The Next Day #46: Berlin Weekend Guide
Must-Go Events in Berlin: April 18th to 21st
Hi everyone,
We'll keep our intro short today. Our concert highlights are Altin Gün, Posh Isolation, and Baby Jesus. MONOM is a venue we love, and they're hosting a rare listening session this weekend.
We're excited about Festival International New Drama (FIND) starting this Thursday at Schaubühne. It's a fantastic chance to check out productions from all over. Don't miss the Portuguese plays 'Catarina e a beleza de matar fascistas' and 'Pêndulo'.
Turning to the visual arts scene, we plan to visit Sean Scully - Dark Yet and Marcel Frey - Petitessence, both opening this Friday. And we're aiming to catch Rare Prints before it closes this Saturday.
The Sound System Culture: As it Sounds Conference & Festival is a must-go. It runs for 4 days with free entry.
Stay in the loop with Berlin's latest news in English through 20 Percent Berlin. Get a sneak peek of our weekend guide every Tuesday.
Have a nice weekend,
Lalai & Mateus
Altin Gün
Wed-Thu, 17-18.04, 8 pm. Huxley’s Neue Welt, Hasenheide 107, 10967 Berlin. Ticket: 37,20 €
Turkish psychedelic rock, also known as Anatolian rock band from Amsterdam. One of the most fun concerts we went to in 2023. 🎧 Vallahi Yok / Kirik Cam #rock #psychedelia
BALTHVS
Thursday, 18.04, 8 pm. Columbia Theater, Columbiadamm 9-11, 10965 Berlin. Ticket: 27,29€.
BALTHVS is a Colombian trio that merges Middle Eastern Music, Disco, Funk, Psychedelia, Indie Rock, Surf, and Cumbia. 🎧 Third Vibration #indie #psychedelia
Baby Jesus
Friday, 19.04, 7 pm. Schokoladen, Ackerstrasse 169, Mitte. Ticket: 10,90/12€.
Hailing from Halmstad, Sweden, 🎧 Baby Jesus infuses 60s garage rock with modern influences à la Velvet Underground, keeping rock alive with a fiery, raw edge. #garagerock #noise
15 Years of Posh Isolation
Saturday, 20.04, 8 pm. silent green, Gerichtstrasse 35, Wedding. Ticket: 27€.
Posh Isolation is a project dedicated to showcasing the work of Scandinavian artists. In celebration of their 15th anniversary, they invited four contemporary artists who boldly explore sound and music: 🎧 Alto Aria, 🎧 Croatian Amor, 🎧 CTM, and 🎧 Vanity Productions. If you're a fan of the CTM Festival, you're bound to enjoy this night. #experimentalmusic
More concerts:
COMA mixes dance beats with indie vibes, creating a melodic fusion that transcends genres. Thu, 18.04, 8 - 11:30 pm. arkaoda, Karl-Marx Platz 16, Neukolln. Ticket: 14,70€. 🎧 Passage #electronicmusic
Gizmo Varillas offers a heartwarming 🎧 tune if you need one. Thu, 18.04, 8 pm. Badehaus Berlin. Ticket: 25,20€. #pop #indie
Discovery Zone crafts pop music, video collage, and algorithmic art, exploring the universe's data. She will be presenting her latest album, 🎧 Quantum Web. Fri, 19.04, 8 pm. silent green. Ticket: 19,80€.
Gezellig Sessions #29: Manoj invites Hanniou to perform in his cozy room in Mitte. You have a 20% discount using "THENEXTDAY". Sat, 20.04, 4 - 8 pm. Mitte. Ticket: 20€. #indie #pop
HENGE is an intergalactic band bringing cosmic beats to unite humanity and launch us into party mode in space! Sat, 20.04, 8 - 11 pm. Privatclub, Skalitzer Str 85-86, Ticket: 22€. 🎧 Alpha Test 4 #rock #electronicmusic
🎷 We recommend two concerts for jazz lovers: Knarr at KM28 (Fri, 19.04) and Robin Danaher Trio feat. Zuza Jasinska at Donau115 (Sat, 20.04).
10 Years of Astral Industries
Thursday, 18.04, 10 pm - 6 am. OHM, Köpenicker Str. 70, 10179 Berlin. Ticket: 13/15€.
London label Astral Industries brings its celestial sound to OHM for its tenth anniversary, with abstract techno from DJs Anthony Linell, Neel, 🎧 Imox, and Ario. #techno
Sahra ٩
Friday, 19.04, 11:59 pm - 5 am. Lido, Cuvrystrasse 7; Kreuzberg. Ticket: 22/24€.
