The Next Day #17: Berlin Weekend Guide
From 14 until 17.09
Hello!
It's a bustling weekend with numerous art events during Berlin Art Week. We've handpicked some highlights, including pop-up events. The BAW Garten at Neue Nationalgalerie boasts a range of cool activities, and tonight, you can groove with Casey Spooner in the museum.
Jeff Mills steals the spotlight in performance music, but if indie pop is more your thing, be sure to attend Arlo Parks on Sunday night. Recently, we attended the first weekend of the Berlin Atonal Festival, and we must say, it's one of the top experimental music festivals in Berlin that you shouldn't miss.
This weekend, you can catch the play "Orlando" by Virginia Woolf, directed by Katie Mitchell, at Schaubühne.
Our guest for this edition is filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre, director of 'Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter,' winner of the Teddy Award.
See ya!
Lalai & Mateus
🎹 Music
Jeff Mills
Detroit techno legend Jeff Mills brings his 2018 EP "Tomorrow Comes The Harvest," a collaboration with Tony Allen, to German stages. The EP combines electronic beats and jazz, aiming for spiritual transcendence through hypnotic sounds. Mills performs with a lineup featuring French keyboardist Jean-Phi Dary, Indo-French tabla player Prabhu Eduard, bassist Divinity Roxx, and flutist Rasheeda Ali. Sunday, 17.09, 8 pm. Theater des Westens, Kantstraße 12, 10623 - Berlin. Tickets: 51,50/61,50 €.
Martin Dupont
Worn Pop Autumn 2023 begins with the French Minimal Wave legend Martin Dupont. The band, formed in 1980, created unique electronic music with guitars and clarinets, transcending genres and enjoying mainstream success. Jennifer Touch and Warm Graves will be performing on the same night. Thursday, 14.09, 7 - 11 pm. SO36, Oranienstraße 190, 10999 - Berlin, Germany. Ticket: 26,90 €.
SUNN O)))
CTM Festival welcomes SUNN O))) back to Berlin, featuring founders Stephen O’Malley & Greg Anderson in a live duo performance of immersive valve amplification, spectral harmonics, distortion, and massive sound pressure. Thursday, 14.09, door opens 6:30 pm, concert 7:30 pm. Berghain, Am Wriezener bhf, 10243, Berlin.
Berlin Atonal - Week 2
The experimental music festival Atonal is back after a hiatus of 4 years with a program spread across two weekends. The festival will showcase an ambitious lineup of music performances, DJ sets, and a four-day exhibition, all taking place at Kraftwerk Berlin. The Atonal aims to create a monumental stage for cutting-edge experimental projects, activating the entire complex. Until 17.09, Kraftwerk Berlin, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin. Tickets: From 57,29 €
Casey Spooner
At dusk, Casey Spooner stages a free solo performance on the steps of the Neue Nationalgalerie. He presents new music from the unreleased album, "With love from death beach," which emerged from a queer residency in Mexico, where he wrote and recorded an 11-song album. Thursday, 14.09, 6 – 8 pm. Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin. Free admission.
Museum of Consciousness
Experience the Berlin debut of the Museum of Consciousness, an intimate exhibition of sound experiments by local audio wizards aiming to alter your consciousness through five hours of sonic exploration. Sunday, 17.09, 3-9 pm. Moos, Moosdorfstraße 7-9, 12435 - Berlin. Ticket: 20/30 €.
🪩 Parties
Flitzer Skalitzer
For those looking for a more relaxed dance floor with rad house and disco grooves, dancing to Daniel Wang on the decks is always a delight. Thursday, 14.09, 10 pm - 6 am. Paloma, Skalitzer Str. 135, 10999 - Berlin.
Offen 029
For those looking for acid and electronica night: Acid Drones is Thomas Lea Clarke's new recording and live project, with a new album released on Offen Music (OFFEN D002). Friday, 15.09, 10 pm - 6 am. arkaoda, Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 - Berlin, Germany. Ticket: 10 €.
