7. Berliner Herbstsalon
Inventories / Interventions / Inventions
ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE
One hundred years after Herwarth Walden's first and last »Deutscher Herbstsalon« in 1913, Shermin Langhoff began her tenure as artistic director of the Maxim Gorki Theatre with the first Berliner Herbstsalon in 2013. Now she’s launching her final season at the Gorki with the 7th Berliner Herbstsalon. For her farewell, she has invited both long-term collaborators and new artists to the Berliner Herbstsalon. They will use old and new works to, in light of the present, reflect on, reclassify and (re)imagine for the future the critical art practices, struggles and resistances which were negotiated over this period. The Herbstsalon begins with the opening of the exhibition located throughout the Gorki, in the Palais am Festungsgraben, the Gorki Kiosk and outdoor spaces. On the Gorki mainstage the salon opens with the world premiere of Ersan Mondtag's production of Das Rote Haus. The building on Berlin's Stresemannstraße 30 was once the Telefunken company dormitory. The women who lived here came from Turkey in the 1960s and 70s to start their new lives in Berlin. The production is based on their stories and histories. There have always been people who try to insult the Maxim Gorki Theatre by calling it a red house. For us, it is a badge of honour. Even the Sing-Akademie, which today’s Maxim Gorki Theatre was built to house, was revolutionary. It was the first choral association in which men and women sang together. Worldwide. In 1848, after the March revolution, the Prussian National Assembly met in these rooms. We will tell you the rest of the (hi)story at ЯE:IMAGINE: THE RED HOUSE from 2/October to 30/November 2025.
Exhibition with works by Nevin Aladağ, Züli Aladağ, bankleer, Mehtap Baydu, Miraz Bezar, Cana BilirMeier, Zühal Bilir-Meier, Luchezar Boyadjiev, Timur Çelik, Danica Dakić, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, Nihan Devecioğlu, Zehra Doğan, Can Dündar, Ahu Dural, Atom Egoyan, Semra Ertan, Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann, Eleftheria Gerofoka, Marta Górnicka, Manaf Halbouni, Imaginary Collective, Hiwa K, Gülsün Karamustafa, Miro Kaygalak, Piruza Khalapyan, Rola Khayyat, Daniel Knorr, Davit Kochunts, Omer Krieger, Shermin Langhoff & Ensemble, Damian Le Bas, Damian James Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Jazgul Madazimova, Maria Paula Maldonado, Khoren Matevosyan, Astghik Melkonyan, Hakan Savaş Mican, Karen Mirzoyan, Ersan Mondtag, Lousineh Navasartian, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Sasapin Siriwanij, Ülkü Süngün, Filiz Taşkın, Hale Tenger, Nasan Tur, Melek Konukman-Tulgan, Laura Uribe & Sabina Aldana, Serpil Yeter, Zentrum für Politische Schönheit, Želimir Žilnik as well as Theatre and performances by Ersan Mondtag, Lola Arias, Hakan Savaş Mican, Adania Shibli, Oliver Frljić and many other artists
2/October–30/November 2025
EXHIBITION OPENING HOURS
Wed & Thu 16:00–20:00
Fri & Sat 16:00–23:00
Sun 12:00–20:00
Free entry!
Curated by Shermin Langhoff Dramaturgy Erden Kosova (Exhibition), Johannes Kirsten (Theater), Ong Keng Sen (Performance & Lecture) Assistants to the Curator Thalia Hertel (Lead), Maral Müdok (Exhibition), Paula Rave (Exhibition & Performance), Helen Waeder (Theater & Literature), Theresa Welge (Theater), Asya Yaghmurian (Artist Liaison) Research Team Stresemannstraße 30 – Eine Inventur 2025 Hülya Karcı, Erden Kosova, Tunçay Kulaoğlu, Maral Müdok, Gari Vanisian, Mürtüz Yolcu Co-Curators Programming Roter Salon Tunçay Kulaoğlu, Gari Vanisian (Film) Deniz Utlu, Endre Malcolm Holéczy (Literature) Scenography Exhibition Alice Faucher Stage Design Assistance Martha Bamberg, Wanda Prawitt, Paola Schubert, Ruby Wisdom
Der 7. Berliner Herbstsalon wird gefördert aus Mitteln des Landes Berlin, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. In Kooperation mit Theater findet Stadt e.V.
© IMA LI SNIJEGA?, Danica Dakić, 2024, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
