{"title": "Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit", "start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+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": ["art/photography", "film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Schönheit & Vergänglichkeit« portrays photographer and bouncer Sven Marquardt and two friends from East Berlin's punk era, Dominique »Dome« Hollenstein and Robert Paris. Director Annekatrin Hendel tells of their shared youth in the East, of photography, night and excess, and of how the three stayed true to themselves through the city's transformation and growing older. The film is also a declaration of love to a constantly changing city and deals with the longing for individuality, friendship and love.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/schonheit-verganglichkeit-9402/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/035899931f27ded53f50d018d5497a6fc0c5834250ee835bf79cb3de51d9ddde-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-04T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "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, "tickets_url": "https://shop.fotografiska.com/de/products/berlin-alexanderplatz-1958-2022", "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": "Gestern Mitte Morgen", "start": "2026-11-10T20:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/schoenheit-und-vergaenglichkeit/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary"], "description": "The documentary »Gestern Mitte Morgen – Yesterday Mitte Tomorrow« is a portrait of the alternative culture scenes in Berlin's central district of Mitte after 1989. It was written, directed, shot and edited by Peter Zach, who will be present; it was produced by PZF Produktion in co-production with ZDF – Kleines Fernsehspiel, featuring Mark Ates, Guy Bettini, Christine Hill, Yuko Kaseki and Sasha Waltz, among others. In the early 1990s, in the so-called Spandauer Vorstadt near Friedrichstrasse, young international artists found an affordable, freely inhabitable space in the empty houses of the former border zone, a freedom that had already vanished in their expensive home countries. The film tells of these people, the places they lived, their longings, everyday life and their art – of those who lived almost without money and felt this part of Berlin to be their personal centre of the world.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/gestern-mitte-morgen-48539/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/gestern-mitte-morgen/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848dac6e6d247f1160c5fe5761bfb12f85089bdedbdf27100b26978c9d0bee19-2000.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/82239c6147b5d1474e3a6175e1cb2ed9ce7bdd7dfd29c6b405981d37477b795a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/veranstaltungen/liebermanns-welt/?source=bde", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "“Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land” is an exhibition of color photographs of the former Berlin Wall strip, taken between 2017 and 2024. The photographer Thomas Meyer, a member of the agency OSTKREUZ, spent eight years, across different seasons, tracing where the division of the city is still visible and perceptible today. His pictures, made in digital medium format, show places that once made history, the disappearance of the Wall, and the overlapping layers of history and present. In doing so, the exhibition also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-34536/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Sternbrücke Forever", "start": "2026-11-02T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ACUDkino", "address": "Veteranenstraße 21, 10119 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["society/urbanism/urban-development", "film/documentary"], "description": "Sternbrücke Forever is a documentary about Hamburg's Sternbrücke and the unique microcosm of clubs, kiosks, workshops and neighbourhood life beneath it, whose demolition has been decided. The film comes from director Christian Hornung, who quietly observes and follows the community there. It portrays everyday life, farewell and resistance among the local people and asks who the city belongs to. The screening shows the German version in Kino 2.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sternbrucke-forever-8501/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bec22adbb3bb3d9ec370f705cbd1ec05f5af2a246b5f0c0768115db01a987822-600.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": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/kombi-ticket-ddr-museum-berlin-ddr-museum-depot", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "This special exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial shows photographs under the title “Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024”. It is the work of Thomas Meyer, a photographer living in Berlin and a member of the OSTKREUZ agency, who from 2017 to 2024 looked for traces of the city's division and photographed along the former strip of the Wall in different seasons. His medium-format digital colour images show places that once made history as well as the Wall's disappearance, with layers of past and present overlapping. Through this he also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-bilder-vom-ehemaligen-mauerstreifen-15279/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/ausstellungen/thomas-meyer-mauer-land", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0b48f708930153ab5e76104f114e6a30ed90086dda2014d7c53119b0bf34048-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ungebremste Selbstbewegungen. Kunst mit Fotografie in der DDR", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt regulär 4 € / ermäßigt 3 €, Kombiticket 6 € / ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "4.