The studio floor in the 'Schokoladenfabrik' is the largest of a total of 28 Berlin studio locations that are under serious threat. Artists will open their studios in the Teilestraße workspace program from November 5 to November 8 to showcase the diversity of their artistic production and at the same time draw attention to the acute uncertainty facing their location from 2027 onwards.

The bbk berlin is initiating a new working group on the topic of inclusion. The aim is to work with Kate Brehme (berlinklusion) as the driving force, Julie Legouez (initiator of the working group from the bbk berlin board) and Wibke Behrens (managing director of bbk berlin and subsidiaries) to develop expectations, challenges, and objectives for an inclusive orientation of the association.

The Executive Board cordially invites you to two member meetings in mid-October! Please reserve October 17 and 18 for your association!

The board cordially invites you to the general meeting on October 17, 2025, at the sculpture workshop. With best regards, the Board

In the context of drastic cuts to the cultural sector and uncertainty about future developments, the program focuses on the crucial role of municipal galleries for Berlin’s artists and the city itself.

© Grafik: Ilka Forst

“Polygon Picnic” – this year's screening by Media Workshop! Thirty-four artists and users of the Media Workshop will present their audiovisual works over two evenings.

Berlin is facing a decisive turning point: The 2026/27 double budget is currently being negotiated and is to be decided in December. While the government is celebrating a “record budget” of €43.8 billion, for us this is nothing more than a bad joke. All cuts remain in place and new ones have already been decided. And where are the biggest savings being made once again? In social services – the

Between Solidarity, Censorship, and Public Pressure: As part of the Strategic Autumn of Solidarities and on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of bbk berlin, the bildungswerk des bbk and bbk berlin invite you to the panel discussion “Muted | Silenced. Where Does the Visual Arts Stand with Its Artistic Freedom – Between Solidarity, Censorship, and Public Pressure.”

On September 27 and 28, 2025, KM58 – Open Studios invites visitors to Berlin-Neukölln to view the studios of numerous artists.

Fixtures #7 | VIDEO PARTY

© Foto: Yasuto Yura

Our guest in September: Yasuto Yura presents at FIXTURES #7 his project VIDEO PARTY and will show his own work and several video artwork of other japanese artists.

Frauke Boggasch and Manfred Miersch invite you to a new episode of this series on September 17, 2025 and once again dedicate themselves to working with noises, radical soundscapes and drones.

© Cornelia Sollfrank

Exhibition of Cornelia Sollfrank in Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin, September 13, 2025 – November 21, 2025 -
Thanks to the kind invitation to be part of the “world” with an augmented reality contribution from the Media Workshop.

The Berlin Coalition of the Independent Arts (freieszene.berlin) is pleased to invite you to attend a panel discussion with representatives from Berlin's Chamber of Commerce, Visit Berlin and Stiftung Zukunft: Culture is not "nice to have" - instead, it is a significant catalyst, innovator and development factor of Berlin's economy! Every euro that is invested in culture brings several more back

Time period of the survey from June 2, 2025 until July 20, 2025: All professional artists working within Berlin’s independent arts community are warmly invited to take part in the current survey regarding artistic working spaces and rehearsal spaces in Berlin.

Come to Kunstpunkt Berlin, Schlegelstraße 6 on July 15, 2025 at 6 pm with Dr. Robbin Juhnke, cultural spokesperson for the CDU parliamentary group on the current situation and with the KdFS spokespersons.

On July 8, 11:30-13:00, the Paritätische Berlin is calling for the action “#unkürzbar - damit Berlin sozial bleibt” in front of the Rotes Rathaus. All colleagues from the cultural sector meet at 11:15 am at the Neptunbrunnen All information about the action.

GOLDRAUSCH warmly invites you to the event Talking Back – Vermitteln, vernetzen, verstärken: 35 Jahre Goldrausch on Sunday, July 6, 2025, from 4 pm until 5 pm in Fahrbereitschaft Lichtenberg as part of the Consider Listening series.

© Adnan & Nina Softić | Fotocredits: Komposter

Our guests in June: Adnan Softić and Nina Softić will talk at FIXTURES #6 about their project: KLIMATON.

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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

Cornelia Sollfrank und Felix Stalder,
Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices,
in der Reihe The Contemporary Condition
(Hrsg. Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund und Nicolas Malevé),
Sternberg Press, 2025

Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder will speak at FIXTURES #4 about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary. The occasion is the publication of their new book Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, published in the series The Contemporary Condition by Sternberg Press.
Kevin Rittberger will moderate the dialogue and lead it into a general discussion.