{"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. 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Artist Daniela Friebel draws on the estate of an East German particle physicist from the early years of divided Germany. 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Eine deutsch-polnische Spurensuche", "start": "2026-05-29T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "address": "Stresemannstraße 90, 10963 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar-expulsion"], "description": "This special photography exhibition, \"Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie\", brings together ten German and Polish photographers, among them Karolina Gembara, Annette Hauschild and Wojtek Sienkiewicz. It is presented by the Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation Foundation (SFVV) in cooperation with the OSTKREUZ photographers' agency, marking the 35th anniversary of the German-Polish Treaty of Good Neighbourship. The works offer German and Polish views of a shared space of memory in Poland, the former eastern territories of the German Reich, which many Germans associate with flight, expulsion and the loss of home. Memory, identity and transformation are the themes, and Karolina Gembara is the artistic curator.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuc-2668/", "official_url": "https://www.flucht-vertreibung-versoehnung.de/de/news/ostgebiete-ziemie-zachodnie-eine-deutsch-polnische-spurensuche", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dafd087f1cb7e1690eb5e4904e2811803f0687222edd190bbb0d2afc43336dc1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Projections Onto the East", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schinkelpavillon", "address": "", "price": "6 € / 4 € (reduced)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/group-exhibition", "history/gdr"], "description": "Projections Onto the East is a group exhibition of historical and contemporary artworks, including new productions made for the project, at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. 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The exhibition addresses the ideological attributions attached to the terms “East” and “West”, tracing lines of conflict from GDR memory politics and antisemitism to postsocialist transformations and current geopolitical tensions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/projections-onto-the-east-17664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ed3cf24e9ea73cd8bc783d4dd6653ca6dd613010486da4894865d36a975e4ef-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Projektionen auf den Osten", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Chausseestraße 128-129, 10115 Berlin", "address": "Chausseestraße 128-129, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/politics"], "description": "Projektionen auf den Osten (DI-SO) is a multi-part exhibition, discourse and publication project bringing together international artists, scholars and writers. 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A publication, a project website and an extensive discourse programme accompany the two exhibitions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/projektionen-auf-den-osten-2660/", "official_url": "https://www.nbk.org/de/ausstellungen/projektionen-osten", "image": ""}, {"title": "Umbruch 1989/90 und die deutsche Einheit: Gemischte Gefühle?", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "East Side Gallery", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/street-art", "history/gdr"], "description": "A spotlight guided tour at the East Side Gallery presenting some of the more than one hundred artworks painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990. They tell of hope and joy, but also of worries and unsettling experiences in the period of upheaval 1989/90. The tour looks at how the artists, more than 35 years after the fall of the Wall, view German unity: what would they paint on the wall today, and are the messages still relevant? 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More than 30 stories and contributions from private and institutional archives, personal memories and artistic positions create a many-voiced picture of a time between new departures and loss, fresh freedoms, conflict and radical change. The contributions lead from Berlin clubs to eastern German cities and rural areas, and from pre-1989 youth and subcultures to the open spaces of the post-reunification years. Visitors can experience the former cult club and the extraordinary industrial building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tanzflachen-der-wiedervereinigung-im-kraftwerk-2524/", "official_url": "https://tanzflaechen-der-wiedervereinigung.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/565b41755486a48f6081dcb468ed4e81f6c4c02aa701b773076842284f036828-600.webp"}, {"title": "PEN Berlin: Geht's noch?", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "Berliner Ensemble", "address": "Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Preis 16/9 EURO", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://berliner-ensemble.