Thu, Aug. 20, 2026, 6 pm
Gedichte lesen (Reading poems, in German language) Über Wasser und Tote / Grammatik (On Water and the Dead / Grammar), Dan Thy Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of people fled Vietnam by sea in the late 1970s and 1980s. Ten of thousands of them arrived in the Federal Republic of Germany as so-called “boat people,” many[...]
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by Ricoh Gerbl Ricoh Gerbl will read excerpts from her literary blog ‘Bitch-Up’ and the audience will be able to participate interactively in the reading. This time, it is the listeners who decide which texts will be read aloud. Since December 2020, Gerbl has been publishing eleven microtexts on her blog every month – always
by Ricoh Gerbl In a metropolis, most encounters with people are all-too-fleeting. Neither do we have a clue where people come from, nor why they are in this particular place or what is currently on their minds. As part of her project “Who is standing next to you?”, Gerbl pauses and speaks to people in
with Maria Hartmann, actress In his installation “Jussuf Abbo – the homeless prince,” Said Baalbaki reconstructs the tragic biography of the Palestinian-Jewish sculptor who lived in Berlin from 1911 to 1935. In the reading, Maria Hartmann makes three stages in Jussuf Abbo’s life tangible. Poems and texts by Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Kerr, Moyshe Kulbak and
6 pm: Curators’ tour The curatorial team of “Eccentric 80s” offers a tour through their exhibition. 7 pm: Book presentation “Eccentric 80s” (b_books, 2022) and reading with texts by Tabea Blumenschein, Hilka Nordhausen and Rabe perplexum Berlin launch of the exhibition publication “Eccentric 80s” with the editors Burcu Dogramaci, Ergül Cengiz, Philipp Gufler, Mareike Schwarz
As part of the exhibition “incremental abstractions”, Peter Neumann reads from his new book “Jena 1800” and other texts. Jena 1800: With the ideas of the French Revolution, not only the political conditions in Europe are shaken. An entire generation of young poets and philosophers decides to rethink the world. The leading minds – among
Performative lecture
by Meike Rötzer, Matthes & Seitz Verlag
Claudia Kalász reads texts by Francesc Abad followed by an exhibition talk An event in the framework of the KGB Art Week “I’ve never been about producing, I work with ideas”, declared Francesc Abad (Terrassa, 1944) at the beginning of 2006 on the occasion of the opening of his retrospective block W. B. A thinking