SPK annual reports

Since 2018, the SPK Annual Report has replaced the time-honoured yearbook. Lean, up-to-date and discursive, it deals with everything that moves the SPK.

"Mr Parzinger, how did you do it?" asks the Annual Report 2024, taking stock of a 17-year presidency on the occasion of the change of office at the head of the SPK.

25 years after the Washington Conference, the Annual Report 2023 provides an insight into the various provenance research projects at the SPK under the key question "Fair and just? ". The discourse section focuses on coming to terms with Nazi art theft.

Under the title "Where does the future begin?", the Annual Report 2022 gives six cultural journalists, who have been critically involved with the SPK for years, the space to develop their external perspectives on the state of affairs at the three locations Dahlem, Museum Island Berlin and Kulturforum.

In the SPK's engine room, change is picking up speed - accelerated by pressing social issues such as sustainability, diversity and gender equality. "How do we build the future?" asks the 2021 annual report, which is dedicated to the internal transformation of the foundation and its creators.

2020 was a particularly challenging year. That is why the 2020 annual report is dedicated to the topic of the pandemic and change under the question "Do we need another revolution?" : How do we move forward? What needs to change? What has stood the test of time?

Under the title "Art without context?" , the 2019 annual report focusses on artists' lives: based on the most controversial exhibition of the year, "Emil Nolde - A German Legend. The artist under National Socialism", the focus is on the connections between art and context, author and work, reception and morality, as well as the question of what can be found of an artist's life in an estate.

"As you like it?" asks the 2018 annual report, which deals with the topic of visitor friendliness: What do visitors and users of cultural centres such as museums and libraries want and need? To what extent does a cultural institution have to adapt its content to meet these needs? And what new possibilities are there thanks to the digital transformation?

The handling of non-European collections dominated the summer of 2017, which is why this year's annual report asks: "Who owns the art?". The focus is on provenance research into the objects that are to move into the Humboldt Forum - and the questions of how this works and why it takes so long.

The 2016 annual report focusses on cultural exchange and asks "Can art change the world?". Sometimes more is possible in cultural policy than in politics. The SPK builds bridges to Iran and Russia. The most important thing, says Foundation President Parzinger in an interview, is that we know more about each other.

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