Conférences & Lectures

Lectures & Readings

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Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

Heaven or Hell

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

What awaits a Christian at the end of days? Tony Deimling shows how painters over 400 years ago depicted their ideas about the afterlife in enormous paintings.

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Gemäldegalerie Gemäldegalerie

12:30 – 13:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153092
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14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

Rainbow colors from flowers and plants

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14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

We discover various plants on a tour and try out how plants can be used to produce, dye and change different colors. We experiment with methods from many parts of the world and learn about centuries-old processes in the dyeing plant workshop. We research and…

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Botanisches Museum Berlin Botanisches Museum Berlin

11:00 – 12:15

https://www.bo.berlin
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14.09.2025

Together for Peace

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14.09.2025

Sounds of Paradise: Create your own bells and ring them for peace at Yoko Ono's performance "Bells for Piece" at the end of the day.

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Neue Nationalgalerie Neue Nationalgalerie

12:30 – 16:30

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153394
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© Aly de Groot

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14.09.2025

Wish Upon a Jellyfish – Weaving

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14.09.2025

Before the age of plastics, basketry was deeply embedded in fishing practices, from crafting traps to carrying the day's catch. Now, with our oceans facing overfishing and warming, jellyfish are proliferating worldwide, a stark sign of ecological imbalance.

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Museum Europäischer Kulturen Museum Europäischer Kulturen

12:30 – 16:30

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153162
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Lecture

14.09.2025 + 3 additional dates

Discussion: Christian Boltanski – The Missing House

Lecture

14.09.2025 + 3 additional dates

The artwork "The Missing House" by Christian Boltanski is now part of the "Infinite Exhibition" at Hamburger Bahnhof. In this talk you will learn more about the creation and reconstruction of the installation as well as the history of the inhabitants of the…

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- Contemporary Art
- History of National Socialism
Installation „The Missing House“ von Christian Boltanski Installation „The Missing House“ von Christian Boltanski

11:00 – 12:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153057
Lectures & Readings

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Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

Feminist Library

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

A feminist library at the heart of the festival as a place for encounter and exchange

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Tanzfabrik Berlin (Uferstudios) Tanzfabrik Berlin (Uferstudios)

13:00
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14.09.2025 + 5 additional dates

Interwoven and connected: your friendship bracelets

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14.09.2025 + 5 additional dates

Striped or checked, brightly colored or two-tone: In this workshop, you'll choose threads in your favorite colors or be inspired by the textiles of the Museum of Islamic Art. With the help of a weaving card, you'll easily weave your own ribbons.

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- Children
- Teenager
Haus Bastian - Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung Haus Bastian - Zentrum für kulturelle Bildung

13:00 – 16:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153138
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14.09.2025

Monument workshop: fieldstone and brick

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14.09.2025

In this creative activity for the Day of Open Monuments, families will learn about St. Nicholas Church, Berlin's oldest surviving church building.

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Museum Nikolaikirche Museum Nikolaikirche

13:00 – 16:00

https://www.stadtmuseum.de/veranstaltungen/denkmal-werkstatt-feldstein-und-backstein
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© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Marcus Glahn

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14.09.2025

Paradise Lost - open family workshop

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14.09.2025

How do you imagine paradise? In this workshop, you can design your own paradise using various materials (paper, paints, collages).

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- Children
Kulturforum - Kunstgewerbemuseum Kulturforum - Kunstgewerbemuseum

13:00 – 17:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153380
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14.09.2025 + 7 additional dates

Tailwind: electric motor for your bike!

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14.09.2025 + 7 additional dates

E-bikes are the future? But you still want to keep your old, muscle-powered bike? This is where retrofit motors for bicycles come in. In the workshop, you can build a simple electric motor yourself and find out how it powers a bike. You will also get to know…

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- Children
- Teenager
Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin

13:00 – 16:00

https://technikmuseum.berlin/veranstaltung/rueckenwind-e-motor-fuer-dein-rad
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© Laura Hülsmann

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14.09.2025

Youth Day | Kuyum Dance Platform 25

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14.09.2025

Back to the Roots - When two brothers argue because one of them is determined to become a famous internet star, there's no dry eye in sight! Young and old alike - everyone laughs along!

