Programme

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Enjoy browsing the program for the 2026 Weimar Art Festival!

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Two cars with jukeboxes in their open trunks and a truck with a person and a screen can be seen. The jukeboxes take up half the trunk. The person on the white truck is wearing a LED mask that is lit up. Above the person, a screen is mounted showing ‘1 ENGINE’. A megaphone is also attached to the screen.

Masamitsu Araki: Soundtrack for Midnight TAMURO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8.
Concert
Performance
Four women are standing against a dark background in colourful dresses, making scooping motions with their right hands. The four women are standing in a row, one behind the other, and are all making the same movement.

Leïla Ka: Maldonne

Fri 21.8.
Dance
A person wearing a skirt is standing on a rod in the sky. The person has long hair and is blocking the sun. The sky is blue.

Gratte Ciel: RoZéO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8.
Contemporary Circus
Four people are standing in front of a wall with a red pattern. The two women are wearing white clothes. Of the men, one is wearing white clothes and the other is wearing black and blue. All four people appear as double images overlapping each other.

Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek

Sat 22.8.
Concert

Nicoleta Esinencu & teatru-spălătorie: Memory Distortion. MIXTAPE

Sun 23.8.
Performance
Theatre
Five people are walking quickly through an underpass. They are dressed in yellow and black. The picture is shaky and blurred.

Tanja Krone & Team: Songs of (In)Security

Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8.
Performance
Concert

Junge Deutsche Philharmonie & She She Pop: Frei_Spiel X – Das große Ganze

Tue 25.8. • Wed 26.8.
Performance
Concert

Weimarer Kontroversen: Wie können wir im Gespräch bleiben?

Wed 26.8.
Discussion
A woman in a brightly illuminated box holds a fan out in front of her. She holds her other hand over her nose. She is dressed in white and, kneeling, just about fits into the box.

AUSBRECHEN: International Evening of Contemporary Dance

Wed 26.8. • Thu 27.8.
Dance

FORUM »In Gesellschaft«: Möglichkeiten von Widerstand

Thu 27.8.
Discussion

Goethe-Medaille 2026

Fri 28.8.
Goethe - Medaille 2026
Ceremonial act

Christa Wolf: Von Kindheitsmuster bis August

Thu 27.8.
Reading
Discussion

Staatskapelle Weimar & STÜBAphilharmonie: Die Planeten

Fri 28.8. • Sun 30.8.
Concert

Prodromos Tsinikoris: 96%

Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8.
Doku-Theatre

Nacht der Jazzmeile Thüringen

Fri 28.8.
Concerts

Diana Anselmo: Pas Moi

Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8.
Lecture Performance

Franziska Winkler: Schlucken

Sat 29.8.
Dramatic reading

VAP, Vusi Mdoyi & Phala Ookeditse Phala: Izithukuthuku: The Tattered Soul of the Worker

Sun 30.8.
Dance
Theatre

EFIM & Gabriele Stötzer: Das Brennen der Worte im Mund

Tue 1.9.
Performance
Literature
Concert

Das Büro mit dem lustigen Namen: Die kleinste Gabel der Welt

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9.
Children's theatre
Don Pablo Mulemba

Don Pablo Mulemba: Hundeheimat – Der Osten, meine Familie und andere Wunder

Wed 2.9.
Reading

Künstlerinnengruppe Erfurt: Komik – komisch

Wed 2.9.
Discussion
Film

Cringe Fest Vol. 3

Wed 2.9. – Sat 5.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Performances
Workshops
Concerts
A red military helmet lies on top of an officer’s helmet, with two feet hovering above it. The picture is a drawing.

stellwerk: Achilles' Sehnen

Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Theatre

Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué: Four Walls and a Roof

Thu 3.9.
Performance
Theatre

VIII. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive: Das Phantom der Oper

Fri 4.9.
FIlm-concert

Studio Urbanistan: Nach der Bahn die Wende

Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9. • Sun 6.9.
Audio-Performance
Theatre Square, the Goethe-Schiller monument and the entrance to the DNT are all lit up at dusk. On the balcony of the DNT on the left it says: “#Art”, and on the balcony on the right it says: “Fest 21”.

Messias. An oratorio in three parts by Georg Friedrich Händel (HWV 56)

Sat 5.9.
Music

Kino mon ami: Thomas Heise Retrospektive

Thu 20.8. • Thu 27.8. • Tue 1.9. • Thu 3.9.
Documentary
Film

Brenda Akele Jorde: The Homes We Carry

Mon 24.8.
Film

Festival Centre

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Mon 24.8. • Thu 27.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.

Programme at the festival centre

Festival Centre

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Mon 24.8. • Thu 27.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Eine Collage mit 12 Bildern von Frauen und Männern die vor verschiedenen Orten stehen wie das Meer, einem Spielplatz oder einer bunten Häuserwand.

