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THE URBAN SKIN
Pietro Ruffo and Jan Bauer enter into a conversation with Piranesi and the layered city. Rome supplies a starting point for thinking about architecture as an accumulation of surfaces and histories.
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Put Berlin in the diary
Real exhibition runs, a food-market evening and promoter-announced music. Choose a date, then check the venue, admission conditions and booking link before making it the centre of your day.
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Jazz at the MIM
Live jazz brings a different sound to the Musical Instrument Museum. The series pairs an evening performance with a venue devoted to the tools and history of music-making.
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Forms of Alignment
Contemporary works explore how people and institutions align with one another. The setting at Centrum Judaicum brings the question into a place with its own complex civic history.
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Josef Kaiser ꟾ Building for the GDR
Josef Kaiser’s architecture helped shape the built environment of the GDR. Projects such as Kino International and Café Moskau provide recognisable points of connection with Berlin today.
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The Mountains of Tyrol
Tyrol’s mountains appear as a cultural landscape as well as a geographical one. The exhibition looks at the meanings attached to a region often reduced to a scenic view.
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Lili Yuan: The Ethereal Beauty of Nature
Lili Yuan’s works focus attention on the natural world. The exhibition at Kulturhaus Karlshorst offers a quieter stop away from the central museum circuit.
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Jetztzeit - Layers of the present
Gülnur Mukazhanova brings layers of the present into the historic setting of Kunsthaus Dahlem. Consider the work in relation to the space and the histories carried by the building.
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STADT LAND SockenSCHUSS
DISTEL turns tensions between city and country into a German-language satire programme. Language is central to the jokes, so this is best suited to an audience comfortable following German on stage.
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A change of scenery
Migration changes the way a city looks and the way its residents understand it. Ephraim-Palais explores those shifts through Berlin’s histories of arrival and change.
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Glenn Ligon: Double America
Glenn Ligon’s Double America uses illuminated language and reflection to complicate a familiar national name. It is a focused encounter with the visual and political weight of a word.
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Horizontal
A hospital bed changes both physical perspective and the balance of control. Horizontal takes that position as a starting point for looking at care and the experience of being a patient.
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Session at ART Stalker
Art Stalker’s jam sessions alternate between rock and blues approaches led by different hosts. Check the chosen date for the current musicians and the arrangements for joining in.
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Lunch concert
The Philharmonie’s lunchtime series offers a short musical break in the middle of the day. Admission is free, but check the official visitor arrangements and capacity before travelling.
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Jour Fixe - Music in the afternoon
Students bring live music into the Musical Instrument Museum’s afternoon programme. The series provides a way to combine a performance with an interest in instruments and their histories.
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The Ades Zabel Company: Three Dragons on the Grill
Ades Zabel’s characters move into the world of a food truck in Mitte. The BKA production uses that setting for German-language character comedy and the tensions of a changing city.
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Future Ceramics: table culture of the future
Ceramics are used to imagine future habits of eating and living. The exhibition treats designed objects as a way to test social possibilities, not just as finished pieces to admire.
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The Opposite of Now
Twelve artistic projects mark the Jewish Museum’s anniversary through contemporary questions. Allow time for different voices and media rather than expecting a single historical narrative.
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The Early Bird Party. The early bird dancing the beat.
DJ Louie Prima brings an early-start dance night to Art Stalker, drawing on electro swing, klezmer and global pop. This is an option for getting onto a dance floor before a late-night club schedule.
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Berlin Ceilidh Band: Ein MitTanzDing
Berlin Ceilidh Band makes the audience part of the dancing. Expect a participatory evening at ufaFabrik and check the organiser’s guidance if this is your first ceilidh.
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The Dark Side Of The Moon – The Planetarium Experience
Pink Floyd’s album becomes an audiovisual presentation inside the planetarium dome. This is an album-based immersive show, not a live appearance by Pink Floyd.
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Club Culture Inventory Record
Objects from Berlin’s club culture become museum evidence. The exhibition asks what can be preserved from a scene whose meaning often depends on a particular room, crowd and night.
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Schalala - The Sing-Along
Schalala turns familiar songs into a shared singing session at ufaFabrik. Participation is the attraction, with the audience making the sound together.
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Generation 75 – Entering the New Germany at Age 14
Nine people recall being fourteen when the Berlin Wall fell. Their video accounts show how the same historical break entered different lives in East and West.
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Die Klöckner von Instagram
DISTEL takes social media and contemporary politics onto its satirical stage. The German-language programme relies on the details and absurdities of the current public conversation.