Program

Rolf C. Hemke, the Artistic Director of the KUNSTFEST
WEIMAR, enjoys providing information about the festival programme in person. He will visit you and your family, friends and acquaintances at home or another venue of your choice to present your very own…

Marina Abramović, Sigalit Landau, Katharina Sieverding and Shirin Neshat are four female artists known all over the world. They each use their own bodies as tools in their art, in very different but consistently radical ways – as their very own way of…

You can download the two audio plays free of charge onto your own device. Please bring your own headphones. Otherwise, you can borrow the equipment at the KUNSTFEST-Pavilion on Theaterplatz during normal opening hours.

All day | free to borrow or free to…

DAILLY DURING THE KUNSTFEST PERIOD

Ash is still spiralling through the air and smoke is rising from the rubble. »Everything must burn«, Rosa said, and the world went up in flames as if that was just what she’d been waiting for. Rosa’s messages spread in…

A feature by Eunike Kramer 2021

Israeli star artist Sigalit Landau and the internationally famous choreographer Nir de Volff opens KUNSTFEST WEIMAR

Video & photo exhibition at Studio Mosaik

Israeli star artist Sigalit Landau and the internationally famous choreographer Nir de Volff opens KUNSTFEST WEIMAR

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Video & photo exhibition at Studio Mosaik

Mohamed Abla: Keeping words – Exhibition of works by the artist and Goethe Medal awardee Mohamed Abla

Walter Benjamin and Paul Klee in the mirror of Aura Rosenberg

Whether he was writing plays, poems or prose, Bertolt Brecht was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He had an almost unrivalled ability to sum up complex circumstances in pithy phrases. To this day, his plays remain in the repertoires of…

Israeli star artist Sigalit Landau and the internationally famous choreographer Nir de Volff opens KUNSTFEST WEIMAR

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

The mobile project »Dirty Talking – Thüringer Verführungen« is coming to Neustadt/Orla.

Occupying space as progressive dissonance

In her multi-award-winning drama »Farewell to Europe«, director Maria Schrader shows part of the life of the Jewish-Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, one of the most popular authors of his time. The film shows Zweig‘s years in exile: at the height of his global…

The inclusive dance installation is designed for all abilities and invites everyone – children to seniors – to dance.

Female voice, male voice or nature sounds after all? Choose one of the three variants in this interactive installation. You can expect a…

The mobile project »Dirty Talking – Thüringer Verführungen« is coming to Rudolstadt.

Film star Daniel has a perfect life: he is successful, wealthy and has a chic apartment in Prenzlauer Berg. On the way to an audition, he calls in at his favourite bar where he meets Bruno. This stranger not only knows all the actor’s films, he also knows a…

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Bibliothek der Künstlerinnen Weimar ist ein Projekt, das als ein wachsendes Archiv neben einem öffentlichen Vermittlungsprogramm rund um eine Sammlung existiert. Diese Sammlung umfasst gespendetes und sekundäres Material wie Kunstwerke, Dokumente, Bilder und…

The inclusive dance installation is designed for all abilities and invites everyone – children to seniors – to dance.

Female voice, male voice or nature sounds after all? Choose one of the three variants in this interactive installation. You can expect a…

When a neighbourhood is destroyed: in a village on the Syrian-Turkish border in the early 1980s, the Kurdish boy Sero sees his little world shattered by warmongers. While Sero experiences his first year at school, nationalist despotism and violence are on the…

Workshop, play and fun at the theatre square

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Bibliothek der Künstlerinnen Weimar ist ein Projekt, das als ein wachsendes Archiv neben einem öffentlichen Vermittlungsprogramm rund um eine Sammlung existiert. Diese Sammlung umfasst gespendetes und sekundäres Material wie Kunstwerke, Dokumente, Bilder und…

The mobile project »Dirty Talking – Thüringer Verführungen« is coming to Eisenach.

It is the utopia of a neighbourhood in the future: in the middle of the Wendland, an area of weak infrastructure, people are founding a village. It is intended to be a model village for the future of Europe – for hundreds of old people, hundreds of refugees…

Workshop, play and fun at the theatre square

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Bibliothek der Künstlerinnen Weimar ist ein Projekt, das als ein wachsendes Archiv neben einem öffentlichen Vermittlungsprogramm rund um eine Sammlung existiert. Diese Sammlung umfasst gespendetes und sekundäres Material wie Kunstwerke, Dokumente, Bilder und…

The mobile project »Dirty Talking – Thüringer Verführungen« is coming to Meiningen.

This is a bizarre story of migration. Centuries-old trees travel by land and sea to be replanted in a private garden. The client is a rich Georgian. The elaborate transportation of the trees requires other trees to be felled, electric cables to be laid down…

Screening of IV. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive

In his free adaptation of Anna Seghers‘s novel of exile, director Christian Petzold takes on an ever-topical theme in which the memories and experiences of refugees from the past are transposed to the present day and connected to the current migrant crisis in…

The mobile project »Dirty Talking – Thüringer Verführungen« is coming to Greiz.

Screening of the IV. Weimarer Stummfilm-Retrospektive

Playing Up: Performance for children AND adults

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

Rolf C. Hemke, the Artistic Director of the KUNSTFEST
WEIMAR, enjoys providing information about the festival programme in person. He will visit you and your family, friends and acquaintances at home or another venue of your choice to present your very own…

Playing Up: Performance for children AND adults

Interactive sculpture project on the topic of sustainability – a sound laboratory in public space with a slightly different orchestra

US Star artist Robert Wilson in conversation