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Alongside its exhibition program, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein offers numerous events, inviting visitors to participate actively: artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, seminars, concerts, performances, interventions, screenings, and symposia.

Online program

Membership program

General

Foundling

Eröffnung

Opening Caught in a Landslide / Suzanne Lacy / Yoko Ono

Eröffnung Caught in a Landslide / Suzanne Lacy / Yoko Ono

Current

Diskursprogramm

Visit to the sculpture park at Haus am Waldsee

Besuch des Skulpturenpark im Haus am Waldsee

Tour of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025

Rundgang Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025

Guided tour through the exhibition Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the Gropius Bau

Führung durch die Ausstellung Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind im Gropius Bau

With Erin Lang (vocals, electric bass, harp), David Georgos (synthesizer, programming), Samuel Hall (percussion, crystallophone), Peter Hanson (saxophone, flute)

Guided tour of the Miettinen Collection

Führung durch Miettinen Collection

Oral History: Steina Vasulka in conversation with Arnold Dreyblatt

Oral History: Steina Vasulka im Gespräch mit Arnold Dreyblatt

Visit of the newly opened Kunst Raum Mitte

Besuch des neu eröffneten Kunst Raum Mitte

Eröffnung Kiri Dalena / Alicja Rogalska

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, n.b.k., nGbK, and Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Joint statement on the planned cuts to the cultural budget 2025

 Gemeinsames Statement zu den geplanten Kürzungen des Kulturhaushalts 2025 

Bahar Arfan, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, Ingrid Bjørnaali with Maria Simmons & Fabian Lanzmaier, Cassils, Collectif Faire-Part, Nadeem Din-Gabisi, Lihuel González, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Pınar Öğrenci, Milica Rakić, Caterina Erica Shanta, Mary Sullivan, Maud Sulter, and Aarti Sunder

Artists’ Film International 2024: Solidarity

Artists’ Film International 2024

Visit to Brücke-Museum incl. a guided tour of the exhibition Biografie der Moderne 

Besuch des Brücke-Museums inkl. Führung durch die Ausstellung Biografien der Moderne 

Performance by Theresa Patzschke, on the occasion of the exhibition 

Tender Air

Screening, performance, and talk with Ming Wong

“I Must Go. Tomorrow”

With Felix Kraus (Swan Collective) and Sonja Longolius (Director, Literaturhaus Berlin)

Book Launch: Swan Collective, LEXI.exe

With introductions and commentaries by Thomas Macho and Klaus Theweleit

Film program – Pier Paolo Pasolini retrospective

Filmprogramm – Werkschau Pier Paolo Pasolini

Akademie der Künste: Visit to Bilderkeller and the exhibition Candida Höfer. Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2024

Akademie der Künste: Besuch des Bilderkellers und der Ausstellung Candida Höfer. Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2024

With Karo Akpokiere, Avi Caspi, Lucinda Dayhew, Elektrischer Hund, Nathaniel Flakin / Revolutionary Berlin, Nearat Hametifim, Jasmin Schiele

INDUSTRY – Event Program

INDUSTRY – Veranstaltungsprogramm 

INDUSTRY – Opening Program

Eröffnung INDUSTRY

Opening Pier Paolo Pasolini / Pamela Rosenkranz / Santiago Sierra / Yoko Ono

Eröffnung Pier Paolo Pasolini / Pamela Rosenkranz / Santiago Sierra / Yoko Ono

Studiovisit Anselm Reyle

Atelierbesuch bei Anselm Reyle

Trip to Schloss Biesdorf

Ausflug zum Schloss Biesdorf

Online presentation by Lia Perjovschi based on a conversation with art historian Kristine Stiles (Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina / USA)

Lia Perjovschi. A Loud Life in Silence

A Loud Life in Silence

art educators from the rampe:aktion collective)

Presentation of the film Am Center

Präsentation des Films Am Center 

Visit to Fichtebunker with Patrick Ebensperger

Exklusiver Besuch im Fichtebunker mit Patrick Ebensperger

 Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin), 

accompanied by introductions and discussions featuring Thomas Arslan, Diedrich Diederichsen, Till Kadritzke, Anke Leweke, Sabine Nessel, Serpil Turhan, a. o.

