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News about the artists awarded with a grant by Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. In Berlin, the center of activities is the daadgalerie on Oranienstrasse.
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Since 1963, some 20 grants are awarded to international artists for an approximately one year stay in Berlin. The names of over 1.000 former guests impressively underscore the quality of the program. In its almost 50 years of existence, it has made a significant contribution to the international representation of contemporary arts in Berlin. From the very beginning, the Berliner Künstlerprogramm h

as defined itself as a forum of artistic dialogue which extends beyond cultural, geographical and, certainly, beyond political borders. This forum is effective and vigorous not only through the work and presence of the artists living in the city, but also through the approximately 100 events a year which the Berliner Künstlerprogramm hosts in conjunction with its guests in Berlin and other cities, and not least, by the international juries of experts in the four sections who decide upon the invitations to be issued. In this way, standpoints of the international artistic avant-garde are mediated, not only in Berlin, stimulating both aesthetic and political discourse.

17/06/2026

Join us tomorrow, Thursday June 18 for opening of ‘Two new books, two new works plus an old one for good measure’ and immerse yourself in the work Visual Arts fellow, Anup Mathew Thomas, has developed over the past two decades.
Much like Thomas’s practice itself—the exhibition at daadgalerie invites you to look, read… and look again.

Opening: Thursday 18 June at 7 pm, daadgalerie.

Stay, celebrate and dance with us to the rhythms curated by

Two new books, two new works plus an old one for good measure
With works by

Curation & production management: .galofre and

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
Berlin- Kreuzberg

Learn more about Visual Arts fellow Anup Mathew Thomas vía link in bio.

16/06/2026

We are thrilled to welcome Merve Emre as a short-term fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program this June and July! 🌱

Merve is a critic, essayist, and scholar whose work sits at the crossroads of literature, personality, intellectual history, and contemporary culture. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University, where she also directs the Shapiro Center for Creative Writing and Criticism.

She is the author of „The Personality Brokers“ — a cultural history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator named one of the best books of 2018 by the NYT, The Economist, and NPR, and the inspiration behind the CNN/HBO Max documentary Persona — as well as „Paraliterary“ and „The Ferrante Letters.“ A contributing writer at The New Yorker, her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and the London Review of Books, among others. Her work has been recognized with the Philip Leverhulme Prize, the Robert B. Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism, and the National Book Critics Circle’s Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

Welcome, Merve! Merve Emre

12/06/2026

Join us on June 17 from 7pm at Arsenal Filminstitut e.V. 🎞️ Paraguayan filmmaker, producer, festival founder and DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program fellow 2026 has selected two films that, in a sense, archaeologically unearth various aspects of Paraguay’s history: his latest essay film, >Bajo las banderas, el solNoites Paraguayas

11/06/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars. A very special evening is coming up at daadgalerie, next Thursday 18 June at 7 pm.

We are thrilled to invite you to the opening of the exhibition ‘Two new books, two new works plus an old one for good measure’, by Visual Arts Fellow 2024/25 Anup Mathew Thomas.

Join us in celebrating Anup’s first solo exhibition in Berlin, which brings together a concise, yet compelling selection of works developed over the past two decades alongside new pieces created during his fellowship.

The opening also marks a significant moment for us: it will be the final exhibition at our premises on Oranienstraße 161, closing one chapter while opening another shaped by transitions and new perspectives.

Come, stay and celebrate with us on the dance floor! Edna Martinez will carry us through the evening with Afro-Caribbean rhythms, deep basslines, electronic textures, diasporic beats, sounds from the SWANA region, UK funky, and other sound system influences, woven into expansive sonic journeys.

🎉We look forward to welcoming you and celebrating together! 🎉

Two new books, two new works
plus an old one for good measure
With works by

Curation & Production Management: Raisa Galofre and Malte Roloff

Exhibition opening: June 18, 2026 / 7 PM
Exhibition runtime: 19.06 - 16.08.2026

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10969 Berlin - Kreuzberg

05/06/2026

👀 Last weekend & last chance to visit ‘Melted Stars’ by at daadgalerie! 👀
Come by from 12 - 7 PM and dive into Som’s research and video installation. Make sure to take a copy of the exhibition’s leaflet with you!