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=15937", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics"], "description": "A public discussion event with conversations about home and democracy after the elections in East Germany and Berlin. The writers' association PEN Berlin invites guests from politics and culture as well as the audience, which is welcome to ask questions, join in and disagree. It asks questions such as: can people with different political opinions still talk to each other? What divides East and West, what connects them, and what has changed in recent years? The series is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for East Germany and has previously travelled through East Germany and Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/pen-berlin-gehts-noch-3773/", "official_url": "https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/pen-berlin-gehts-noch", "image": "https://noky.io/images/33b1cbab610ffda3d8005e5c5ef3739321581f59829c18d13e9a6b19846bbd58-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hella De Santarossa \"Ins Offene\" – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Beyond Reality", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/reunification"], "description": "The exhibition „Ins Offene – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin“ presents photographs and paintings by Hella De Santarossa, who since the fall of the Wall in 1989 has approached the changing city of Berlin in a new way. Born in Düsseldorf in 1949, the artist was a defining figure of the Junge Wilde in the 1980s and has since combined photography and painting into a distinctive visual language. She photographs buildings, unfinished structures and construction sites, including the „Löwenbauten“ such as the Reichstag, the Federal Chancellery and the new buildings at Potsdamer Platz, and reworks the enlarged images in expressive, multi-layered layers of colour on canvas or paper. Her works preserve a moment in which Berlin is in transition, between the end of the old and the still open beginning of the new.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene-bilder-der-wendezeit-in-berli-34283/", "official_url": "https://www.klausmemmert-atelier.com/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e6121ce5292890b1d2c3066e94151622149ad4f0a209f55d9012567df45305a6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Projektionen auf den Osten – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Kooperation mit dem Schinkel Pavillon", "start": "2026-10-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schinkelpavillon", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/gdr"], "description": "Projektionen auf den Osten – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Kooperation mit dem Schinkel Pavillon is a multi-part exhibition, discourse and publication project. It comes out of a cooperation between the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the Schinkel Pavillon, with works by Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Pavel Brăila, Maksym Khodak, KwieKulik, Helmar Lerski, Maria Lisogorskaya, Shlomo Pozner, Xavier Robles de Medina, Maya Schweizer, Andrzej Steinbach, Hito Steyerl, Gabriele Stötzer, Mikhail Tolmachev, Jasmin Werner and Anastasiya Yarovenko. The project takes as its starting point the observation that “the East” increasingly serves as a projection surface for cultural, aesthetic and political ideas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/projektionen-auf-den-osten-neuer-berliner-kunstverein-nbk-in-17922/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sophie Calle »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": "9.00", "price_to": "9.00", "tickets_url": "https://literatur-berlin.tickettoaster.de/produkte/4255-tickets-sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-literaturhaus-berlin-berlin-am-11-11-2026", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A book launch at Literaturhaus Berlin where Sophie Calle presents her new book »Erinnerungen an Ostberlin«. In it, the French artist documents places in Berlin from which the visible symbols of East German history were removed after reunification, asking passers-by and residents to describe what had once filled these now-empty spaces. In conversation with the author and filmmaker Felix von Boehm, she talks about remembering, her art and writing. The event is held in French with simultaneous German interpretation by Kerstin Elsner; Carolin Haupt reads.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin-209/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/sophie-calle-erinnerungen-an-ostberlin/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Ende einer Freundschaft - Deutschland und Amerika nach 9/11", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Babylon", "address": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30, 10178 Berlin", "price": "NUR 5,- EURO", "price_from": "5.00", "price_to": "5.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/cold-war", "society/politics"], "description": "A premiere of the 45-minute documentary \"Ende einer Freundschaft – Deutschland und Amerika nach 9/11 – End of a Friendship – Germany and USA after 9/11\", screened on the eve of the U.S. midterm elections. The film by Stefan Buchen and John Götz offers a backstage look, featuring key historical figures from the White House and the Kanzleramt, at the contrast between Germany's public self-image and its actual behavior during the U.S.