CTM, arkaoda, Morphine, and Latent Sonorities
It's a night of sonic exploration showcasing Raja Kirik, a duo exploring Java's history through Indonesian trance dances. Y-DRA fuses Indonesian dangdut koplo with techno and IDM for resistance-themed sounds. Don't miss Mo'ong Santoso Pribadi at Latent Sonorities, featuring Javanese gamelan samples. It can be noisy! Saturday, 16.09 - 10 pm - 6 am. arkaoda, Karl-Marx Platz 16 12043 - Berlin, Germany. Ticket: 10 €.
16 Years Renate
Renate celebrates 16 years of enriching Berlin's club and art scene through its eclectic programming. Go blow out the candles alongside Alexkid, Esther Dune, Leon Licht, and many more. Friday, 15.09, 11 pm - 8 am. Renate, Alt Stralau 70; Friedrichshain; 10245 - Berlin. Ticket: 10/35 €.
Horse Meat Disco
Queer disco party for everyone. Lineup: DJs Gaff E, Jim Stanton & Luke Howard, DJ Paulette, and Gideön. Saturday, 16.09, 11 pm - 12 pm. Prince Charles,
Cosmic Kicks
A night of classic glam, 60s, psyche, punk, postpunk, wave & synthpop with DJ Plastic Penny. Saturday, 16.09, 10 pm. Wowsville, Ohlauer Str. 33, 10999 - Berlin.
🪟 Exhibition
Chiharu Shiota: The Wall Behind the Windows
For “The Wall Behind the Windows,” Chiharu Shiota has turned the former Chapel at St. Agnes into one of her intricately threaded sculptures on a scale that fills every inch of the exhibition space. Rather than entering the space perambulatorily, Shiota has devised a way for the interaction itself with her work to reflect the nature of the objects that feature most prominently within it: windows. Until 11.09.23. König Galerie, Alexandrinenstr. 118–121 - 10969 Berlin. Free entrance.
Nadia Kaabi-Linke - Seeing Without Light
In this exhibition, Berlin-based artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke explores hidden traces of violence that quietly influence our understanding of history and the present. It addresses historical erasure, censorship, and violence in Central Europe's art and political history, with a focus on the "Blindstrom-Extrakte" project (2023), referencing paintings censored and confiscated by Soviet intelligence in the 1930s.Until 07.04.24. Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstraße 50 - 51, 10557 - Berlin. Ticket: 4/8 €.
High Spirits
During Berlin Art Week 2023, an art exhibition in a former factory explores the interplay between art and industry. The exhibition questions the role of art in modern industrial societies, where it is both entwined with socio-economic factors and serves as a bridge to higher realms, embodying an ontological ambiguity that resonates within the works of contemporary artists. Until 18.09, noon - 8 pm. Monopol, Provinzstraße 40-44, 13409 - Berlin. Free entry.
MaHalla OPEN: The Unleashing of the Unlimited
MaHalla OPEN features eight curators/teams and over 100 international artists embracing vulnerability, inviting dialogue between the tangible and intangible. It defies conventions with a program that extends into the night, a crucible of boundless experimentation. Until 17.09, 11:59 pm - nonstop. MaHalla, Wilhelminenhofstrasse 76/77 - Berlin, 12459. Ticket: 11 €.
Illusions with Naturata Brutalism Concert
”Illusions” is an immersive installation of hanging sculptures, instruments, and stage lighting by Emilio Cordero Checa and July Weber. Powered by wind machines, it creates a self-fed system and a continuous floating sculptural concert. For the exhibition opening, the electronic-infused death rock band Naturata Brutalismus will play a concert embedded in the installation. Friday, 15.09, 8-10 pm. No Fears - Galerie für Performance und Transdisziplinarität. Schererstraße 5, 13347 - Berlin. Free entry.
