For the film maker Edgar Reitz, memory is always subjective, selective and incomplete. In Heimat (1984), he made this a design principle. The film editor Bettina Böhler felt a great responsibility through her documentary to help decide how Christoph Schlingensief will be remembered. A discussion about associative and cinematic remembering. In German. Also available as live stream.

Cultural memory is the basis of humanity’s future, and the arts and cultural institutions have a decisive role to play in this. The exhibition illuminates different aspects of the culture of memory with featuring 13 commissioned works by contemporary artists and 15 exemplary selected exhibits from the Akademe der Künste’s archives.

The festival offers broad insights into a diverse contemporary music practice that questions canons and aesthetic norms and participates in history-making, memory culture and social transformation. The focus on Lebanon is set by the concerts of Voice Affairs and Calamita. The ensemble mosaik and the installations present Walter Zimmermann's approaches to memory work.

Every year, the Visual Arts Section presents the work of one of its members at the Kurt Tucholsky Literaturmuseum in Rheinsberg. This year's exhibition is dedicated to Richard Deacon and focuses on his new ceramic works. The sculptor, known for his experiments with materials, is interested in the interplay of control and chance in the creation of the coloured glazes as surfaces.

Berlin architect, urban planner and long-time Akademie President Werner Düttmann (1921-1983) was born 100 years ago, on 6 March 1921. As part of the Düttmann exhibition of the Brücke Museum, a presentation on his special relationship to the Akademie der Künste – to the building as well as to the institution – will be shown in the foyer.

The Akademie der Künste and its Archives are a place of artistic memory work. On the occasion of its 325th anniversary, the Akademie is engaging in a new process of reflecting on its own institution as memory storage. The extensive main programme revolves around a number of event series and a central exhibition with 13 commissioned works by contemporary artists.

A digital showcase affords an insight into the extensive holdings of the Archives of the Akademie der Künste. digital.adk.de. encompasses all art forms and archives of outstanding artists in the German-speaking world and makes them accessible. A new collection presents the ownership histories of selected paintings and sculptures from the Art Collection.

The Akademie der Künste is an international community of artists that currently totals 402 members in its six Sections (Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Arts). It 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.