With talks and introdcutions by Esther Buss, Matthias Dell, Christoph Hochhäusler, Birgit Kohler, Jan Künemund, Anne Küper, Sebastian Markt
Running parallel to the exhibition Christoph Hochhäusler at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Kino Arsenal presents a retrospective of the filmmakers oeuvre. Hochhäusler's stories are always about lies and intrigue, manipulation and deception. They depict betrayal, treachery, and desire, staged in close proximity to genre cinema – film noir, crime, political thriller. Situated at the intersection of financial capitalism, politics, media, and new technologies, Hochhäusler’s cinema gives form to the present and its complex systems.
The film series is curated by Birgit Kohler (Head of Programming, Arsenal Filminstitut, Berlin).
On September 9, from 6 pm, Guerrilla Girl Frida Kahlo will make an appearance at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Her presence marks the opening of a new site-specific work created by the Guerrilla Girls for the n.b.k. facade.
For over 40 years, the Guerrilla Girls have operated inside and outside institutional contexts, exposing inequalities around gender and race in the international art world and beyond. Their use of provocative slogans and visually striking poster campaigns has become their trademark. Their anonymous presence – the members of the collective always wear gorilla masks, going by the names of deceased women artists such as Frida Kahlo and Käthe Kollwitz rather than their own – is a radical act in an art world fueled by ego and fame. As questions about the relationship between art and activism are debated with fresh urgency, this is an opportune moment to revisit the Guerrilla Girls’ pioneering practice.
With Anca Benera & Arnold Estefán, Pavel Brăila, Maksym Khodak, KwieKulik, Helmar Lerski, Maria Lisogorskaya, Shlomo Pozner, Xavier Robles de Medina, Maya Schweizer, Andrzej Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Gabriele Stötzer, Mikhail Tolmachev, Jasmin Werner, Anastasiya Yarovenko, a. o.
September 10 – November 8, 2026
n.b.k. Showroom
September 10 – November 8, 2026
n.b.k. Facade
September 10, 2026 – August 29, 2027
n.b.k. Billboard
Dora Budor & Noah Barker. Monte Carlo Method
September 10 – November 29, 2026
Panel discussion with Marko Martin (writer, Berlin), Kateryna Mishchenko (essayist, Berlin), Volker Weiß (historian, Hamburg), moderated by Shahrzad Eden Osterer (journalist, Munich). Introduction: Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane
The panelists discuss how conceptions of “the East” are bound up with the historical, social, and cultural conflicts of our time. To what extent are projections onto “the East” part of a political tradition in Germany, and what role does art play within it?
In German, free admission
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
Music performance by Shaul Dahan (artist, Jerusalem) and Shlomo Pozner (artist, Berlin)
During Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles), this performance merges ancient liturgical chant with experimental noise music, exploring the space where prayer sounds like music and words become tone.
Free admission
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
Film screening followed by a discussion, conceived and moderated by Dr. Lea Wohl von Haselberg (Professor of Jewish Film and Audiovisual Memory, Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Potsdam)
The film Adamah links the experience and trauma of the Shoah with the hope of a new beginning. Avodah, by contrast, envisions a social utopia in which labor becomes the engine of a shared future. How do these historical images resonate today, amid new traumas, social polarization, and the culture wars over memory?
Admission: 12 €, tickets via www.yorck.de/kinos/delphi-lux
The screening is a cooperation with Yorck-Kinogruppe.
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
With Dr. Isabelle Graw (Professor of Art History and Art Theory, Städelschule – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt am Main), Schorsch Kamerun (theater director and singer, Hamburg), Dr. Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (historian, Berlin), Masha Qrella (singer and songwriter, Berlin), representatives of the clubs Conne Island (Leipzig) and ://about self (Berlin), among others.
Conceived and moderated by Andreas Fanizadeh (chief correspondent for cultural affairs, taz, Berlin)
In the 1990s, bands, intellectuals, and antifascist activists joined forces as Wohlfahrtsausschüsse (“welfare committees”). United by the attempt to defend antiauthoritarian ways of life in Rostock, Dresden, and Leipzig against farright scenes, participants discuss what can be learned from this history and where we stand today.
In German, free admission; the event will also be livestreamed
The event is a cooperation with taz.
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German […]
“La Haluca” (“The Pioneer Woman”) refers to a historical text by the Bosnian-Jewish writer Luna Laura Papo Bohoreta (1891–1942), which artist Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* takes up in her performance. The Haluca emerges as a projection figure in which Jewish self-determination and feminist emancipation intertwine.
Free admission
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).
Finissage of the exhibition Projections Onto the East at n.b.k.
Conducted by Marlies Rossmann in cooperation with Florian Hein, at the invitation of Jasmin Werner (artist, Berlin)
Free admission
Projections Onto the East is a project by n.b.k. in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane.
Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragter der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media).