Curated by Simone Rueß and Karolina Wlazło-Malinowska
“Tu i tam – here and there. Hybrid Structures in Transnational Contexts” is a transdisciplinary and experimental exhibition project exploring contemporary German-Polish relations and the transnational connections that shape Europe today. It creates a space for exchange and reflection on relations between neighbouring countries against the backdrop of growing geopolitical tensions.

The exhibition by Julius Pristauz combines physical and spatial experience with concrete social realities. It aims to encourage visitors to engage with the tangible and invisible dynamics and forces that surround them. In the exhibition, wind becomes a force that shapes, slows down movements, changes directions, challenges, drives progress or hinders it.

The museum presents well-known and lesser known aspects about Berlin’s Mitte district – from the historic past to the present day – in exhibition spaces organized according to different themes.

The artist Qusay Awad is invited to carry out an artistic research project to delve further into the annual theme Heimsuchungen/Hauntings. In view of the upcoming anniversary year 2027, the research project will aim to examine and reflect on the 10-year exhibition history in relation to the architecture and history of the Bärenzwinger. Throughout the year, interim updates of the research project will be presented and starting in October, the result of the project will be exhibited.

The solo exhibition by Nina Paszkowski, titled “Furore”, refers to the spectacle that has long shaped the Bärenzwinger: the principle of display and staging—whether through living animals, ideologically charged urban identity, or contemporary art. “Furore” describes a form of public attention that moves between fascination and unease. What attracts and excites can also turn into indignation or anger. Paszkowski approaches this anger through mythological figures whose name resonates in the exhibition title: the Furies. In Greek mythology, they appear as furious avengers who, through an act of mercy, undergo a process of becoming human and transform into the benevolent Eumenides.

is a site-specific installation by Nazanin Noori at the Klosterruine Berlin. It connects the historical space of the former religious building with questions of religious affiliation, power structures, public perception, and diverse conceptions of the divine. As a relic of a sacred site, the Klosterruine points to the political and social systems that have historically emerged from religious organisation. For centuries, the Berlin Franciscan monastery functioned as a space in which spiritual practices—both aesthetic and performative—were closely intertwined with urban order and political authority. At the same time, the ruin stands as a marker of repeated destruction and transformation.

Mit Beiträgen von ADEFRA (Jasmin Eding, Elija Sydney Tourkazi, Barbara Walker) in Kollaboration mit Magda Korsinsky; NEID (Claudia Reinhardt, Katharina Pfaller aka Babyberlin, Birgit Wudtke, Ina Wudtke, und anderen); QUEER READS LIBRARY (Beatrix Pang, und anderen) sowie Katarina Šević und Jeanne-Ange Wagne.