November 1-5, 2006

Berlin Jazz Festival
This year, the highlights of the Berlin Jazzfestival include New Orleans’ legendary musicians Allen Toussaint, Eddie Bo, the New Birth Brass Band and Robert Mugge's film "New Orleans Music in Exile". more

September 30 - October 4, 2006

Art Forum Berlin
ART FORUM BERLIN, the international trade fair for contemporary art, showcases the works of established artists and newcomers with 120 galleries from 25 countries, including many galleries from the United States.
This year's special exhibition project, entitled "BIG CITY LAB" - also featuring 8 American artists - focuses on the big city as a laboratory and deals with the metropolitan myth as both positive and negative visions of modernity. The city is a place of freedom and progress, where new forms and structures emerge. It is also a place where traditional values are broken down or transformed — only to make room for something new. more on American artists and galleries at the Art Forum Berlin 2006 (pdf) | more on the Art Forum Berlin

September 28, 2006 - January 7, 2007

I like America
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. In the 1820s a wave of enthusiasm for the American Wild West and its clichés of good and evil swept over Germany. It was fueled initially by James Fenimore Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”, then by Karl May’s “Winnetou” novels, and finally by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West presentations. This exhibition explores for the first time the motivations behind the German enthusiasm for the American West. “I Like America” will present more than 150 paintings, films, photographs, and documentary material. more

Juli 21, 2006 - January 7, 2007

The Guggenheim
Part I: The Collection | Part II: Architecture for a Global Museum (August 25 - November 12, 2006)
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.
In summer 2006, the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn will have one of the largest and most ambitious exhibitions of recent years on display, on approx. 6000 qm. A selection of 250 masterpieces, ranging from classical modernism to contemporary art, from the collection of the Guggenheim Foundation in New York is presented. Today the Guggenheim Foundation is with five museums in New York, Venice, Berlin, Bilbao, and Las Vegas the first truly global institution dedicated to fine arts. more

April 7 - June 25, 2006

The Youth of Today
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. A growing emphasis on the media, individuality, and commercialism is producing a constantly increasing diversity of youth scenes. Girlies, greasers, hooligans, rappers, ravers, streetballers, train surfers, and wakeboarders are just some of these disparate “artificial tribes” to which young people today feel they belong. This exhibition shows how contemporary art confronts the various life worlds of teens, twens, and postadolescent thirtysomethings whose experience of youth culture often continues into their family lives and careers. more

March 25-28, 2006

4th berlin biennial for contemporary art
The 4th berlin biennial is not only a singular exhibition: it is composed of a series of events, projects and other gestures. The activities and endeavors began last spring in Berlin and around Germany with a series of presentations and lectures. The exhibition of the 4th berlin biennial, titled "Of Mice and Men," will open to the public on March 25, 2006. The show includes works by more than 70 artists in thirteen venues that dot the entire span along Auguststraße, Berlin-Mitte. more

February 24 - March 5, 2006

Kurt-Weill-Festival
The 14th Kurt Weill Festival will be held under the motto “Weill & Brecht”. Next year sees the fiftieth anniversary of the death of the poet and playwright Brecht, providing an occasion to perform a number of the collaborative works of these two artists. In co-production with the Anhaltischen Theater Dessau, the Kurt Weill Festival 2006 will open with a premiere of the opera “The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” and the successful new production of “Happy End” which was also shown at the last festival. A fitting conclusion to the Kurt Weill Festival 2006 will be provided by a concert performance of “The Seven Deadly Sins” in the Anhaltischen Theater with the MDR Symphony Orchestra and the celebrated Weill interpreter Helen Schneider. more

February 9 - 19, 2006

International Film Festival, Berlin
This year, the USA will be represented by Terrence Malick’s long awaited new film "The New World", which will be running out of competition. Colin Farrell plays the main role, explorer John Smith who left England in the 17th century for America and fell in love there with Pocahontas, the daughter of an Indian chief. – Also screening out of competition will be "Syriana", a political thriller featuring producer and leading man George Clooney, as well as Christopher Plummer and Matt Damon. Director Stephen Gaghan, who until now has mainly been known for screenplays like "Traffic" and "The Alamo", takes a look at the back rooms of the global oil industry. more

February 1 - 24, 2006

Photo Exhibition: Landmarks of New York
Amerika Haus, Frankfurt am Main. European premiere of the exhibit "Landmarks of New York". It consists of 81 black and white photographs of buildings and public parks. Created by the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law, the exhibition highlights the interest of New Yorkers in preserving their heritage and chronicles the impact of the city's architecture and preservation on the rest of the nation. more

January 14 - April 2, 2006

Annie Leibowitz - American Music
The Berlin gallery C/O Berlin presents the only German showing of the American Music exhibition by Annie Leibovitz, a portrait photographer of international standing. The show combines portraits of musicians taken over a period of more than 35 years. Including portraits of street musicians, stars in the studio, and individuals listening to music, Leibovitz' photographs reveal the communicative effect of music. more

December 10, 2005 - February 12, 2006

Feature Exhibition: Lewis and Clark
Landesmuseum für Natur und Mensch Oldenburg. The exhibition throws light on the facets of Lewis's and Clark's travels and their experiences in an unknown country. It is a trip back in time into the 19th century and a travel through the American continent. more

See also: Events 2005 | 2004