The DIY exhibition "Transferring LGBTQI+ Stories. 16 Shared Impressions of Kharkiv, Kyiv and other Cities" with current photos and texts by queer people from Ukraine, who describe their view of the situation at the time of the invasion by Russia, is open until May 21st, 2022 to see in our...
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Unfortunately on thursday, 28.4., our exhibition and the temporary exhibition "Transferring LGBTQ historys - 16 Shared Impressions of Kharkiv, Kiew and other Cities" stays closed. On saturday, 29.4., we are open regulary and happy to see you!
Finally! We can hardly wait for ourselves!! Starting tomorrow our long winter break will be over. The exhibition will then be open as usual on Saturday from 2pm to 6pm and on Thursday from 5pm to 8pm.
But we weren't completely idle during the break, look forward to new topics, workshops,...
Continue Reading...We have a tip for you! Today the new exhibition "Karl Marx and Capitalism" opens at the "Deutsches Historisches Museum" (German Historical Museum).
"It is the critique that...
Continue Reading...Unfortunately, we had to close our exhibition again at the weekend and are going into the 2nd extension of our winter break due to corona.
Knock on wood! We are starting a third attempt to open the exhibition on February 19th, 2022!
If you don't want to wait until then, the...
Continue Reading...Tomorrow it's time! again From February 3rd, 5pm our favorite museum will be open again. The winter break is over, so come visit us. Every Thursday from 5pm to 8pm or Saturday from 2pm to 6pm.
In these times, however, the following applies: Check our social media channels before your...
Continue Reading...Our winter break is being extended due to the corona virus. The exhibition is expected to reopen on February 3, 2022.
However, there can be deviations even then due to virological occurrences. Therefore, please inform yourself via our social media channels before your visit. Find us on...
Continue Reading...Today we are open for the last time before our winter break!
We're back with an event on January 6th, 2022 and the exhibition on January 27th, 2022.
If you don't want to wait until then, come and visit today from 2pm - 6pm, 2G + at Köpenicker Str. See you there.
on august 5th our exhibition "museum of capitalism" will open its doors again after the long corona-related break!
Please do a corona-test before visiting the museum and note that only 10 person can enter the exhibition at the same time. Also Masks are required for all visitors.
If...
Due to the current COVID measures, the exhibition is expected to remain closed until further notice.
Exhibition Opening – Environment in Capitalism
With many friends, neighbours and visitors, we have opened our new permanent exhibition on October 25, 2019! We thank all who were there! The evening was great, the topic of the exhibition enormously important, your interest huge!...
Continue Reading...Classes in Neoliberalism
Lecture
Wednesday, November 6th. | 7pm
Classes structure society in capitalism. At the same time, they serve to explain social processes and developments. Classes are determined by the position of the people to the means of production -...
Continue Reading...The climate catastrophe - a catastrophe of capitalism?
– Movement perspectives on the relationship between environment and social organization
Panel
Friday, October, 11th 2019 | 20h
How do we understand the relationship between the capitalist economy and...
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Friday, October, 25th 2019 | 20h
On October 25, 2019, we reopen the museum with a revised exhibition! The main topics of the new exhibition are capitalism-specific mechanisms and their effects on climate and society. We show connections between the...
Continue Reading...The planetary destruction.
– On the relationship between capital and ecological disaster.
Workshop
Wednesday, October 2nd | 7pm
In a reading workshop, we want to discuss to what extent the destruction of the earth is a necessary consequence of capitalism....
Continue Reading...We are back from Brussels!! And we don't want to deprive you of a few pictures. It was big and it was great!
From August 15th to September 13th 2019, more than 5000 people visited our joint exhibition with the Musée du Capitalisme at the Brussels Stock Exchange. The evenings were filled...
Continue Reading...Trapped in Capitalism – Surveilling & Excluding the Poor #3
Lecture Series
What to do? Organizing against exploitation in jail?
with Soligruppe Berlin of the GG / BO
Wednesday | June, 19th | 7pm
On Wednesday, June 19th, the last event of...