SAHRA (Sah-raa), a night-out in Arabic, blends SWANA music styles like Arabic oldies, Shaabi, Electro-tarab, and Oriental techno, uniting the dancefloor with diverse beats. 🎧 DJ Dumtak #arabictunes #orientaltechno
Toy Tonics presents Italomania
Saturday, 20.04, 11 pm - 8 am. OXI, Wiesenweg 1-4, 10365 Berlin. Ticket: 18,10/22,60€.
Two floors filled with disco and Italo disco all night long. 🎧 Nadia Wise Moretz
The Bug presents: PRESSURE
Saturday, 20.04, 11 pm - 5:30 am. Gretchen, Obentrautstr.19-21, Kreuzberg. Ticket: 22,60€.
Party for bass culture enthusiasts featuring 🎧 The Bug from Ninja Tune label, inviting DJs and MCs for the night.
Portals
Friday, 19.04, 8 pm - 2 am. Kwia, Maybachufer 16, 12047 Berlin. Ticket: 10€.
Portals is a space for contemporary ambient, dark-pop, and experimental soundscapes filling this cozy queer bar. 🎧 Gabrielle Rose
ATTUNE by Soneiro Collective
Saturday, 20.04, 7:30 - 11:30 pm. MONOM/Funkhaus, Nalepastrasse 18, 12459. Ticket: 18€.
The premiere of Attune in 4DSOUND, a cinematic sonic journey by 🎧 Soneiro Collective and the MONOM team, spans three immersive chapters.
Festival International New Drama (FIND)
Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Ticket: 7€ to 49€.
From 18 to 28 April 2024, the FIND showcases contemporary theatre worldwide. This edition is dedicated to the British playwright and director Alexander Zeldin (London / Paris) as Artist in Focus. For the first time at the FIND, this year’s edition is presenting three productions in Portuguese: “Catarina e a beleza de matar fascistas” (Lisbon) by Tiago Rodrigues, “Pêndulo” (Lisbon) by Marco Martins and “Manifesto Transpofágico” (São Paulo) by Renata Carvalho.
Catarina e a beleza de matar fascistas
Friday, 19.04, 9:15 pm, and Sat, 20.04 – 8 pm. Written and directed by Tiago Rodrigues. In Portuguese with German and English surtitles. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Ticket: 7€ to 49€.
The play engages with Portugal’s anti-fascist legacy as a grotesque fable. A family who resisted the regime has developed a ritual: “the beauty of killing fascists” in which one specimen is caught every year and shot dead.
Pêndulo
Saturday 20.04 at 4 pm & 9 pm. Sunday 21.04 at 4 pm & 8 pm. Directed by Marco Martins. In Portuguese with German and English surtitles. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Ticket: 15€.
A group of carers and domestic workers whose lives are dominated by the daily commute between the edges of the capital Lisbon and its center, between their homes and the homes of their employers. The protagonists and co-writers of this production are seven women who work as cleaners and carers. They all came to Portugal from its former colonies in Africa and Latin America.
Einfach das Ende der Welt (It is only the end of the world) based on Jean-Luc Lagarce
Sunday 21.04 8 pm. Directed by Christopher Rüping. In German with English surtitles. Deutsches Theater Berlin, Schumannstraße 13a 10117 Berlin Ticket: 16€ - 28€.
After twelve years, a young man returns to his family. During this time, he didn't let anything be heard from him, while he successfully established himself as an artist in the big city and moved further and further away from his family in the small town in his heart and mind. And now? Is it still possible to meet them?
cie. toula limnaios: ‘volto umano — the human face’ (2018)
Days: 17–20, 24, and 26-04, 8:30. Eberswalder Str. 10, Prenzlauer Berg. Ticket: 20€.
"Volto Umano - The Human Face" features eight dancers depicting a society on the brink. Mechanization erodes empathy, leading to societal breakdown. Violence seeps into daily life, revealing human vulnerabilities amidst a changing world.
SEAN SCULLY - Dark Yet
Opening: Friday, 19 April, 6 – 8 pm. Until 01.06. Tue – Sat, 11 am – 6 pm. Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 15/16 10623 Berlin. Free admission.
Comprising new paintings, drawings, and aquatints, the exhibition presents works from important series including ‘Wall of Light’ which has its origins in watercolor from the 1980s, and ‘Landlines’, ongoing since the late 1990s. Also included are more recently initiated hybrids of these, such as the ‘Wall Landlines’ and ‘Nets and Cages’.
Marcel Frey – Petitessence
Opening: Friday, 19 April, 6 – 9 pm. Until 01.06. Thu-Sat, 12-6 pm Galerie Thomas Fischer, Mulackstraße 14, 10119 Berlin. Free admission.