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "The exhibition \"Ungebremste Selbstbewegungen. Kunst mit Fotografie in der DDR\" presents artistic positions that emerged in the 1980s through the collaboration of artists from different disciplines. It is devoted to a \"other photography of the GDR\", a \"photography from below\", which was often published in privately produced photo portfolios and semi-legal magazines. At its core are works that do not point journalistically or documentarily to a depicted reality, but rather reflect their own conditions and define themselves through the idea rather than outward form. The concept was developed by Christoph Tannert as external curator; represented artists include Claus Bach, Tina Bara, Klaus Elle, Thomas Florschuetz, Cornelia Schleime and Gabriele Stötzer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ungebremste-selbstbewegungen-kunst-mit-fotografie-in-der-ddr-29819/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Katharina Sieverding: Life-Death", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Thomas Schulte", "address": "Charlottenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "film/experimental"], "description": "Katharina Sieverding: Life-Death is an exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte in Berlin. The gallery presents work by the artist Katharina Sieverding, with her film Life–Death from 1969 at its centre. Shot on 16mm film, it is shown as a two-channel projection alongside large-scale film stills, photographic tableaus and previously unpublished Polaroids. The film unfolds as a sequence of portraits, body studies and metaphorical settings featuring Othello, Stephan Runge and Holger Bombusch, with a soundtrack recorded in 1972 by the musicians who soon became known as Kraftwerk.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/katharina-sieverding-life-death-15348/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ea8202cea56a199c8323328889cd3e6dba489d5784f8761b579bc9f66ccf5647-600.webp"}, {"title": "Lebensläufe", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Zeughauskino", "address": "Unter den Linden 2, 10117 Berlin", "price": "5 €", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/germany"], "description": "„Klassenphoto – Erinnerungen deutscher Bürger“ is a two-part documentary by Eberhard Fechner. It shows history „from below“ – as ordinary people experienced and helped shape the twentieth century – based on hours-long interviews without verbal commentary. The film screens in a retrospective marking the director's 100th birthday, with which the Zeughauskino and the Deutsche Kinemathek invite audiences to rediscover his work. An introduction accompanies the screening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/lebenslaufe-12765/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2467c96682fb4fa2dfa0fa067640c4328d9dbf56069aa38e67e18a1df425fdc1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Die Kette", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schöneberg Museum", "address": "Hauptstraße 40, 10827 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Die Kette. Schöneberger Gesichter und Geschichten – Eine Portraitreihe von John Kolya Reichart is a special exhibition at the Schöneberg Museum. Photographer John Kolya Reichart spent a year going out to meet people, listening to them and portraying them, with each photographed person suggesting the next one. The first part presents forty people connected by closeness, sympathy or curiosity, while in the second part they tell of everyday life, ruptures, hopes and new perspectives, creating a many-voiced picture of how diverse the neighbourhood is and how its stories are linked together. The sitters' voices can be heard via QR codes, and a companion publication is available at the museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-kette-15390/", "official_url": "https://museen-tempelhof-schoeneberg.de/die-kette-schoeneberger-gesichter-und-geschichten-eine-portraitreihe-von-john-kolya-reichart/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/00a1a025d789b2d6500a0d616cc612da6dbe1d088ecb33f6833330205f8d96c8-600.webp"}, {"title": "Die Magie der Straße – Meisterwerke der Street Photography", "start": "2026-09-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-29T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "F3 - Freiraum für Fotografie", "address": "Prinzessinnenstraße 30, 10969 Berlin", "price": "7 € | ermäßigt 5 €", "price_from": "7.00", "price_to": "7.00", "tickets_url": "https://fhochdrei.org/tickets/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/street-photography"], "description": "The show Die Magie der Straße presents masterpieces of street photography at f³ – freiraum für fotografie. Around one hundred photographs by 45 photographers from the Leica archive, made between 1934 and 2023, trace the history of the genre, with work by Jane Evelyn Atwood, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, William Klein and Steve McCurry, among others. Street photography records people's lives in urban public space and makes social change visible. The exhibition is curated by Karin Rehn-Kaufmann and Inas Fayed.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/die-magie-der-strae-meisterwerke-der-street-photography-11833/", "official_url": "https://fhochdrei.org/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac0e5027cff7d7c4e2083b22a8189f2485446f6821cf2767bbd775c4eeee57f3-2000.webp"}, {"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. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "ElternZEITgeschichte", "start": "2026-11-02T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum in der Kulturbrauerei", "address": "Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "„ElternZEITgeschichte“ is a guided tour for parents with babies and toddlers through a current photo exhibition at the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei. The Haus der Geschichte Foundation invites visitors to discover „Skater & Rollbrettfahrer vor und nach dem Mauerfall“, with pictures by „Stern“ photographer Harald Schmitt as well as skate-scene photographers Thomas Kalak and Helge Tscharn. The roughly 45-minute tours reveal the stories behind the photographs and objects documenting the everyday life and spirit of skateboarders in East and West. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elternzeitgeschichte-12383/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/museum-in-der-kulturbrauerei/veranstaltungen/elternzeitgeschichte-0211", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8cbda4ee39005239818beb20b7ab58613a6552ce78f9574496a3b82ab2eec62-600.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", "tickets_url": "", "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"}]}