UK Culture Radar

Renowned UK comedians Nik Coppin, Michael Fabbri, Jeannie Jones and Dave Fensome come to Berlin for a special one-off show. Tickets are available here.

To mark the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann's novel The Magic Mountain, British artist Heather Phillipson is transforming the Kunsthalle St. Annen into a walk-in art. For her solo exhibition, she draws significant inspiration from the motif of time and social change.

Chemnitz is European Capital of Culture in 2025. Part of its cultural programme is PURPLE PATH, an art and sculpture trail that will showcase works by renowned international, national and Saxon artists. The result is an exhibition in public space which includes pieces from Tony Cragg, Richard Long and Sean Scully.

For cèilidh fans old and new: Berlin is getting a regular cèilidh, Scottish music and dancing. The cèilidh is open to all and no experience is required. There will be dances in all possible formations, from two to three to eight to many. The first four cèilidhs will take place in the Maschinenhaus in the Kulturbrauerei on the following dates. Sign up early! 

The British comedian and conductor Rainer Hersch and his London orchestra musicians combine classical music and anarchic fun. Expect a New Year's treat of British humour (in German) and great arrangements of the classics. From Bach to Beethoven to Johann Strauss. A long-established institution on the London classical music scene. Now on tour in Germany for the first time coming to Remchingen, Augsburg, and Berlin. Tickets here.

20 theatre, dance and performance groups from 12 countries with over 50 performances will come together in a twelve-day diverse theatre festival in collaboration with HAU Hebbel am Ufer, the RambaZamba Theater, Theater Thikwa, Ballhaus Ost and Theater an der Parkaue. Participating UK artists include Claire Cunningham Jack Hunter and Stopgap Dance Company. Tickets are available here.

From 26 October 2023, some of Damien Hirst's most iconic works will be on display for the first time in Germany in a major survey exhibition at the MUCA. The exhibition, entitled "The Weight of Things," will show more than 40 works from the artist's 40-year career, some of which have never been seen before. Tickets are available here.

The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is dedicating a comprehensive retrospective to the internationally renowned British artist Sarah Morris. The exhibition features over a hundred artworks—including paintings, drawings, film posters, immersive film installations, and a new site-specific wall painting—which foreground thirty years of groundbreaking work.

Professor Winfried Hensinger gave the 2023 Queen's Lecture on Constructing the World’s Most Incredible Machines: Quantum Computers. Since 1997, the Queen’s Lecture has taken place at the TU Berlin. Each year, a renowned British scientist delivers a lecture on her or his area of expertise. The Queen's Lecture is a collaboration between Technical University Berlin, the British Embassy in Germany, and the British Council Germany.

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