Arts and Architecture

Current information and background on art and architecture – painting, film, music, literature, theater, museums, Goethe Institute and World Heritage Sites.

Festivalbesucher beim Wacken Open Air

The best music festivals in Germany

Germany is known for its vibrant festival culture and attracts music fans from all over the world every year. We present ten highlights.

Christopher Ssebuyungo vom Uganda National Museum

Exchange programme

Joining forces to preserve cultural heritage

TheMuseumsLab brings together museum staff from Africa and Germany to look afresh at questions of culture and gain vital experience on two continents.

Musiker Eyal el Wahab baut Instrumente aus Abfällen.

Israel/The Arab world

Yemeni sounds and the Berlin rhythm

The musician Eyal el Wahab blends Yemeni culture and Berlin’s attitude towards life to create a unique sound.

Preservation of remembrance

Germany and Israel have set up a close working relationship in the area of researching the Shoah. A main recipient of this multifaceted support is Yad Vashem, Israel's living memorial to the Holocaust.

Nirit Sommerfeld hat sich für ein Leben in Chemnitz entschieden.

“There’s more that unites us than divides us”

Chemnitz connects Nirit Sommerfeld with her family’s persecution. Her response: the artist is creating venues for social contact.

Projekt #3000Garagen in Chemnitz

Capital of Culture

Cultural spaces

Garages: creative spaces where culture takes shape

As European Capital of Culture, Chemnitz is celebrating how garages are places for encounters and artistic activity.

Wacken Open Air: eines der weltweit größten Heavy Metal Festivals

Highlights 2024

Review of 2024: music, films and cultural events in Germany

From Billie Eilish to Wacken Open Air: Germany's most popular cultural offerings in 2024.

Adventsschmuck „Herrnhuter Stern“

Cultural heritage

Shared history, shared future

Preserving Europe’s cultural heritage and connecting people across national borders: that is the mission of Europa Nostra.

Das deutsch-südkoreanische Künstler*innenkollektiv Longega Project

Gwangju Biennale

Artistic bridges between Germany and Korea

For the first time, Germany is represented with a pavilion at the Gwangju Biennale. The German-Korean collective behind the pavilion told us how it plays with stereotypes.

Transkontinentale: „The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu“

140 years on from the Berlin West Africa Conference

Colonial heritage, cultural justice

2024 marks the 140th anniversary of the start of the historic Berlin West Africa Conference of 1884/85. Germany is working hard to come to terms with its colonial history.

World Heritage Site

Hamburg’s Old Warehouse District

The Old Warehouse District (or “Speicherstadt”) in Hamburg, the largest ensemble of storehouses in the world and a World Heritage Site.

Clara Schumann

Legendary female composer

Clara Schumann – art is the air I breathe

She was a pianist, composer, piano teacher, superstar – and she is the most famous woman in music history. A portrait to mark the 205th anniversary of her birth

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