Public Tours
Public guided tours of the exhibitions on view at the KINDL are held in German every third Saturday of the month at 2 pm, tours in English are held every first Wednesday of the month at 6 pm. The public tours delve into the content and highlights of the exhibitions, inviting an open discussion about the artworks.
Next tours
Wed, 2.11., 18:00 (in English) – Registration here.
Wed, 19.11., 14:00 (in German) – Registration here.
Wed, 7.12., 18:00 (in English) – Registration soon here.
Wed, 17.12., 14:00 (in German) – Registration soon here.
Duration: 60 min
Meeting place: foyer
Cost: Admission ticket
Family Workshops
Starting in November 2022, the KINDL will hold a family workshop every two months. In the one-hour workshop, we will visit one of the current exhibitions together, explore the artworks, and then get to work ourselves. Alternating between collective and individual questions for young and old, we offer an approach that awakens a gratifying curiosity for contemporary art both in children and adults.
The program is primarily aimed at families with children over the age of three, and is accessible free of charge with advance registration. The content of the workshop is adapted to the current exhibition programme.
Next workshops and registration
Sun, 6.11., 15:00
Sun, 8.1., 15:00
Registration via vermittlung(at)kindl-berlin.de
Offerings for Schools
The KINDL offers a versatile educational programme that provides context for respective exhibitions in age-specific formats. The workshops are 60 to 120 minutes in length and create a framework for encountering and discussing works by contemporary artists from around the world. Participants explore the works in experimental formats and relate them back to their own lives.
Information and Booking
The educational programme is held in German language and geared at grades 2 through 13. The workshops take place in the KINDL art education rooms in the mornings, outside of regular opening hours.
Registration via vermittlung(at)kindl-berlin.de
Current workshop offerings here (in German).
Architecture & History
The KINDL’s historic red clinker brick façade is an example the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in architecture. "Cinema architect" Gerhard Fritsche designed the building’s interior. The Sudhaus contains six imposing copper brew kettles; once the largest in all of Europe, while the Kesselhaus boasts a ceiling height of 20 metres. With over 1600 square metres of exhibition space on three floors, the imposing building leaves lasting impressions from the outside as well as the inside. Together we will explore the former brewery, which was completed in the early 1930s. We will look back over the eventful history of what is now an industrial monument and explore the extensive architectural redesign of the KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, which opened in 2016.
Next tours:
Sat, 12 November, 2 pm (in German) – Registration soon here.
Duration: 45 minutes each
Meeting place: foyer
Registration: see above
Cost: regular admission
Individual Tours
We offer individual tours in various formats – with a focus on the exhibitions or on the architectural history of the KINDL building. The two formats can also be combined. The tours are held in different languages. Please don’t hesitate to contact us for inquiries and more detailed information.
Information and Booking
T +49 (0)30 832 159 12 16 (Wed – Sun; 12:00 – 18:00) or via fuehrungen(at)kindl-berlin.de
Requests for tours are generally answered between Wednesday and Sunday.
Cost: 60 Euros plus admission
50 Gramm Kunst – A Participatory Project
50 Gramm Kunst is a collaborative project at the KINDL for curious people of all ages; for families, individuals, or students. It has been staged every summer since 2021. Everyone is invited to contribute an artwork of their own to a large assembled installation. Make your art objects out of everyday items, craft supplies, materials from your surroundings, or from nature – there are no limits to your creativity. The submitted artworks will be fixed to a bamboo mobile as a large collaborative work in the monumental KINDL Kesselhaus, becoming part of an exhibition.
Join us and become part of our community project!
More Information
The Participatory Project from 2022 was presented in the summer. The dates for 2023 will be announced here soon.
Education, Outreach, Tours
In 2018, the project Das Hellblaue Buch (The Light Blue Book) laid the foundation for the Education programme fostering local cooperation at the KINDL. Since then, school children from the adjacent Hermann-Boddin-Grundschule have been visiting the exhibitions regularly as part of a cooperation designed to last for the duration of primary school. In playful workshops, children are invited to delve into contemporary art through sustained engagement. Recurring visits to the KINDL empower them to develop their own competencies in the environment of an art institution. The children express their creative thoughts, ideas and feelings in the specially produced Hellblaue Bücher. Over time, the light blue notebooks become a sort of diary of their visits to the KINDL. Once the students complete primary school, the books are given to them to keep.
Since the summer of 2022, the KINDL has been developing its Outreach programme. Both, new and established synergies are primary concerns in this context. The area surrounding the KINDL is characterised by the intertwined relationships between its immediate, multi-layered neighbourhood, its adjacent districts and the communities rooted there. The outreach programme creates space for a wide range of people to model sustainable participation in culture and to foster a society with many voices, not just within the confines of the KINDL. At the same time, the programme is an opportunity to reflect on contemporary, socially relevant topics through art.
In addition to the extensive discursive programme, the KINDL also engages with the content and themes of its exhibitions through educational programming. Productive exchanges and collaborations on equal footing with artists, visitors, cultural players and the neighbourhood itself are a central cause for the KINDL. Public tours of individual exhibitions, workshops for schools and families, a comprehensive supporting programme as well as tours on architecture and history provide insights and offer individual formats for participation and access.