{"title": "»A Dictator’s Home – Inside Enver Hoxha’s Vila 31« – Eastern Perspectives", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ulme 35", "address": "Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, Spenden willkommen", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/communism"], "description": "»A Dictator’s Home – Inside Enver Hoxha’s Vila 31« – Eastern Perspectives is an evening of talk and Q&A at the Ulme35. Eastern Perspectives hosts the event, welcoming the architect and photographer Philipp Funke, with moderation by Philipp Filipovski. In his photo book, Funke documents the former residence of the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha in Tirana, photographed shortly before the building was renovated and given a new use. The pictures reveal the private world of Hoxha and his family, kept secret for decades in the sealed-off government district of Blloku, telling of isolation, power and everyday life; Funke also speaks about gaining difficult access to the villa and the histories still felt in its rooms. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/a-dictators-home-inside-enver-hoxhas-vila-31-eastern-perspec-90012/", "official_url": "https://interkulturanstalten.de/events/a-dictators-home-inside-enver-hoxhas-vila-31-eastern-perspectives/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a40dc4ce03cac22e3863d2a8b7ccb1247143e6330f121ed2acd7020aa6d2c6cd-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ulme 35", "address": "Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Drei Referierende – Drei Kurzvorträge - Drei Themen", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-04T20:30:00+01:00", "place": "BStB | Berlin-Saal", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin"], "description": "An evening with three short talks of half an hour each on different Berlin topics. Hans Greiner speaks about war traces still visible on Berlin sidewalks, Isabelle Voßkötter-Berens about dogs as a fashion accessory and rabies risk in 1910s Berlin, and Alexander Darda presents his research into the photographic legacy of the Russian-Jewish bon vivant Evgeny Henkin, who lived in Berlin from 1926 to 1936 and left behind around 2000 photographs. The lecture event is organised by the Verein für die Geschichte Berlins and takes place in the Berlin-Saal of the Berliner Stadtbibliothek. Doors open at 18:30.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/drei-referierende-drei-kurzvortrage-drei-themen-92400/", "official_url": "https://www.zlb.de/veranstaltungsuebersicht/drei-referierende-drei-kurzvortraege-drei-themen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54068b0ee8bf3e669508d57bac00b6b71092caf942d3e9a77f4113089bbd8a28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Billhardt: Die Augen weit offen", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Fotografiska Berlin", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 54, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar"], "description": "The exhibition Thomas Billhardt – Die Augen weit offen at Fotografiska Berlin presents the photographic work of a major German postwar documentary photographer. Curated by Claire Ducresson-Boët together with the CAMERA WORK Gallery, it gathers key series spanning several decades, with a focus on the years 1959 to 1972, from Berlin street scenes to dispatches from Vietnam and pictures from Cuba. Thomas Billhardt (1937–2025) used the camera as an instrument of radical curiosity, capturing unposed moments of everyday life and the vitality pulsing beneath rigid structures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-billhardt-die-augen-weit-offen-11850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b778504a3efbf5b73ef0955e759ace04f7ce24433280328217eb3ac31158b5ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alles Fassade", "start": "2026-11-06T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "9 EUR", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/berlin"], "description": "\"Alles Fassade?\" is an architecture tour through the Humboldt Forum. The Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss invites visitors on a walk through interior and exterior spaces offering insight into Franco Stella's architecture, his models, and his linking of old and new. It covers the contrasting design language of baroque and contemporary architecture as well as the site's eventful building history and the political ideas connected with it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alles-fassade-22936/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "DDRdirekt", "start": "2026-11-09T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Stasi-Zentrale. Campus für Demokratie", "address": "Normannenstr. 20, 10365 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/gdr", "literature"], "description": "\"DDRdirekt\" is a reading and performance with music about workers writing in the GDR. It is organised by the Bundesarchiv – Stasi Records Archive Berlin-Lichtenberg, the Lichtenberg district office of Berlin and the Büro für organische Poesie. anna martha and Thomas Hartung searched the archive for writing workers and discovered voices from a vanished society – sometimes fully in line with official ideology, sometimes full of nuance, contradictions and cautious criticism. With sounds of factory halls and housing shortages, of the collective, football and big dreams, they bring these surprising texts to life again, accompanied by music by Christian Beckers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ddrdirekt-28578/", "official_url": "https://www.einblick-ins-geheime.de/termin/ddrdirekt-berlin-09-11-2026/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Chapters and