Start: East Side Gallery landing stageMühlenstraße 7310243 Berlin Information on how to get there can be found here. Can we still hope in the face of gloomy future scenarios? Does utopia still make sense in a world obsessively modeled by algorithms? Much of what we take for granted today, not least the continent, form of […]
Location: Humboldt Labor at Humboldt ForumSchloßplatz10178 BerlinEntrance via Passage (Portal 2 and 4 on the North and Southside) Part 2: Ethics The question of a “good life” is also the question of the inner compass that governs our actions: Ethics. How does conscience develop? According to which laws does it act? Where does this inner […]
A few metres away from the bust of Nefertiti lies an astonishing piece of writing. Its contents from the time of Ancient Egypt could not be more topical: The social order is compromised, interpersonal relationships are disintegrating, and the period is also characterised by wars and climatic crises.
In contrast to a present oriented toward effectiveness and utility, there is a great virtue of “waste”: devotion. It is one of the wonders of the human species – what would be our cooperation, what would be the history of mankind without devotion? And how strange: surrendering, letting go of much and giving up, man […]
Time is beyond us. We suffer from time pressure or lack of time, we don’t find time or we don’t find ourselves in time anymore. Yet time is our life: without it there is nothing. But in it everything. So let’s set out together to feel time, to hear it, to understand it and to […]
Hasn’t it always been a dream of mankind to escape its own limitations? Will it be fulfilled in this century, when nanobots repair the body and transhumanism promises eternal life? In the Wunderkammer der Jetztzeit, the Humboldt Laboratory in the Humboldt Forum with its forest of exhibits, we invite you to a parcours that leads […]
The fox on the sidewalk, the crow in the park, the neighbor’s dog: in cities we get closer – but what do we know about each other? What do we see in animals and what happens when the gaze of an animal hits us? Without animals and their benefits, the human species would not be […]
Our world is full of images. And don’t almost all experiences, encounters, and relationships that connect us to the world initially take place through seeing? Not only since the last Wunderkammer do we know how deceptive images are. So what is the significance of images, beauty, relationships, sound and music, among other things, in a […]
LOCATIONOrientalisch-Islamischer Garten/Saal der Empfänge, Gärten der WeltEisenacher Straße 9912685 Berlin Summer evening at one of the most beautiful places in Berlin: the Oriental Garden. Here, beauty is a sign and a path to something beyond. In the interplay of Orient and Occident we look “back” to the first ideas of paradise and look “ahead” to […]
Music! What would life be without music? But where does it come from? Is it inscribed in our DNA? What happens when we listen and play, what roles do the head and body play here? And what can current research tell us about this?In this new Wunderkammer, too, we ourselves – audience, musicians and speakers […]
Encountering the world differently – with two of the “oldest senses” we have: hearing and smelling. What experiences and images does music, interwoven with the sense of smell, carry us to? What reflections of “the world” and oneself emerge when we – as an offer, not an obligation – close our eyes? The inspiration and […]
Eine neue Erlebnisreihe auf der Suche nach neuen Erfahrungsräumen von Musik und Narration.
