Festival of Future Nows 2025
With Julius von Bismarck, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Felix Kiessling, and Fabian Knecht
Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2025
Opening: Oct 31, from 7-12pm
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

The Festival of Future Nows brings together around 100 international artistic positions—ranging from emerging voices to established practitioners. In a densely packed program, performative, experimental, and participatory works open up diverse and unexpected encounters throughout the museum’s indoor and outdoor spaces. Performances, happenings, sound and audio works, choreographies, dance, workshops, and both subtle and large-scale interventions invite active engagement.

Visitors are invited to enter into an open dialogue with artists and fellow guests. Through works that inspire participation, reflection, and shared experience, a space emerges for addressing urgent social and ecological issues, fostering collective agency, and imagining new forms of coexistence. At the heart of the festival is the exchange of ideas and an exploration of the role art can play in this process—ultimately aiming to foster cooperation and articulate visions for and of the future.

Taking place in the architectural icon of Mies van der Rohe, the Festival of Future Nows is an experimental format situated within a major cultural institution. The dynamic interplay between the festival’s artistic program and the museum’s unique architectural qualities creates a charged atmosphere – inviting audiences to experience art as a social and imaginative space for shaping our shared future.

Admission to the festival is free of charge.