Re-enactments", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Haus am Waldsee", "address": "Argentinische Allee 30, 14163 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "An English-language talk and conversation at Haus am Waldsee about the exhibition architecture of the series „Seit…“. Artist Nina Akhvlediani speaks about the development of the display system and its place within her artistic practice, followed by a conversation with curator Pia-Marie Remmers. The series showed works by Luciano Pecoits, Veit Laurent Kurz and Sophie Kovel on the institution's history in three chapters during its anniversary year. Footage documenting the making of the architecture, which favours fragmentation and re-enactment over chronological order, accompanies the talk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/chapters-and-re-enactments-32966/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a39b271589193c82b9dcf84b0f1e6d3280178c7d08b6f218fa5ac925a35cf04a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Über Grenzen: Ziehen, Einreißen und Verschieben", "start": "2026-08-14T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-12T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/berlin-wall"], "description": "A talk in the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition at the Humboldt Forum. 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Celebrating 80 years of the institution, which opened in 1946 in the villa once belonging to the textile manufacturer Hermann Knobloch, it looks back at the venue's beginnings: the conditions it started in, the change from private home to exhibition house, and the ruptures and continuities of the postwar period. The series is shown in the café, the building's former garage, on a display architecture developed by the Georgian curator and archivist Nina Akhvlediani. Various artists fill the three chapters, each opening fresh perspectives on the institution's history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/seit-3523/", "official_url": "https://hausamwaldsee.de/seit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac9961602e855d348049968f1fa5301ac65f0984868f2440a155977fcfe575bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Vor 50 Jahren. Das Fontane-Haus im Märkischen Viertel", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie im Fontane-Haus", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin"], "description": "An exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Fontane-Haus, the cultural centre of the Märkischen Viertel. With historical photographs and works by Hans Göpfert, Joachim Ickrath, Werner Mühlbrecht, Monika Sieveking, Reimar Venske and Helmut Verch, it looks back at the artistic and social mood during the building's construction and early years and also turns to its architectural surroundings. A rotating display additionally presents works from the collection of the Graphothek Berlin, which as Germany's oldest and largest art library has been based in the Fontane-Haus since 2004 and lends out its original artworks. The artworks shown in the exhibition can be borrowed directly during the art library's opening hours.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vor-50-jahren-das-fontane-haus-im-markischen-viertel-72880/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbe9e28afcbd3daf5e0eade9d963e7dabcb0e7cd009254f8e7dc4012640692c3-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Alltag in der DDR – Straßenfotografien aus den 70er Jahren", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stiftung Reinbeckhallen", "address": "Reinbeckstraße 11 12459 Berlin", "price": "8 € (ermäßigt 5 €)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/street-photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "The exhibition \"Alltag in der DDR – Straßenfotografien aus den 70er Jahren\" presents street photographs of everyday life in East Berlin in the early 1970s, shown as snapshots, reportages and picture stories. The Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Collection for Contemporary Art is behind the show, exhibiting the series presented by Klaus Greiner fifty years ago in their original conception, supplemented by previously unpublished photographs. The material goes back to a 1976 exhibition of the Cultural Federation of the GDR featuring work by non-professional photographers, mentored and curated by the photographer and university teacher Arno Fischer. The images show people and the surroundings in which they lived.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alltag-in-der-ddr-straenfotografien-aus-den-70er-jahren-15334/", "official_url": "https://stiftung-reinbeckhallen.de/programm/alltag-in-der-ddr-strassenfotografien-aus-den-70er-jahren/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31fc367ff2740f8b03ac09442dcef74742aeef44352c08fad3550243ba34a74f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rooms / Stages – Helmut Newton's One-off Album", "start": "2026-06-05T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Helmut Newton Foundation", "address": "", "price": "12 € / 6 € ermässigt", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/fashion-photography"], "description": "Rooms / Stages and Helmut Newton's One-off Album are two exhibitions at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, devoted to rooms and stages in photography. The group show Rooms / Stages presents bodies of work by about a dozen artists, including empty interiors, elaborately built spaces and subway corridors, while the main hall shows huge images by Helmut Newton, who turned hotels and other locations into stages. The back room shows, for the first time in Berlin, a one-of-a-kind album that Newton assembled in 1999 for the collector Gert Elfering and that now belongs to the Nicola Erni Collection. It holds 103 small original prints, among them iconic fashion photographs and previously unseen behind-the-scenes shots, each hand-labelled with a title or a short story.