Kunstfestspiele 2024

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.

Audiovisual fireworks await the audience at the Schauspielhaus on 17 May.

An African village square in the functional glass architecture of the Arne Jacobsen Foyer?

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...

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...

Abel Selaocoe radiates when he goes on stage. He delights his audiences with a big heart, enthusiasm and a casual mix of styles. 

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? 

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?

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...

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...

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. 

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...

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...

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 '...

In MOTHERS A SONG FOR WARTIME twenty-one Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish women vehemently counter the powers of destruction.

The setting looks like an arena. Within it two masked forms, martial and unrecognisable, lie in wait for one another, humbly expectant.

Leonard Berstein's work will be performed in its complete version for the first time ever in Hanover on 26 May in the Kuppelsaal.

Human pyramids, trapeze, tightrope, plus turntables and live instruments. And if needed, the saxophone is played at dizzying heights.  

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.

Julian Hetzel and Ntando Cele introduced a business model: SPAfrica, the first ‘empathy drink’ is exported from Africa to Europe.

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...

The prize-winning musician, singer, composer and designer Elaha Soroor comes from Afghanistan but now lives in London. She first encountered traditional m...

What would we do if we could travel through time? A game of make-believe familiar to many of us.

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...

Which movements would you like to pass on, to prevent them being lost? 

A Revue is an exuberant happening that blends extra-terrestrial fashion show, queer revue, pop, Baroque and shamanistic rituals. 

It’s possible to juggle with all kinds of objects, but what Andrea Salustri does has actually never been seen before.