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).
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
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
Shaul Dahan (1995, Israel) is a Jerusalem-based composer, synthesist and sound artist. Originating from the Ultra-Orthodox community, Dahan marries liturgical texts, biblical prayers, and vocals with electronic music, channeling the compulsive and ecstatic dimensions of religious devotion into an intense and uncompromising practice. In his live performances, he feeds electricity through unpredictable circuits via a modular analog synthesizer, generating a ritualistic sonic space that moves fluidly between fragile silence and raw sonic chaos. His work has been presented at galleries, festivals, and art events internationally, including Ars Electronica Festival 2024 (Linz), Mamuta Art and Research Center (Jerusalem, 2025), Museum of Italian Jewish Art (Jerusalem, 2025), and Chemnitz, Leipzig, and Berlin (2026).
Shlomo Pozner (b. 1996) is a […]
Film screening and discussion with Evgenia Gostrer (animation film artist, Berlin) and Yael Reuveny (filmmaker, Berlin), 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.
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 blank (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.
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. Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic*’s performance takes up this figure of the Jewish woman as pioneer. Through selected biographies of individuals widely known today, the work brings renewed attention to Jewish history in the Yugoslav region – a history overwritten by the Shoah, by the memory politics of socialist Yugoslavia, and by the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, and one that remains, to this day, only tenuously part of collective memory in the region and beyond.
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 […]
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).