-led \"Global War on Terror\". Afterwards, Deborah Feldman interviews sociologist Teresa Koloma Beck about her work on the disconnect between Germany's international self-image and its new ethno-nationalism. Drinks follow in the cinema lobby.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ende-einer-freundschaft-deutschland-und-amerika-nach-911-67947/", "official_url": "https://babylonberlin.eu/film/10790-ende-einer-freundschaft-deutschland-und-amerika-nach-9-11", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fe292294d71b4ca1e2b35f30fe985664c79ad96f46b1411ae2c562a415469b34-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zwischen Herkunft und neuem Zuhause", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/migration"], "description": "The film „Die noch unbekannten Tage“ by filmmaker Jola Wieczorek is a cinematic journey of remembrance into the 1980s. At its center is the story of her family and their emigration from Poland to Austria. The filmmaker asks how a key event in her own family might have turned out differently and what it would be like to look at the details of the past today.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause-11960/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/programm/zwischen-herkunft-und-neuem-zuhause?date=2026-11-10T18%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/69f4f1336e055102790bff38eb82a5e89baad1ca2c3b80be395c5541c6149b06-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft", "start": "2023-11-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin", "price": "16 EUR, reduced 8 EUR (admission incl. special exhibitions)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.smb.museum/#/tickets/time?museum_id=26&exhibition_id=2443&group=day&lang=de", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/postwar-germany"], "description": "Zerreißprobe is a collection display at the Neue Nationalgalerie, a Berlin museum of modern art, covering art from 1945 to the year 2000. It is presented by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and curated by Joachim Jäger, Maike Steinkamp and Marta Smolińska. Fourteen chapters explore themes such as realism and abstraction, feminism, identity, and nature and ecology, set against war, division and the fall of the Wall. It shows paintings, objects, photographs and video works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović, Rebecca Horn and Andy Warhol.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zerreiprobe-kunst-zwischen-politik-und-gesellschaft-11921/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=78089", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d673b655c2ed8273976658604cef7e46e242b908e59fa8e5604e7f9a183f7665-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?", "start": "2026-11-09T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KulturMarktHalle", "address": "Hanns-Eisler-Straße 93, 10409 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/antisemitism"], "description": "\"Mein Berlin - ein Ort mit Gedächtnis?\" is a film offering an artistic and journalistic approach to the uncertainty that many Berlin Jews have experienced since October 7, 2023. It portraits six Jewish people living in Berlin without showing their faces; the renunciation of identifiability is both a protective measure and part of the artistic concept. The camera stays close but never revealing, observing movements, gestures and living spaces, showing apartments, workplaces, family objects and favorite places in the city. At a time when antisemitism is becoming visible and more radical again in Germany, the film looks not only at those affected but also at the majority society – at its reactions, withheld empathy, distance and silence.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis-20445/", "official_url": "https://www.kulturmarkthalle.berlin/event-details/film-mein-berlin-ein-ort-mit-gedachtnis", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f73b455b1470f0057773d4f06131c621ad7cc9ce52444fb1b8938abe5476a194-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Im Blick der Anderen – In The View of Others", "start": "2026-11-06T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Akademie der Künste", "address": "Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin", "price": "7,50 EUR (Ermäßigt: 5 EUR)", "price_from": "7.50", "price_to": "7.50", "tickets_url": "https://adk.eventim-inhouse.de/webshop/webticket/shop?event=20872", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture/modernism", "history/cold-war"], "description": "A two-day conference with talks, discussions, lecture performances and a film programme, part of the exhibition „Metaxy : Zwischen Zerstörung und Wiederaufbau“. It examines the international media reception of postwar modernism during the Cold War, starting from reporting on the Karl-Marx-Allee in former East Berlin and the buildings of the Interbau 1957 in former West Berlin. A research project by Dr. Sandra Wagner-Conzelmann, Dr. Thomas Flierl, Dr. Paul Sigel and Robert K. Huber studied coverage in ten countries, and the conference presents the partly surprising findings. The programme is complemented by a film programme curated by Florian Wüst and a lecture performance by the Ukrainian group DENEDE.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-blick-der-anderen-in-the-view-of-others-21468/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/im-blick-der-anderen-in-the-view-of-others-berlin/596575", "image": ""}]}