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CULTURE IN PROGRESS: OPEN CONSTRUCTION SITE DAY AT BERLIN MODERN
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CULTURE IN PROGRESS: OPEN CONSTRUCTION SITE DAY AT BERLIN MODERN

Berlin’s construction sites continue a something big is taking shape at the Kulturforum. “berlin modern,” the new museum dedicated to 20th-century art, is steadily coming to life. Nestled between the Philharmonie, the Staatsbibliothek, and the Neue Nationalgalerie, the new building – designed by Herzog & de Meuron – will soon house the Neue Nationalgalerie’s expanding collection. Before the walls are painted and the art is hung, the raw structure will open its doors to the public for the first time. Next weekend (18–19.10.2025), the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Neue Nationalgalerie invite visitors to explore the site during the Open Construction Site Days. Amid concrete, steel, and light, you can experience the vast scale of the future museum – a space that already hints at how modern “berlin modern” intends to be. On-site, there will be art, information, and guided talks offering deeper insights into the project’s concept. And, in what’s become something of a Biesenbach signature, artist Joan Jonas will present her performance Mirror Piece I & II in the building’s entrance hall on both days. Whether you’re an architecture enthusiast, an art lover, or simply curious – if you want to see how the future is being built, this is the place to be.

Text: Leo Sandmann / Photos: Alexander Ludwig Obst & Marion Schmieding

Scharounplatz / Corner Potsdamer Straße, 10785 Berlin–Tiergarten; map

Open Construction Site Days 18.10.2025 10–18h, 19.10.2025 10–16h. Performance on both days at 12 & 14h. Timed-entry tickets (limited capacity) are available online only and must be purchased in advance.

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BATHS BECOME BACKDROPS — STADTBAD RELOADED FILLS EMPTY POOLS WITH LIGHT AND SOUND
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BATHS BECOME BACKDROPS — STADTBAD RELOADED FILLS EMPTY POOLS WITH LIGHT AND SOUND

Overthinking and Overwhelming are two of the themes around which the exhibition Stadtbad Reloaded: Beyond(11.10.2025–31.01.2026) is organized. These are feelings which, due to human nature, many people experience at least some of the time. Luckily for us, the exhibition – held at the crumbling, disused swimming baths of Stadtbad Lichtenberg – invites us to bathe in altogether calmer emotional currents: “Releasing, Dreaming and Awakening”, brought together in a 200-square-meter ceiling projection called “Beyond”. Forming a kind of canopy of hypnotic shapes, it shifts between kaleidoscopic swirls, cosmic landscapes and blooms of color that echo mandalas. Elsewhere, there’s an audio-visual installation with 63,000 LEDs that beam neon forms into the dry basin of an old swimming pool. In addition to the large-scale works, video art plays on 150 mini screens spread throughout the Stadtbad’s abandoned rooms, from shower blocks and flaking hallways to old changing areas. It all amounts to a visually rich experience – and a chance to take in one of the city’s lesser-known lost landmarks.

Text: Benji Haughton / Credit: Alycia Rainaud; Arthur Galdin; FutureMaster7

Stadtbad Lichtenberg, Hubertusstr.47, 10365 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map

Stadtbad Reloaded: Beyond from 11.10.2025 (open on weekends). Tickets are available here.

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CONCEPT & DISCOURSE IN LICHTENBERG: THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL BIENNALE

CONCEPT & DISCOURSE IN LICHTENBERG: THE FIRST CONCEPTUAL BIENNALE

It’s always worth making the trip to Vulkanstraße in Lichtenberg, whether for the ultimate Vietnamese shopping experience and a top-notch Bánh Mì at the Dong Xuan Center, or a peek inside the concrete ivory tower of the architecture firm b+, which is now opening its doors to the public. This time, it’s worth visiting for the very first Conceptual Biennale. The event is all about creative practice in the broadest sense. Founded by designer Tina Roeder (behind Conceptual Conversations), Anton Rahlwes (known from the thing and form), and architect Thilo Reich, the Conceptual Biennale aims to be “the first transdisciplinary platform to place contemporary conceptual practices in design, architecture, and art at its center”. Participants were invited and selected through an open call, and as of now, many names are listed on the website. The result is a well-balanced mix of design practices like Soft Baroque, Monika, or Pegasus Product, alongside artists such as Tra My Nguyen and Billie Clarken, and architecture heavyweights like Le Corbusier (who won’t make it to the opening, sadly). The list is long and likely to grow longer by next week.