It Go to Have to Adjust. On Language as Parasite
”It Go to Have to Adjust. On Language as Parasite” is a series of exercises, research, exhibitions, and public programs reflecting on the parasitic character of language and on the subversive power of laughter. 14.09 - 03.12. Savvy Contemporary. Reinickendorfer Straße 17, 13347 - Berlin. Free entry.
Polymorph by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos describes the exhibition where the space becomes a site for mixed-reality, materiality, and temporality experiences and a framework for workshops, critical thinking, and performance. Opening 14.09 - 3 - 9 pm. Gallerie Wedding, Müllerstraße 146/147, 13353 - Berlin. Free entry.
*If you are looking for the Berlin Art Week’s highlights, you can check out our special guide here.
🏛️ Performing Arts
Weltall Erde Mensch
The poetic aspects of space, including metaphysical yearning, encounters with extraterrestrial life, mysterious celestial bodies, and uncharted physical phenomena, have been overlooked recently. The crew of this stage expedition seeks to elevate science fiction from its perceived triviality and highlight its philosophical and emancipatory potential through an associative collage. Directed by Alexander Eisenach. World Premiere: Saturday 16.09, 7 pm. Several dates – part of the repertoire of 2023-24 season. Deutsches Theater, Schumannstraße 13 A, 10117 Berlin. Tickets: 5€-48€
Orlando
Virginia Woolf describes in “Orlando” a life that undermines every rigid category with ease and artistic freedom, imbuing them with new meaning or presenting them as fluid. She playfully interweaves life and art, reality and fiction. A queer journey through various centuries of the patriarchal history of humankind. Directed by Katie Mitchel. From Thursday 14.09 to Sunday 17.09. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Tickets: 7€ to 49€.
Is Anybody Home?
Gob Squad performs a live interactive film in which empathy and the idea of sharing the experience of others is taken to the extreme. Each night a new guest is invited to watch a film, set in their own private apartment. Directed by Gob Squad. Saturday, 16.09, 8 pm. PRATER STUDIOS in Volksbühne, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178, Berlin. Tickets: 20€
Others
State of Nourishment: Kitchen + Talks + Music
Talks about food and community, workshop, and music with Latin American grooves. Thursday, 14.09, 4 - 10 pm. Haus der Statistik. Otto-Braun-Straße 70-72, 10178 - Berlin.
✨ Mateus invites Gustavo Vinagre
Gustavo Vinagre is a filmmaker and documentarian who has written and directed over 14 short films and six feature-length films. In 2022, he won the Teddy Award with his first fiction feature film “Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter” (Três Tigres Tristes). He was selected as a Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2023 and has been living in Berlin since May. His favorite spots in town are:
Plötzensee “Taking advantage of the last minutes of the second half of summer, I've been going quite often to Plötzensee in the FKK area simply because it's very close to my home and doesn't require an entrance fee. In Plötzensee, there's also a beach that charges 7 euros for entry, but it's full of noisy young people, so I've never even attempted it. The FKK area is perfect for reading a book lying on the grass, staying in silence, and swimming in the lake, which you access through a small rocky entrance.”
daadgalerie “I recommend visiting the daadgallery at Moritzplatz, where there are often exhibitions and events related to the work of resident artists (visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and sound artists). Of course, as a DAAD resident, I recommend attending the screening of my first feature film, "I Remember the Crows," on 21.09 at 7 p.m., followed by a discussion with the programmer and critic James Lattimer.” Oranienstrasse 161, 10969 Berlin
Gustavo Vinagre - I Remember the Crows Film screening followed by a conversation between Brazilian filmmaker Gustavo Vinagre and curator, critic, and filmmaker James Lattimer. daadgalerie, Oranienstrasse 161, 10969 Berlin.
🗓️ Save the Date
Gilberto Gil: One of the leading names in Brazilian music and an originator of the movement known as Tropicália is doing his farewell stage performance. 01.10, Tempodrom.
Jungle: The award-winning duo Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland recently released the excellent album "Volcano" and announced their upcoming tour. They will be performing in Berlin on November 6th at the Verti Music Hall.
