Festivals & Seasonal Events
Kunstfestspiele 2024
This international and interdisciplinary festival allows audiences to experience music, performances, theatre, dance and installations at the Herrenhausen Gardens and elsewhere from May 16th to June 2nd.
Program overview
Other exhibition houses
Luke Jerram: Floating Earth
16.05.2024 to 02.06.2024
Maschteich im Maschpark
From 16 May to 2 June, the installation on the mash pond will provide a unique view of the Earth that is otherwise only available to astronauts.
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Concerts
Rhapsody in Yellow: A Ping Pong Piano Battle
17.05.2024
Schauspielhaus
Audiovisual fireworks await the audience at the Schauspielhaus on 17 May.
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Emeka Ogboh: Nzuko – The Gathering
18.05.2024 to 02.06.2024
Arne Jacobsen Foyer
An African village square in the functional glass architecture of the Arne Jacobsen Foyer?
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Stages
Encantado
18.05.2024
Deutscher Hockey Club Hannover e.V.
Lia Rodrigues will transform the stage in the DHC Hall on 18 May into the blossoming and magical world of the "Encantados": beings who, according to the b...
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Albertine Sarges
18.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
On her album ‘Family of Things’, the multi-talented Berliner Albertine Sarges explores ideas and feelings rarely set to music and deals with themes like f...
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Abel Selaocoe
19.05.2024
Galerie Herrenhausen
Abel Selaocoe radiates when he goes on stage. He delights his audiences with a big heart, enthusiasm and a casual mix of styles.
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The Great I Am Not in the Mood for This Show
20.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
You think no one can see you, but then the eyes of the world are upon you. What do you do when you’re suddenly in the limelight?
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Strange Garden
20.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
This is not a garden with squirrels and bees and snails. Other creatures live here. But who are they? And where on earth have we arrived?
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Ukrainian Callings
20.05.2024
Galerie Herrenhausen
In her solo programme Ukrainian Callings, one of Ukraine’s most celebrated singers, Mariana Sadovska, takes us on a musical journey into the remote countr...
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Fantasie Minor
20.05.2024
Großer Garten
Two hip-hop dancers and the Romantic music of Franz Schubert? Four hands at the piano and two bodies schooled in battles and freestyle? Sounds like a dari...
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Ali Doğan Gönültaş
20.05.2024
Großer Garten
As a singer and musician in the band Ze Tijê, as a film composer and television producer, Ali Doğan Gönültaş is a big name in Turkey.
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Kronos Quartet
21.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
The legendary Kronos Quartet is the cult band of string quartets. For their fiftieth birthday the four from the American West Coast go on a world tour and...
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Pamela Badjogo
22.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
The Gabonese singer Pamela Badjogo takes us on an introspective musical journey with her Bantu-soul voice and her unmistakable blend of West and Central A...
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The Making of Berlin
23.05.2024 to 24.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
In the final hours of the Second World War the Reichsorchester (today the Berlin Philharmonic) decides to record Siegfried’s Funeral March from Wagner’s '...
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Mothers - A Song for Wartime
25.05.2024
Deutscher Hockey Club Hannover e.V.
In MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME twenty-one Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish women vehemently counter the powers of destruction.
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Mirliton
25.05.2024 to 26.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
The setting looks like an arena. Within it two masked forms, martial and unrecognisable, lie in wait for one another, humbly expectant.
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Mass: A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers
26.05.2024
Kuppelsaal im HCC
Leonard Berstein's work will be performed in its complete version for the first time ever in Hanover on 26 May in the Kuppelsaal.
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Common Ground
26.05.2024
Ehrenhof
Human pyramids, trapeze, tightrope, plus turntables and live instruments. And if needed, the saxophone is played at dizzying heights.
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A Homage to Anton Plate
26.05.2024
Galerie Herrenhausen
It is a homage to an associate and friend. For Ingo Metzmacher the composer Anton Plate was a great inspiration and a kindred musical spirit.
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SPAfrica
28.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
Julian Hetzel and Ntando Cele introduced a business model: SPAfrica, the first ‘empathy drink’ is exported from Africa to Europe.
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Vástádus eana – The answer is land
29.05.2024
Deutscher Hockey Club Hannover e.V.
Vástádus eana – The answer is land is a musical and choreographic journey to the original shamanic culture of the Sámi, one of Europe’s few indigenous com...
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Elaha Soroor & Kefaya
29.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
The prize-winning musician, singer, composer and designer Elaha Soroor comes from Afghanistan but now lives in London. She first encountered traditional m...
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To Move In Time
30.05.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
What would we do if we could travel through time? A game of make-believe familiar to many of us.
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The Köln Concert
31.05.2024
Deutscher Hockey Club Hannover e.V.
It is the soundtrack for the emotional moments many lives. It is millions of people’s favourite piece and one of the most beautiful and successful jazz re...
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Motus Mori: Reliquiem
01.06.2024 to 02.06.2024
Großer Garten
Which movements would you like to pass on, to prevent them being lost?
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A Revue
01.06.2024 to 02.06.2024
Galerie Herrenhausen
A Revue is an exuberant happening that blends extra-terrestrial fashion show, queer revue, pop, Baroque and shamanistic rituals.
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Materia
02.06.2024
Orangerie Herrenhausen
It’s possible to juggle with all kinds of objects, but what Andrea Salustri does has actually never been seen before.
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