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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

Opening Thomas Arslan / Lia Perjovschi

Eröffnung Thomas Arslan / Lia Perjovschi

Filmprogramm Arslan

Film program – Thomas Arslan retrospective

Filmprogramm – Werkschau Thomas Arslan

Current

Diskursprogramm

Curated by Birgit Kohler (co-director of 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.

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

Hegemony Machines – Book presentation and talk

Hegemony Machines

With Michaela Richter (Curator, Head of Communication and Public Program, n.b.k.) and Sarah Johanna Theurer (Curator, Haus der Kunst Munich)

Tour & talk in the exhibition Michel Majerus

Dialogführung durch die Ausstellung Michel Majerus

DAS MINSK Kunsthaus with Paola Malavassi – Guided tour and talk

DAS MINSK Kunsthaus Führung und Gespräch 

Online-screening with works by Bassam Al-Sabah, Anca Benera / Arnold Estefán, Flatform, Ewelina Jarosz / Justyna Górowska, Ruth Maclennan, Prantik Narayan Basu, and Phumulani Ntuli

Program – Climate

Artists' Film International 2022: Climate

Michel Majerus  Art Walk

Michel Majerus  Art Walk

Opening Michel Majerus / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Eröffnung Michel Majerus / YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES

Guided tour through the exhibition Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present at the Jewish Museum Berlin with Julia Friedrich

Führung Jüdisches Museum Berlin

With Aristide Antonas (architect, philosopher, writer, and visual artist, Athens and Berlin) and Adam Szymczyk (Artistic Director documenta 14, Athens and Kassel, 2017; Verein by Association, Zurich)

Exhibition talk Aristide Antonas / Adam Szymczyk

Ausstellungsgespräch Aristide Antonas und Adam Szymczyk 

With Marius Babias (Director Neuer Berliner Kunstverein), Sam Bardaouil (Director Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin), Kathrin Becker (Artistic Director KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art), Tamar Garb (Durning Lawrence Professor in the History of Art, University College London), Natasha Ginwala (Associate Curator Gropius Bau, Berlin), Mona Hatoum (Artist, London), Polly Staple (Curator and Director of Collection, British Art, Tate, London)

Critical Distance. Body Politics and Displacement in the Work of Mona Hatoum

Mona Hatoum Exhibition Tour

Mona Hatoum Ausstellungstour

7 pm: Livestream with Helmut Draxler (Faculty Director for Art Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna), Andrea Fraser (artist, New York / Los Angeles), moderated by Eric Golo Stone (Artistic Director Künstlerhaus Stuttgart)

Services Working Group

On the occasion of the opening of Berlin Art Week 2022 in the Uferhallen, Herta Müller gave a speech on September 13, 2022, which is documented here.

Herta Müller: Speech at the Uferhallen

Herta Müller: Rede in den Uferhallen

With Florine Schüschke (artist and architect) and Anna Lena Seiser (curator and managing director at n.b.k.)

23. September 2022, 17 Uhr

23. September 2022, 18:45 Uhr

Uferhallen Kunstaktien – Neighborhood walk and guided tour

Uferhallen Kunstaktien – Kiezspaziergang und Führung

In collaboration with the n.b.k. Video-Forum, daily from 8:30 pm

Focus Screenings for Berlin Art Week: Open-Air-Kino

Fokus-Screenings zur Berlin Art Week: Open Air Kino

Online sound piece by Gerald Raunig (philosopher and art theorist, Zurich University of the Arts) in collaboration with Alexander Tuchaček, Isabell Lorey, and Stevphen Shukaitis.

Ungefüge, 4.3

Gerald Raunig Ungefüge, 4.3

Three-part screening series with video works from the n.b.k. Video-Forum collection

On Equal Terms  

Nan Goldin: Memory Lost, followed by a Summer Bar with ODE Aperitif

Screening und Vortrag zu Nan Goldin: Memory Lost, mit anschließender Sommerbar mit ODE Aperitif

3-day trip to documenta 15

3-tägige Mitglieder-Reise zur documenta 15

By Toni Negri (philosopher and political scientist, Paris)

Singolarità, moltitudini: per una politica partecipata del comune (Singularities, multitudes: for a participatory politics of the common)

Singolarità, moltitudini: per una politica partecipata del comune

With Marco Baravalle (researcher, curator, activist, Venice), iLiana Fokianaki (curator and author, Athens), and Oliver Ressler (artist, Vienna), moderated by Ameli M. Klein (curator and researcher, Venice and Graz).

Art Activism  

Kunstaktivismus

Visit to the Uferhallen in Berlin Wedding with representatives of the Uferhallen e.V.

Besuch der Uferhallen in Berlin-Wedding mit Vertreter*innen des Uferhallen e.V.

Oliver Ressler: Everything‘s coming together while everything‘s falling apart: Venice Climate Camp

Exclusive guided tour through the Open Studios of the JUNGE AKADEMIE at the Academy of the Arts Berlin

Exklusive Führung bei den Open Studios der JUNGEN AKADEMIE an der Akademie der Künste Berlin

With Viktor Misiano (curator, art writer, and editor), Silvia Franceschini (curator, researcher, and art writer), and Nataša Peterešin-Bachelez (interdependent curator, editor, and art writer)

Curating without a System

With Alexis Chan, Dirk Foermer, Irena Haiduk, Jasmin İhraç, Marija Jette, Brandon Avery Joyce, Dean Kissick, Tatiana Mejia, Christian Schmitz, directed by Irena Haiduk, written by Irena Haiduk and Dean Kissick