Continue Reading...MRX Machine
Reading & Discussion
Friday | June, 14th | 7pm
In the postmodern world of contemporary neo-liberal capitalism, all differences, all identities have become fluid and have become the consumable surfaces of a self-optimized staging. Any resistance...
Continue Reading...Trapped in Capitalism – Surveilling & Excluding the Poor #2
Lecture Series
Punishment of Poverty - Substitute Liberty Penalties & Penal Procedures
with Frank Wilde and Henriette Scharnhorst
Friday | June, 9th | 7pm
Every year, more...
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Lecture Series
Monday | May, 20th | 7pm || Friday | June, 9th | 7pm || Wednesday | June, 19th | 7pm
In the lecture series “Trapped in Capitalism” by the...
Continue Reading...Renewed Attempt to Liberation – Paths to Emancipation
Reading & Discussion
Friday | May, 17th | 7pm
On Friday, May 17th, the discussion group of the SEK – the Self-help Group Egg of Communism visits our museum! Four authors – Judith Braband,...
Continue Reading...Counterculture - Lifestyle - Revolution
Lecture
Wednesday, May 8th. | 7pm
When the first images of the Earth were released from outer space, the image of the blue marble was created. Not only did it form an understanding of a global ecosphere, the...
Continue Reading...The big Kladderadatsch – Long live the Revolution!
Theater
Wednesday | April 17th | 7pm
The Homeless Theater, founded at the Volksbühne, will visit us on April 17th. The group has adapted the piece "The big Kladderadatsch! Long live the revolution! and presents...
Continue Reading...Gender in Public Space - Where are the women* in Hannah Arendt's "Vita Activa"?
Discussion
Wednesday | April, 10th | 7pm
Hannah Arendt senses in "Vita Activa" the disappearance of the political. The sphere of the political is determined for her by speaking and...
Continue Reading...Do it yourself - Why Solo Sex is Feminist?
Workshop
Friday | March, 22nd 2019 | 6pm
Do it yourself, solo sex, joining the mile-high club, flying solo, tripping the switch... you name it... is still a taboo subject for many people, but why is solo-sex also...
Continue Reading...Together against injustice - Feminist forces Bundling with SGU
Conversation & interaction
Wednesday | March, 20th | 7pm
Stimmrecht gegen Unrecht (SGU) is a young, political collective that was ...
Continue Reading...What is emotional labour?
- About power relations, demarcation and support
Wednesday | March 13th, 2019 | 7pm
Emotional labour is often invisible and as part of care labour rarely openly discussed. Soothing a friend, a clarifying conversation or taking a break...
Continue Reading...Kon-Formismen – The Rearrangement of Differences
Lecture & Debate
Wednesday | February 27th, 2019 | 7pm
In debates about identity politics, individuals are assigned to a specific collective in order to gain an identity from it. It is henceforth necessary to...
Continue Reading...Gewalterlebnispark / Violence Adventure Park
Reading & Performance
Friday | February, 1st | 8pm
Mike Spike Froidl's novel, begun in 2002, is a novel in progress. A release is not planned - this novel is created to be featured on public stages!
Entertaining,...
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Reading and discussion about the theory of Félix Guattari
Wednesday | February, 6th, 2019 | 7pm
“It [capitalism] is always capable of adding or withdrawing additional functional axioms in the event of a crisis...
Continue Reading...Materializing Feminism - Book Presentation & Discussion
On Saturday, January 12, 2019, Lisa Yashodhara Haller and Anna Stiede presented their new book at our museum. In the book, both argue for materialistic feminism and a critical examination of the economic, social and...
Continue Reading...Critical Whiteness
Lecture with Dr Millay Hyatt and subsequent discussion
Wednesday | January, 23rd, 2019 | 7pm
Critical Whiteness, in Germany also known as Critical Whiteness Research, is an approach in the anti-racism movement and in the scientific discussion...
Continue Reading...The RATTEN 07 and singers of The Choir from Below present: "The big Kladderadatsch!" – Long live the revolution!
Theater
Wednesday | January, 9th | 7pm.
The 100th anniversary of the 1918/19 revolution is reason enough to think about revolution in a comprehensive...