The official opening is Thursday, October 9, followed by a program featuring familiar names. At the Conceptual Roundtable (Towards a Symposium) led by Nina Sieverding (the other half of the thing), a two-day talk will tackle topics such as power and money. The Studio for Immediate Spaces will introduce participatory formats like the Vicinity Walk and the Postdisciplinary Soup (bring your own bowl and spoon). So, if you want to see how critical reflection, conceptual rigor, and more-or-less barrier-free discourse can be concentrated in a biennale, dare to climb the 199 steps to the top. Admission is free, and time-slotted tickets are available here.

Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Conceptual Biennale, Pia Henkel, Robert Świerczyński

Am Wasserwerk 22F, 10365 Berlin–Lichtenberg; map
Conceptual Biennale 09.–11.10.2025 10–19h. Free admission, book your time slot here.

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“MILIEU THINGS” AT MUSEUM DER DINGE, WERKBUNDARCHIV: ABOUT CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS & AESTHETICS

“MILIEU THINGS” AT MUSEUM DER DINGE, WERKBUNDARCHIV: ABOUT CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS & AESTHETICS

At Museum der Dinge, the “Milieu Things” exhibition (running until 02.03.2026) offers a chance to discover “object metaphors” that reveal insights into class and taste. Situated on busy Leipziger Straße, the Museum der Dinge of Werkbundarchiv is one of the city’s most overlooked cultural spots. Completely visible on the corner yet somehow tucked away, it displays objects — everyday items we use but rarely pay attention to. Here, visitors marvel at the worthless and the valuable, the beautiful, the smooth, the crooked, the dirty, the discarded, and the meticulously collected. From porcelain fuses to toy dogs, from cosmetic bottles to napkin holders. What unites all these objects is that they were designed, shaped, and created by humans. The exhibition invites reflection not only on their use and function but also on their cultural and material implications. Alongside the picturesque and curious permanent collection, the temporary show “Milieu Things” makes these implications vividly tangible.

The title, referencing the theories of Pierre Bourdieu, is a nod to the exhibition’s focus. Countless objects tell stories of class, taste, and social connections, whether they’re Balenciaga or DHL. Visitors are guided through this frame of reference with excellently written, accessible texts. One promise to all attendees: you will learn a lot here, about beauty, the world, design, social belonging, and very likely yourself. No matter how much you think you already know about these things.

Text: Hilka Dirks / Credits: Armin Herrmann; “Gesellschaft beim Kartenspiel” 1757, Daniel Chodowiecki (1726–1801), oil on canvas, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Reproduktion: Christel Lehmann

Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Leipziger Str. 54, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Milieu Things until 02.03.2026

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WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE LISTENS? THE FILM PREMIERE OF KONTINENTAL ’25
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WHO’S TO BLAME WHEN NO ONE LISTENS? THE FILM PREMIERE OF KONTINENTAL ’25

When a homeless man is evicted from a basement somewhere in Cluj, Romania — his last refuge — he sees no other way out but to take his own life. Left behind is Orsolya, the bailiff who carried out the eviction. The film Kontinental ’25 picks up where other narratives typically end. Director and screenwriter Radu Jude, who won the Golden Bear unexpectedly at the 2021 Berlinale for his comedy Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, tells a complex story about guilt, moral disorientation, and the desperate need for validation. On October 9, at 20:00, the film will premiere at fsk in Kreuzberg. Quietly, without reproducing the classic perpetrator-victim narrative, Kontinental ’25 navigates the social and political fault lines of a society in transition: housing shortages, economic fragility in the post-Soviet reality, nationalist thinking, and, not least, the role of language as an invisible boundary defining status, belonging, and power.

Radu Jude and Eszter Tompa succeed in approaching these themes with absurd, precise humor. Formally, the storytelling recalls Rossellini’s Europa ’51, not only because of thematic parallels but also due to the deliberately simple, low-budget production. Orsolya’s attempts to find meaning and redemption through conversations, rituals, and self-examination repeatedly fail against an environment that leaves no room for empathy. Her moral relativism is uncomfortable precisely because it feels familiar. Jude has created a compelling film that offers no easy answers but observes closely, and it is this very attention to detail that makes it so moving.

Text: Laura Storfner / Credits: Grandfilm

fsk Kino, Segitzdamm 2, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; map
Kontinental ’25, film premiere 09.10.2025 20h

The film will be screened from 09.10. at the following cinemas in Berlin: fsk, Filmrauschpalast, Il Kino, Kino Krokodil, Tilsiter Lichtspiele, and Wolf Kino.

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