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  1. Konzerthausorchester Berlin at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2018 - advance ticket sales start (05.12.2017)

    The concerts of the competition, which will be held in the piano and composition categories in 2018, will take place on 20 and 21 January 2018. The prizewinners will perform with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin under the direction of Corinna Niemeyer at the end of the competition. Around 60 students

  2. Parzinger: "On the way to the Humboldt Forum" campaign day was a complete success - Eissenhauer: Thanks to all Berliners (27.11.2017)

    15,000 visitors last Saturday on the Museum Island and at the Kulturforum The day of action "On the way to the Humboldt Forum", which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin organised last Saturday on Museum Island and at the Kulturforum, was a complete success.

  3. "Art through credit" - On the article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017 (07.11.2017)

    The book "Kunst durch Kredit" (De Gruyter, 2017) by Lynn Rother examines the purchase of around 4,400 works of art owned by Dresdner Bank by the State of Prussia for the Berlin museums in 1935 from the perspective of art and banking history. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) points out

  4. Keys handed over for the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building (04.11.2019)

    Basic refurbishment of the historic building complex in keeping with its listed status is complete Berlin. The keys to the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building were handed over today at a ceremony attended by 300 invited guests. This marks the completion of the basic refurbishment a

  5. Wolf Biermann is today handing over his archive and diaries to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Ceremony at the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (13.07.2021)

    With the help of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States, the State Library acquires Wolf Biermann's private and professional archives and personal diaries. Like no other, the 84-year-old singer-songwriter's work has reflected t

  6. Temple and barn: The new SPK magazine is dedicated to the future of the Berlin Cultural Forum (30.06.2021)

    To coincide with the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin on 21 August and the progress of construction work on the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, a booklet is being published that explores the possibilities of the Quarter of Art, Literature, Music and Science Berli

  7. "Finally open again for ..." - SPK, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Musikinstrumenten-Museum launch reopening campaign - designed by Büro X from Vienna (08.06.2021)

    Corona soon had the world in its grip for a year and a half. Everyone's lives had been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. This grip is now loosening. Hygiene measures are gradually being scaled back - and public life is getting back on track. New perspectives are opening up - including for the P

  8. Art in Berlin vaccination centres (04.06.2021)

    Since the beginning of June, large posters of works of art from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage have been hanging in the six Berlin vaccination centres. The motifs originate from the campaign to open up the museums and were specially adapted for the centres. Dilek Kalayci

  9. Homage to the furniture designer Erich Dieckmann - Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kunststiftung des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle prepare joint exhibition (05.05.2021)

    For the first time in over thirty years, a major exhibition will be dedicated to the furniture designer, Bauhaus member and Burg teacher Erich Dieckmann (1896-1944), which will be on show in Halle (Saale) and Berlin in 2022. Dieckmann, who became known for his type furniture programmes, worked in We

  10. Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath take over the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin (10.09.2021)

    The founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented will take up their posts on 1 January 2022 - Grütters: Fellrath and Bardaouil will provide groundbreaking impetus for Hamburger Bahnhof - Parzinger: Curator duo will achieve great things for contemporary art in Berlin At its me