Thirty new members join the Berlin Academy of Arts (German: Akademie der Künste). Their inclusion was decided at the 57th General Assembly in Berlin last November. Since then, all new members have accepted the invitation, the institution announced.
The academy, which now has 426 members, has expanded its six artistic sections. In the literary section, new members include György Dragomán alongside Esther Kinsky, Eva Menasse, Steffen Mensching, and Katharina Schultens.
The newcomers to the music section are Georges Aperghis, Malin Bång, Sidney Corbett, Christopher Fox, Stephan Froleyks, George Lewis, Sarah Nemtsov, Kirsten Reese, Trond Reinholdtsen, Annette Schlünz, and Chiyoko Szlavnics. Lars Eidinger, and Ulrich Rasche are among the performers. No new members for the Film and Media section were proposed.
Rosa Barba, Monica Bonvicini, and Hito Steyerl have been selected for the section of Fine Arts. Marianne Burkhalter, Thomas Flierl, Konstantin Grcic, Regula Lüscher, Dorte Mandrup, Anh Linh Ngo, Mike Schlaich, Felix Schwarz, and Ana Viader Soler are now also part of the section of architecture.