Melted Stars is the first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin by Som Supaparinya (Fellow 2021/22). In an audiovisual long-term research project that began in 2016, the artist—who is originally from northern Thailand—addresses Thailand’s problematic entanglement with Japan during World War II as well as the deliberate repression of this history within the national culture of remembrance.

The new video installation Melted Stars focuses on the changing landscape of northern Thailand and neighboring areas, which were used as strategic terrain during the war to violently enforce colonial and political interests.

Through film-documented observations, field trips, interviews with contemporary witnesses, and archival research, Supaparinya examines the functional transformations of infrastructures and landscapes. At the same time, she makes processes of memory, their transmission, and the conditions and forms of remembrance itself visible.

Melted Stars
With works by

On view until Sunday, June 7.

Curated by .keppler
Production Management: .galofre

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
Berlin - Kreuzberg

Photo credits:
1. 10. Mathias Völzke / BKP
2. - 9. Eunice Maurice / BKP
10. Key visual:

01/06/2026

✨✨Last week of the exhibition ‘Melted Stars’ by at daadgalerie ✨✨
If you are in Berlin, be sure to visit the exhibition any day from Tuesday to Sunday, from 12 - 7 PM.

‘Melted Stars’ is the first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin by Som Supaparinya ( Visual Arts fellow 2021/22). In an audiovisual long-term research project that began in 2016, the artist addresses Thailand’s problematic entanglement with Japan during World War II as well as the deliberate repression of this history within the national culture of remembrance.

Learn more about Melted Stars and Som Supaparinya vía Link in Bio.

Melted Stars
With works by Som Supaparinya
Curated by .keppler
Production management: .galofre

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
Berlin - Kreuzberg

Tuesday - Sunday
12 - 7 PM

On view until June 7, 2026.

Photo credits:
2 - 8, 10 - 14: Mathias Völzke / BKP
9: Eunice Maurice / BKP
The original photos were adapted to Intagram’s vertical format for this post.

29/05/2026

is delighted to present ‘Two new books, two new works plus an old one for good measure’, a solo exhibition by Visual Arts Fellow 2024/25 Anup Mathew Thomas, on view from 19 June to 16 August 2026 at daadgalerie. The exhibition opens on Thursday, 18 June.

With ‘Two new books, two new works plus an old one for good measure’, Anup Mathew Thomas presents, for the first time to audiences in Berlin, a concise yet compelling selection of his work. Bringing together works developed over the last two decades alongside new ones produced during his DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program fellowship, the exhibition at daadgalerie explores what happens when an unapologetically hyperlocal artistic practice — such as that of Thomas — is transplanted into a different context, and how such a body of work positions itself within it.

Anup Mathew Thomas’s works dwell at the threshold of documentation and fact, and between fiction and fable. They draw their persuasive and imaginative power from tensions between text and image, observation and interpretation, calling into question the status of photographic images and journalistic writing as means of conveying truth or knowledge about the world. What creeps in at the gaps between reporting and storytelling is a space of ambiguity that shifts how we see the familiar and ordinary, reframing the contingencies and uncertainties that shape everyday life—its social norms, customs, traditions, and myths.

‘Two new books, two new works plus and old one for good measure’
With works by
Curated and produced by .galofre and

Exhibition runtime: 19.06 – 16.08.2026
Opening: 18.06.2026, 7 PM

daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10969 Berlin - Kreuzberg

Image: Anup Mathew Thomas, ‘Apparitions’ (detail) 2026
Design: .klimaite

27/05/2026

With Raw Voice Lab, Sarmen Almond launches a new workshop series at focusing on voice and movement for the stage.

