On May 21 the Detroit-Berlin Connection hosted The Potential music conference in cooperation with Your Mom’s Agency, Wunderbar Together, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and the Goethe Institute Chicago. The exchange is the brainchild of Dimitri Hegemann, founder of one of Berlin’s original Techno clubs and a lifelong ambassador for the Detroit-Berlin Connection. Speakers from Detroit, Amsterdam, and Germany, convened to discuss the role of a nighttime economy in Detroit and the relationship between art and a city.

Learn more about the Pennsylvania Dutch barn stars - stellar pieces of artwork with a long and complex heritage. The stars were featured as part of the annual Kutztown Folk Festival that took place in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country for the 70th year!

As part of The Potential conference in Detroit three musicians came together at MOCAD, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, to score live a German silent classic for the public onsite. What ensued was a magical evening of audio-visual art where Detroit and Berlin, classic and new culture, synched their similarities and differences beautifully.