KW Institute for Contemporary Art, in collaboration with BPA// Berlin program for artists and Kunst Raum Mitte, is pleased to present the BPA// Exhibition 2025 – A place never fully held, featuring works created by second-year BPA// participants over the course of their working period with the program.

Public and private spaces shape the lives of the people inhabiting them on a daily basis but are in turn shaped by social relations. The exhibition “Relations in Place” addresses this complex interrelation: What kind of power relations are embedded into spaces, how do they create closeness or distance – and do they facilitate caring relationships?

For over 20 years MiK Jugendkunstschule with the support of the school inspectorate Mitte awards the Jugendkunstpreis – this year for the first time in three age groups (12-14 / 15-17 / 18-22).

During the winter months of 2025/26, the monastery ruins, in cooperation with the nGbK, will present the text-based event and exhibition format RUINEigentum (RUINProperty) by acid collège Berlin. On 18 November 2025, 15 January 2026 and 19 February 2026, open workshops with invited guests will take place at 6 p.m. each day, dealing with questions of ownership and possession. The textual results of these events will then be processed at random and made visible to the public outside on the displays of the monastery ruins.

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?

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 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.