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Die einhundert besten Plakate des Jahres 2025 sind da! Vom 12. Juni bis 5. Juli 2026 werden die Gewinnermotive des Wettbewerbs „100 Beste Plakate 25“ am Kulturforum ausgestellt. Sie zeigen das Neueste und Aufregendste im aktuellen Grafikdesign. Nah dran! Grafikdesign von cyan seit 1992. Ein Abend im Gespräch mit Daniela Haufe und Detlef Fiedler.

100 Beste Plakate 25 – Nah dran! Grafikdesign von cyan seit 1992

Die Talks machen Sommerpause. Die Gespräche nicht. Deshalb probieren wir etwas Neues aus: Am 1. Juli treffen wir uns zu einem gemeinsamen Spaziergang durch den Treptower Park. Keine Vorträge. Keine Bühne. Keine Präsentationen. Dafür gute Fragen, neue Perspektiven und neugierige Menschen. Unsere Leitfrage für den Abend: Wo soll es eigentlich hingehen?

Ignite Connect: Walk

In this workshop series, we’ll explore Climate Futures, Migration, Memory, and the Baltic Sea through food and gaming🌊. Based on our motto “all rivers lead to the sea” — our actions on land ripple outward into marine ecosystems, food systems, and future generations. Across 3 community workshops, we invite participants to play, imagine, cook, and reflect together through VR, storytelling, and food.

Echoes of the Deep - Workshop 2: Recipe Writing

This isn't your typical networking event. It's a F*ckup Night — a space where creative and tech people share their real professional mistakes, failures, and what came after. No polished success stories. No LinkedIn highlights. Just honest, human experiences. Short talks from speakers sharing their biggest f*ckups. Open mic — the floor is open for anyone who wants to share their story. Casual networking, drinks & conversations.

Berlin. Creative&Tech F*ckup Night

This accompanying talk, taking place on the evening before the exhibition opening, brings together the participating architects to reflect on their practices in a moment of transition – when rapid expansion in China has given way to a more differentiated development shaped by shifting demands and new scales of operation. Through concise inputs, they address themes such as adaptive reuse, rural transformation and new forms of spatial production.

A Structure of Feeling – On a New Generation of Architects in China

The Creative Code Stammtisch is a casual show-and-tell for artists, makers, designers, coders, performers, learners and anyone interested in the use of computing skills for artistic expression.

Creative Code Stammtisch

The Boys Club will be part of @48stundennk again! In a multidisciplinary group exhibition we will explore our personal borders. Mediums: photography, painting, design, ceramics. Borders — experienced, established, crossed. This exhibition explores such from a flinta perspective. On a collective level, we ask: How do we protect, assert, and empower one another? On a personal level, we ask: How do we shape an identity, a self-image? Where do we as selves end, and where does the world begin? We must set boundaries: for our safety, our self-discovery, and our integrity. Which boundaries must we break through in order to be free?

The Boys Club: SISTERS AND BORDERS.

Diskutieren Sie Chancen und Nutzen beim Wirtschafts- und Zukunftsdialog EXPO 2035 BERLIN-BRANDENBURG!

Wirtschafts- und Zukunftsdialog EXPO 2035 BERLIN-BRANDENBURG

Discover the essentials of self-employment in Germany’s arts and creative industries. Our online seminar guides you through the first steps, from registering as self-employed to learning about the key differences between “freelance” activities and other forms of self-employment.

#01 Get started! Introduction to freelancing

KREATIV UNTAPPED is a creative playground born in Berlin, where anyone can unlock their creativity, activate new synapses, and meet people through making. Each session pairs a working practitioner with a different creative discipline and gives you a hands-on way to try it — this time, character design with Berlin street artist DARED. No job title. No prior experience. Just the willingness to tap in.

KREATIV UNTAPPED #2 · Character Design Untapped w/ DARED · Create Your Own Character

In diesem Seminar der Reihe „Kreativ & selbstständig“ lernst du, wie du deine eigenen Preise kalkulieren kannst und musst, um nachhaltig von deinem kreativen Schaffen zu leben. Genauer schauen wir uns in dieser dieser Ausgabe die Branchen Musik, Mode- und Kommunikationsdesign an.

Kreativ & selbstständig: Preiskalkulation mit Fokus auf Musik, Mode- und Kommunikationsdesign

Am 14. Juni  können potentielle Studienplatzbewerber*innen ihre Arbeiten bzw. Mappen mitbringen und sich individuell beraten lassen.
Bitte mindestens 15 bis 20 Arbeiten (vorzugsweise ausgedruckt) mitbringen, gern auch mehr. Die Beratung findet individuell oder in kleinen Gruppen mit zwei bis vier Personen statt, je nach Anzahl der Teilnehmer*innen. Time Slots werden vor Ort vergeben. Die Beratungsgebühr von 30 Euro wird bei Teilnahme am anschließenden Portfolio Workshop vergütet.

Portfolio (Mappen-) Beratung

From income tax to VAT: this online seminar provides orientation on navigating taxes and invoicing as well as the "small business regulation" (Kleinunternehmerregelung) in Germany.

#02 Get started! Orientation in taxes and invoicing

Here is the 35th vvvv worldwide meetup on July 16th, 7pm CET, hosted by The NODE Institute online and also in person. This is the meetup for creatives and developers using the visual programming environment vvvv and its visual language VL. Join us IRL or online with artist presentations and announcements in the vvvv community.

35. vvvv worldwide meetup

XD Network (with the support of WIN Creating Images) is hosting an art-science+ community event. We’re launching ART-SCI+ NODES, a series of gatherings for artists, scientists, researchers, technologists, and curious minds. ⊞ ART-SCI+ NODES connects disciplines through ⇄ exchange, ⟷ interfaces, and ∿ resonance ◎ Ideas ⋈ intersect, ⟳ transform, and ✦ converge ∞ Unplanned & vivid networks emerge.

ART-SCI+ NODES (Community Event)

The Berlin University of the Arts invites you to the Rundgang - Open Days. Workshops, studios and rehearsal rooms of the colleges of Fine Arts, Architecture, Media and Design, Music and Performing Arts as well as the Jazz Institute Berlin and the Berlin Career College open their doors at the end of the academic year. From painting, sculpture, and performance to design sketches, fashion shows, and film screenings to concerts, dance, and sound installations, students will show the results and processes of their artistic work.

UdK Rundgang – Open Days

Department 5 | School of CULTURE + DESIGN at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences is hosting WERKSCHAU and opening its doors to culture enthusiasts and prospective students, professionals from the cultural and creative industries, alumni, all local residents, young and old alike. Over 1,500 students are showcasing their latest work in the fields of communication design, fashion design, industrial design, system design, public design, clothing technology, museology, museum management and restoration.

HTW Werkschau

Die Ausstellung widmet sich zwei herausragenden Protagonisten des Aesthetic Movements, dessen Kult der Schönheit einen wesentlichen Impuls für die Entstehung der gestalterischen Moderne setzte. Ausgehend von der beispielhaften Verbindung von Kunst, Design und Lebensstil, die Godwin und Wilde kultivierten, beleuchtet die Schau die ästhetischen und gesellschaftlichen Grundlagen einer Bewegung, die über das 19. Jahrhundert hinaus wirkmächtig blieb und die Entwicklung des Designs maßgeblich beeinflusste. Erleben Sie die Eleganz und Extravaganz des viktorianischen Aesthetic Movements. Nach einer Kuratorenführung durch die Ausstellung klingt der Abend bei einem Cocktail aus – bei gutem Wetter im Freien.

Edward W. Godwin und Oscar Wilde. Dandys Dekadenz Moderne – Dandys & Drinks

Am 17. Juni gibt es in den Räumen von feldfünf einen Infotermin für alle, die sich um einen Studienplatz an einer Gestaltungshochschule bewerben wollen. Wissenswertes rund um die Bewerbungsverfahren: Abläufe, Portfolio (Mappe), Schwerpunkte, Hochschularten, Voraussetzungen, Praktika, Hausaufgaben etc. Zu diesem Termin bitte noch keine Arbeiten mitbringen, es handelt sich um einen kostenlosen Beratungstermin ohne Besprechung konkreter Mappen.

Portfolio Beratung

This intensive, week-long master class immerses participants in the material culture and making techniques of European medieval glass, with a particular focus on Germanic traditions. Through close study of historical drinking vessels from the Middle Ages, participants will investigate form, proportion, and construction, and actively translate these historical methods into rigorous contemporary hot-shop practice. 

Medieval European Glass with Mathieu Grodet

Connects is a global hub of inspiration, learning, and collaboration for creatives, innovators, and enthusiasts alike. With a diverse program of workshops, interactive events, and leisure activities. Connects is a place where global talent come together to ignite fresh perspectives, bring bold visions to life & gain new experiences.

GIU Connects

In this online seminar, you'll explore the ins and outs of the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), the „Artists Social Security Fund“, and learn about other insurance options.

#03 Get started! Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) and social insurance basics

Echoes of the Deep - Workshop 3: Open Kitchen

On 26 and 27 July, the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin will open its studios, workshops and laboratories for the ‘Rundgang – Open Days’, offering insights into the creative and research processes of emerging artists and designers across approximately 2,000 square metres of exhibition space.

weißensee Rundgang – Open house

Zweiwöchiger Portfolio Workshop in dem die Teilnehmer*innen zu den Überbegriffen Wahrnehmen, Sammeln, Ordnen, Experimentieren, Evaluieren, Dokumentieren und Erzählen in einer Gruppe Gleichgesinnter gestalterisch arbeiten und sich so auf die Aufnahmeprüfung an einer Gestaltungshochschule vorbereiten können. Das Programm beider Wochen baut aufeinander auf. Einzelbuchungen sind nur in Ausnahmefällen und nach vorheriger Absprache bzw. Beratung möglich. Die Kosten betragen pro Workshopwoche 300 Euro. Die Gebühr für die Mappenberatung wird rückvergütet.

Portfolio-Workshop (Mappenkurs)

Join us at this networking event to engage with Berlin-based organizations and associations that provide support for your journey into self-employment and networking.

Get connected! Meet organizations for your start into self-employment!

Connect with Berliners driving socio-ecological urban transformation over brunch with coffee and plant-based snacks. Building a Resilient and Adaptive Urban Future Together. Join a gathering of Berliners and local organisations committed to fostering socio-ecological resilience and long-term transformation in the city. This free brunch event offers a welcoming space to connect, exchange ideas, and explore collaborative opportunities for sustainable urban development.

Brunch for Change

Das Seminar mit Wolfgang Beinert richtet sich an Fachleute aus der Design-, Werbe- und Medienbranche, etwa Art Directors, Corporate- und Editorial-Designer, Mediengestalter:innen, Verlagshersteller:innen sowie Expert:innen für Interface-, User-Experience-, Grafik- und Kommunikationsdesign.

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