Film program – Thomas Arslan retrospective

Filmprogramm – Werkschau Thomas Arslan

Exhibition tour and conversation with Thomas Arslan

Ausstellungsrundgang und Künstlergespräch mit Thomas Arslan

Oral History: Les Levine in conversation with Anna Lena Seiser

Oral History: Les Levine

Opening Thomas Arslan / Lia Perjovschi

Eröffnung Thomas Arslan / Lia Perjovschi

Together with the Friends of the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

Trip to the 60th Venice Biennial

Besuch der 60. Biennale Venedig zusammen mit Mitgliedern des Förderkreises der Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig

With a laudatory speech by Stephan Berg (jury chairman, director, Kunstmuseum Bonn) followed by a discussion with Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière (curators), moderated by Thomas Wagner (critic, honorary professor of art history, Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg)

Presentation of the Justus Bier Award for Curators – Award for the exhibition project If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag

Verleihung des Justus Bier Preises für Kurator*innen – Auszeichnung des Ausstellungsprojekts If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag

With Ewa Dziarnowska and Jeanna Serikbayeva

Tourist

Rundgang Gallery Weekend Berlin 2024

With Emeka Okereke (artist and scholar, Berlin and Lagos) and 

Alain Missala (founder of Black Dads Germany as well as founder and CEO of ZULA, Berlin)

Dilemma of a New Age. A Conversation Between Emeka Okereke & Alain Missala

Dilemma of a New Age

From A to B (to Z and back) or: Going into multiple perspectives at the same time

From A to B (to Z and back) oder: Zur selben Zeit in verschiedene Richtungen gehen

With Charmaine Poh, Feng You, Park Hye-in and Yan Lin (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research)

Cosmic Dialogues on Fiction Writing

Thesea Rigou (artist, gardener and art educator)

Returning to Life: Ecological thinking and pluralism in post-digital landscapes

Geführte Tour durch das Kunsthaus Achim Freyer

Opening A Home for Something Unknown / Les Levine / Isa Genzken

Eröffnung A Home for Something Unknown / Les Levine / Isa Genzken

Studio Talk with Eli Cortiñas

Ateliergespräch mit Eli Cortiñas

With Anajara Amarante, Emre Busse, Luce deLire, Julian K. Glover, Jule Govrin, Amber Jamilla Musser, Rebekka Wilkens

Concept: Kathrin Busch, Susanne Huber, Christian Liclair

Coordination: Silvia Koch, Susanne Mierzwiak, Michaela Richter

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Participants

Lust

Studio Visit with Kasia Fudakowski plus Film Screening

Studiovisit bei Kasia Fudakowski inklusive Filmscreening

Screening on-site and online with works by Damir Avdagić, Jesse Chun, Michelle Deignan, R.I.P. Germain, Dejan Kaludjerović, Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini, Mochu, Sashko Protyah (Freefilmers collective), Liv Schulman, Adnan and Nina Softić

Program on-site screenings

Program online screenings

Artists' Film International 2023: Diaspora

With Melanie Roumiguière (Head of Visual Arts Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD)

Curator's tour through the exhibition If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag

Kuratorinnen-Führung durch die Ausstellung If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag

Besuch und Führung in der Stiftung Kunstforum der Berliner Volksbank

With an introduction by Nóra Lukács, curator of the exhibition 

If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. Art and Internationalism before the Fall of the Berlin Wall

A Second Quarter (1975) by Lawrence Weiner

A Second Quarter (1975) von Lawrence Weiner

Besuch im KunstHaus Potsdam e. V. und Künstler*innen-Führung durch die Ausstellung Connected Space

