On five evenings (18, 19, 24, 25 and 30 May), Manos Tsangaris, composer and director of the Music Section at the Akademie der Künste, is transforming the Akademie building on Hanseatenweg into a dense web of music theatre miniatures. winzig und der Elefant is the title of his playful work of music theatre, which uses contemporary station theatre to place listeners at the centre of a piece in which all the intersecting lines of the composition, space and the world come together.

Individual spaces at the Akademie venue on Hanseatenweg are transformed into a labyrinth based on this figure of speech. Hall 1, the Studio for Electroacoustic Music etc. become part of a matrix of the unspeakable, of prevented conversation, of repressed conflict and misunderstanding. The result is an acoustic, visual and performative installation developed by Kathrin Röggla, Mark Lammert and Eran Schaerf, along with other Akademie members and guests.

The production Moving Sand / Topos by composer and musician Floros Floridis and filmmaker and Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel is an audiovisual essay that combines film, music, dance and text. This work pinpoints the changes and consequences that result from an ever-increasing use of artificial intelligence – how it impacts our lives and relationships to the rest of the world. In German.

Libraries impart the foundations of our existence. In them the past and the future collide and their appropriation produces something new. In the exhibition rare books are on disply – orignially owned by authors like Heinrich Mann, George Grosz, Bernhard Minetti, Christa Wolf, et al. The exhibition provides insights into the more than 600,000 exceedingly fine volumes and collection holdings that are publicly accessible in the Akademie der Künste library.

In her first work, the E.1027 house, which she built from 1926–1929 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the Mediterranean Sea, Eileen Gray (1878–1976) designed almost every element herself. The walk-in installation of the bedroom in the passage of the Akademie building at Pariser Platz provides a direct visualisation of the architectural design by an unjustly neglected pioneer of modernism. The bedroom was reconstructed at Austin School of Architecture at the University of Texas.

The Akademie der Künste in Berlin is one of the oldest cultural institutes in Europe. It is an international community of artists that currently totals 411 members in its six Sections (Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts). The Akademie is an exhibition and event location. A key component of the  Akademie are its archives, which collectively form one of the most important interdisciplinary archives on 20th century art.

The Archives at the Akademie der Künste may be used free of charge for scholarly, private, or press research. Since December 2015, the Archives Database offers a regularly updated online digital research tool. The database contains information on all of the collections in the Archives, which comprise around 1,020,000 archival materials as well as approximately 462,000 analogue and digital copies of archival materials.