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IMMIGRANTS PAINT IMMIGRANTS: PORTRAITS OF A COMMUNITY

IMMIGRANTS PAINT IMMIGRANTS: PORTRAITS OF A COMMUNITY

Sometimes, art emerges in the spaces where people come together. In this case, it happens in Anna Lukashevsky’s classroom in Schöneberg. Since moving to Berlin a year ago, the artist has been organizing painting classes for immigrants and Germans with foreign roots, to build community, she says. And to earn a living as she works to reestablish herself as an artist in her new city. Together, her students paint portraits of different models, most of whom are also immigrants, with stories that often mirror those of the painters themselves. The class is a lively mix. Participants speak Italian, Russian, Hebrew, and Georgian all at once. The results of these classes, “political-psychological portraits”, as Anna Lukashevsky herself calls them, will be shown for the second time this week (08.11.2025) under the title “Immigrants Paint Immigrants”, in the rooms of a psychoanalysis practice on Tempelhofer Ufer. Visitors can expect art in an unusual yet perfectly fitting setting, and portraits that reveal as much about the painters as they do about their models.

Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Anna Lukashevsky

Praxis Gallery, Tempelhofer Ufer 1A, 10961 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Immigrants Paint Immigrants pop-up exhibition 08.11.2025

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OF WHAT LIES BEYOND — THE TENTH BERLIN SCIENCE WEEK
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OF WHAT LIES BEYOND — THE TENTH BERLIN SCIENCE WEEK

Exploring the city through research… At the beginning of November, Berlin becomes the smartest city in the world, for as long as the tenth edition of Berlin Science Week fills museums, forums, and stages. From November 01.–10.11.2025, more than 150 partners from Berlin and beyond will host over 350 events, showing how research comes alive when it steps out of the lab and into the city. At the same time, it becomes clear that science is deeply connected to culture, society, and our most nagging questions. The theme for this year’s anniversary edition is “Beyond Now”, and it’s an invitation to stay curious amid the chaos of the present. For instance, the Campus at the Museum für Naturkunde (01.–02.11.2025) will transform into a small city for researchers and the curious alike. There, CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) will showcase the particle accelerator of the future, while the Fraunhofer Network for Science, Art and Design experiments with fabrics that respond to touch. Scripts (04.11.2025) will explore how science and politics challenge one another at the Centre for East European and International Studies.

Under the title “Collective Freedom: What’s Worth Fighting For”, experts from science, politics, and society discuss the conditions under which freedom must be fought for today. The festival then moves to the water, to the Forum at Holzmarkt 25 (06.–09.11.). There, at the Decision Theater Idea Lab (06.–07.11.), vast amounts of data become visible and dynamic through interactive tools, revealing just how much tomorrow depends on our actions today. In “Introduction to the Future Self” (07.11.), artist Angela Aux merges concert and experiment into a progressive, dreamlike performance. And on November 9, you can completely immerse yourself: “Coral Sonic Resilience” transforms coral reefs into soundscapes. Can sound be healing? Maybe. Most of the festival is free of charge. One thing’s for sure, we all still have plenty to learn. 

Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: Christoph Schneider, Felix Zahn, Photothek

Berlin Science Week 01.–10.11.2025. Find the full program and the locations here.

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THREE DAYS OF TOMORROW — THE FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS AT THE NEUE NATIONALGALERIE
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THREE DAYS OF TOMORROW — THE FESTIVAL OF FUTURE NOWS AT THE NEUE NATIONALGALERIE

The future is on the agenda! From 31.10.–02.11.2025, the Neue Nationalgalerie will become a stage for what has yet to be written. The Festival of Future Nows returns and invites you to shape tomorrow. Around a hundred international artists — from emerging voices to well-known names — will transform the interior and exterior spaces of the van der Rohe building through performances, soundscapes, choreographies, and interventions. Here, art is not merely displayed but shared: as a process, as an exchange, as an invitation to encounter the unpredictable. Originating from the Institute for Spatial Experiments, founded by Olafur Eliasson at the Berlin University of the Arts, the festival sees itself as a laboratory for new forms of coexistence and reflection on what lies ahead. The first edition took place in 2014 before the renovation of the Neue Nationalgalerie. And, in 2017, the festival moved to the Hamburger Bahnhof for its second iteration. With its third edition, the festival returns to its place of origin — the transparent pavilion that has itself become a symbol of exchange and movement. Here, we don’t explain what the future might look like; we try it out (and celebrate it at the afterparty on Friday at Studio 1111). Three days in the heart of Berlin, surrounded by glass, concrete, and ideas. Admission is free!

