Painting at Atelier Farbklang. Credit: Ulrike Stiehring7/8
Susanne Ring, “Körper Speicher Tempel”, Galerie Nord 2025. Credit: Oliver Möst8/8
Exhibitions
Klosterruine |
Exhibition
7.6.25 — 26.4.26
Monument of Oblivion: River of Lethe
For the 2025/26 programme year, artist Neda Saeedi has been selected by a jury to create a site-specific work. Neda Saeedi’s sound installation, created specifically for the Klosterruine, explores how historical sites are remembered. “Who is remembered, who is excluded, and how do we deal with violent histories or missing monuments? Are we dealing with the past in a way that allows us to shape the future?
Charter Flight into the Past – The Berlin Senate’s Invitation Program for Former Refugees Turns 50
On the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2019, an exhibition developed by the Berlin Senate Chancellery and the Gedänkstätte Deutscher Widerstand traced the development of the programme and selected biographies of participants. In the year marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the war and liberation from Nazi dictatorship, as well as the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel, an updated version of the exhibition can be seen at the Mitte Museum.
The urban space in Berlin-Mitte has changed dramatically since the 1990s. It has become a symbol of gentrification, a hub for commercial galleries, an investment property, and a backdrop for tourists. The program sequence on the spot examines these processes of exploitation and displacement—as well as the artistic strategies used to circumvent them. Combining exhibition, performance, and discourse, on the spot brings together contemporary perspectives and archival material to explore the speculations and fictions with which a place is charged.
The community space »Emergent Archives« at Galerie Wedding is a growing archive of (post-)migrant and anti-racist engagement. It collects stories of people who have organized—through alliances, initiatives, and across communities. Their experiences speak of responsibility, contradictions, solidarity, and the struggle for a just city.
The exhibition »Cemetery of the Nameless« by artist Pınar Öğrenci weaves together the ecological, historical, and social threads surrounding Lake Van in eastern Turkey, creating a haunting portrait of the region shaped by profound loss.
Flucht ins Innere: The Artist Paul Gurk during the Nazi dictatorship
Mitte Museum keeps documents and books from the estate of Paul Gurk (1880-1953) and his life partner Erna Schallok (1886-1943) as well as artworks by the artist. The exhibition presents a selection of the material and provides authentic insight into the artist’s life.
Presentation: Artist Residencies Leopoldplatz 2025
For the second time this year, the artist residencies on Leopoldplatz brought exciting artistic projects to Wedding: A temporary participatory kitchen, projects on film, performance and poetry invited people on Leopoldplatz to join in. Additionaly, one of the residencies facitlitated the painting of two murals.
Unter dem Motto „Lasst uns froh und munter sein“ lädt die Musikschule Fanny Hensel wieder zu ihrem traditionellen Konzert am ersten Adventssonntag ein. Mit bekannten Liedern zur Weihnachtszeit und besinnlicher Instrumentalmusik läuten die jungen Musiker*innen in der einzigartigen Atmosphäre der historischen Klosterruine den Advent ein – ein Anlass zum Mitsingen und für Hoffnung und Freude in der dunklen Jahreszeit.
For the 2025/26 programme year, artist Neda Saeedi has been selected by a jury to create a site-specific work. Neda Saeedi’s sound installation, created specifically for the Klosterruine, explores how historical sites are remembered. “Who is remembered, who is excluded, and how do we deal with violent histories or missing monuments? Are we dealing with the past in a way that allows us to shape the future?
Noel far from Home: A musical reading about life and work of Jan Meyerowitz
Music, history and memory come together in Noel far from Home: baritone Simon Wallfisch and pianist Daniel Seroussi interpret works by composer Jan Meyerowitz, whose life was marked by persecution, exile and the struggle to build a new artistic life after the war. Members of the Theodor Heuss Gemeinschaftsschule’s Remembrance Working Group read texts based on historical documents that bring Meyerowitz’s moving story to life. A musical and documentary homage to a composer caught between loss, new beginnings and cultural heritage.
An intervention with historian Heike Stange. Since 2025, the ‘Lindemann Chair’ has been located in the annex of the Mitte Museum, commemorating KPD politician Rosa Lindemann, who was a district and city councillor in Tiergarten from 1920 to 1933 and founder of a resistance circle with women in Moabit. Who was Rosa Lindemann? What is known about her network, which also included Ottilie Pohl, a USPD city councillor in Tiergarten who came from a Jewish family?
