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- Save the date: Panke Open Studios 2025
For the first time, Panke Open Studios 2025 will combine three important studio buildings in Berlin - Uferhallen, Gerichtshöfe and Chausseestraße 48 - to create a joint event. With this first-time cooperation, Panke Open Studios is creating a new platform for exchange between artists and the public in the neighborhood.
FIXTURES #6 – Adnan Softić & Nina Softić / The KLIMATON Project on June 30th, 2025
At FIXTURES #6 - Jour Fixe of the Media Workshop we are very glad to welcome: Adnan Softić and Nina Softić. The artist-duo will present their project KLIMATON.
Culture needs spaces 2025 network meeting
Network meeting of Berlin's actors on the topic of work, rehearsal, performance and production spaces for art and culture. In terms of cultural and urban development policy, Berlin currently seems toothless and risks losing art and culture. We believe that the state of Berlin and the districts have a responsibility when it comes to state-owned real estate and would like to see clever models of
Rumours of Noise - # lecture3
„Media and Music Talks“ | Rumours of Noise - 24.04.2025
In reference to the term “Deep Listening” coined by the American composer and avant-gardist Pauline Oliveros, we are dedicating the third part of our event series to a Deep Droning Special.
FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder in conversation with Kevin Rittberger / Embodied data and planetary thinking on April 28th, 2025
At the fourth Jour Fixe event of the Media Workshop we are delighted to welcome three guests: Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Kevin Rittberger. At FIXTURES #4 they will speak about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary.
FIXTURES #3 - Martin Sulzer feat. Farhad Farzali / Artificial Art on March 17th, 2025
For the third FIXTURES event on March, 17th, 2025 Martin Sulzer is our guest and will talk about artificiality as a central element in his artistic work, be it 3D rendering, synthesizers or artificial intelligence.
FIXTURES #2 - Henning Christiansen Archive / Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen on February 24th, 2025
For the second FIXTURES event on February, 24, 2025 Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen are our guests. They will present a selection of video and sound recordings from the archive of the Danish FLUXUS artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) that have just been digitized since beginning of February in the Media Workshop.
FIXTURES #1 - Sérgio Taborda / Sequence 22 on January 27th, 2025
With the start of the new year 2025, we are glad to launch the FIXTURES event series in the Media Lab of the Medienwerkstatt. For the first event on January, 27th, we have invited the Portuguese artist and researcher Sérgio Taborda.
Rumours of Noise - # lecture2
„Media and Music Talks“ | Rumours of Noise
This time, the focus is on an in-depth exploration of the topic of “drone” and its precursors, away from the musical mainstream. An excursion into the musical stylistic device known since the second half of the 1960s as “free form freak-out” leads to more contemporary variations of noise and drone, such as drone doom and female voice noise.
Save the Date: 50 years of Druckwerkstatt anniversary celebrations at Bethanien
The Druckwerkstatt cordially invites you to celebrate this great anniversary with all employees, users and friends of the workshops and facilities in the Kulturwerk of the bbk berlin!
From November 15, 2024, the Decolonial Monument will be open to the public!
From November 15, the decolonial memorial Earth Nest by The Lockward Collective (Jeannette Ehlers, Rolando Vázquez and Patricia Kaersenhout) will be accessible in front of the Berlin Global Village.
27.08.2024 | Press release from the Office for Art in Public Space: kunststadt stadtkunst 71-2024 has been published!
The professional journal kunststadt/stadtkunst is published annually by the Office for Art in Public Space (Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im kulturwerk des bbk berlin). It provides information on the latest developments in art in public spaces in Berlin and ensures transparency with regard to state commissions for art in public spaces in the state of Berlin and its districts.
Successful kick-off event in the media lab: Rumours of Noise - lecture #1
The first event in the “Rumors of Noise” series took place on 15.08.2024 in the Medienlabor/Kesselhaus of the Medienwerkstatt. Frauke Boggasch and Manfred Miersch hosted the pilot event as the start of a new lecture series. In loose succession, such lecture events as part of Media and Music Talks will invite people to listen to (loud) music together in a real space, which is thus temporarily
MATERIAL TURN - PRETENDING YOU ARE UNSEEN / Exhibition Media Workshop from May 16th untill 2nd of December, 2024
The MEDIA WORKSHOP / kulturwerk bbk berlin / invites you to an exhibition dedicated to the material aspects of media art. Opening // 16.05.2024 // 5 pm in the Rooms of Druckwerkstatt, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin, 1st floor
15.03.2024 | In 2025, we will celebrate 50 years of the print workshop at the kulturwerk of the bbk berlin! An appeal!
In 2025, the print workshop at the bbk berlin's kulturwerk will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. It has been a vibrant place of artistic productio for half a century. We call for participation in the preparations for this great anniversary!
Finissage „35 Jahre Grafikedition“ and talk on March 15, 2024 6 - 9 pm
The Day of Printmaking on March 15 will be celebrated at the exhibition finissage with the participating artists: Viola Bendzko, Carsten Borck, Christoph Damm, Helmut Gutbrod, Claudia Hartwig, Jase Kala, Patrick Kaufmann, Carmen McPherson, Helga Ntephe, Deborah S. Phillips, Matthias Taube und Ila Wingen. Please join us!
Decolonial Memorial: Symposium | 4p.m-2p.m.
The Team of Global Village would like to invite you to the first public event of the project Decolonial Memorial at the Berlin Global Village on October 31st 2023 at 4pm: a large thematic symposium around decolonization and art. There will be exciting discussion panels, live painting, performances and much more. We hope you will come by!
27.06.2023 | kunststadt stadtkunst 70-2023
Die Fachzeitschrift kunststadt/stadtkunst wird jährlich vom Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im kulturwerk des bbk berlin herausgegeben. Sie informiert über die neuesten Entwicklungen der Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Berlin und sorgt für Transparenz rund um das staatliche Auftragsgeschehen für Kunst am Bau und Kunst im Stadtraum im Land Berlin und in den Berliner Bezirken.
Program: Finally a bit of animation! Japan meets Berlin in the Medienlabor March 31th, 2023
The Media Workshop celebrates the farewell of Lioba von den Driesch, the contact to the Japanese artist Yasuto Yura, organizer of the independent film festival "VIDEO PARTY", and the new media lab with a screening and an exhibition. On display will be a wealth of animations of various kinds from Japan and Berlin.
Finally a bit of animation! Japan meets Berlin - Exhibition and Screening in Media Workshop from March 31th untill 2nd of April, 2023
The Media Workshop celebrates the farewell of Lioba von den Driesch, the contact to the Japanese artist Yasuto Yura, organizer of the independent film festival "VIDEO PARTY", and the new media lab with a screening and an exhibition. On display will be a wealth of animations of various kinds from Japan and Berlin.