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Book presentation & discussion with Lisa Yashodhara Haller & Anna Stiede,
Authors and publishers of the book
Saturday | January, 10th 2019 | 6pm
We live in a time when all areas of life are permeated with capitalism. Against...
Continue Reading...Space for use at the Museum of Capitalism
We offer the opportunity to rent our space for artistic, political or scientific networking meetings such as seminars, workshops, lectures and discussions, as well as theater performances, readings, film screenings etc. by the day or by...
Continue Reading...Opening of the Mike Spike Froidl exhibition:
"Wow! Capitalism!"
Painting - Performance - Graphic - Film
Friday | December, 14th | 7pm
From 8pm: Anticapitalist Calligraphy Performance
Afterwards the film: "M.S.Froidl mixes up the...
An argument for the "Monetary Value Theory"
Input by Kristofer Pitz
Wednesday | December, 7th | 7pm
There are a lot of different interpretation of Karl Marx’ theory of capitalism in »Capital«. A central matter of dissent between the different approaches is the...
Continue Reading...Berlin under the Red Flag – A historical press workshop on the November Revolution
Workshop
Wednesday | November, 21st | 7pm
100 years ago the November Revolution took place, for us a reason to study it more closely!
This month there will be a very...
Continue Reading...We have new opening hours at the museum!! However, next weekend the exhibition will be closed!
The new opening hour are Thu 4pm - 7pm, Sat 2pm - 6pm and Sun 2pm - 6pm.
We're looking forward to new visitors!
Before the Marx-Reading group starts on Thursday, November 15th at 7pm in our museum, the day before Michael Heinrich gives an introduction to "Capital", Volume 1.
Until 2016, Michael Heinrich was a professor of economics in...
Continue Reading...For those who have no plans for the weekend and have not had a chance to visit us yet: Tomorrow - on Saturday, November 3, 2018 - we have opened the exhibition in addition to our regular opening hours. The museum will be open from 11am until 6pm.
We are looking forward to many visitors...
To warm up for the capital reading circle, starting November 15th, in our museum – on November, 8th, at 7pm – the political scientist Michael Heinrich gives an insight into his book about the biography and work development of Karl Marx with the title "Karl Marx and the birth of modern society...
Continue Reading...A commodity appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood. Its analysis shows that it is, in reality, a very queer thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties…”
― Karl Marx, Capital, Vol 1
In 2018, Karl Marx would have been 200 years...
Continue Reading...500 and 1 years after the Reformation, the Reformation Day - on October 31 - in Berlin is at least not a holiday. Too late on time, we dedicate an extraordinary evening to the splitter and the questionable historical figure. Hallelujah, that will be fun..!
"Anyone who always had problems...
Continue Reading...Hey everyone who wants to put capitalism in the museum!
We are a self-organised group that makes exhibitions about capitalism. We deal critically with the capitalist economic and social system and do political educational work, which is explicitly aimed at people outside the left and...
Continue Reading..."Hartz IV is the nightmare of society," says Bettina Kenter-Götte. The actress and author has long campaigned for the abatement of poverty. In her book, she traces her life with Hartz IV from the point of view of a person concerned and sensitises her readers to the reality of a precarious system...
Continue Reading...Understanding Capitalism and Building Alternatives - as part of the Wandelwoche Berlin Brandenburg, there´ll be an event at our museum as well.
On Thursday, September 13th, 2018, beginning 6pm, you can participate in a tour of the Forum Kreuzberg - the cooperative housing, education and...
Continue Reading...Original accumulation in permanence? Rosa Luxemburg's “Accumulation of Capital“
Lecture & Discussion
Wednesday | September, 5th 2018 | 8.30pm
"Capitalism needs for its existence and development of non-capitalist forms of production as its environment. It...
Continue Reading...A punk tribute to 2 June Movement / Haschrebellen – beautiful bank heists and a Peter theft.
Mike Spike Froidl's "Brand New and Flammable" DIY Movie, D 2018, 65 Min.
If the state repression proved inexorable on the 2nd of June 1967 with the shooting of Benno Ohnesorg, it made a...
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