Exhibition opening and talk »See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes«

Thu 20.8.
Discussion

City Walk »Traces of Contract Labour in Weimar«

Mon 24.8. • Sun 30.8.
Guided tour

Brenda Akele Jorde: The Homes We Carry

Mon 24.8.
Film
Tanja Krone

Workshop mit Tanja Krone

Mon 24.8.
Workshop

Video installation »TAMURO and Petrol Station«

Thu 20.8. – Mon 24.8. • Wed 26.8. • Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9.
Film
Installation

Weimarer Kontroversen: Wie können wir im Gespräch bleiben?

Wed 26.8.
Discussion
Teaserbild zur Veranstaltung

Sing Pong – Catchy tunes. Karaoke. Tangled tape.

Thu 27.8.
Hands-on activity
Concert

Nacht der Jazzmeile Thüringen

Fri 28.8.
Concerts

Gebärdensprache zwischen Unterdrückung und sprachlicher Vielfalt

Sat 29.8.
Workshop
Poster von

Short Film Evening: »Die Macht der Verweigerung« (The Power of Refusal)

Mon 31.8.
Film
Discussion

Workshop »Lieder als Erinnerung«

Sun 6.9.
Workshop

Workshop »Dimensionen pluraler Erinnerungskultur: Wie gehen wir mit Gleichzeitigkeit um?«

Sun 6.9.
Workshop
Noa K. Ha and Jens-Christian Wagner

Panel Discussion with Noa H. Ka and Jens-Christian Wagner

Sun 6.9.
Discussion
Filmstill: Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben

Film »Die Kunst, Viele zu bleiben«

Sun 6.9.
Film

Alex Stolze & Yael Gat live

Sun 6.9.
Concert

Exhibitions & Installations

A squashed chocolate marshmallow is lying on the face of a pink panda soft doll.

Humor als Waffe

Fri 14.8. – Sun 6.9.
Exhibition
An abstract 3D representation of a landscape as a wireframe model, from which a brightly coloured, flowing ribbon emerges, resembling a stream or a data stream

Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

Wed 19.8. • Thu 20.8. – Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8. • Thu 27.8. – Sun 30.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sat 5.9. • Sun 6.9.
Exhibition

Anke Heelemann: FOTOkiosk

Fri 21.8. – Sun 23.8. • Fri 21.8. • Thu 27.8. – Sun 30.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9.
Installation
A collage featuring 12 images of women and men standing in front of various locations, such as the sea, a playground or a colourful wall infront of a house.

See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes

Fri 21.8. – Mon 24.8. • Sat 22.8. • Thu 27.8. – Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9. • Sat 5.9.
Exhibition

Video installation »TAMURO and Petrol Station«

Thu 20.8. – Mon 24.8. • Wed 26.8. • Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9.
Film
Installation
Teardrop-shaped ceramic tiles hang in a garland between trees, beneath which people walk.

Cosima Göpfert: Anklang

Fri 21.8. • Mon 24.8. – Sun 6.9.
Interactive installation

Cringe Fest Vol. 3

Wed 2.9. – Sat 5.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.
Performances
Workshops
Concerts

Suitable for families

Das Büro mit dem lustigen Namen: Die kleinste Gabel der Welt

Sun 30.8. • Mon 31.8. • Tue 1.9.
Children's theatre
An abstract 3D representation of a landscape as a wireframe model, from which a brightly coloured, flowing ribbon emerges, resembling a stream or a data stream

Juhu.Kontrollverlust.

Wed 19.8. • Thu 20.8. – Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8. • Thu 27.8. – Sun 30.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sat 5.9. • Sun 6.9.
Exhibition
A collage featuring 12 images of women and men standing in front of various locations, such as the sea, a playground or a colourful wall infront of a house.

See my Story. Copyright by Madgermanes

Fri 21.8. – Mon 24.8. • Sat 22.8. • Thu 27.8. – Mon 31.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9. • Sat 5.9.
Exhibition
A person wearing a skirt is standing on a rod in the sky. The person has long hair and is blocking the sun. The sky is blue.

Gratte Ciel: RoZéO

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8.
Contemporary Circus
Teardrop-shaped ceramic tiles hang in a garland between trees, beneath which people walk.

Cosima Göpfert: Anklang

Fri 21.8. • Mon 24.8. – Sun 6.9.
Interactive installation

Anke Heelemann: FOTOkiosk

Fri 21.8. – Sun 23.8. • Fri 21.8. • Thu 27.8. – Sun 30.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Thu 3.9. – Sun 6.9. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9.
Installation
Five people are walking quickly through an underpass. They are dressed in yellow and black. The picture is shaky and blurred.

Tanja Krone & Team: Songs of (In)Security

Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Tue 25.8.
Performance
Concert

Festival Centre

Fri 21.8. • Sat 22.8. • Sun 23.8. • Mon 24.8. • Thu 27.8. • Fri 28.8. • Sat 29.8. • Sun 30.8. • Thu 3.9. • Fri 4.9. • Sat 5.9.