Long Night of Museums at the Gropius Bau

Various voices that are shaping today’s cultural landscape are present in the Gropius Bau through performance, workshops, installations and tours. With installations by the Gropius Bau’s 2023 Artist in Residence Pallavi Paul and works by Mimi Ọnụọha and Elisa Giardina Papa as part of Ether’s Bloom: A Programme on Artificial Intelligence. The exhibition hall will be open for a long night of music, dancing and storytelling.

Fabmobil at the Gropius Bau
18:00–23:00, Workshop, South terrace

Within the framework of Ether’s Bloom: A Progamme on Artificial Intelligence, Fabmobil invites visitors to experience different AI technologies in an open format. With supervisors on their side, they can create their own visuals and incarnate them through laser cutting or textile printing techniques.

Guided Tours in different languages
18:35–22:10, Meeting point: foyer

In this tour, staff members of Gropius Bau give insights into the curatorial framework and their own impressions and readings of the exhibited artworks.

18:35–19:05 Italian
19:00–19:30 German
19:20–19:55 Turkish
19:40–20:15 English
20:00–20:30 Arabic (Lebanese)
20:20–20:50 Turkish
20:40–21:10 Arabic 
21:00–21:30 German
21:20–21:50 Russian
21:40–22:10 English

Resting: Convening with Hanita Firoozmand and Andrea-Vicky Amankwaa-Birago
19:00–21:00, Workshop, Resonance Room

Can what we think of as rest be transformed into practices other than just sleeping? And how can we reverse the act of awakening? This meditative effort invites us to slow down, to look within and around ourselves, to attend to our bodies, to lay them down and yield to the guidance of a curated sequence of sounds.

The practice of resting has become a form of resistance especially for Black people, to survive in our machine-level pace of our culture and surviving the trauma of the terror of poverty, exhaustion, white supremacy and capitalism (see Tricia Hersey, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto).

This event is part of the becoming neighbours programme conceived by the Gropius Bau’s Neighbour in Residence hn. lyonga.

DJ Set
Koloah, 19:00–22:00, Summer terrace
Dekkapa and Lukinu, 22:00–1:00, Restaurant Beba

Koloah is a Kyiv-based, temporarily displaced producer and rave hero. He significantly impacted the Ukrainian electronic scene. For more than a decade, his musical path has taken him through a cross-section of underground and famous clubs and parties such as Closer, Схема, ∄, Tresor, Berghain, and more.

Dekkapa has been in close contact with music since he was born, as his father is also a music lover and played loud music from different places around the world on a daily basis, which had an important impact on the way Dekkapa mixes music. His heart beats for authentic drums and melodies, which can be seen in his released tracks and DJ sets he plays today.

Lukinu is a native of Berlin with Angolan roots. His musical influences range from GhettoSound, Batida, Afrobeat to Contemporary and Alternative R&B, NeoSoul, as well as contemporary dance music reflecting new and old sounds of the Diaspora. Lukinu and his DJ colleague Dekkapa also combine this in their own event series NÕGHETTO in Berlin. In addition, the two DJs also produce their own ghetto sound beats.
 

Beba will be feeding you through the evening with herbal natural cocktails and a street food stand with delicacies from their kitchen at our summer terrace.