A Friend’s Bathroom

Kristina Talking Pictures (1976) by Yvonne Rainer

Kristina Talking Pictures (1976) von Yvonne Rainer

Screening, discussion and archive presentation of works by Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Safi Faye, Edward Kienholz. With contributions by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Sebastian Egelhofer, Raf Wollaert

Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne? Life in West Berlin as a divided city in the 1970s

Berlin oder ein Traum mit Sahne? West-Berlin als Lebensort und geteilte Stadt in den 1970er Jahren

With works by Frederic Rzewski, Luc Ferrari, Clara Maïda, Karen Power

Hardly Believable Transition between Two Worlds

Kaum glaublicher Übergang zwischen zwei Welten

Open for Maintenance – Der deutsche Beitrag zur Architekturbiennale im Gespräch. ARCH+ Salon in Kooperation mit dem n.b.k.

Book launch with Oliver Ressler (artist, Vienna) and Doreen Mende (curator, theorist, associate professor at Haut école d’art et design, Geneva / Switzerland, and director of the cross-collections research department of the Dresden State Collections of Art)

Book Launch: Oliver Ressler. Barricading the Ice Sheets

Actions that cannot happen

ACTIONS THAT CANNOT HAPPEN

With works by Egon Bunne, Clemens Klopfenstein, Ken Kobland, Antonio Skármeta

Filmic Approaches to West Berlin

Filmische Annäherungen an West-Berlin

With Geigerzähler & Zorka Wollny, Alec Ross, Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra of Excited Strings (Konrad Sprenger, Oren Ambarchi, Joachim Schütz)

Frequently Asked Questions. Uferhallen 2023 – Opening Program

Eröffnung Frequently Asked Questions. Uferhallen 2023

With works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection by Dario Azzellini & Oliver Ressler, Ursula Biemann, Eli Cortiñas, Kajsa Dahlberg, Annika Eriksson, Antje Ehmann und Eva Stotz, Harun Farocki, Alexandra Pirici, Adnan Softić & Nina Softić, Pilvi Takala

Frequently Asked Questions. Uferhallen 2023 – Flyer (Download PDF)

Frequently Asked Questions – Screening Program

Frequently Asked Questions – Screenings

Opening If the Berlin Wind Blows my Flag / Bea Schlingelhoff / John Knight / Dorothy Iannone

Eröffnung If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag / Bea Schlingelhoff / John Knight / Dorothy Iannone

With works by Ana Alenso, Kasia Fudakowski, Alicja Rogalska

Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Agnes Denes 

Zeitgenössische Künstlerinnen im Dialog mit Agnes Denes 

Die Akademie der Künste von innen – Blick hinter die Kulissen mit Karin Sander und Arnold Dreyblatt, Direktor*innen der Sektion Bildende Kunst

Studio visit Haris Epaminonda

Atelierbesuch Haris Epaminonda

With Trevor Paglen (artist, New York and Berlin), Hari Kunzru (journalist and author, New York), and Mark Pilkington (author, founder and publisher of Strange Attractor Press, London), moderated by Caroline Busta (writer, co-founder of the media channel New Models, Berlin)

Panel discussion

Podiumsdiskussion

With Claire Koron Elat (author and editor of 

, Berlin), John Miller (artist, author and curator, Berlin and New York), Aura Rosenberg (artist, Berlin and New York), moderated by Alaina Claire Feldman (director and curator Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York)

Aura Rosenberg, What Is Psychedelic

In conjunction with the n.b.k. Billboard by Carrie Mae Weems, 

. With Dr. Tiffany Florvil (Professor of 20th-century European Women’s and Gender History, University of New Mexico) and Dr. Dagmar Schultz (sociologist, filmmaker, publisher, and lecturer, Berlin)

Audre Lorde – The Berlin Years 1984 to 1992

Open-air screening of select works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection at Uferhallen in conjunction with the 2023 Kultursommerfestival. Featuring the world premiere of YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES’ new work, 

How to Stay Tuned – Uferhallen program

How to Stay Tuned – Programm in den Uferhallen

Workshop with Anca Benera, Arnold Estefán (artists, Bucharest and Vienna) and L. Sasha Gora (head of the international junior research group “Off the Menu: Appetites, Culture, and Environment,” University of Augsburg)

What to Eat in Times of Perpetual Crisis?

