Perform! Joan Jonas: Mirror Piece I & II (1969/2025)

On the occasion of this year's Berlin Art Week, the Neue Nationalgalerie is showing the fourth edition of the Perform! festival series with performances by Joan Jonas, Isaac Chong Wai and vAL. In addition, the participatory performance ›Bells for Peace‹ by Yoko Ono will take place on the ›Tag im Grünen‹ (Day in the Green) on 14 SEP 2025. All events are free of charge.

As in previous years, a historically groundbreaking performance forms the core of the PERFORM! program: ›Mirror Piece I & II‹ (1969) by Joan Jonas will be performed once a day on the terrace of the Neue Nationalgalerie from 10 to 14 September 2025. On Sunday, 14 September, the performances ›The horizon we can never touch‹ by Isaac Chong Wai and ›Bellied‹ by Corey Scott-Gilbert | vAL will also take place. As a special highlight the participatory performance ›Bells for Peace‹ by Yoko Ono will be presented on Sunday, 14 September as the concluding gesture of her successful exhibition ›DREAM TOGETHER‹.

For the past three years, the Neue Nationalgalerie has organised the Perform! performance festival during Berlin Art Week. In addition to historical positions by Yvonne Rainer (2024), Yoko Ono (2023) and Simone Forti (2022), contemporary contributions by Göksu Kunak, Miles Greenberg, Enad Marouf, Bendik Giske, Dafni Krouzadi, Constantin Hartenstein and Billy Bultheel were on show.

Perform! is curated by Klaus Biesenbach, director of the Neue Nationalgalerie, with Lisa Botti, curator at the Neue Nationalgalerie, and Gregor Quack, Volkswagen Group Fellow, Freunde der Nationalgalerie.