Although he works with objects, industrial readymades, or construction materials, in his new exhibition at the gallery, Marcel Frey shows once again his profound affinity for the image, transforming the gallery space on Mulackstraße into an installation where the volumes, patterns, and surfaces ultimately become a kaleidoscope of two-dimensional, graphic images.
UTOPIA. Keep on Moving
Opening: Friday, 19.04, 6 – 9 pm. Talk in German with Aleš Šteger, A.L. Kennedy, Uwe Timm and Jeanine Meerapfel in dialogue with musical interventions by Floros Floridis at 7 pm. Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin. Ticket: 6€
In times of uncertainty, the Akademie der Künste is diving into the realm of utopia. President Jeanine Meerapfel has rallied the artistic sections to explore historical and contemporary utopias, envisioning brighter futures. Head over to Hanseatenweg, where Karla Kowalski's 'Rabenbären' in the Studio Lobby brings forth creatures of the past and those yet to come.
Rare Prints
Until Saturday 20.04. Wed – Sat, 11 am – 5 pm. Galerie Bastian, Taylorstraße 1, 14195 Berlin. Free admission.
Rare Prints brings together woodcuts, silkscreens, and lithographs as well as graphic works that combine different printing techniques. Starting with prints by pioneering American artists of the post-war era, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, and Cy Twombly, the exhibition also includes works of contemporary British artists Damien Hirst and Emma Stibbon. Last chance to see it!
Sound System Culture: As it Sounds Conference & Festival
Thu-Sun, 18-20.04, 5 - 10 pm; 21.04, 3 - 8 pm. Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2A, 10997 Berlin. Free entrance.
A four-day free event featuring workshops, talks, live performances, exhibitions, and DJ sets exploring the legacy of sound systems within contemporary club communities.
Conflict Food by Ayham Majid Agha
Friday, 19.04, 6:30 pm. Atelier Gardens, Oberlandstrasse 26-35, Neukolln. Ticket: 39,55€ - Entry includes food (appetizers, two main dishes, and desserts), tea, and one drink.
Conflict Food, an interactive performance by Ayham Majid Agha, turns tables into kitchens where guests become chefs. They cook meals using ingredients loved by pigeons, fostering creativity and understanding.
Beach Food Festival
Sat-Sun, 19-20.04, 12 - 10 pm. Strandbad Wendenschloss, Möllhausenufer 30, 12557 Berlin.
Food, drinks, live music, sunshine, and the beach. What more could we ask for?
Echoes of the Brother Countries: Film Screenings
Friday, 19.04, from 6 pm. HKW, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557. Free admission.
"Echoes of the Brother Countries" presents short films, talk with Adel Karasholi, and "Becoming Black" documentary.
Theatertreffen 2024 will showcase 10 remarkable productions in the German language that premiered in 2023. These productions were selected from among 690 candidates. Ticket sales open on Friday, 19.04, at 2 pm, and sell out very quickly, so try to book yours as soon as sales start. Save the date: 02.05 to 20.05.
Turbulence Berlin, an open-air festival at Tegel Airport. 18.05, 2 - 10 pm. Free admission.
🎹 The Smile presents the new album 🎧 Wall of Eyes. James Holden will be the opening act. ♡ 11.06, 8 pm. Uber Eats Music Hall. Ticket: 78,40/153,90€.
🌕 Air play Moon Safari: Sunday, 21.07, 7 pm, Zitadelle Spandau. Ticket: 54/82€. 🎧 Moon Safari
🎸 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard: 20.05, 8 pm. Columbiahalle. Tickets: 55€. 🎧 The Silver Cord
🎹 Kiasmos - the electronic music duo by Ólafur Arnalds: 31.05, 8 pm. Huxley’s Neue Welt. Tickets: 42,40€.🎧 This is Kiasmos
🎙️ Beth Gibbons: Lives Outgrown Tour: 02.06, 8 pm. Uber Eats Music Hall. Tickets: Standing 69,75€ / Seat 110/150€. 🎧 The Complete Collection
🎙️ Belle & Sebastian: The indie gems from Scotland are back on stage with two fresh albums in town! Fri, 07.06, 8 pm. Admiralspalast. Tickets: 41,13/55,50€. 🎧Late Developers
🎸 Garbage: Shirley Mason is back! Thu, 04.07, 8 pm. Verti Music Hall. 🎧 Betcha
🎤 Marisa Mont: The Greatest Hits Tour - One of the biggest names in Brazilian MPB. Sunday, 20.10, 8 pm. Tempodrom. Tickets: 49,83/91,85€. 🎧 Portas