Ausflug zum E-WERK Luckenwalde – Kunstzentrum und Kraftwerk

In conjunction with the n.b.k. Billboard project by Carrie Mae Weems, 

. With Octavia Bürgel (author, editor, photographer)

Octavia Bürgel. The Regime of Sight

Exclusive insights into the Gropius Bau's artist-in-residence program: Tour with Pallavi Paul

Exklusive Einblicke in das Artist-in-Residence-Programm des Gropius Bau: Rundgang mit Pallavi Paul

Opening Trevor Paglen / Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán

Eröffnung Trevor Paglen / Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán

Studio visit Silvina Der-Meguerditchian

Atelierbesuch Silvina Der-Meguerditchian

Gallery Weekend Berlin Tour 2023

Rundgang Gallery Weekend Berlin 2023

With Reinhard Körner (art collector and founder of the Kriket Foundation, Berlin), Dr. Katharina Garbers-von Boehm, LL.M. (lawyer and art collector, Berlin), and Bruno Brunnet (Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin), moderated by Dr. Britta Schmitz (art historian, former chief curator at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin)

Promoting Culture through Art Collections

Sammeln als Kulturförderung

With Gustav Cederlöf (Environmental Geographer, Lecturer, University of Gothenburg), Sepideh Karami (Architect, Lecturer, The University of Edinburgh), and Ute Tellmann (Professor for General Sociology, Technical University of Darmstadt), moderated by Keller Easterling (Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven / USA)

Critical Infrastructures

Daily 2–8 pm. With works by Yalda Afsah / Ginan Seidl, Mona Hatoum, Trevor Paglen, Kristina Paustian, Adnan Softić und Nina Softić, Pilvi Takala, Sean Vegezzi

New in the collection: New acquisitions for the n.b.k. Video-Forum 2022

Neuzugänge in der Sammlung: Screening der Neuerwerbungen des n.b.k. Video-Forums 2022

Artwalk along the Skulpturenboulevard with Barbara Straka

Kunstspaziergang über den Skulpturenboulevard 

With T. J. Demos (Professor in Art History and Visual Culture, University of California Santa Cruz), moderated by Lena Pozdnyakova and Luise Willer (Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts, Freie Universität Berlin)

Radical Futurisms. Ecologies of Collapse, Chronopolitics, and Justice-to-Come

Opening Realities Left Vacant / Sung Tieu / Carrie Mae Weems 

Eröffnung Realities Left Vacant / Sung Tieu / Carrie Mae Weems

Exhibition visit of Maria Lassnig – Werke aus der Sammlung Klewan at the Gutshaus Steglitz

Besuch der Ausstellung von Maria Lassnig im Gutshaus Steglitz

With Yilmaz Dziewior (Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne) and Gülsün Karamustafa, moderated by Lidiya Anastasova (Curator, Head of n.b.k. Artothek)

Artist Talk Gülsün Karamustafa

With Oliver Marchart (Professor for Political Theory at the University of Vienna) and Sabeth Buchmann (art historian and critic, Professor of Modern and Post-Modern Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna), moderated by Dorothee Richter (Professor of Critical Curating at the University of Reading and Professor at the Zurich University of the Arts) on the occasion of the publication of Oliver Marchart, 

Hegemony Machines. documenta X to fifteen and the Politics of Biennalization

, and Marius Babias, n.b.k., Zurich, Berlin, 2022