{"title": "Wer bezahlt Kunst? - Über Institutionen, Macht und Öffentlichkeit", "start": "2026-10-27T18:00:00+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": ["society/politics/culture-policy", "art"], "description": "The public talk series 'Warum Kunst?' at the Berlin University of the Arts invites guests to an evening with contributions from Dr. Carsten Brosda and Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers. Moderated by Prof. Dr. Markus Hilgert and Prof. Marion Hirte, it examines funding structures, political responsibility, institutional power and economic models of art production. At its centre is the question of how democratically, sustainably or exclusively the production of art is organised, and which cultural systems the future needs. The format is an open forum for reflection and exchange between artists, scholars, students and the public.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wer-bezahlt-kunst-uber-institutionen-macht-und-offentlichkei-28982/", "official_url": "https://www.udk-berlin.de/veranstaltung/wer-bezahlt-kunst-institutionen-macht-und-oeffentlichkeit/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7994ad4b8b62fad6b458daf63429c1615f60917de0791e746ea0088a37c40b23-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-27T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Universität der Künste Berlin – Fakultät Gestaltung", "address": "Grunewaldstraße 5-2, 10823 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", "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": "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": "Key Visual der Konferenz \"Curating - Caring for Knowledge and Society\" © Design: Dina Fluck", "start": "2026-11-05T09:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation", "society/democracy"], "description": "The conference \"Curating - Caring for Knowledge and Society\" asks how universities and museums, as democratic institutions, can \"care for\" society. In four thematic panels – \"Natur erleben\", \"Gemeinsam leben\", \"Gesünder werden\" and \"Zukunft gestalten\" – curators from Berlin cultural institutions and researchers from the Berlin Excellence Alliance present and discuss curatorial practices through specific case studies. The programme is complemented by a keynote from Elke Krasny and a conversation with Marion Ackermann and Joachim Baur titled \"Sorge, Wut, Mut\". The conference is jointly organised by the Berlin University Alliance, the Humboldt Labor and the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/key-visual-der-konferenz-curating-caring-for-knowledge-and-s-2549/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d36e687bce1005c3b34865848ab1f1a6e99fc8721bcf49b42c34ed96ca175eab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T13:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Free entry; booking of the free 3-Day Festival Centre Pass required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/interdisciplinary", "science"], "description": "The “Art & Science Opening Panel: Tracing Art & Science from the 1990s to Today” is an English-language discussion on three decades of collaboration between art and science, a field that began developing in the 1990s and has moved from shaping speculative futures to contributing critical reflection. It is hosted by Berlin Science Week as the opening of the Art & Science Practitioner’s Route at the Festival Centre. The panel brings together Giulia Bini (Head of Arts at CERN), Christina Landbrecht (head of the art programme at Schering Stiftung), Sara Morais Dos Santos Bruss (curator for Scientific, Digital and Media Practices at Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and Christian Rauch (Festival Director of Berlin Science Week), moderated by Clara Roca-Sastre, Programme Co-Lead and Curator of Berlin Science Week. Entry is free; to attend, please book the free 3-Day Festival Centre Pass, with free seating – come early for a good spot.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/art-science-opening-panel-tracing-art-science-from-the-1990s-28618/", "official_url": "https://berlinscienceweek.com/programme/art-science-opening-panel-tracing-art-science-1990s-today", "image": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/berlinscienceweek/2026-festival/5039350/", "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": ""}, {"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", "tickets_url": "", "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": "Internationale Strahlkraft aus Berlin: Der Hauptstadtkulturfonds", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Literaturhaus Berlin", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/culture-policy"], "description": "A discussion with artistic impulses about the Hauptstadtkulturfonds, a Berlin cultural funding scheme conceived in 1995 by the Rat für die Künste Berlin and set up in 1999. Speakers include Nele Hertling, Silvia Fehrmann, Hermann Parzinger and Sonja Longolius, with artistic contributions from Bjørn Melhus, Rimini Protokoll and Vera Strobel of Theater o.N., moderated by Christophe Knoch and Anne Schneider. The fund looks back on nearly thirty years of success and was recently renegotiated as part of the Hauptstadtfinanzierungsvertrag, though the urgently needed increase did not materialise. Together with the guests, the fund's uniqueness in cultural funding will be discussed and its significance illustrated through artistic positions; the event is held in cooperation with