The workshops are aimed at musicians, improvisers, performers, movement artists, and curious individuals who wish — or intuitively feel the need — to work with their voice across diverse dynamic and expressive contexts.

Register now for the first sessions in June:
Friday, 26 June, 3–6 pm
Saturday, 27 June, 11 am–3 pm
Sunday, 28 June, 11 am–3 pm

Participation is free of charge and limited to a group of 25 participants.

Please register by 18 June 2026
📧 [email protected]

is a 2026 Music & Sound Fellow.

26/05/2026

This week, we continue sharing insights into ’s works featured in her exhibition *Melted Stars* at daadgalerie. If you are in Berlin, be sure to visit the exhibition and join the walk-and-talk with Som and curator .keppler natalie.keppler this Sunday, May 31, at 4 pm.

Boonserm’s Painting, 2026

The questions that sparked the research and development of Melted Stars began two decades ago. In 2006, Som Supaparinya interviewed contemporary witness, photographer, and painter Boonserm Satrabhai. Twenty years later, she commissioned Panu Kritaramruang to reproduce Boonserm’s original painting Chiang Mai 1941–1945 for inclusion in the 2026 installation Melted Stars at daadgalerie.

The painting depicts Japanese soldiers stationed at Nawarat Bridge over the Ping River, a key infrastructural gateway leading out of the city of Chiang Mai.

Artwork:
Panu Kritaramruang, Boonserm’s Painting [2026] reproduction of Chiang Mai 1941–1945 by Boonserm Satrabhai, oil painting on canvas. Courtesy of the estate of Boonserm Satrabhai.

Melted Stars
With works by Som Supaparinya
Curated by Natalie Keppler

Tues - Sun
12 - 7 PM
daadgalerie
Oranienstraße 161
10969 Berlin - Kreuzberg

Photo credits:
1. Eunice Maurice
2, 3. Mathias Völzke

23/05/2026

Join us on the last weekend of May in celebrating Singuhr ###: the 30th anniversary of connecting key venues for sound art across the city. Don’t miss the rare chance to encounter the participating artists and collaborators of singuhr in one place, among them numerous and companions.

The program features sound installations by Bernhard Leitner (Fellow 1982) at the Parochialkirche and Akio Suzuki (Fellow 1994) in public space, as well as two days of concerts and performances by Paul DeMarinis (Fellow 2009), Max Eastley (Fellow 2017), Sam Auinger (Fellow 1997), Akio Suzuki & Hiromi Miyakita and others at Villa Elisabeth and the Kuppelhalle at silent green. On Sunday, 31 May, a matinee on sound spaces in Berlin will take place at the daadgalerie, featuring talks and discussions. Speakers include Helga de la Motte-Haber, Janina Klassen, Susanne Binas-Preisendörfer, Volker Straebel, Jan Thoben, Nika Schmitt, and Carsten Seiffarth. The talk will be held in German.

Friday, 29.5.2026, Parochialkirche and Klosterviertel
6:00 p.m. Opening of the sound installation »Ton-Kuppel« by Bernhard Leitner
8:00 p.m. Opening of the installation »oto-date berlin 2026« by Akio Suzuki

Runtime: May 30 — June 7, 2026

Saturday, May 30, 2026, Villa Elisabeth from 6pm, tickets available via
with: Erwin Stache, Vinyl-terror & -horror, Jens Brand & Sukandar Kartadinata, Max Eastley, Michael Moser, Paul DeMarinis, Akio Suzuki & Hiromi Miyakita

Matinee: 31.05.2026 / 11:00 am –2:00 pm /
daadgalerie, Oranienstraße 161, 10969 Berlin Free admission, All welcome (in German)

Sunday, May 31, 2026, Kuppelhalle (Cupola) silent green from 6pm, tickets available via
with Sam Auinger, Edwin van der Heide, Hans Peter Kuhn, Hugo Esquinca, Ricardo Carioba, Raul Keller, Ioana Vreme Moser, Robert Lippok

Please find the full schedule on our website

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