The Next Day #47: Berlin Weekend Guide
Must-Go Events in Berlin: April 25th to 28th
This weekend's highlight is Gallery Weekend, with over 50 art galleries showcasing Berlin's vibrant scene. Special events include "Alexandra Pirici: Attune" opening at Hamburger Bahnhof, "Oscillations: Cape Town – Berlin" at ADK, and "exorcism // exorcisme" at Hošek Contemporary.
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For music lovers, catch Moreno Veloso & Bem Gil at Gretchen or Mount Kimbie at Huxleys Neue Welt. Party options are plentiful. We're planning to visit Lago do Mato at Plotzensee and celebrate "://about blank" birthday party, which starts with a kid party on Friday.
We're also looking forward to seeing the international plays "Signal to Noise" and "L’Addition," celebrating Forced Entertainment's 40th birthday at HAU. Additionally, "O Manifesto Transpofágico" concludes the 2024 FIND Festival at Schaubühne.
To relax, we’re heading to a listening session at Reethaus and escaping Berlin to Art Biesenthal's beautiful opening season on Sunday.
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See you around!
Lalai & Mateus
İÇ İÇE presents: AySay
Thursday, 25.04, 7 pm. Kantine am Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof 10243. Ticket: 17€.
🎧 AySay, led by Luna Ersahin, weaves a tale of human experience in a diverse world. Turkish, Danish, and Kurdish melodies blend in a unique fusion of Anatolian traditions and electronic beats.
Moreno Veloso & Bem Gil
Sunday, 28.04, 9 pm.Gretchen, Obentrautstrasse 19-21, 10963 Berlin. Ticket: 25€.
The sons of two of Brazil's greatest musicians ever, 🎧 Moreno Veloso and 🎧 Bem Gil promise to deliver an intimate performance promising pure beauty. #MPB
Mount Kimbie
Sunday, 28.04, 8 pm. Huxleys Neue Welt, Hasenheide 107, Kreuzberg. Ticket: 33€.
Mount Kimbie, an English electronic music duo consisting of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, gained fame with early EPs like "Maybes" and "Sketch on Glass," pushing the boundaries of the UK dubstep scene. Known for their groundbreaking sound, they've just dropped their latest album 🎧 "The Sunset Violent," showcasing their refined shoegaze post-rock style.
BAM & Public Possession present “Manual for Magic”
Thursday, 25.04, 6 - 9 pm. BAM, Ritterstrasse 8, Kreuzberg. Free Admission. // 10 pm - 4 am. Studio 11/11, Potsdamer Str. 96. Ticket: 16,95
The Munich-based record label Public Possession is back in Berlin for two parties with BAM during Gallery Weekend. One party is for those who like to start early, while the other is for night owls who love to dance until dawn.
No Stone
Thursday, 25.04, 9 pm - 3 am. Panke, Gerichtstraße 23, Wedding. Ticket: 10/15€.
No__Stone is a new event focused on connecting cross-genre adventurous music, oscillating between introspective sounds & razor-sharp energy, leaving no stone unturned in the search for the (im)perfect balance between them. 🎧 bela
Keep Hush Live Berlin: DRY Takeover
Thursday, 25.04, 7 pm - 12 am. TBA Location sent 24 hr before. Ticket: 14,50€.
UK-based live streaming platform Keep Hush returns to Berlin, this time with DRY, a local multidisciplinary collective pushing progressive club music, art, and community. 🎧 Bloomfeld
my heart is a ://kinderdisco & ://about blank birthday
Friday, 26.04, 2 - 7:30 pm - Bday party until 6 am on Monday. ://about blank, Markgrafendamm 24c. Parents: 5€. Kids: free admission. If you want to extend the party: 35€.
Celebrate Blank's birthday with a fun children's disco party featuring crafts, surprises, and music by Manuel Bürger & 🎧 Robert Owens!
The Loft presents: Gallery Weekend Party
Friday, 26.04, 10 pm - 5 am. Atelier, Prinzenstr. 84.2, Kreuzberg.
After a day of gallery hopping, ending it with a house music party on a nice rooftop hits the spot! 🎧 Mike D
Synaptica w./ Vitalic
Saturday, 27.04, 11 pm - 10 am. OST, Alt-Stralau, 1-2 Friedrichshain. Ticket: 22,60/28,25€.
Techno party with 🎧 Vitalic live and guests.
Fandango
Sunday, 28.04, 6 - 12 am. Plötzensee, 13351 Berlin. Ticket: Before 7 am: Free entry; After 7 am: Sliding scale - €16-€22, pay what you can.
