{"title": "Lights On! Sustaining Light-Based Art", "start": "2026-11-13T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art"], "description": "Lights On! Sustaining Light-Based Art is a conference day where international experts from conservation, curatorial practice, collection management and research discuss how to keep light-based artworks alive in museum collections. It forms part of the symposium Post Discipline, hosted by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart as part of its 30th anniversary programme. Taking Dan Flavin's site-specific installation untitled (1996) as a starting point, the talks address technological obsolescence, material availability and sustainability. The day ends with a panel discussion titled Where Do We Go From Here?", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lights-on-sustaining-light-based-art-10941/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/lights-on-sustaining-light-based-art-2026-11-13-083000-159458/", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-13T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Unendliche Ausstellung", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-09-23T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The „Unendliche Ausstellung“ is a permanent exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart showing 23 artworks from the museum's collection in its indoor and outdoor areas. It is curated by the team of Hamburger Bahnhof and was realised with the kind support of Peppermint and the Hamburger Bahnhof International Companions e.V. Every year the exhibition grows by one new production that is permanently acquired for the collection of the Nationalgalerie. The route links collection, history, building and neighbourhood through the museum, garden and adjacent areas, including a light installation by Dan Flavin, Christian Boltanski's „The Missing House“ and works by Judith Hopf, Claudia Wieser, Susan Philipsz and Ayșe Erkmen.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/unendliche-ausstellung-15762/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/unendliche-ausstellung/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "This event is an evening of the public talk series \"Warum Kunst?\" at the Berlin University of the Arts, asking what art achieves and where its future lies. Speaking are Wolfram Lotz, a dramatist, poet and radio playwright, and Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst, a composer, musician and author, with the evening moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte. At its center is the question of the value of artistic practice in a time of multiple crises and of art's capacity to open new spaces of thought, experience and imagination. The series sees itself as an open forum for exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public and is held in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-29003/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}, {"title": "After Art History: Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum", "start": "2026-11-12T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Admission free of charge, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/museum"], "description": "“After Art History? Future Paradigms for the Contemporary Art Museum” is a one-day symposium at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. The event is organised by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with speakers including Dr Sam Bardaouil, Dr David Joselit and other scholars from art history, sociology and science and technology studies. The symposium asks what happens when art history is no longer the unquestioned epistemic centre of the museum but becomes one form of knowledge among many. It explores how museums can classify, interpret and preserve under conditions of uncertainty, and how historical knowledge can coexist with provisional, situated and collaborative forms of knowledge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-10939/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/after-art-history-future-paradigms-for-the-contemporary-art-museum-2026-11-12-083000-160217/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Group Exhibition | Shine a Light", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Carlier | Gebauer", "address": "Markgrafenstraße 67, 10969 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/group-exhibition"], "description": "\"Shine a Light\" is a group exhibition at the gallery carlier | gebauer in Berlin. It is presented by the gallery and gathers works by Sebastián Díaz Morales, Dor Guez, Lúcia Koch, Paul Pfeiffer, Laure Prouvost, Jessica Rankin and Nida Sinnokrot. The photographs, sculptures and drawings on view treat light as both subject and active element, exploring perception, visibility, memory, emotion and possibility. Across the exhibition light takes on material and metaphorical forms, at times physical and at times fleeting.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/group-exhibition-shine-a-light-13840/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/de331500f2c035cd927c5ac32311df7d5aa617b1ce5218ff0a6b17dde3818d78-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Was bewirkt Kunst? - Über die Zukunft der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "“Was bewirkt Kunst? – Über die Zukunft der Kunst” is a public evening as part of the discussion series “Warum Kunst?” at the Berlin University of the Arts. The playwright, poet and radio playwright Wolfram Lotz and the composer, musician and author Prof. Iris ter Schiphorst discuss what effect art has today and how it can gain new relevance. The evening is moderated by Prof. Marion Hirte and takes place in German.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/was-bewirkt-kunst-uber-die-zukunft-der-kunst-31795/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/was-bewirkt-kunst-ueber-die-zukunft-der-kunst/", "image": ""}, {"title": "Im Himmel steht auch ein Haus – Künstlerisches Symposium im Rahmen der 31. Kunstauktion EKBOart", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-12T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "Sankt Matthäus-Kirche", "address": "10785 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "religion"], "description": "An artistic symposium of film screening, talks, discussions and performances held as part of the 31st art auction EKBOart. The evening is hosted by the Stiftung St. Matthäus with Hannes Langbein and Dr. Rosa Coco Schinagl of Kunstplanbau, with contributions by Manuel Linke, Benjamin Heisenberg, Otto Oscar Hernández Ruiz and Veronika Tokareva. Its themes are art and flight – including the documentary »Vom Bleiben und Gehen« about a youth journey to Tunisia meeting people stuck there as refugees – and quantum physics, nature and faith in a conversation between Andreas Feldtkeller and astrophysicist Andreas Burkert. A performance asks about the space of Promenadologie and how space, movement and environment shape human life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-himmel-steht-auch-ein-haus-kunstlerisches-symposium-im-ra-28374/", "official_url": "https://stiftung-stmatthaeus.de/veranstaltungen/vom-bleiben-und-gehen-niemandsland-reden-ueber-kunst-und-flucht/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d508abb859fe7fdd90afee66654f9f9f35c2a21937fdbbcb0c20d8ebcb772bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "JAMES TURRELL - Lichtkunstpräsentation", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof I", "address": "Chausseestr. 