the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/internationale-strahlkraft-aus-berlin-der-hauptstadtkulturfo-210/", "official_url": "https://li-be.de/programm/veranstaltungen/internationale-strahlkraft-aus-berlin-der-hauptstadtkulturfonds/", "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": "Kunstvermittlung und Antragstraining", "start": "2026-11-13T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Brücke-Museum", "address": "Bussardsteig 9, 14195 Berlin", "price": "kostenlos", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/education"], "description": "A two-day training for migrant freelance artists and cultural workers, held in the museum's Waldraum. It is run by the artist collective Peira, with Chris Herzog and Alma Wellner Bou, together with Ximena G. Toro, assistant curator for outreach at the museum. Participants learn how to develop a concept for an art mediation project and apply for funding, covering proposal writing, budgeting and legal forms. Working in tandems, they draft a mediation concept based on the museum's approach; one concept chosen by the group will later be realised with a budget.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kunstvermittlung-und-antragstraining-21974/", "official_url": "https://www.bruecke-museum.de/de/programm/veranstaltungen/4895-kunstvermittlung-und-antragstraining", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7f9a5c2aa8d2d2897550a3730be080d084c6d8f5404456242e11ffef4f7106bc-2000.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": "Kuratieren – Sorgen für Wissen und Gesellschaft", "start": "2026-11-05T09:15:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Humboldt Forum", "address": "Schloßplatz, 10178 Berlin", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.humboldtforum.org/#/product/event/631?date=2026-11-05&date_id=30482&lang=de", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/curation"], "description": "“Kuratieren – Sorgen für Wissen und Gesellschaft” is a conference about the role of universities and museums as places of knowledge exchange. It is jointly organised by the Berlin University Alliance, the Humboldt Labor and the Zentrum für Kulturtechnik. Curators from Berlin cultural institutions and researchers from the Berlin excellence alliance present practices of curating in four panels – “Natur erleben”, “Gesünder werden”, “Gemeinsam leben” and “Zukunft gestalten” – using specific case studies. These are complemented by a keynote by Elke Krasny and a closing conversation with Marion Ackermann and Joachim Baur titled “Sorge, Wut, Mut”.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kuratieren-sorgen-fur-wissen-und-gesellschaft-16793/", "official_url": "https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/konferenz-symposium/kuratieren-171633/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0a53642687fe2d44a61b71b0506c20cc2e3b43a51768cd7f868428fa8626101e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Büro der öffentlichen Sache: Teilhabe", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kunstsammlung der Akademie der Künste", "address": "Luisenstraße 60, 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=20889", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/civic-engagement"], "description": "An evening talk titled „Büro der öffentlichen Sache: Teilhabe“ at the Akademie der Künste. Gregor Gysi, senior president of the 21st German Bundestag, speaks with Manos Tsangaris, president of the Akademie and composer, about how more people can gain influence on political decisions. They also ask what art and politics can learn from each other and where understanding reaches its limits. Anh-Linh Ngo gives the welcome and closing remarks, with moderation by Bettina C. Huber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/buro-der-offentlichen-sache-teilhabe-79988/", "official_url": "https://adk.de/programm/veranstaltungskalender/2026/11/buero-der-oeffentlichen-sache-november/596633", "image": ""}, {"title": "Europe Needs a Plan: Science & Arts in the AI Age", "start": "2026-11-07T16:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T17:30:00+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", "tickets_url": "https://pretix.eu/berlinscienceweek/2026-festival/5039350/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/europe", "science/ai"], "description": "\"Europe Needs a Plan: Science & Arts in the AI Age\" is an English-language talk and panel with free entry in the Miriam Makeba Auditorium at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Festival Centre of Berlin Science Week. Taking part are Francesca Bria, José Luis de Vicente, Tommaso Calarco, Bettina Kames and Ólafur Elíasson. It asks whether Europe can build its future on rented intelligence, addressing sovereignty, AI infrastructure, and the role of the arts, as Europe imports most of the digital technology its research and democracy run on. It discusses whether Europe's emerging AI Factories and quantum hubs could carry the Bauhaus idea forward as an Archipelago of Ateliers, spaces where artists and scientists shape technology together in the public interest.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/europe-needs-a-plan-science-arts-in-the-ai-age-8361/", "official_url": "https://www.hkw.de/programme/berlin-science-week-2026/europe-needs-a-plan-science-arts-in-the-ai-age", "image": ""}, {"title": "Kunstgespräche", "start": "2026-10-31T15:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T18:00:00+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, "tickets_url": "", "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": "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": "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": ""}]}