Fandango is a house music party where fun is always guaranteed. We can’t wait to dance with our toes in the sand, but it looks like this edition is the Lighthouse Season Finale. 🎧 E.Lina 🎧 Fantastic Man
More parties:
🐲 Dengue Dengue Dengue! at Kebrada x Basy Tropikalne: Fri, 26.04, 10 pm - 6 am. Panke, Gerichtstrasse 2, Wedding. Ticket: 22,60/25,40€. #bass #dembow
☼ Lago do Mato opening the Sunshine Bar at Strandbad Plötzensee season. It’s perfect for those who love a day party. Sat, 27.04, 12 - 10 pm. Plötzensee. Ticket: 6,50/9,70€. 🎧 Adi
♻️ re:Sustain - Sound, Music, and Sustainability: An evening of live electronic performances by drusnoise, 🎧 Felipe Vareschi, etc. Sat, 27.04, 7 - 10 pm. Galiläakirche, Rigaer Str. 9-10, Friedrichshain. Ticket: 12€.
Open Haus: Human Nature Machine
Sunday, 28.04, 12 - 8 pm. Reethaus, Köpenicker Chaussee 3a, 10317 Berlin. Free admission with ticket reservation.
Composed by the sound artist William Russell, founder of the pioneering spatial sound collective Monom, “Human Nature Machine” is an embodied listening experience exploring our relationship with the organic and inorganic world.
Signal to Noise by Forced Entertainment
Wed–Fri, 24- 26.04, 8:30 pm. In English. Directed by Tim Etchells, HAU2 Hallesches Ufer 34 10963 Berlin Ticket: 22€.
The six performers lip-sync all the voices, sometimes carefully, sometimes with unhelpful abandon, bringing life to these disembodied, never-bodied speakers. In the process, they summon a strange and compelling world where the question of what’s human and what’s not, what’s real life and what’s just pretending is never far away.
L'Addition, Tim Etchells with Bert & Nasi
Thu – Fri, 25-26.04 7 pm. In English. Directed by Tim Etchells, HAU3 Tempelhofer Ufer 10 10963 Berlin Ticket: 17€.
In a world that is neither day nor night, the stage becomes a hallucinatory expanse across which lone figures drift, dance, run, spring, and crawl. Isolated, but always joined in the connection of possible and impossible stories. There are dances and confrontations, chance encounters and drunken meanderings, moments of confusion, shared joy, stillness, and delirium.
O Manifesto Transpofágico by Renata Carvalho
Sat, 27.04, 10 pm; Sun, 28.04, 2 pm & 9 pm. Directed by Luiz Fernando Marques (Lubi). In Portuguese with German and English surtitles and German live translation for the audience interaction. Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Kurfürstendamm 153, 10709 Berlin. Ticket: 15€.
Renata Carvalho’s performance »Manifesto Transpofágico« begins with the audience’s gaze on the body of a 'travesti', a term that in Brazil refers to people who were assigned to the male sex at birth but who have developed a female gender identity for themselves. By using this name, Carvalho is referring to a collective history that she makes the subject of her performance.
Alexandra Pirici: Attune
Opening: Thursday, 25.04, 7 - 10 pm. Hamburger Bahnhof. Free admission.
Alexandra Pirici presents a major new site-specific installation with live action and music in the Historic Hall.
Trisha Bara: Contact
Opening: Thursday, 25.04, 6 - 9 pm. Until 06.07. Société, Wielandstrasse 26, 10707.
Trisha Baga's show 'Contact' at Société mixes personal symbols with space pics, blurring daily life with the cosmos in a cool blend of painting and installation.
Elizaveta Porodina: ‘Un/Masked’
Opening: Thursday, 25.04, 6 –11 pm. Fotografiska, Oranienburger Str. 54, Mitte.
Free admission with registration.
In Un/Masked, Porodina invites us to reflect on human nature. As a trained clinical psychologist, she is intrigued by emotion-driven behavior.
Oscillations: Cape Town – Berlin
Opening: Friday, 26.04, 7 pm; Sat, 27.04, 2 - 10 pm, with talks, performances, concerts, and DJs. The exhibition continues until 19.05. ADK, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557. Free admission on Friday. Ticket Saturday: 9€ / Party 10 pm: 13/7€.
Ten artists explore cracks in post-apartheid South African society, offering transformation and healing while questioning sound ownership in a postcolonial transhemispheric context. They dismantle and reimagine sounds, revealing depth.
Finissage: Josephine Baker. Icon in Motion
Friday, 26.04, from 6 pm. Neue Nationalgalerie. Free admission.
This finissage features talks, a lecture, a screening, a stand-up comedy by Thelma Buabeng, a performance of "Vespers" by MJ Harper with Thomas Moked Blum, and a DJ set by New Kyd.
Valerie Renay & Christy Langer: 'exorcism // exorcisme'
Opening Friday, 26.04, 7 - 10 pm (performance 8 pm); Sat, 1 - 8 pm (perf. 6 pm); Sun, 12 - 6 pm (perf. 3 pm). Hošek Contemporary, Motor Ship HEIMATLAND, close to Fischerinsel 2.
'exorcism // exorcisme' invites participants to engage in intimate confessions, shaping a collective creative space through performance and interactive installation.
Intraspective - Michael Sayles
Opening 26.04 6 – 8 pm. Until 25.05 SETAREH Schöneberger Ufer 71 10785 Berlin. Free admission.
A survey of three decades of work by Berlin-based artist Michael Sayles. This first mini-Intraspective exhibition, curated by Eric D. Clark, is a window into the mind of “Afropean” culture.
