The institutions of the Berlin Cultural Forum invite you to a big summer festival in their gardens on Sunday, 3 September 2023, from 11 am to 10 pm. In addition to a varied programme of readings, workshops, guided tours and an open-air church service, visitors can expect live music and performances on the Piazzetta, the grand closing concert of the Cultural Summer Festival with 2raumwohnung on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie and Tiergarten’s longest festive table on Scharounplatz. All offers are free of charge; exhibition tickets can be purchased free of charge online and at the box offices as part of the Museum Sunday taking place at the same time.
Fig. above: A Day in the Green 2022, © Kulturprojekte, photographer: Alexander Rentsch
PROGRAM
Festive table on Scharounplatz
From 12 – 8 p.m., experiences, impressions and appetisers can be shared together at the laid table – first with fruit and drinks, from 4 p.m. with coffee and cake, and from 7 p.m. with curry sausage.
Green Stage on the Piazzetta
Live music from big band sound to hip hop, dance, magic and poetry around the theme of green – compiled and presented by Jan Kage, initiator and curator of the Party Arty series.
12 pm: Live music: ClassX Big Band
2 p.m.: Poetry: Sebastian23 and Lisa Pauline Wagner
3 pm: Dance performance: Raphael Moussa Hillebrand and Lina Gómez
4 pm: Live music: Lena Stoehrfaktor
5 pm: Live music: Yaneq & Kohle
Baumschule Kulturforum
4 – 5 pm
Meet the Artists: atelier le balto will guide you through the project and talk about their working methods and visions, the process of creating the project and its future development in the urban space. Meeting point: tree nursery on the Piazzetta, limited number of participants, (no registration required).
Neue Nationalgalerie
12 – 18 h, every 30 minutes
Short guided tours “The Art of Society 1900-1945. Collection of the National Gallery”: Nettles, Leaf Birds and Apocalyptic Landscapes: Get to know the art of Classical Modernism from a new perspective. Meeting point: ticket office/info, limited number of participants, (no registration required).
12.15 – 17.15, every 30 minutes
Short guided tours Sculpture Garden: Harmony between Art and Nature. Discover the garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie with water basins and sculptures by René Sintenis to Wolfgang Mattheuer. Meeting point: ticket office/info, limited number of participants, no registration required (bad weather alternative: short tours on architecture).
12 – 16 h
Drop-in workshop for families: Glue your own green city. What will houses and bridges look like in the future? With sticker sheets, a variety of materials and tips from art educators, participants create an individual city collage. Works from the collection provide inspiration. Participants can join at any time. Meeting point: foyer, limited number of participants (no registration required).
12 – 18 h
MIES-liwska Sundowner Bar: cool drinks in the sculpture garden and on the terrace
14 – 20 h
Creative pop-up action: Urban Mies Green. Sketching between the Mies Building and the Kulturforum: sketch your experiences and encounters during the day in the green. Entry possible at any time. Meeting point: Drop-in stations on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie and Sigismundstraße, limited number of participants (no registration required).
2 + 3 pm
Short guided tours: New construction plane tree. Learn more about the 150-year-old natural monument with Sascha Hähnel. Meeting point at the construction fence near the plane tree, limited number of participants, no registration required (not applicable in case of bad weather).
20.30 – 22 h
The final concert of the Berlin 2023 Cultural Summer Festival celebrates the city’s shared cultural life with the electropop duo 2raumwohnung on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie
Gemäldegalerie
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Workshop: Open family workshop “Cityscapes”: Which cities have you already visited? Which places have you taken a photo of? Rome, Venice or Amsterdam – the Old Masters also captured views of great cities in their paintings. Inspired by the artists’ paintings, you will paint a city view of Berlin: equipped with easel, brush and palette, you will capture the view of Potsdamer Platz from the Piazzetta of the Kulturforum on canvas. Meeting point: Piazzetta, limited number of participants (no registration required).