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Events
Dependance des Mitte Museums |
Talk
6.11.25 17:00h
Rosa Lindemann and her antifascist network
An intervention with historian Heike Stange. Since 2025, the ‘Lindemann Chair’ has been located in the annex of the Mitte Museum, commemorating KPD politician Rosa Lindemann, who was a district and city councillor in Tiergarten from 1920 to 1933 and founder of a resistance circle with women in Moabit. Who was Rosa Lindemann? What is known about her network, which also included Ottilie Pohl, a USPD city councillor in Tiergarten who came from a Jewish family?
Erzählabend im Rahmen des Community Space “Emergent Archives” mit Garip Bali, der seit Ende der 1970er Jahre in migrantischen Selbstorganisierungen aktiv ist und sich mit Migration, Rassismus und Faschismus in der deutschen Gesellschaft und international auseinandersetzt und verschiedene Kampagnen, Veranstaltungen und Aktionen organisiert.
Die einzige erhaltene Kopie des Dokumentarfilms „Wedding heute“ (1966) nimmt das Publikum mit auf eine faszinierende Zeitreise: Aus der Hubschrauberperspektive entfaltet sich ein lebendiges Panorama des Weddings der 1960er Jahre – zwischen Wohnvierteln, Industrieanlagen und der Berliner Mauer. Nach einer Einführung von Prof. Hanns-Fred Rathenow, Prof. Michael Hoffmann und Prof. Martin Wiebel sind die Gäste eingeladen, eigene Fotos und Erinnerungen mitzubringen. So entsteht ein Abend, der Geschichte sichtbar macht und im Austausch mit persönlichen Eindrücken den Wedding von damals neu erfahrbar werden lässt.
Am 9. November verwandelt sich der Community Space mit One Love Radio und den Gründer*innen Bino Byansi Byakuleka alias B3s und Krishan Rajapakshe in einen Live-Radiosender. Bino wird über sein Kunstwerk »Marginalised Voices« (2019) als Teil des Community Spaces und seine künstlerisch-aktivistische Praxis sprechen. One Love Radio ist ein Community-Sender, der jeden Sonntag von 13:00 bis 16:00 Uhr auf 88,4 MHz in Berlin, 90,7 MHz in Potsdam und live aus dem Berliner Stadtteil Neukölln sendet.
Presentation: Artist Residencies Leopoldplatz 2025
For the second time this year, the artist residencies on Leopoldplatz brought exciting artistic projects to Wedding: A temporary participatory kitchen, projects on film, performance and poetry invited people on Leopoldplatz to join in. Additionaly, one of the residencies facitlitated the painting of two murals.
Noel far from Home: A musical reading about life and work of Jan Meyerowitz
Music, history and memory come together in Noel far from Home: baritone Simon Wallfisch and pianist Daniel Seroussi interpret works by composer Jan Meyerowitz, whose life was marked by persecution, exile and the struggle to build a new artistic life after the war. Members of the Theodor Heuss Gemeinschaftsschule’s Remembrance Working Group read texts based on historical documents that bring Meyerowitz’s moving story to life. A musical and documentary homage to a composer caught between loss, new beginnings and cultural heritage.
In November, the first three-day Autumn School will take place at Kunst Raum Mitte, marking the conclusion of the DISLOCATIONS annual program. Entitled Stadt als Beute [City as Prey] Revisited, it brings together artists and cultural professionals for discussions, site visits, and walks. The themes address the economies, speculations, and fictions that shape the urban space of Berlin-Mitte with its characteristic East-West history.
Unter dem Motto „Lasst uns froh und munter sein“ lädt die Musikschule Fanny Hensel wieder zu ihrem traditionellen Konzert am ersten Adventssonntag ein. Mit bekannten Liedern zur Weihnachtszeit und besinnlicher Instrumentalmusik läuten die jungen Musiker*innen in der einzigartigen Atmosphäre der historischen Klosterruine den Advent ein – ein Anlass zum Mitsingen und für Hoffnung und Freude in der dunklen Jahreszeit.