Kunstparcours
The 10 remarkable productions, selected by a jury of critics, were announced in a press conference on 26 January 2024, 11:00. The programme will be published on 5 April, advance ticket sales will start on 19 April at 14:00
On four themed days, curated by Saba-Nur Cheema and Meron Mendel, the Berliner Festspiele wishes to create a space for nuanced reflection without adopting reflex positions on one of what is assumed to be only two possible sides.
© Ali Ghandtschi
Dance | Guest Performance
Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical and dance history. Its title translates to “The Rite of Spring”. For this evening, it is accompanied by the “Scène d’Amour” from “Roméo et Juliette” by Hector Berlioz and her choreography “L’Après-midi d’un faune” to the music of Claude Debussy.
Sacre
© Bernd Uhlig
Dance | Guest Performance
As part of the international festival Tanz im August, three productions will be shown at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele in August 2024. Advance booking for two productions is now open.
© Lance Anderson / Unsplash
In 2024, the Musikfest Berlin will once again open the concert season in late summer with top-class international orchestras, celebrated conductors and remarkable soloists. Tickets are already available to purchase for selected concerts. The full programme will be published in April 2024.
The second season, presented between October 2024 and January 2025, will concentrate on memory and heritage in contemporary performing arts, with a focus on New York’s dance and performance scene.
Over the course of five decades, Nancy Holt explored how we perceive our environment and how we attempt to understand our place on the surface of this planet. From March 2024, the Gropius Bau presents Circles of Light, the artist’s most comprehensive survey exhibition in Germany to date. It includes film, video, photography, sound works, concrete poetry, sculptures and expansive installations as well as drawings and documentation from over 25 years.
Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024
© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luis Kürschner
With How Love Moves, the Gropius Bau presents the first major institutional solo exhibition of Pallavi Paul. As an artist and film scholar, Paul engages the camera as her primary tool to interrogate how regimes of “truth” are produced and sustained in public life. Through her multimedia practice spanning film, installation, performance, drawing, photography and writing, she negotiates the documentary not only conjured as film or image – but as an ecology of materials, networks, global alliances and systems.
Pallavi Paul, How Love Moves, film still, 2023
© Pallavi Paul
René Pollesch provided unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen in 2002 with the invitation to his “Prater-Trilogie” parts 1 to 3 and in 2012 with "Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia for unforgettable moments at the Theatertreffen, for which we are deeply grateful. René Pollesch died suddenly and unexpectedly on 26 February at the age of 61. The 3sat recording of “Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia” is available in our media library until 27 May 2024.
Kill your Darlings! Streets of Berladelphia
© 3sat
All year round, Berliner Festspiele host a multitude of festivals, exhibitions and individual events in two houses – the Haus der Berliner Festspiele at Schaperstraße and the Gropius Bau near Potsdamer Platz – and other venues in the city.
The photovoltaic system on the roof of the Gropius Bau.
jirka-jansch.com, 2011
We have been following EMAS guidelines for sustainable environmental performance since 2013. Find out more about our goals and the measures that we have already taken on the website of our umbrella organisation.