Kolonnaden Bar on the Museumsinsel Berlin from 23 June to 28 July 2022

22.06.2022
Humboldt Forum

For five weeks, starting on 23 June 2022, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin invites you to enjoy the Kolonnaden Bar on the Museuminsel Berlin every Thursday night from 7 to 10 pm. Talks, DJ sessions and cool beverages promise a pleasant summer evening at the Kolonnadenhof (Colonnaded Courtyard), located directly alongside the River Spree. Free admission. The Kolonnaden Bar is open, rain or shine.

A large opening launches the programme of events, which are part of the Kultursommerfestival. Fashion designer Esther Perbandt and art critic Cora Knoblauch talk about fashion as a collective experience and search for correspondences among the works from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin collections. The talk is followed by live concert performances by Deadbeat & Tikiman and Perera Elsewhere. To close the evening, DJs Gebrüder Teichmann spin their tunes. Earlier in the afternoon, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin offers free tours dedicated to the history of the Museumsinsel Berlin, guiding visitors to architecturally distinctive sites. 

Opening with a talk, live concerts and DJs on 23 June 2022

• Doors open at 5 pm: DJ session
• 6 pm, Talk with Esther Perbandt and Cora Knoblauch, moderated by Julia Vismann
• 7 pm, Live concert: Deadbeat & Tikiman
• 7:45 pm, Live concert: Perera Elsewhere
• 8:30 pm, DJ session: Gebrüder Teichmann

Five further evenings at the Kolonnaden Bar

• Thursday, 30 June 2022, with actress Abak Safaei-Rad
• Thursday, 7 July 2022, with Oleksandra Bienert, researcher and activist, and Dagmar Korbacher, director of the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings)
• Thursday, 14 July 2022, with actor Milan Peschel
• Thursday, 21 July 2022, with Else Edelstahl, initiator of the “Bohème Sauvage”
• Thursday, 28 July 2022, with psychologist Jule Specht

When? Where? How?

Kolonnadenhof, Museumsinsel Berlin
Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin

Doors open at 6:30 pm
Talks begin at 7 pm

Events take place rain or shine. The colonnades on the Museumsinsel Berlin are weather-protected.

The Kolonnaden Bar is funded by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK Board of Trustees).