11.15, 12 + 12.45 p.m.
Wandelkonzerte: Double Pack – Music and Painting in Dialogue. Even if music itself cannot be depicted, scenes with singing angels, musicians or musical instruments can be found in the paintings of the Old Masters. During a walk through the picture gallery, short concerts with art-historical introductions create surprising atmospheric images. Meeting point: Central Entrance Hall Kulturforum Ticket Office/Info, limited number of participants (no registration required).
13, 13.30, 14, 14.30, 15 + 15.30 hrs.
Short guided tours: It’s so green. The paintings feature landscapes in fresh green and flowers painted in a fragrant hue. The colour green plays a very special role in the short tours. But which is your personal favourite colour? Meeting point: ticket office/info, limited number of participants (no registration required).
Kunstbibliothek
1, 3 + 5 pm
Matthäikirchstraße 4 – A house and its residents: Information board and talks with Gesa Kessemeier and Joachim Brand. The Tiergartenviertel is a myth. A research project of the Art Library is dedicated to the forgotten “art history(s) of the Tiergartenviertel” and rediscovers fascinating residents at the site of today’s Kulturforum: famous fashion journalists, actors, art collectors and even a James Bond scenographer. Meeting point: information board on the Piazzetta, (no registration required).
4 pm
UFO 1665. The Air Battle of Stralsund: Curator’s tour with Moritz Wullen. Historical sources tell of a bizarre event: in 1665, fishermen become eyewitnesses to an air battle off the coast of Stralsund. A dark grey disc appears over the centre of the city towards evening. Using contemporary sources, the exhibition reconstructs the media career of the event. Curator Moritz Wullen explains communication strategies that still determine reporting on inexplicable celestial phenomena centuries later. Meeting point: Central entrance hall Kulturforum box office/info, limited number of participants, tickets available at the box office/info 15 minutes before the start.
Kupferstichkabinett
“Nature Draws – Drawing Nature”: On the occasion of the “Day in the Green”, the Museum of Prints and Drawings dedicates itself to the theme of nature in the art of drawing. What makes Albrecht Dürer’s nature studies so special? How do the Urban Sketchers experience Berlin’s urban nature through drawing? And how do artists actually draw with nature? These and other questions will be discussed in short exhibition talks.Meeting point: Central entrance hall Kulturforum box office/info, limited number of participants, tickets available at the box office/info 15 minutes before the start.
3 pm
Short guided tours through the pop-up exhibition “Urban Sketchers”.
5 pm
Short guided tour of the exhibition “World Framed. Contemporary Drawing Art of the Ernst Schering Foundation Collection in the Museum of Prints and Drawings”.
7 pm
Short guided tour through the exhibition “Dürer for Berlin”.
Kunstgewerbemuseum
11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
In the central stairwell of the Museum of Decorative Arts, a room-sized installation by the artist Esther Stocker invites visitors to examine traditional patterns of perception of spaces.
11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Coffee bar in the green courtyard of the Museum of Decorative Arts.
2 pm
Rainer Strecker reads Marcel Proust’s “Days of Reading” in the courtyard of the Museum of Decorative Arts. Limited number of participants (no registration required).
St. Matthew’s Church
12 – 18 h
Bar under the trees: with crêpes and drinks on the lawn of Matthäikirchplatz.
12 – 18 h
Creative station under trees for children: For the “Day in the Green”, Ephra is designing an interactive offer for children from the age of 4. In the midst of the newly greened Cultural Forum, a creative island is being created for playful, explorative learning about trees – an invitation to individual engagement with the green environment. Walk-in, (no registration required).
14 – 15.30 + 16 – 17.30 hrs.
“Spritz” – Plant Drinks from the Cultural Forum. The Taste of the Cultural Forum: Portuguese artist Marisa Benjamim distils edible and drinkable essences from flowers, leaves and plants – each from the environment in which the essences are served. Meeting point: Matthäikirchplatz lawn roundabout.