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/rooms-stages-helmut-newtons-one-off-album-12049/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "GATE TO // Elma Riza", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Alte Münze Kulturquartier", "address": "Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking/screen-printing"], "description": "In the former gatekeeper's house GATE TO in the courtyard of Alte Münze, Elma Riza presents the solo exhibition \"Time melts even concrete\", a series of screen prints. At its heart is the Hôtel du Lac in Tunis, a brutalist building by Raffaele Contigiani from the 1970s that is set to make way for a luxury hotel. The exhibition reflects on the gradual disappearance of iconic architecture and the traces it leaves behind, asking what is lost when buildings that shape their cities' identity are erased. Art is framed here as a form of remembrance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gate-to-elma-riza-67544/", "official_url": "https://www.alte-muenze-berlin.de/event/gate-to-elma-riza/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/54dae6cf5461b8fa903f0247b2963fa4f8ee6f4642e17439c3e90e3de5468ab7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung", "start": "2026-10-15T10:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen", "address": "Genslerstraße 66, 13055 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "\"Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung\" is a special exhibition showing 100 portrait photographs of former political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic's state security service. The pictures are the work of photographer André Wagenzik, who portrayed one hundred people persecuted for wanting freedom and for their political beliefs, recalling the importance of liberty, democracy and the rule of law.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/staatssicherheitsinhaftierung-15897/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/ausstellungen/staatssicherheitsinhaftierung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/904fdae80ee629d88cd1cce3bdeb0225967f63fee3dcfd4c6d16b726b6877382-600.webp"}, {"title": "Dialogische Führung: Josef Kaiser und die Gestaltung des Palastes der Republik", "start": "2026-11-09T16:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Berlinische Galerie", "address": "Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, 10969 Berlin", "price": "Die Teilnahme an der Führung ist im Museumseintritt enthalten.", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/gdr/architecture"], "description": "A dialogue-based guided tour within the exhibition \"Josef Kaiser. Bauen für die DDR\", in which Ursula Müller and Prof. Dr. Wolf Eisentraut share their memories in conversation. The subject is Josef Kaiser and the design of the Palast der Republik, one of the best-known buildings of the GDR. The conversation looks at the architectural ideas of that era and how the building came into being. The event is aimed at teenagers and adults.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dialogische-fuhrung-josef-kaiser-und-die-gestaltung-des-pala-11660/", "official_url": "https://berlinischegalerie.de/veranstaltung/dialogische-fuehrung-josef-kaiser-bauen-fuer-die-ddr/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ae2fe01f65bc73f59a05e6998c691044b9e7dc862a52f4147f6c86b7075ac7ee-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Vernissage zur Ausstellung \"Wir Marzahner - Eine fotografische Liebeserklärung\" von Asger Hunov", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Mark-Twain-Bibliothek", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei; Austritt: eine Spende an den Förderverein Stadtbibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf e.V.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A vernissage opens the exhibition \"Wir Marzahner - Eine fotografische Liebeserklärung\". For it, the photographer Asger Hunov interviewed and portrayed more than 50 residents of Marzahn, drawing a positive, lively picture of a district often misjudged. In exceptional photos and short texts, the exhibition tells of a wide range of people and of life and neighbourhood in Marzahn. Hunov teaches professional photography at the Copenhagen University of Applied Sciences, and Marzahn with its green spaces, prefab buildings and authentic residents holds a special appeal for him.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vernissage-zur-ausstellung-wir-marzahner-eine-fotografische-13177/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9b3cc8bcd679b3e4b57577ceb8b58fb654c3d5a1d0212dab2ec93da912c510e6-600.webp"}, {"title": "Josef Kaiser: Building for the GDR", "start": "2026-08-28T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-01T23:59:00+01:00", "place": "Berlinische Galerie", "address": "Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Josef Kaiser: Building for the GDR\" is an exhibition about Josef Kaiser, considered one of the most influential architects of the GDR. For the first time, it explores his life and work through drawings, photographs, films, and models, shedding light on political and aesthetic tensions. His buildings include Berlin's Karl-Marx-Allee with the iconic Kino International. Contemporary artists offer fresh perspectives on his legacy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/josef-kaiser-building-for-the-gdr-22068/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8c86465dafb12fb45bab0bedc590d6a40bba892e7990690a26ffeafcda37a820-1200.webp"}]}