Out of the Box – 75 Jahre Archiv der Akademie der Künste | Führungen

In the organizer's words:

In the field of tension between order and chaos, forgetting and remembering, analog and digital worlds, the archive of the Academy of Arts faces enormous challenges. As a living archive, it is an open place for the exchange of art and science and collaboration between art forms.

To mark its 75th anniversary, an exhibition tells 75 stories about working on memory, about the creation of artistic works, about the structure and organization of cultural knowledge, about transmission and missing pieces. In the age of "alternative facts" and artificial intelligence, the archive is a place of reliable information and authentic sources. At the same time, it is open to new forms of artistic expression, media, storage and communication.

Iconic testimonies such as Walter Benjamin's essay "What is Aura?", love letters by Anna Seghers, Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, John Heartfield's collages, a diary by Käthe Kollwitz or Mary Wigman's dance notations speak of the aura of objects and the potential of archives to determine the canon for the memory work of future generations.

Artistic positions

Ingo Gerken / Echo Ho / Dominique Hurth / Marcel Odenbach

Represented in the exhibition

Alvar Aalto / Mario Adorf / Ellen Auerbach / Horst Bartnig / Vicki Baum / Paul Baumgarten / Johannes R. Becher / Walter Benjamin / David Bennent / Carl Blechen / Gerhard Bohner / Bertolt Brecht / Micha Brendel / Ernst Busch / Herbert Freiherr von Buttlar / Jurriaan Cootwijk / Nelly Dix / Otto Dix / Wils Ebert / Elke Erb / Eberhard Fechner / Lyonel Feininger / Franz Fühmann / Hartmut Geerken / Ingo Gerken / Jochen Gerz / Friedrich Gilly / Günter Grass / George Grosz / John Heartfield / Suzette Henry / Wulf Herzogenrath / Birger Heymann / Alfred Hirschmeier / Echo Ho / Rolf Hochhuth / Walter Huder / Dominique Hurth / Walter Jens / Volker Kahl / Georg Kaiser / Alfred Kantorowicz / Walter Kempowski / Imre Kertész / Irmgard Keun / Barbara Köhler / Carl Wilhelm Kolbe d.Ä. / Uwe Kolbe / Käthe Kollwitz / Carl Kretschmar / Christina Kubisch / Dieter Ladewig / Alice Lex-Nerlinger / Peter Lilienthal / Franz Lippisch / Volker Ludwig / Heinrich Mann / Eva Maria Marcus / Penny McCarthy / Ludwig Meidner / Leopoldo Méndez / Marlene Moeschke-Poelzig / Heiner Müller / Wiebke Müller / Péter Nádas / Nam June Paik / Erna Pinner / Marcel Odenbach / Emine Sevgi Özdamar / Edgar Reitz / Paul and Eslanda Robeson / Thomas Rosenlöcher / Johann Gottfried Schadow / Hans Scharoun / Hermann Scherchen / Max Schirner / Jörg Schlaich / Einar Schleef / Christine Schlegel / Oskar Schlemmer / Silvia and Dieter Schlenstedt / Christoph Schlingensief / Volker Schlöndorff / Andreas Schlüter / Rolf Dietrich Schmidt / Anna Seghers / Gerd Sonntag / Klaus Staeck / Maria Steinfeldt / Katharina Thalbach / Wolfgang Trautwein / Gudrun Trendafilov / Herbert Tucholski / Gisela Tuchtenhagen / Maxie Wander / Helene Weigel / Günther Weisenborn / Peter Weiss / Rudolf Weißer / Trak Wendisch / Charles White / Mary Wigman / Roger Willemsen / Christa Wolf / Konrad Wolf / Karla Woisnitza / Peter Zadek / Leopold Zielke / Bernd Alois Zimmermann / Arnold Zweig

Price information:

€ 5 plus exhibition ticket € 10/7 (Free admission to the exhibition until 18 years, Tuesdays)