Kafka comes to Berlin! One hundred years after the death of Franz Kafka, the Jewish Museum Berlin is providing new insights into his work with its exhibition Access Kafka: manuscripts and drawings from Franz Kafka’s estate come together with contemporary art by artists such as Yael Bartana, Maria Eichhorn, Anne Imhof, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Trevor Paglen and Hito Steyerl. The focus is on universal and timeless questions concerning access.
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Jüdisches Museum Berlin
In its broadest sense, the term “access” refers to the permission, freedom and ability to enter or leave a place – including an imaginary or virtual space. Questions of admission and affiliation are a recurring motif in Kafka’s literary texts. His unsettling descriptions of disorientation, surveillance and meaningless rules are relevant in a different way today than they were in Kafka’s era:
the boundaries between private and public spheres are blurring in our age of widespread digitization, in which social networks, artificial intelligence and algorithms control access anonymously. These circumstances define the conditions for social participation.
The contemporary artworks reflect these questions, also with reference to the role of art and artistry itself. The exhibition Access Kafka and accompanying program invite you to follow, participate in and further develop these reflections.
Artists: Cory Arcangel, Yuval Barel, Yael Bartana, Guy Ben-Ner, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Maria Eichhorn, Mary Flanagan, Ceal Floyer, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Tehching Hsieh, Anne Imhof, Fatoş İrwen, Uri Katzenstein, Lina Kim, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Michal Naaman, Trevor Paglen, Alona Rodeh, Roee Rosen, Gregor Schneider, Hito Steyerl
Additional information
Price info: Admission to the core exhibition is free of charge for everyone. Except for certain temporary exhibitions, all other presentations in the Libeskind Building are also free.Admission to temporary exhibitions in our Old Building costs 10,00 € at the regular rate or 4,00 € at the reduced rate. Children and teenagers under 18 get in free, as do a few other visitor categories.
We recommend purchasing a time slot ticket in advance in our ticket shop. For spontaneous visitors, there are a few remaining tickets at the ticket desk.
Price: €10.00
Reduced price: €4.00
Reduced price info: Reduced admission for pupils, students, volunteers, unemployed persons (ALG I), severely disabled persons (at least 50 percent) - free admission for: - children and young people (under 18 years) - members of the Circle of Friends and Patrons of the Jewish Museum Berlin e. V. - holders of a berlinpass and recipients of transfer payments (ALG II, social assistance, basic security or asylum benefits) - upon presentation of proof. - Holders of a berlinpass and recipients of transfer benefits (ALG II, social welfare, basic security or benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act) - upon presentation of proof - Persons accompanying severely disabled persons who are medically recognized as necessary - Members of the German Museums Association and ICOM members - Journalists
