The human relationship with nature is existential, even if this understanding seems to be increasingly lost sight of. We see nature as life and a resource, as beauty but also as a threat, as an ever-surprising wonder but unfortunately also as a mere product.

Water /Colour
10.05. - 15.06.2025
Max Bill, James Brown, Günther Förg, Eugenio Carmi, Thomas Lohmann, Andrei Roiter, Martin Ross, Hans Schreiner, Anton Stankowski, Gert & Uwe Tobias, Bernd Vossmerbäumer

Hans Kotter, Extension 05.04. - 04.05.2025
The innovative spectrum of the light artist Hans Kotter seems inexhaustible in its diversity of expression and form: in recent years he has increasingly explored the combination of sculpture and light and has developed spectacular free-standing sculptures.

On the occasion of the European Month of Photography in March 2025, we are therefore showing a selection of photographs from the collection from the 20th and 21st centuries with a focus on space and structure

The artist group ZERO (1958-66) was looking for a new artistic beginning, a "zero hour" after the horror, destruction and atrocities committed by Germany in particular during the Second World War.

Paper!
Paper is one of the oldest drawing media, but it is also a wonderful material for sculptural design. The exhibition brings together works that use and transform paper artistically in a wide variety of ways.
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Light!
Hans Kotter, François Morellet, Otto Piene, Keith Sonnier

Radiation, reflection, refraction,… With and through light, many exciting effects can be observed and artistically processed.
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We know of the first glass objects from around 3500 B.C. Since then, the material has developed into its own art form

and some glassblowing companies have achieved world fame, such as Costa, Orrefors in the so-called glass kingdom of southern Sweden.

Tracing Spreepark - Annett Zinsmeister
In 2020, Annett Zinsmeister received a research grant to document Spreepark Berlin, the wasteland that became known as the “lost place” of the first and only amusement park in the GDR and the city of Berlin.
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