Exhibition Opening: NO PUNK. NO FUTURE.

​Fifty years after punk declared itself against everything and everyone, Goethe-Institut San Francisco presents NO PUNK. NO FUTURE., an exhibition exploring the connections between the punk scenes of Kiel, Germany, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

​Join us for the opening night and a conversation with Andy A. Schwarz and Tina Sanudakura of the seminal Kiel post-punk band NO MORE, alongside San Francisco writer and punk historian Jack Boulware, author of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.

​The exhibition brings together photographs by the late Helmut Kunde, archival materials, records, posters, tour diaries, and artwork from both sides of the Atlantic. Rather than telling a complete history of punk, it traces the people, ideas, and creative networks that connected punk communities across continents while maintaining their distinct identities.

​Part of the international program Alle gegen Alles. Punk@50, the exhibition considers punk not as a closed chapter in music history, but as an enduring cultural force that continues to shape art, music, publishing, activism, and independent creative practice.

​Drinks and light refreshments will be served.

​Special thanks to our sponsor, Sunset Paulaner.