Berlin is a metropolis as outlined by its seasons as it’s by its cultural output. It’s becoming, then, that Berlin’s two main annual artwork occasions, Gallery Weekend and Artwork Week, are staged at intervals when the climate turns—the previous throughout April, the latter in September. Simply in time to usher on this autumn, the thirteenth version of Berlin Artwork Week will happen from September 11 to fifteen, uniting over 100 contributors as they open their doorways and remodel the town into an artwork oasis, with museums, gala’s, personal collections, challenge areas, and innumerable Berlin galleries set to participate.
In addition to having sufficient programming to make one marvel after they’ll discover time to eat a meal between exhibits, this 12 months’s Artwork Week guarantees to be unforgettable for artwork consultants and the artwork curious alike. There are main reopenings (the ZK/U – Middle for Artwork and Urbanistics), big gala’s (Positions at Tempelhof Airport Hangar 6-7), and hidden gems (discover me on the site-specific audiovisual set up SILT, by artists Ona Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Iida Jonsson, and Ssi Saarinen, within the monastic Reethaus venue).
Whether or not you’re planning to zip across the metropolis by practice, bike, or e-scooter, we’ve picked 5 exhibits and occasions price including to your Berlin Artwork Week itinerary this 12 months.
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“Pier Paolo Pasolini. Porcili” at Neue Berliner Kunstverein
Picture Credit score: Picture Vittorio La Verde Few artists are as revered and reviled as Pier Paolo Pasolini, an brazenly homosexual Italian whose outspoken Marxism and leftist movies earned him controversy previous to his brutal homicide in 1975. Amongst these movies was 1975’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, which graphically depicts the sexual violence and torture of a gaggle of younger folks by Italian fascists throughout World Warfare II.
On the Neue Berliner Kunstverein, “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Porcili” can pay tribute to the legendary artist with a broad assortment of authentic supplies, together with images, movies, newspapers, books, and movie costumes, making this a must-see exhibition for artwork and movie lovers. The exhibition will chronicle the systemic discrimination that marked Pasolini’s life, coinciding with a movie program at Babylon, the place Saló, Teorema, and different well-known movies by the director will display screen.
September 11–November 10, 2024, Chausseestrasse 128 / 129
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“Commons Cosmodrome” and “No Departures With out Arrivals” at ZK/U – Middle for Artwork and Urbanistics
Picture Credit score: ©Vicente Cordua The reopening of this artwork heart set inside a freight station is among the many week’s hottest occasions. The middle underwent 4 years of renovations, with a public rooftop terrace, exhibition areas, and workshop rooms added within the course of. It’s now able to reintroduce itself with two exhibitions, “Commons Cosmodrome” and “No Departures With out Arrivals,” that are unified underneath the theme of cooperation.
“Commons Cosmodrome” highlights the spatial and programmatic potential of each the brand new and current areas, with an emphasis on exploring new types of schooling and political emancipation; the exhibition will characteristic work by native artists and initiatives like BeeDao, ClimArt, Picnic FM, and KUNSTrePUBLIK. In the meantime, “No Departures With out Arrivals” focuses on the inventive bonds cast between former and present residents like Flaneur Journal, Ivetta Sunyoung Kang, and DAT POLITICS by dwell DJ units, synchronized cooking classes, and a shared movie screening.
The vernissage will embody speeches by State Secretary Stephan Machulik, Senator Joe Chialo, challenge proprietor Matthias Einhoff, and architect Peter Grundmann, amongst others, and can characteristic a live performance by Susan Augustt, DJ units by DAT POLITICS and Shawescape Renegade, and, in fact, excursions of the home and exhibitions.
September 12–15, Siemensstraße 27
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“Forgive Us Our Trespasses” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Picture Credit score: Courtesy the artist The Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) has at all times been a jewel within the metropolis’s crowded establishment house—it acts as Germany’s nationwide heart for worldwide up to date arts, focusing particularly on non-European tradition and society. For Artwork Week, the HKW is staging “Forgive Us Our Trespasses,” which invitations dozens of artists, students, and activists to think about types of trespassing, be they non secular, social, nationalist, sexual, or in any other case. It’s an apt matter in Germany, the place immigrants and diasporic communities have continued to face violence and hostility in recent times.
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the present’s many artists have taken on the thought of “trespassing” and created works that contact on the assertion of humanity and neighborhood and the subversion of heteronormative patriarchal and white supremacist constructions. Collectively, these kaleidoscopic views make for an exhibition that dismantles normativity—all whereas pushing previous the boundaries of HKW’s exhibition halls to unfold (or, extra aptly, to trespass) into the neighboring Tiergarten and the Spree. Right here, Artwork Week guests can anticipate to see works by the likes of Mariana Castillo Deball, Emmanuel Owusu-Bonsu, Mansour Ciss Kanakassy, Babá Murah, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, and up to date Venice Biennale standout Isaac Chong Wai.
September 14–December 8, 2024, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
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“Samuel Fosso: Black Pope (Works 1975–2017)” at KINDL
Picture Credit score: ©Samuel Fosso Samuel Fosso opened his first picture studio at 13 years previous, and has since develop into certainly one of Africa’s most famed artists. The showcase of his work at KINDL will pull from quite a lot of initiatives he’s labored on over the previous a number of a long time, together with his first sequence, “70s Life-style” (1975–78). That sequence noticed him discover role-playing and id in self-portraits impressed by American style magazines and the flamboyant fashion of singer Prince Nico Mbarga.
In future sequence, Fosso would come to carry out as famed figures all through historical past, turning into like Angela Davis, Malcolm X, and lots of extra. Alongside the way in which, he switched genders and even sometimes races for his photos, as he did in La Bourgeoise (1997), which options the artist in a protracted wing, make-up, black night robe, and a fur stole. That work will characteristic on this present alongside items from sequence corresponding to “70s Life-style,” “Emperor of Africa” (2013), and “Black Pope” (2017).
September 15, 2024–February 16, 2025, Am Sudhaus 3
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“HALLEN 05” at Wilhelm Hallen
Picture Credit score: Picture Matteo d’Agostino Since starting this eponymous sequence in 2020, the exhibition has grown bigger and bigger; this 12 months marks the largest one but, with a nine-day program of artwork and programming. In complete, there might be six exhibitions—three from personal artwork collections, two by main German establishments, and one independently curated present—and 16 taking part up to date artwork galleries.
Artwork aficionados received’t need to miss Hanover-based Kestner Gesellschaft, which is able to current a particular challenge by Casey Spooner targeted on his challenge SPOONER2020, and a particular exhibition by Spaced Out (with RESERVOIR & PSM). Further highlights embody a specifically conceived work by Anys Reimann by way of Düsseldorf-based gallery Van Horn and an outside work by Dorothy Iannone offered by Berlin’s Peres Tasks and Paris’s Air de Paris. In fact, it wouldn’t be Berlin and not using a main closing get together, and HALLEN 05 received’t disappoint: the neighborhood radio station Refuge Worldwide’s Finish of Summer season Occasion guarantees to shut out the season and Artwork Week with some body-thumping bass.
September 7–15, at Kopenhagener Strasse 60–72