{"title": "Warum Kunst?", "start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Foyer des Konzertsaals der UdK Berlin", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/philosophy"], "description": "\"Why Art?\" is a public talk series by the Berlin University of the Arts during the winter semester 2026/27. On six Tuesday evenings, two guests each from art, politics, society, science or cultural practice give short impulses followed by a discussion, moderated by members of the university community. The series asks how the necessity of art and artistic training can be justified today – amid political polarisation, artificial intelligence and digitalisation. It sees itself as an open forum for reflection and exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/warum-kunst-130677/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/warum-kunst/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c0040dcd99307561949035d0d71c046c176ac67cad31d7be417d9d37df8645c-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-10T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Foyer des Konzertsaals der UdK Berlin", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "tickets": ""}, {"start": "2026-12-01T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Foyer des Konzertsaals der UdK Berlin", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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", "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": "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", "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": "Talks on Curatorial Practice 2026/2027", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-05-31T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "ZK/U", "address": "Siemensstraße 27, 10551 Berlin", "price": "Free admission", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation"], "description": "Talks on Curatorial Practice is a public talks series at ZK/U Berlin running from October 2026 to May 2027. It is held as part of OnCurating Academy Berlin and is open to everyone, with free admission and no registration required for on-site participation. The talks centre on curatorial practice, including collective forms of curating, feminist and queer perspectives, decolonising art institutions, and digital media. The series is the freely accessible section of the academy, which also runs access-restricted postgraduate programmes in curatorial practice and theory.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/talks-on-curatorial-practice-20262027-105839/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebb7cfc7d2b69d4bb39387f126546b5aaa096e2f92e40b5b7884dbc362b0dbfe-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", "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": ""}, {"title": "Trending Now: The End of the World", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung", "address": "Straße der Pariser Kommune 8A, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/peace", "art"], "description": "A discussion event on the role of art in the fight against the nuclear threat. As part of the exhibition „Artists Against the Bomb – Kunst gegen die nukleare Bedrohung“, curators, activists from ICAN Germany and participating artists talk about memory, public visibility and the political power of cultural practice. The event takes place in English with German simultaneous interpretation and requires registration; afterwards there is a reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/trending-now-the-end-of-the-world-97067/", "official_url": "https://www.rosalux.de/veranstaltung/es_detail/MJ24V/trending-now-the-end-of-the-world?cHash=814524ce08c158c9f3d483cf59c13642", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bd2ea3ad55e9ecb13f02632c52b7b3763b1eb52a21ca5c590caa3b10a5487b3d-1200.webp"}, {"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", "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": "Mut als Kunst in der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-17T20:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kesselhaus am Alexianer St. Hedwig Krankenhaus", "address": "Grosse Hamburger Str. 5-11, 10115 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["religion/spirituality", "art"], "description": "\"Mut als Kunst in der Kunst\" is a lecture with contemplations of pictures, taking courage in challenging times as its subject. It is the final date of the lecture series \"Die Defensive überwinden\" by the Campus für Theologie und Spiritualität. Behind the lecture stands Pfr. Hannes Langbein from Berlin, and it is moderated by Prof. Dr. Michael Höffner. The series is funded by the Bonifatiuswerk, admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/mut-als-kunst-in-der-kunst-28348/", "official_url": "https://sanktcanisius.berlin/event/mut-als-kunst-in-der-kunst/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5b6730449c147451657279251cf79f25645a6684aedf2d9952494a851ee76a12-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "UNI.T", "address": "Fasanenstraße 1b, 10623 Berlin", "price": "frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "music/history"], "description": "The lecture series „Verdrängte Musik-Geschichte/n. Konzepte und kulturelle Praktiken“ is a digital, cross-university series of talks in the winter semester 26/27. It is run by the Musica inaudita team at the Berlin University of the Arts and is intended as a