Berlin, following its much-lauded premiere... moreabout: Salzburger Marionettentheater
© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Alexander Schippel
The territory of modern-day Tanzania has a chequered history. On account of its position on the Indian Ocean, the communities there became part of transregional trading networks early on. During German colonial rule, what is now Tanzania was part of... moreabout: Histories of Tanzania
© Berliner Festspiele
Only a few days before the premiere of the opera Mittwoch aus Licht, Titus Engel devotes himself in his first concert as conductor in residence with the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin to a scene from another day of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s week-long... moreabout: Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek
A freely accessible presentation by the art library commemorates the creative, art-loving residents around Matthäikirchplatz 100 years ago. Pictures and texts on the life and work of former famous residents tell of a glamorous era that was brutally ended... moreabout: Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District
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