2.30, 3.45 + 5 p.m.
The vanished gardens of the old Tiergarten quarter: guided tours. “Des lieben Gottes Sommervergnügen” (God’s summer pleasure) is what St. Matthew’s Church was once called because it was still surrounded by greenery when it was built in 1844. The gardens of the upper middle-class villas smelled of lilacs. Hard to imagine? City historian and landscape architect Alexander Darda provides historical insights. Meeting point: in front of St. Matthew’s Church, limited number of participants.
6 pm
Open-air service: “And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden…”. In the biblical creation story, life begins in a garden that soon becomes a forbidden zone. The longing remains and shapes our ideas of a better life. A service with Pastor Dr. Ellen Ueberschär, Evangelisches Stephanus-Stift (sermon), Pastor Hannes Langbein (liturgy), Uwe Steinmetz & Stream (music). Meeting place: Matthäikirchplatz lawn roundabout.
Philharmonischer Garten
12 – 2 pm
Nordic folk tunes, love songs and pop songs – the Vokalhelden choirs from Hellersdorf, Moabit and Schöneberg, under the direction of Judith Kamphues, bring songs from Henry Purcell to John Legend to the Philharmonic Garden: to listen and sing along! Brass players from the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic perform works by Paul Lincke and others. Plus: Berlin music on the barrel organ with Jörg Joachim Riehle.
Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung mit Musikinstrumenten-Museum
1 + 4 pm
Tour of the Musical Instrument Museum with Jörg Joachim Riehle and his playing of the Wurlitzer organ.
2 pm
Chamber music with members of the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic. Programme: Antonín Dvořák, String Quintet op. 77. Meeting point: Musical Instrument Museum, Curt Sachs Hall.
Berlin State Library
3 pm
Youkali – Chansons and songs from Brecht to Kästner: The duo Boegershausen & Bewerich go on a journey into the world of the 1920s and 1930s and devote themselves to “serious light music”. Alongside classics by Bertold Brecht, Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler or Kurt Tucholsky, they also bring long-forgotten chansons and songs to life. Meeting place: in the reading garden.
Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut
4 pm
Poetics of the Jungle – Reading: In European reception, the jungle is understood as a place of fascination and horror. As a space of imagination and projection, it becomes a threatening, unpredictable nature where one eats or is eaten. In the reading “Poetics of the Jungle”, Latin-American authors deal with these narratives and confront them with their own poetics.
5 pm
La Cura – Concert: The Afro-Colombian band La Cura from Berlin brings the musical traditions of the Colombian Caribbean to the stage with drums, clarinet and vocals. Rhythms such as cumbia, fandango, chalupa, porro and tambor invite you to dance.
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
3 – 6 pm
How does knowledge get into the world? – Expert*innentalks. WZB President Jutta Allmendinger invites you to three 30-minute talks on work, culture and politics in the WZB’s green courtyard. Experts from research and politics, culture and business look forward to exchanging ideas with visitors.
3.30 p.m.: Talk on science policy with Ina Czyborra, Science Senator
4 p.m.: Talk on cultural sponsorship with Ole Baekhoej, Director of the Pierre Boulez Hall, and Maja Adena, Deputy Director of the WZB’s Economics of Change Department.
16.30 Talk Arbeit with Tanja Wielgoß, former CEO of BSR and Vattenfall, multi-supervisory board member and shareholder of FC Viktoria
Berlin, and Martin Krzywdzinski, Head of the WZB Research Group Globalisation, Work and Production
3 + 5 pm
Anything but grey – Guided tour: From the small Reichstag to colourful postmodernism, architectural tour of the WZB campus. Meeting point: Green courtyard WZB
WHERE?
Kulturforum
Gemäldegalerie
Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
WHEN?
Sunday, 03.09.2023, 11 – 22 hrs
COSTS?
Free entry
