Five years after the profound global financial crisis, Isaac Julien released Playtime in 2013, which has hardly lost any of its relevance today. In his film installation Playtime, Julien presents different protagonists of international capital flows. With the appearance of an art dealer and an auctioneer, Julien focuses on the relationship between art and capital.

Hardly any other market system has changed as profoundly in the last decade as the art market. The role and influence of museums and private collectors, art critics, and influencers, as well as new forms of digital art and marketing channels are in constant flux.

Dirk Boll, a member of the board of Christie’s London, and journalist Silke Hohmann discuss the rapidly changing art market.

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Price: € 9 / Reduced: € 6
Admission tickets can be purchased at the cash desk and at the ticket shop

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Silke Hohmann, Photo: Wolfgang Stahr, and Dirk Boll, Credit Michael Kindermann

We cordially invite you to a presentation of the tactile model in front of the PalaisPopulaire as well as a guided tour through the exhibition The Struggle of Memory. After the picture is described in detail, the participants will talk about the background, themes, and subject matter of the art. The guided tour will be led by art mediator Dr. Elisabeth Klotz; afterwards there will be an opportunity for exchange.

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Anawana Haloba’s projects, which incorporate sound, sculpture, film, and performance, typically develop from periods of extensive research, sketching, and writing poetry. Born in Zambia and based between Oslo and Livingstone, Haloba often uses her own body as a point of departure to interrogate questions of politics, history, migration, memory, otherness, and identity.

Her multimedia installation Close-Up, 2013-2016, which occupies the central rotunda of the PalaisPopulaire, is the starting point for The Struggle of Memory and will be on view during Part 1 and 2 of the exhibition. Curator, Kerryn Greenberg talks with the artist about her practice, particularly her work with sound, and the importance of preserving indigenous languages and oral histories in Africa.

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Free admission. You can obtain a free ticket here.

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Anawana Haloba, Courtesy of Yngvar Larsen

The Struggle of Memory takes as its starting point acquisitions Deutsche Bank has made over the past decade, many of which are by artists from Africa and/or are of African descent.

In her selection, curator Kerryn Greenberg focuses on works engaging with personal narratives, alternative perspectives, and lesser-known stories, making clear that the struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Greenberg is the Associate Curator of the 14th Gwangju Biennale and Co-Director of New Curators, a paid one-year curatorial training program in London for individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds.

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Free admission. You can obtain a free ticket here.

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Kerryn Greenberg © Kerryn Greenberg, Photo: Gift Gwambe

Organized by Contemporary And (C&) on the occasion of the platform’s tenth anniversary, this discussion will focus on Afro-German artists and expand on some of the themes explored in The Struggle of Memory. In conversation are Janine Jembere (filmmaker and sound artist), Amelia Umuhire (filmmaker) and James Gregory Atkinson (artist). Moderated by Julia Grosse (C&).

In collaboration with C&

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Janine Jembere (Photo: Sebastian Bodirsky), Amelia Umuhite (Photo: Tenee Attoh) and James Gregory Atkinson (Photo: Leonie Hugendubel)

With the four-meter-high artwork "Tor (Skins)" by Erwin Wurm, the 5th outdoor sculpture is shown in front of the PalaisPopulaire. A one-hour tour of the neighborhood introduces the humorous work of the Austrian sculptor and conceptual artist as well as important historical monuments around Bebelplatz.

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Free admission. You can obtain a free ticket here.

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Erwin Wurm, Tor (Skins), 2021 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/Salzburg/Seoul, Photo: Mathias Schormann

Philipp Bollmann, curator of the Wemhöner Collection, will give a tour of the exhibition "Isaac Julien: PLAYTIME" that he curated. The show focuses on Playtime, a film that Isaac Julien presented for the first time five years after the profound global financial and banking crisis in 2008. Celebrated for his compelling lyrical films and his video art installations, Isaac Julien is one of the leading artists working in film and video today. In Playtime Julien addresses a fundamental question: can capital be rendered visible? The prelude of the exhibition forms a series of large scale photographs that were made in close relation to the film itself. During the guided tour, participants will have the opportunity to talk directly with the curator and ask questions about the work.

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Price: € 9 / Reduced: € 6
Admission tickets can be purchased at the cash desk and at the ticket shop

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Philipp Bollmann, Photo: Privat

In The Struggle of Memory contemporary artists interrogate how the body perceives, processes, stores, and recalls experiences. In three parts, a young jazz trio consisting of Morten Larsen (double bass), Leo Gerstner (drums), and David Soyza (vibraphone), will interpret works from the show. Original improvisations by the trio can be heard in on the PalaisPopulaire’s terrace in a summery atmosphere.

During each intermission, there will be a brief tour through The Struggle of Memory and a tour on sculptures and architectural history in the outdoor space of the PalaisPopulaire. The exhibition and LePopulaire café and restaurant will be open until 10 pm.

The event takes place as part of the Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2023.

The program (each half hour):
6:30 pm: Memory Jazz, Part I
7 pm: Short guided tour through The Struggle of Memory and SculpturePopulaire (sculpture tour)
7:30 pm: Memory Jazz, Part II
8 pm: Short guided tour through The Struggle of Memory and SculpturePopulaire (sculpture tour)
8.30 pm: Memory Jazz, Part III

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Free admission.

Learn more about artworks by Kara Walker, Samuel Fosso, and Wangechi Mutu in the exhibition The Struggle of Memory in hourly express guided tours starting at 6:30 pm. Highlights from the Berliner Philharmoniker’s education program also await you: In addition to creative impulses, you and your children can build your own instruments from 6 to 8 pm, which can immediately be used for a short musical performance at 7 and 8 pm. Afterwards, there will be further short concerts at 9, 10, and 11 pm with a music and poetry slam on the VeloStage, a mobile, fold-out stage. The terrace area of LePopulaire restaurant will be open, so you can also indulge in culinary delicacies throughout the night.

With the four-meter-high artwork "Tor (Skins)" by Erwin Wurm, the 5th outdoor sculpture is shown in front of the PalaisPopulaire. A one-hour tour of the neighborhood introduces the humorous work of the Austrian sculptor and conceptual artist as well as important historical monuments around Bebelplatz.

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Free admission. You can obtain a free ticket here.

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Erwin Wurm, Tor (Skins), 2021 © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac, London/Paris/Salzburg/Seoul, Photo: Mathias Schormann

In the chamber music series “Workshop.Dialogue.Music” at the PalaisPopulaire, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker introduce themselves and their instruments and talk in a relaxed atmosphere about the works presented, their interpretations, and their approach. Questions and a dialogue with the audience are expressly encouraged!

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Details on the program and advance ticket sales will follow on our website from fall 2023.

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Photo: Frederike van der Straeten / Berliner Philharmoniker

In the chamber music series “Workshop.Dialogue.Music” at the PalaisPopulaire, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker introduce themselves and their instruments and talk in a relaxed atmosphere about the works presented, their interpretations, and their approach. Questions and a dialogue with the audience are expressly encouraged!

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Details on the program and advance ticket sales will follow on our website from winter 2024.

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Photo: Frederike van der Straeten / Berliner Philharmoniker

In the chamber music series “Workshop.Dialogue.Music” at the PalaisPopulaire, members of the Berliner Philharmoniker introduce themselves and their instruments and talk in a relaxed atmosphere about the works presented, their interpretations, and their approach. Questions and a dialogue with the audience are expressly encouraged!

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Details on the program and advance ticket sales will follow on our website from spring 2024.

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Photo: Frederike van der Straeten / Berliner Philharmoniker