October 3, 2004 – January 16, 2005Andy Warhol – Self-Portraits
For the first time ever, anywhere, a comprehensive retrospective of Andy Warhol’s self-portraits will be on view at the Sprengel Museum Hannover. The Pop Art artist’s self-portraits provide insights into elements of Warhol, the media figure, as well as into his artistic oeuvre. From October 3, 2004 – January 16, 2005, the Sprengel Museum Hannover will show more than 50 paintings and nearly as many works on paper, photographs, collages and films representing 40 years of intense artistic activity. more
October 19-24, 200447th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
The International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film ist not only the biggest German festival for documentary but also one of the oldest and most important ones on international level. more
October 13-16, 2004Leipzig International Jazz Festival
28. Leipziger Jazztage. Two highlights of the festival will be the performances by American pianist McCoy Tyner and saxophone player James Carter. more
September 25, 2004 – January 30, 2005Sturtevan – The Brutal Truth
Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt. More than 140 works of art from four decades. more
September 21 - October 2, 20044th International Literature Festival Berlin
In nearly sixty locations around Berlin 130 writers from over forty countries will read from their work and join in discussions with expert moderators. more
September 11 - November 14, 2004German Art. An American View on German Art
Das Städel, Frankfurt. Works by German Artists from the Collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum. The exhibition presents 40 outstanding canvases, sculptures and installations from the 1960s onwards from one of the foremost collections of German art in America. more
July 17 - October 10, 2004Pop Cars: Pop Art in Amerika und Europa
Städtische Museen Heilbronn. Featuring works by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney and many other American and European artists. more
July 3 - 31, 2004Klezmer Weeks Weimar
Although only four years old, the Klezmer Wochen Weimar has already gained an eminent international reputation. Once again in 2004, extraordinary musicians will be on the faculty. Through workshops, language courses, open air concerts and nightly jam sessions, the Weimar Klezmer Wochen offer participants a uniquely intensive immersion in Yiddish culture.
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June 26 - July 4, 20045th International Poetry Festival
organized by literaturWERKstatt Berlin
Over 60 international artists participate (American artists: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Bei Dao, Charles Amirkhanian, Umar Bin Hassan, Abiodrun Oyewole) more
June 12- 20, 2004Biennale Bonn: New York
The Biennale Bonn will investigate artistic developments at the world’s nervous centres - in 2004 it will focus on New York City. Biennale will co-operate with a great number of cultural institutions in Bonn, e.g. the large federal art museums (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD and Kunstmuseum Bonn), the Haus der Geschichte der BRD (a museum specialising in the examination of Germany’s post World War II history), the Haus der Sprache und Literatur (House of Language and Literature), as well as Bonn University, selected art cinemas, music promoters and the “free” (i.e. non-subsidized) theatre scene of the city. more
May 7- June 15, 2004Exhibition "New York meets Berlin"
Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Bildungsforschung) in Berlin.
The exhibition presents works by three international artists (Barbara Bachner, Shelley Parriott, Inge Kaspar-Boehm) linked by an effort to explore concerns spanning personal and psychological issues through innovative mixed media works. more
May 1 - August 1, 2004Exhibition "Chagall und Deutschland"
Max Liebermann Haus Berlin. Organized by Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and Jewish Museum Frankfurt and under the patronage of Federal President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog.
The exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt and at the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor in Berlin will present Chagall from a new point of view by focusing on the cultural and historical reception of his work, and by showing the artist's reactions to these particular occurences. Accordingly, Chagall's pictures will be put into a double perspective: they will be presented from the viewpoint of contemporary collectors of art, patrons and artist colleagues and they will also be simultaneously shown as documents of history. About 140 works of art from European and U.S collections will be on display. more
April 24 - May 16, 2004Duisburger Akzente: Endstation Amerika?
Created in 1977, the “Duisburger Akzente” has a long history as a national annual cultural festival that involves more than 100 individual events ranging from theater performances, modern dance, concerts, exhibits, literary readings, lectures and panel discussions. The theme of the 2004 festival is “Final Destination: America?” and is designed to explore important aspects and trends of current American culture and how these trends are received in Europe. more
March 25 - May 23, 2004The Photography of Charles Sheeler: American Modernist
Städel-Museum Frankfurt
Charles Sheeler (1883 – 1965) is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism and one of the master photographers of the 20th century. Tracing the artist´s remarkable career, the exhibition will feature approximately 120 photographs with works from all of his significant series-from the Cubist-inspired images of the house at Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1916 – 1917) to the famous images of American industry made for Fortune magazine (1939). In cooperation with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. more
February 29 - May 2, 2004Photo Exhibition Andy Wahrhol - Polaroids
Museum für Photographie e.V., Braunschweig
Andy Warhol was one of the first artists to experiment with Polaroid cameras and everyday technologies such as photo booths and use them as a creative medium. The museum has about 100 items from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (USA), the Kunsthalle Hamburg and the Jablonka Galerie in Köln on loan. more
February 27 - March 7, 2004Kurt Weill Fest in Dessau
The Weill Fest 2004 will again feature many American artists. The opening premiere will be Kurt Weill’s opera “Street Scene” under the direction of Nicholas Muni, artistic director of the Cincinnati Opera. The American jazz pianist Richie Beirach will present his production “Round About Weill”. The documentary “#18, Mahagonny” of New York filmmaker Harry Smith will see its German premiere in Dessau. more
February 20 - September 19, 2004The MoMA in Berlin
 In a unique exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is showing 200 masterpieces of the 20th-century from its collections.