space for networking and exchange between teachers, researchers and students from different locations. A sequence of themed evenings is planned, opening up different perspectives on writing music history, including questions of repertoire formation, visibility in exile, gender staging, media and knowledge transfer, biographical research, queerness, decolonialisation and postcolonial approaches. The series takes place weekly on Wednesdays from 18:00 to 19:30; admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verdrangte-musik-geschichten-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktik-31774/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/verdraengte-musik-geschichte-n-konzepte-und-kulturelle-praktiken/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c17ecb4fb37de9ce9f181889be993ee9d58b0567483e8468be186a38bc566288-600.webp"}, {"title": "Meet your Researcher: Was forscht man zu „Intervenierenden Künsten\"?", "start": "2026-11-09T17:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "address": "Brunnenstr. 181, 10119 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei, kostenfreie Tickets über Pretix", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art", "science"], "description": "„Meet your Researcher“ invites conversations with researchers from the Collaborative Research Centre „Intervenierende Künste“, who answer questions after an introductory pitch. The centre is based at Freie Universität Berlin and cooperates with, among others, the Berlin University of the Arts, the European University Viadrina and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It researches forms and practices of intervening arts, asking for example whether memes are art, how improvisation helps in everyday life, or why a voice can move us. Participating scholars come from disciplines such as art history, literature, media and music studies, philosophy and history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/meet-your-researcher-was-forscht-man-zu-intervenierenden-kun-2580/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Jahrgang 2026 des Universitätslehrgangs “Kuratieren in den szenischen Künsten” Prepping for the Unexpected – Kunst, Theorie und Sauerkraut", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Vierte Welt", "address": "Adalbertstraße 4, 10999 Berlin", "price": "Freier Eintritt", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/emergency-preparedness", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "\"Prepping for the Unexpected – Kunst, Theorie und Sauerkraut\" is a day of artistic contributions, performances and a concert on preparing for the unforeseen. It is an event of the 2026 class of the university course \"Kuratieren in den szenischen Künsten\" at the University of Salzburg, in cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin and Ruhr Universität Bochum, at Vierte Welt in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In a world of multiple crises, the event proposes an alternative to individual self-protection: preparation rooted in shared knowledge, resources and the capacity to act collectively. Participants include Dr.-Ing. Margit Schild, Nolundi Tschudi, Dr. Eva Backhaus, the trio Particle Triality and Luiza Prado.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/jahrgang-2026-des-universitatslehrgangs-kuratieren-in-den-sz-24443/", "official_url": "https://viertewelt.de/programm/prepping-for-the-unexpected-kunst-theorie-und-sauerkraut/?occurrence=2026-11-08", "image": "https://noky.io/images/294218b0810d3c2722a66c6c741c378a8ab87ae3bc6450ec80aa3a5cb96b71c5-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kunstgespräche", "start": "2026-11-06T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Im Ausstellungsticket inbegriffen", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "Kunstgespräche are conversations with Vivien Anderson and Daniela Fernández Rodríguez. They take place at Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of »Nicht alle Reisenden folgen Wegen – Humanität als Praxis«, the Berlin Edition of the 36. Bienal de São Paulo. Visitors gather at the counter in the Sylvia Wynter Foyer, and the exhibition ticket covers admission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kunstgesprache-8324/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ad80335ad51a639abf277b9fd09a1bcb6477c3d736f52b672fdb20dbeb306d59-2000.webp"}, {"title": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration", "start": "2026-11-07T14:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art"], "description": "TOUCHING BOUNDARIES. What Drives Art and Science Collaboration is a talk and panel hosted at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt as part of the Berlin Science Week Festival Centre. It is organised by Art Laboratory Berlin. The panel brings together Špela Petrič, Marcus Maeder, Miha Turšič, Matthias Rillig, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz. The discussion centres on how scientific research and artistic intelligence meet, on the frictions and new forms of insight this creates, and on the human role in such collaborations and their effect on stakeholders from policymakers to the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/touching-boundaries-what-drives-art-and-science-collaboratio-8358/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/en/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/touching-boundaries", "image": ""}]}