The artist and Grammy winner supported a 2021 petition by Palestinian artists titled “Letter Against Apartheid”

Claudia Roth says the commission’s current mandate is “inadequate” and “we are not living up to our responsibilities"

The Cameroonian-born curator is the institution's first Black leader

Josep Renau's vast memorial in Halle-Neustadt is one of the most important surviving public works of art produced in communist East Germany

This edition of the Kassel quinquennial was engulfed by a row over antisemitism and racism that has drawn comment from Germany's senior politicians

More than 1,100 looted items will be transferred though some artefacts will remain on loan to German museums

Berlin Biennale conference will focus on "decolonising" arts and culture

The women's and gay rights campaigner brings extensive political experience to a position that has gained in stature under the incumbent Monika Grütters

Nightlife and live music venues across the country now have the same legal status as museums and opera houses

Peng collective auctions off ten objects bought from committed anti-fascists for €10,000

Hermann Parzinger, the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says he hopes the organisation will no longer exist in five years

Grütters sees "massive burden" for arts sector as theatres and concert halls close, ticket sales dwindle

Centre for Political Beauty says action targets conservatives open to allying with far right

The project, which is to be designed with participation from children and young people, will be supported by the Goethe Institute

It risked bankruptcy to become the capital, and a deal with the federal government gives Berlin DM100m a year—providing that plum institutions come under national control