Sellerie Weekend
Fri-Sun, 26-28.04. Various locations.
Sellerie Weekend runs alongside Gallery Weekend, spotlighting independent art spaces in joint action, prioritizing art's essence over commercial aims.
Poetics of Encryption | Concert: Early Labyrinth
Saturday, 27.04, 7 pm. KW Institute | Courtyard, Augustrasse, 69, Mitte. Free admission.
EARLY LABYRINTH: Berlin's clandestine collective defies the norm with punk-themed, funk-infused spectacles. It’s a passionate rebellion in sound and vision.
Gallery Weekend 2024 Special: 26-28.04
The 20th edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin is set to take place this year, featuring 55 galleries opening their doors to the public from April 26th to 28th. In addition to the main event, various other spaces, institutions, and museums across the city will showcase new exhibitions and performances.
We've selected some highlights of this edition, all with openings on Friday, April 26th, from 6 to 9 pm:
Wolfgang Tillmans: Galerie Buchholz, Fasanenstrasse 30, Berlin.
Sung Tieu - Perfect Standard: Trautwein Herleth, Kohlfurter Strasse 41/43, Kreuzberg.
Cosima von Bonin - The Faker: Galerie Neu, Linienstrasse 119 abc, Mitte.
Julius von Bismarck - Zwei Wölfinnen & Ann Veronica Janssens - spring show: Esther Schipper, Potsdamer Strasse 81e, Schonenberg. While you're there, you can visit 'Cornelia Schleime' at Galerie Judin and 'Mark Grotjahn' at Galerie Max Hetzler which are in the same courtyard.
Sean Scully - Dark Yet: Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustrasse 45 & 15/16, Charlottenburg.
‘Territory’ with works by Mire Lee, Liu Yujia, Gala Porras-Kim, Tan Jing, Zhang Ruyi: Sprüth Mager, Oranienburger Strasse 18, Mitte.
Gabriel Chaile - Los Jóvens Ouvidaron sus Canciones: Chertlüdde, Hauptstrasse 18, Schönenberg.
Renata Lucas - o perde: neugerriemschneider,Linienstraße 155, Mitte.
One cool thing during Gallery Weekend is getting lost among the galleries. The event's website even posts a neighborhood tour worth checking out.
ALFILM | Arab Film Festival Berlin
Wed-Tue, 24-30.04, various times and venues. Tickets: 9/11€.
This year’s 15th ALFILM Selection presents a program that is more diverse than ever, with features and short films from a total of 13 different Arab countries. The highlights are the Palestinian doc "Bye Bye Tiberias"; the Sudanese "Goodbye Julia", and the Lebasene doc "Embodie Chorus"."Here is Elsewhere: Palestine in Arab Cinema and Beyond" is a parallel program with films addressing the rejection faced by Palestinian and Arab communities in the West.
Berlin Design Week
27.04 - 05.05. You can check out the full program here.
Berlin Design Week showcases international designers, companies, and educational/research institutions through exhibitions, talks, workshops, and networking in Berlin.
Next: Young European Design
Friday, 26.04, 7 - 10 pm. Kunstgewerbemuseum, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin. Designer talks on Saturday, 27.04, 2 - 6 pm. Until 05.05.
The exhibition 'Next' presents 30 design projects and works from 11 countries. This event is part of Berlin Design Week.
Techno Dance rites (Open Air)
Saturday, 27.04, 4 - 6 pm. Viktoriapark, near by Katzbachstrasse. Donation based.
Dive into techno clubbing culture's evolution, where dance becomes a healing ritual, connecting mind, body, and spirit. And the best part: In nature.
Reader-Recommended Events
Esther Perbandt x Kutur Runway
Sat-Sun, 27-28.04, 10 pm - 11 pm. Oranienburger Str. 54, Mitte.
See Esther Perbandt's unique gown with AR technology. Watch hand-embroidered birds take flight from the dress on your iPhone or iPad.
Beyond the Surface
Sunday, 28.04, 7 - 11 pm. Honey Lou Bar, Anzegruberstrasse 3, Neukölln. Ticket: 15€.
Described as speed dating for friends or a game night playing the Intimacy Cards. It has proven to be a beautiful and heartfelt way to make connections with strangers, potentially turning them into more.
Yulia Mahr, Unbecoming
Opening 27.04, 1 - 7 pm. On view until 26.05. Art Biesenthal, Wehrmühlenweg 8, 16359 Biesenthal. Free admission.
Yulia Mahr's "Unbecoming" exhibition intertwines personal struggles with ecological reflections, showcasing diverse artworks and site-specific installations. It captures the journey of life's renewal amid moments of loss, hope, and beauty. The best part? Getting out of the city and chilling in the beautiful garden at Wehrmühle Biesenthal, while having brunch and drinks.
If you want a hassle-free experience, "clicqui x art" offers a full package to visit Art Biesenthal, including the "Unbecoming" exhibition, artist chat, brunch, and a glass of bubbles.
Great suggestions for this week 👌