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theaterhaus berlin: theaterhaus berlin / standort mitte theaterhaus berlin: theaterhaus berlin / standort mitte

13:00
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Lecture

14.09.2025 + 3 additional dates

Paradise Lost

Lecture

14.09.2025 + 3 additional dates

The Fall of Man actually has no place in Last Judgment scenes. Henrik Engel demonstrates that this is different in the altarpiece by Lucas Cranach the Elder (after Hieronymus Bosch) – and reads from John Milton's "Paradise Lost."

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Gemäldegalerie Gemäldegalerie

13:15 – 13:45

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153166
Lectures & Readings

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Christoph Schmidt

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

A paradise on earth

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

Do you know the land of milk and honey? Wasn't that something with sweets? Discover paradisiacal images with Tony Deimling!

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Gemäldegalerie Gemäldegalerie

13:30 – 14:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153156
Lecture

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Lecture

14.09.2025 + 6 additional dates

Raumschiff Erde

Lecture

14.09.2025 + 6 additional dates

With a countdown, the planetarium spaceship takes off and the audience hurtles into space. Who has ever seen from space how the earth flies around the sun? Here, the audience gets to know the sunlit day side of the Earth as well as the dark night side with the…

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- science
- Children
Zeiss-Großplanetarium Zeiss-Großplanetarium

13:30

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/raumschiff-erde
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14.09.2025

Time travel to the lost paradise

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14.09.2025

Take a trip back in time to the vanished Tiergarten district: it was a paradise for artists, designers and collectors. Learn more about the place to be in Berlin during the Golden Twenties of the 20th century.

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- History
- The roaring twenties in Berlin
Kulturforum - Kunstgewerbemuseum Kulturforum - Kunstgewerbemuseum

13:30 – 14:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153382
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14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

We build and launch water rockets

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14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

"3 - 2 - 1 - Lift-off" - Bright eyes, open mouths and then great cheers when the homemade rocket lifts off the ground and lands in the grass a long way away. But how does a rocket engine actually work? What does a rocket need to rise into the air against…

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- Children
Archenhold-Sternwarte Archenhold-Sternwarte

13:30

https://www.planetarium.berlin/veranstaltungen/wir-bauen-und-starten-wasserraketen
Lectures & Readings

© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Dietmar Gunne

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

Art and Biology: Heavenly Paradise

Lectures & Readings

14.09.2025

Biologist Ursula Müller and art historian Thomas Hoffmann focus on the symbolism of plants and animals and decipher the secret (visual) language of the Old Masters.

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Gemäldegalerie Gemäldegalerie

14:00 – 14:30

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153170
Lecture

© Florian Bolk

Lecture

14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

Bernhard Moser: reMENÜscenes – Memories of a Restaurant Critic –

Lecture

14.09.2025 + 1 additional date

If you want to know how wine seminar participants become alcoholics, how an ice wine becomes a “polar bear harvest” or what it feels like to dine in restaurants that turn out to be Potemkin villages – then this evening is the right place for you.

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- On Tour
BKA Theater BKA Theater

14:00

Acheter les billets
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© Graham Smith- SoLD

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14.09.2025

Krump workshop “motion brings emotion” with Lucia

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14.09.2025

Free, intergenerational dance workshop about expressing and reflecting emotions based on concepts from Krump.

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- Free of charge
- Teenager
Motion*s Tanz und Bewegungsstudio am Gleisdreieck Motion*s Tanz und Bewegungsstudio am Gleisdreieck

14:00
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© Kurt und Hannelore Mühlenhaupt Stiftung

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14.09.2025 + 14 additional dates

Open Print Workshop

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14.09.2025 + 14 additional dates

Do you want to print pictures like a real artist? Kurt Mühlenhaupt made art for the little people. In the museum you can create your own art with lots of colour, creativity and fun.

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- Free of charge
- Children
Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum

14:00 – 17:00

http://www.muehlenhaupt.de/veranstaltungen
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© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders

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14.09.2025

Open Workshop: Paradise Apples

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14.09.2025

Get to your easel! With pastels and charcoal, you can create a heavenly fruit: the apple, under the guidance of artists Birgit Bellmann, Renée Rapedius, and Thomas Rapedius.

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Kulturforum Kulturforum

14:00 – 17:00

https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=153159