The programme 23/24 of Sophiensæle starts on 07.12.2023
On 7.12.2023, after urgently needed renovation work, the 2023/2024 season will begin at the Sophiensaele under the new artistic direction of Andrea Niederbuchner and Jens Hillje. We will publish the programme for the opening and the season on 26.10.2023, which is also the day when the pre-sale begins.
Every new year, the Tanztage Berlin is not only the city's very first festival, it has also established itself nationally and internationally as an important platform for emerging dance artists since its founding in 1996. The next edition of Tanztage Berlin will once again take place under the artistic direction of Mateusz Szymanówka. The festival is currently planned for 5-20 January 2024. The festival offers emerging dance artists based in Berlin a framework for their new productions and revivals. The programme of the last two editions can be found at: https://tanztage-berlin.sophiensaele.com.
Alternative histography as an anti-imperialist museum tour
For centuries, the West has robbed communities around the world of their cultural and material property, removing it from its contexts and transforming it into collectable, exchangeable objects. untoured questions the imperialist practices of Western museums and rewrites their narratives with alternative stories. An unconventional audio tour that questions the power to define meaning with selected artefacts from the Pergamonmuseum and the Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin and thereby offers alternative histories.
The *foundationClass of the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin sees art academies as powerful places of knowledge production, which in part unconsciously (re)produce inclusions and exclusions by still setting white, heterosexual people with young and powerful bodies from privileged backgrounds as the norm. As an artist*collective, *foundationClass deals with questions of representation politics and forms of self-empowering artistic practice.
BY AND WITH Akhil Amer, Annabel Daou, Dachil Sado, D'Andrade, Diwali Hasskan, Fadi Aljabour, Marwa Almokbel, Miriam Schickler, Mohamad Halbouni, Mohanad Alsneeh, Richard Khaldon Al Halah, Sana Al Kurdi, Tewa Barnosa, Ulf Aminde
A production by *foundationClass in cooperation with SOPHIENSÆLE. Funded by the Berlin Senate, the DAAD and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture.