Events

This year's gorgeous winners of the "100 best posters" competition will be on show at #Kulturforum. Join us for the opening or for one of the events coming up. As always, entrance to the exhibition is free.

This free brunch event brings together Berliners working to create a more resilient and adaptable urban environment and culture.

No agenda, no sponsors, just chats, networking and fun.

Susann Massute (*1989 in Brandenburg) is a freelance designer based in Berlin. Her interdisciplinary practice combines illustration, typography, photography, and writing, often blurring the lines between conceptual design and visual storytelling.

Curious what others creators are up to? Join us at SAE Berlin to learn, share and connect! Anyone is welcome - no matter if you are a professional, student, hobbyist, or just curious about Unreal.

In this Open Office Dialogue we would like to deal with participation in the urban context in a practical, reflective and tactical framework. In an interactive workshop, we want to explore how interactive methods – especially storytelling, visual tools and collaborative formats – can break down barriers to participation, especially for marginalised communities.

Whatever creative endeavour you've been putting off- get it done here in a supportive group that holds you accountable!

Learn about botanical printing, a natural dyeing technique that uses flowers, leaves and other plant materials to imprint their pigments onto fabric, creating unique organic designs.

Drafted is a casual, in-person-first community for designers and creatives to build lasting connections.

Join for a zine making workshop with our friend Alex, who is a design researcher and critical designer and avid zine creator! Zines are fun DIY (Do it yourself), self-published magazines, which channel alternative forms of story telling and are rooted in several cultural movements.

Krita + ComfyUI ist eine seltene Kombination von KI-Tools, die speziell für Designer:innen gedacht ist. Mit gewohnten Werkzeugen wie Ebenen, Pinseln und Masken, arbeitest du schneller – unterstützt durch KI, aber immer in voller Kontrolle. Du kannst dein Werk jederzeit bis ins letzte Detail überarbeiten. In Verbindung mit weiteren Tools kannst du deine Entwürfe auch schnell in 3D-Modelle oder Videos umwandeln, um sie weiterzuentwickeln oder zur Marktkommunikation einzusetzen.

Join us as we explore how animation can take your designs to the next level. Discover essential Lottie techniques, get creative with hands-on tips, and see your ideas come to life in real-time on Figma with LottieFiles.

The 6th XR ART & NETWORKING, a joint event by AURORA XR School and HTW Berlin's Immersive Technologies Hub, focuses on playful knowledge practices. Explore innovative XR projects at the intersection of art, development, game design, and journalism. Expect short talks, expert discussions, and networking.

ininin is a hands-on event format where experts share and facilitate specific methods or processes related to prototyping, design thinking, user research, UX strategy, and product development.

Join for the celebration of the animation project of Illustration Ladies Berlin & Panimation Berlin at Ministry of Animation ❤️ They will screen the final results and hangout!

Repair, upcycle or swap clothes - until late in the evening. All over Berlin on 25 April! Discover how versatile and creative textile rescue can be: Look forward to repair workshops, clothes swaps, upcycling stations and exciting talks about the future of our clothes.

A bi-monthly online series where senior leadership in Product Management shares exclusive insights, actionable strategies, and real-world experiences. Held on Wednesdays, each session dives into a new theme, helping PMs at all levels. Don’t miss out on this chance to learn, engage, and elevate your PM journey from anywhere!

Das Ziel ist, euch in der Gruppe einen Einblick zu geben, welche Arten von Marken es gibt, was ihr dafür investieren solltet (Zeit, Ideen, Geld), was ihr persönlich getrost lassen könnt, ohne etwas zu verpassen.

The Berlin Print Festival with exciting partners from the fields of riso, letterpress, digital printing, offset printing, bookbinding and finishing around Berlin and Brandenburg. Organised by Slanted, Melville Design and Metapaper. With live riso printing, bookbinding, embossing and networking.

This hands-on workshop offers a unique opportunity to explore eco-friendly techniques and push the boundaries of textile design, materials research and biodesign.

Das Animation Rendezvous Berlin bringt jeweils drei Komponenten zusammen, die für eine gelungene und nachhaltige Veranstaltung sorgen: ein spannender und ungewöhnlicher Ort, zwei Hosts aus verschiedenen Branchen und ein Thema, das die Gäste jeweils verbindet. Am Abend des 26. Juni verabreden wir uns erneut und untersuchen Verbindungen und Schnittstellen zwischen Illustration und Animation.

Ihr lernt anhand von Erfahrungsberichten aus konkreten Projekten und Hands-on-Demos, worauf es wirklich ankommt: Wo liegen Chancen und Herausforderungen beim Einsatz von Augmented oder Virtual Reality? Wie können Institutionen und Künstler:innen zusammenarbeiten, um neue Vermittlungsräume zu erschließen? Ziel ist es, euch zu befähigen, immersive Technologien selbst einzuschätzen und fundierte Entscheidungen für eure Arbeit zu treffen.

Explore the artistic potential of crochet in our engaging workshop, where loops and knots come together to form unexpected shapes. You’ll learn to crochet on a mesh structure, combining weaving and knotting techniques to create intricate and playful designs.

Whatever creative endeavour you've been putting off- get it done here in a supportive group that holds you accountable!

Whether you’re a designer, researcher, or simply curious about future materials, this session offers a unique opportunity to engage with bioplastics in a practical way.

VJ Open Lab is, you guessed it, an open platform. We want to give space to all, especially those who have never performed before at VJ Open Lab. We support impro performances and foster new collaborations between visual artists and musicians.

Around 1940, Bauhaus artist Anni Albers and her student Alexander Reed created necklaces made from everyday metallic materials and objects. Reduced and yet amazingly noble, these pieces of jewelry appear. We want to elicit shimmering elegance from these seemingly worthless materials.

Our four-hour tufting workshops will give you the opportunity to create a piece of art with your own personal design.

Join us as transmediale studio opens its doors once again, where visitors are invited to meet transmediale's 2025 residents and learn about their projects. The artists will share their current research traces and prototypes through performative interventions and presentational formats.

Learn to knit digitally. We offer a focused workshop where you'll learn everything you need to know about knitting with the Kniterate machine using their own software.

Explore how bodies are represented and perform within technological media, from painting to digital art. This course combines hands-on art creation with critical discussions on visibility, embodiment, and surveillance history.

This month, join EDGE neuroscience & art e.V. online for an insightful presentation by Geneine Carson, who will share her personal journey of engaging with the scientific community through visual arts, spurred by her daughter's rare genetic diagnosis.

Unter dem Motto Future Thinking: Quantensprünge mit der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft präsentiert das Quantum Social Lab Best-Practice-Erfahrungen cross-innovativer Unternehmungen an der Schnittstelle zur Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Gemeinsam mit unserem Kooperationspartner diskutieren wir über die Auswirkungen von Quantentechnologien auf Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik und beschäftigen uns damit, wie sich das Innovationsverständnis im Bereich Kreativwirtschaft und Technologie modernisieren und weiterentwickeln lässt.

Möchten Sie Ihre Website einfach nutzbar und barrierearm gestalten? Dann nutzen Sie den kostenfreien Sprechtag „Websiteanalyse“ von der IHK Regensburg. Unser Zentrum Fokus Mensch ist ebenfalls vertreten und gibt Impulse zur Menschzentrierten Digitalisierung.

Our July meetup is heading to a summer spot 🌞This time, we're meeting in Kreuzberg; where the pulse of Berlin lies. Join us on July 1st to kick off the month with great coffee and even better conversations. Same easy-going flow and friendly community.

You're warmly invited to join us at the first meetup of DesignDesign: a new space to explore critical, alternative, and emergent design practices. For this event, we’re starting with big questions: What shapes imagination? And how can we challenge and expand the practices of imagining itself?

In this short seminar, we will give you an overview of what it takes to be or set up your own cultural-artistic-creative business. In addition to introductory inputs, we want to discuss your field of activity, your experiences and your unanswered questions. We will provide an overview of other contact points, advice and further training opportunities at the Creative Service Center and beyond.

Whatever creative endeavour you've been putting off- get it done here in a supportive group that holds you accountable!

As the world around us becomes more confusing by the hour, we want to keep close those we hold dear. Do we let uncertainty and politics fracture us, or do we build the kinds of spaces where people can think, feel, and act freely together? On the surface this course is about program and event series design in the context of community building, but at its core, it is more than that. It is about creating conditions for collective courage.

The third and final part of the programme focuses on the diversity of research methods as seen in two concrete case studies: from speculative storytelling in the non-human narrative of a volcano, to how media formats influence our subconscious production of spatial knowledge.

Wie kann Üben als Methode für eine künstlerische Beschäftigung mit der sozialen, baulichen und natürlichen Umwelt genutzt werden? Übungen aus dem Bauhaus-Vorkurs wurden von Studierenden des Masterstudiengangs Art in Context (Universität der Künste Berlin) neu gedacht. Im Workshop werden die Übungen im Stadtraum erprobt.

Zusammen mit dem Digital Education Lab (DEL) der IHK Berlin laden wir euch herzlich zu unserem VR Business Club ein. Jetzt ist der Moment, internationale Impulse aufzugreifen, Best Practices zu verstehen – und noch mutiger und offensiver das Thema anzugehen.

No agenda, no sponsors, just chats, networking and fun.

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

Every summer, students from Faculty 5 Design and Culture present their work and projects from the previous academic year at the Wilhelminenhof campus in Oberschöneweide

The Berlin University of the Arts invites you to the Rundgang - Open Days. 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.

The weißensee academy of art berlin will open its studios, workshops and laboratories for the ‘Rundgang - Tage der offenen Tür’ and provide insights into the work and research processes of young artists and designers on around 2,000 square metres of exhibition space.

Wenn es um das Bauhaus geht, kommt man an den Ideen, die hier für ein neues und gesundes Wohnen erdacht und erprobt wurden, nicht vorbei. Als Gegenmodell zu den dunklen und unhygienischen Mietskasernenstädten sind in Berlin in den 1920er-Jahren für ihre Zeit wegweisende Wohnsiedlungen entstanden.

Der Rundgang durch das Hansaviertel führt uns in die 50er Jahre und zu den Werken einiger der bekanntesten Architekten der Moderne: Von Walter Gropius über Alvar Aalto aus Finnland zu Oscar Niemeyer aus Brasilien. Die Bibliothek von Werner Düttmann hat eine fahrbare Glasfassade und einen liebenswerten Lesegarten.

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.

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

Process Events are made to unite communities and share stories as we take you inside the highs, lows and challenges faced by diverse speakers. Our aim is to help you understand what it takes to navigate creative careers as we explore the world of people including freelancers, founders and teams.

Wenn es um das Bauhaus geht, kommt man an den Ideen, die hier für ein neues und gesundes Wohnen erdacht und erprobt wurden, nicht vorbei. Als Gegenmodell zu den dunklen und unhygienischen Mietskasernenstädten sind in Berlin in den 1920er-Jahren für ihre Zeit wegweisende Wohnsiedlungen entstanden.

Die Teilnehmenden betreten eine von der Künstlerin Nadine Kolodziey entwickelte Augmented-Reality (AR)-Oase, in der KI-Systeme und Wasserressourcen in fragiler Balance koexistieren. Jeder kreative Eingriff verändert dieses Gleichgewicht – Innovation trifft auf Verantwortung. Ziel ist es, ein Bewusstsein dafür zu schaffen, wie technologische Entwicklungen, insbesondere KI, unseren Umgang mit natürlichen Ressourcen beeinflussen können.

Wozu forscht eigentlich das Berliner Exzellenzcluster "Matter of Activity"? Taucht ein in die wunderbare Welt der Designforschung – überraschende, spannende und witzige Fragen laden zum Miträtseln ein. Sucht Mitstreiterinnen, denkt Euch Teamnamen aus und seid dabei!

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

The moderated concert given by the pianist Michal Friedländer and the musicologist Kai Hinrich Müller transports the audience into the musical world associated with the Bauhaus. The concert features music by German and US-American composers who were guests of the Bauhaus including the ultra-modernist George Antheil, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.

Emotions and heartache in the land of geometry: Marc Blitzstein’s “Parabola and Circula” is finally being premiered! The probably only Cubist opera in the world was composed in 1929 based on a libretto by George Whitsett and its premiere was to have been given in cooperation with the Bauhaus in Dessau. These plans however never materialised – until the present day!

Wenn es um das Bauhaus geht, kommt man an den Ideen, die hier für ein neues und gesundes Wohnen erdacht und erprobt wurden, nicht vorbei. Als Gegenmodell zu den dunklen und unhygienischen Mietskasernenstädten sind in Berlin in den 1920er-Jahren für ihre Zeit wegweisende Wohnsiedlungen entstanden.

Strategie ist Magie auf Vorstandsebene. Wait, what? So oder so ähnlich ist wohl das landläufige Klischee der Strategiearbeit. Dabei kann Strategie auch praxisnah, pragmatisch und überall in der Organisation gelebt werden.

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.

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

Möchten Sie Ihre Website einfach nutzbar und barrierearm gestalten? Dann nutzen Sie den kostenfreien Sprechtag „Websiteanalyse“ von der IHK Regensburg. Unser Zentrum Fokus Mensch ist ebenfalls vertreten und gibt Impulse zur Menschzentrierten Digitalisierung.

Wenn es um das Bauhaus geht, kommt man an den Ideen, die hier für ein neues und gesundes Wohnen erdacht und erprobt wurden, nicht vorbei. Als Gegenmodell zu den dunklen und unhygienischen Mietskasernenstädten sind in Berlin in den 1920er-Jahren für ihre Zeit wegweisende Wohnsiedlungen entstanden.

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.

Strategie ist Magie auf Vorstandsebene. Wait, what? So oder so ähnlich ist wohl das landläufige Klischee der Strategiearbeit. Dabei kann Strategie auch praxisnah, pragmatisch und überall in der Organisation gelebt werden.

At each Show & Tell event, up to 3 people take the stage to to present their current project, product, build, innovation, prototype, an insurmountable problem, half-baked solution, slick technique – whatever they think is worth sharing. Our communal goal is to challenge them, give feedback, offer advice, and of course, praise their work and courage. Drinks and networking while and after.