The opportunity for this exceptional cooperation arose from extensive renovation works being undertaken in the famous museum in New York. This allowed the possibility of a single exhibition in Berlin showing work from the masterpieces of the late Impressionists to works of the classic modernity and contemporary art. Under patronage of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. more
February - September 2004american season 2004
Supporting program of the exhibition "MoMA in Berlin". Features countless U.S. cultural events and projects in the areas of visual arts, design, theater, film, and music in Berlin (download events program (pdf)) Supported by the Berliner Festspiele, Freunde der Neuen Nationalgalerie, DaimlerChrysler and others. more
February 14 - May 31, 2004Exhibition "Andy Warhol - The late Work"
Düsseldorf, museum kunst palast
With over 100 paintings, numerous unpublished photographs, videos and films, the exhibition on Andy Warhol's 'late work' offers the first opportunity to explore the last 15 years of Andy Warhol's work with its multitude of facets. The visitor is given the opportunity to discover Warhol's medial variety as well as his interest in abstract painting. more
February 13 - April 18, 20043rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Martin-Gropius-Bau and Kino Arsenal, Berlin.
American artists Aura Rosenberg, Judith Barry and Kaucyila Brooks will participate. more
February 8 - March 7, 2004Photo Exhibition "Amerika 1935 -1943"
Walker Evans - Dorothea Lange - Arthur Rothstein - John Vachon
Städtische Galerie Erlangen (Große Galerie, Palais Stutterheim)
The photos on loan from the collection of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and the Office of War Information (OWI) are the most comprehensive and important photographic documents of life in the United States between 1935 and 1944. The four photographers featured are among the famous American photographers. more
February 5 - 15, 2004International Film Festival, Berlin
Minghella’s "Cold Mountain" to open Festival
The Festival’s opening film will be the Civil War epos Cold Mountain by Anthony Minghella (The English Patient), starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law, which is already rumored to be a hot Oscar contender.
Marshall Plan Film Series: "Selling Democracy - Welcome, Mr. Marshall"
Most people have long since forgotten that the Marshall Plan not only helped get Europe back on its feet economically, but played a role in its cultural recovery after the Second World War - and the movie business was no exception. Films were made that, on the one hand, were propaganda for American values, on the other, were rather practical in documenting peacetime industrial advances. The Berlinale’s Selling Democracy – Welcome Mr. Marshall presents a selection of these interesting, and often quite amusing, historical films. more
Retrospective "New Hollywood 1967 - 1976"
The Retrospective of the 54th Berlinale 2004 will be dedicated to a unique epoch in US film history: with “New Hollywood 1967 – 1976. Trouble in Wonderland”, the festival will bring a wonderful decade of cinematic art back to the screen. These films, made in the spirit of new tendencies, especially in politics, have in the meantime become classics. Eager to experiment, they departed remarkably from traditional narrative patterns. The big Hollywood studios were losing their audiences, while the new “independent” productions were being swamped at the box offices. more
February 2 - April 18, 2004Exhibition"Chagall und Deutschland"
Jewish Museum, Frankfurt. Organized by Stiftung Brandenburger Tor and Jewish Museum Frankfurt and under the patronage of Federal President Prof. Dr. Roman Herzog.
The exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt and at the Stiftung Brandenburger Tor in Berlin will present Chagall from a new point of view by focusing on the cultural and historical reception of his work, and by showing the artist's reactions to these particular occurences. Accordingly, Chagall's pictures will be put into a double perspective: they will be presented from the viewpoint of contemporary collectors of art, patrons and artist colleagues and they will also be simultaneously shown as documents of history. About 140 works of art from European and U.S collections will be on display. more
January 31 - February 4, 2004Transmediale.04
International Media Art Festival Berlin at Haus der Kulturen der Welt with U.S. participants.
transmediale.04 explores the utopian potential of contemporary art practice in the field of digital culture. the festival focuses on art made by means of digital technologies, and on art that reflects on the social, cultural and aesthetic dimensions of new technologies. tm.04 tests the utopias associated with these technologies and explores artistic responses to the utopias and dystopias of the information age. The festival remains suspended between the promise of hope, and the resignation that there is no hope. Fly Utopia! is thus both a call for justified optimism, and a call for overcoming pessimism in the face of contemporary utopias, or the absence thereof. more
November 21, 2003 - March 28, 2004Photo Exhibition "James Nachtwey - War Photographer"
C/O Berlin, Cultural Forum for Photography
James Nachtwey is one of the most important contemporary war photographers and has been taking photographs in crisis areas for more than 20 years. C/O Berlin presents in this exhibition 136 photographs - black and white and color - from Afghanistan, Ruanda, Chechnya, South Africa, Indonesia, the Balkans and Ground Zero. This exhibition is in cooperation with UNICEF. more
December 11 - 13, 2003Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlin Phiharmonic Concert Hall
Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles, Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus (ASOC) made their debut with the Berlin Philharmonic on December 11, 12 and 13 in Berlin, Germany. Maestro Runnicles lead the orchestra, the ASOC and the Tolz Boy's Choir of Germany in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem in three highly anticipated performances in the Great Hall of the Philharmonie, the Berlin Philharmonic's renowned concert hall. The ASOC was the first American chorus to be invited to perform with the renowned orchestra in a subscription series. The Chorus last performed in Berlin in 1988, when it appeared in concert with the ASO under the direction of the late Robert Shaw as part of its debut European tour. more
September 27, 2003 - February 29, 2004Exhibition "Andy Warhol's Time Capsules"
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
In cooperation with the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the MMK Frankfurt presents in a world premiere an impressive selection of Andy Warhol's time capsules. more
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