126 10115 Berlin", "price": "12 €", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art"], "description": "JAMES TURRELL - Light Art Presentation shows a permanent light installation in the chapel at Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof I in Berlin. It has been presented since July 2015 by the Evangelischer Friedhofsverband Berlin Stadtmitte and features work by the renowned American light artist James Turrell (born 1943). The installation is aligned with the sunset and can only be seen during sunset hours, and it is the only artwork by Turrell that is accessible to the public in Berlin. The presentation includes an introduction talk in English, held from Friday to Sunday at sunset, and the languages given are German and English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/james-turrell-lichtkunstprasentation-15471/", "official_url": "https://www.ekbo.de/planen/kultur-in-kirchen/termindetails/james-turrell-lichtkunstpraesentation-light-art-presentation-11", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dc0a6a7590573b66a14b8aba615db7c6b8b945b11979d451b064c80ad31d2343-600.webp"}, {"title": "Public Engagement - Futures of Art Mediation", "start": "2026-11-11T08:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "A symposium titled \"Public Engagement - Futures of Art Mediation\" at Hamburger Bahnhof examines art mediation in the context of social, institutional and technological transformation. It is organised by Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which takes the anniversary as an occasion to do so. Museums are shown to be developing into spaces of negotiation, participation and knowledge production. International perspectives from theory, research, practice and artistic practice work out future-oriented models of mediation.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/public-engagement-futures-of-art-mediation-10936/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0b6baf38020441ea059c3258457559f8f274dceb7e454489832a9cff8fdf1666-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Herbstlichter – Lampions bemalen mit Ercan Arslan", "start": "2026-11-10T14:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-10T17:00:00+01:00", "place": "resiART", "address": "", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/crafts"], "description": "“Herbstlichter – Lampions bemalen mit Ercan Arslan” is a workshop in which nylon paper lanterns are painted with pens. With lighting and a mount added, the result is a light object for the dark season, where participants can freely realize their own design ideas and set individual accents. The workshop is led by Ercan Arslan and is part of the Tuesday programme at resiART, a project of Aufwind Berlin gGmbH in cooperation with the Reinickendorf district office. No previous experience is needed and no registration is required; on request the course can be held in English.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/herbstlichter-lampions-bemalen-mit-ercan-arslan-72887/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3ad618d04aad1bc5dc61d466928ce467a78f82ffd35489a3318dfbb1e43290c5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "WINTERLIGHTS", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T22:00:00+01:00", "place": "DARK MATTER", "address": "Köpenicker Chaussee 46, 10317 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.darkmatter.berlin/tickets-ausstellung", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation/light-art"], "description": "WINTERLIGHTS 2026 is a sparkling winter landscape of light, movement, sound and ice in the monumental TRANSFORMATOR hall. Behind it is the Berlin light and media artist Christopher Bauder, who composes a poetic forest of over 600 floating trees and more than 250,000 lights across 1,000 square metres. At its centre lies a spacious ice rink with thousands of lights embedded in the ice, letting visitors glide literally through the light. The Dutch musician Chris Kuijten accompanies the installation with his soundscape.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/winterlights-33802/", "official_url": "https://www.darkmatter.berlin/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/edb906c510b87b8554e0a030952cf112c6e761f9f9920e7c662b2620cb2962af-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Spaces & Species: Light and Dark – Reducing Light Pollution as a Design Task", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Aedes Gallery", "address": "Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment/light-pollution", "society/urbanism"], "description": "\"Spaces & Species: Light and Dark\" is a Lab Talk on reducing light pollution as a design task. It is held in collaboration with the Berlin Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment and explores how lighting design can balance safety, atmosphere and urban quality with the protection of nature and nocturnal ecosystems. It focuses on the new Section 41a of the German Federal Nature Conservation Act and what it means for practice. With contributions from lighting designers, architects and planners, it discusses how contemporary lighting concepts can protect both people and nature.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/spaces-species-light-and-dark-reducing-light-pollution-as-a-8560/", "official_url": "https://aedesmetrolab.de/portfolio/light-and-dark/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fcb5b4a6368a26b3b8da2b80a5cfdf6703f0c6bcbe9be2c969dd30e71e7ad1ab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "In Conversation: Gespräche mit internationalen Künstler:innen", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "frei / free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "The event is a public artist talk at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. It is part of the monthly series \"In Conversation\", held since February 2024 in cooperation with Deutsche Bank, which has welcomed 28 artists as guests so far. On 24 October 2026, Sung Tieu will be in conversation with Kathleen Reinhardt, and the talk takes place in German. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/in-conversation-gesprache-mit-internationalen-kunstlerinnen-16368/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/hamburger-bahnhof/home/", "image": ""}]}