Text: Emma Zylla / Photos: David von Becker, Phillip Rahlenbeck / Credit: Neue Nationalgalerie – Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Institut für Raumexperimente, UdK Berlin, María del Pilar García Ayensa

Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Berlin–Tiergarten; map

Festival of Future Nows 2025 31.10–02.11.2025, Opening 31.10.2025 19h.

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100 YEARS OF HUFEISENSIEDLUNG — ARCHITECTURE, EVERYDAY LIFE & THE AVANT-GARDE

100 YEARS OF HUFEISENSIEDLUNG — ARCHITECTURE, EVERYDAY LIFE & THE AVANT-GARDE

Between terraced houses in bright colors, bold shapes, and curved lines, it becomes clear that what architect Bruno Taut envisioned and realized in the 1920s was more than housing construction — it was a vision of a better life. The Hufeisensiedlung in Britz is not only the largest but also the most renowned residential complex of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Berlin Modernist Housing Estates. Here, new urban models were tested — ones that offered an alternative to the narrow, airless courtyards of traditional tenement buildings. Terraced houses with private gardens were combined with multi-story apartment blocks, framed by generous green spaces. Following the principle of “light, air, sun for all”, Taut’s approach to modern urban planning was social and visionary. A hundred years later, the Hufeisensiedlung celebrates its anniversary with a symposium and three-day program featuring film screenings, exhibitions, book presentations, and architectural tours. From 17.–19.10.2025, the listed ensemble in Neukölln–Britz will open its doors to anyone wishing to experience architectural history up close.

The vernissage on 17.10.2025 revisits the history of GEHAG tenant magazines with “From Design Proposals to Nazi Propaganda — The Tenant Magazines of EINFA and GEHAG 1930–1939”, tracing the social shifts of the era. On 18.10.2025, experts guide visitors through the UNESCO World Heritage Site, past gardens, courtyards, and rows of colorful houses. Highlights include the “Utopia and Idyll” tour and visits to Tautes Heim, a reconstructed model house now serving as a museum and guest accommodation. Finally, on 19.10.2025, the Kulturstall Britz hosts discussions between architects, researchers, and residents, exploring how ideas from the 1920s’ reform movement remain relevant today. A century after its foundation, the Hufeisensiedlung stands not only as a symbol of modernist architecture, but also as proof that good design doesn’t age, but grows with time.

Text: Milena Kalojanov / Photos: Ben Buschfeld

Hufeisensiedlung, Fritz-Reuter-Allee 44, 12359 Berlin–Britz; map
Symposium and accompanying program: 17.–19.10.2025

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ALL THAT JAZZ — LATE-NIGHT JAM SESSIONS AND COMMUNITY CONCERTS AT JAZZFEST BERLIN
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ALL THAT JAZZ — LATE-NIGHT JAM SESSIONS AND COMMUNITY CONCERTS AT JAZZFEST BERLIN

Do you know your cool jazz from your free jazz? Hard bop from avant-garde? If the answer is no, then all the more reason to check out Jazzfest Berlin (30.10–02.11.2025) – not least because it stretches well beyond jazz to everything from hip hop to soul. The 62nd edition of the Berliner Festspiele’s four-day festival is billed as a space fostering encounter and artistic diversity in response to a turbulent world, with a program featuring 120 international musicians playing across ten different venues. It opens with a four-hour evening of three concerts: energetic improv trio Angelika Niescier, Tomeka Reid and Eliza Salem; followed by the rhythmic depth of Felix Henkelhausen’s septet Deranged Particles and a meditative duet from Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith (30.10, 18h).

The late-night jazz basement energy will be in full force at music club Quasimodo on Friday evening (31.10, 22h30), where collective The Young Mothers will be blending jazz with hip hop and metal. It’s followed by a jam session with musicians from the festival program. On Sunday 02.11 it’s time to go to church – the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church – where French saxophonist Sakina Abdou and trio The Handover take to the stage for a musical afternoon in an architecturally stunning atmosphere (starts 15h). In addition to the main concerts, there is a whole program of Kiez sessions, free lunchtime concerts and children’s workshops as part of Community Week. Check out the full line-up and get tickets here.

Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Ana Iramain, Anna Sorgalla, Thomas Sayers Ellis

Jazzfest Berlin (30.10–02.11.2025) – program, tickets and more info here.

@berlinerfestspiele

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