Airing Out. Open Air in the Schlüter Courtyard
Fri, 6 August – Sat, 11 September 2021
| Free admission |
| Family programme & installations: No ticket required. Stage programme: Advance booking for seating starts 21 days before event. Feel free to drop by even without a ticket – the Schlüter Courtyard offers many opportunities to linger! |
| On six weekends, Fridays from 14:00-17:00 and Saturdays from 11:00-23:00 |
| Ground Floor, Schlüter Courtyard |
Let’s meet in the courtyard. This summer, the Schlüterhof will be transformed into a stage.
Over six weeks, the Humboldt Forum warmly invites all Berliners and lovers of art and music to visit our inner courtyard for a series of events. The programme for the main stage focuses on music, presenting performances every Friday and Saturday evening drawn from Berlin’s diverse music scene, along with discussions, performances and video art. Families and young people can enjoy an artistic programme every Saturday, with opportunities to take part in making radio and to listen to stories. Visitors will also discover colourful pop-up architecture, a multimedia installation all about the colonial history of the potato, and delicious food and drink.
Come and see us! Even if the seats for the stage programme are fully booked: There is plenty of space in the Schlüter Courtyard – spontaneous visitors are welcome and admission is free.
Programme
A diverse programme with live concerts, DJ sets, discussions, video art and performances offers the spotlight on artists whose work is a statement for a polyphonic, hybrid, and interconnected idea of culture, history and identity, regardless of their musical genres or countries of origin. Together, they aim to create an interdisciplinary and cross cultural stage which intersects with a local and global community, inviting the audience to celebrate their talents and be part of a dialogue.
The Berlin-based music curator Melissa Perales has created a programme of events on the main stage to invite a diverse community of musicians, artists, performers, thinkers and activists into the Schlüter Courtyard. Melissa Perales, said of her programme: “The audience is invited to join us on a journey: Over the course of six weeks, the programme will bring together a group of talents who claim space, through their music and words for a critical dialogue. Who bring forth their individual stories, ask difficult questions, and give a voice to their ancestors. Our hope is that this spark will continue beyond the summer in discussions inside the Humboldt Forum spaces, and resonate beyond.”
Friday, 6.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Juba
19:30 Discourse: Opening Talk with Melissa Perales, Hartmut Dorgerloh, Amel Ouaissa, Jan Linders (Moderation)
21:00 Concert: Stella Chiweshe
22:00 Concert: AWA (African Women Arise)
Saturday, 7.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Jide
20:00 Poetry: Arielle Cottingham
20:45 Concert: GOTOPO
22:00 Concert: Blick Bassy
Friday, 13.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Jide
20:00 Performance: Emeka Okereke aka Sir Kupeski
21:00 Concert: RENU
22:00 Concert: Natalie Greffel
Saturday, 14.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: DJ Fetesh
20:00 Discourse: Decolonize Culture #1 with Maque Pereyra, Zheng Bo, GOTOPO (Moderation)
21:00 Concert: May the Muse
22:00 Concert: Shannon Sea with Aaron Reeder
Friday, 20.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin
20:00 Poetry: Jumoke Adeyanju
20:30 Discourse: Can the Humboldt Forum Play (Its) Role? with Michael Odeh Anderson, Maureen Mutheu, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin (Moderation)
22:00 Concert: Mariama
Saturday, 21.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: mokeyanju
20:15 Discourse & Film: The Benin massacre and expedition of 1897 by Okhiogbe Omonblanks Omonhinmin
22:00 Concert: Jaqee Nakiri
Friday, 27.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: DJ Fett
20:00 Concert: Mehmet Aslan
21:00 DJ Set II: DJ Fett
22:00 Concert: Ashraf Sharif Khan & Viktor Marek
Saturday, 28.8.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Juba + Puma Kossi (tbc)
20:00 Performance: dumama + kechou
22:00 Concert: Sonic In(ter)vention with Out Of Time Embassy (OOTE)
Friday, 3.9.2021
19:00 DJ Set: Alai K
20:00 Performance: Nahum
21:00 Poetry & Performance: Julianknxx
22:00 Concert: Disco Vumbi
Saturday, 4.9.2021
19:00 Dj Set: Dj Maque Tumai
20:00 Poetry: Caxxianne
20:45 Concert: Aly Keïta
22:00 Concert: Babylon Orchestra feat. Merve Akyildiz
Friday, 10.9.2021
19:00 DJ Set: DJ Pam Bam
20:00 Poetry: Allia (A.E.) Sadeghipour
21:00 Concert: aJan
22:00 Concert: El Khat
Saturday, 11.9.2021
19:00 DJ Set: BFAN
20:00 Discourse: De-Colonizing Culture #2: This Latin American artists round focuses on postcolonial humanism and reshaping our relationship to Earth and space. With the interdisciplinary artist Michelle-Marie Letelier and the composer, multi-disciplinary artist & thinker Nahum. Moderated by the artists and activist: GOTOPO.
