Opening Address by Anh-Linh Ngo at the launch of “Re:Create Europe”
With an online kick-off meeting, bringing together over 100 participants, the European Alliance of Academies launched the four-year project.
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4/2/2026, 6 PM European Alliance of AcademiesCultural Policy © Darren Agius 2/11/2026, 11 AM European Alliance of AcademiesCultural Policy European Alliance of Academies receives EU funding for the first time
For the first time, the European Commission is supporting the tireless work of the European Alliance of Academies for Freedom of the Arts in Europe. Over the next four years, the alliance will receive more than one million euros for “Re:Create Europe”.Learn more1/29/2026, 12:46 PM LiteraturePrizes, Scholarships 
© Carolin Windel Heinrich Mann Prize 2026 awarded to Mithu M. Sanyal
Essayist Mithu M. Sanyal is this year's recipient of the Heinrich Mann Prize. The three-member jury consisted of Omri Boehm, Eva Menasse and last year's Heinrich Mann Prize winner Mely Kiyak.Learn more1/21/2026, 4 PM Cultural Policy 
© Akademie der Künste Where Speech is Censored, Democracy is in Danger
Currently, the Akademie der Künste is projecting a video onto its facade on Pariser Platz listing words compiled by the New York Times that are banned under Donald Trump's administration – from “abortion” to “women”.Learn more1/21/2026, 10 AM ArchitectureVisual ArtsMusic, Sound ArtLiteratureTheatre, Play, DanceFilm, Photography, Media ArtsPrizes, Scholarships 
© Rosalie O'Connor 2026 Berlin Art Prize goes to Meredith Monk
Akademie der Künste awards Berlin Art Prize – Jubilee Endowment 1848/1948 on 18 March 2026This year’s Großer Kunstpreis Berlin (Berlin Art Prize – Grand Prize), which is rotated among the six sections of the Akademie der Künste and is endowed with 15,000 euros, will be awarded in the category of music to the outstanding American composer and singer Meredith Monk (born in 1942 in New York).Learn more12/17/2025, 2:30 PM Visual Arts 
Akademie der Künste awards Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2026 to Teresa Margolles
Award ceremony in autumn 2026Mexican artist Teresa Margolles will be awarded the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2026. With the award, the Akademie der Künste honours an artist who engages with the social causes and implications of death, destruction, displacement, discrimination, suffering and violence.Learn more12/8/2025, 4 PM LiteratureArchivesPrizes, Scholarships 
Akademie der Künste, Walter Benjamin Archiv, Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur © Photo: Studio Joël-Heinzelmann Walter Benjamin Award for Young Researchers 2026
Call for PapersResearch on Walter Benjamin has been unusually productive in recent years. This funding opportunity is intended for the generation of younger scholars who have been especially active, developing new readings and exploring new contexts.Learn more11/24/2025, 10:53 AM Music, Sound Art New Members of the Akademie der Künste’s Music Section
The Akademie der Künste has admitted five new members this year. Elaine Mitchener, Brigitta Muntendorf, Uroš Rojko, Lucia Ronchetti and Charles Uzor were elected to the artists’ community at the autumn general meeting.Learn more10/16/2025, 4 PM Cultural Policy 
Bells and Cannons. Contemporary Art in the Face of Militarisation
Featuring works by artists from various countries, the exhibition examines how processes of militarisation, information, technology, and memory shape our perception of the world.Learn more9/26/2025, 10 AM JUNGE AKADEMIEPrizes, Scholarships 
Open Call: International Fellowship Human Machine
Applications are now openIn 2026, the JUNGE AKADEMIE, VISIT, the fellowship programme of the E.ON Foundation and E-WERK Luckenwalde will once again offer four fully funded fellowships to international artists.Learn more
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