21:00 Concert & Video Art: Perera Elsewhere
from 22:00 Video Art: Interlinked by Sucuk & Bratwurst (part of the Festival of Lights)
Street Radio Blaster
Lift the lid on how podcasts are made and discover hip hop subculture in freestyle rap jams – young people aged 10 and above can experience all this in our radio workshop. Just dive in – no experience needed! A Rap and Podcast Radio Speech Corner is being created in the Schlüterhof under the direction of radio presenter and artist Giò di Sera. He is bringing artists, friends and the street culture from Kreuzberg’s StreetUniverCity e.V. Society into the Schlüterhof. The material created in the Radio Speech Corner will be broadcast via a listening station within the Schlüterhof and subsequently on multicult.fm.
from 10 years on, 07.8.–11.9.2021 on Saturdays, 12:30–13:30 and 16:00–17:00, no registration required
Tell me something!
Stories only really come to life through the people who tell them. These stories are about stones and soup made of stones, about treehouses and palaces, about Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt and much, much more. A new story will be told every Saturday – in German and another language. Turkish, Spanish, Swabian, Italian, Arabic, Sign Language, Norwegian and German. A story can be told in any language, even if the storytellers are speaking two different languages. By telling stories in tandem, two languages become one tale. It doesn’t matter if you only speak one language or have only ever heard the second language in passing, or if you understand both of them. These stories will come to life for everyone!
from 4 years on, 07.8.–11.9.2021 Saturday, 11:00–11:30 and 14:30–15:00, no registration required
In case of rain, the family programme will happen indoors. Please follow the directions placed in the Schlüter Courtyard or ask your service staff. On site, people above 12 years please wear an FFP2 mask, adults please register and prove that you are either tested negative or fully vaccinated or recovered (GGG rule).
Pop-up Architecture
Pop-up islands transform the Schlüter Courtyard into a colourful landscape in the summer. The Italian pop-up architecture group Parasite 2.0 have created islands that are open to visitors to access. These islands are places to relax and chat, but they can also become an interactive stage for artistic activities. Resembling stage sets, the wooden elements stand for the constant ongoing development of the Humboldt Forum. In a central, public space at the very heart of the Forum and in the midst of the city, the islands aim to symbolise how Berlin’s society can play a part in this process of development.
7.8.–11.9.2021 open continuously during opening hours and according to the hygiene rules of the Schlüter Courtyard.
Culo de Papa
Culo de Papa is at once an art kiosk, a video installation and some potatoes growing in the Schlüterhof. Its creator, Berlin artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan, has woven together Prussia’s colonial history with her own personal experiences, taking the potato as a prompt to reflect on identities, transience and transformation. She uses the potato plant to reveal demographic, environmental and colonial processes which she addresses in images of assimilation and disembodiment. Stop by at the kiosk to create a personal potato memory of your own!
7.8.–11.9.2021, Fridays and Saturdays, 14:00–20:00
Concept Julia Schreiner & Caroline Spellenberg Programme Curators Katharina Kepplinger (family programme), Melissa Perales (stage programme), Giò di Sera (artistic project family programme), Julia Schreiner, Caroline Spellenberg Production Management Sander v. Lingelsheim, Judith Haase, Claudia Rumpf, Sandra Tietze