Twisted tubes in a church ruin, at the centre stands a woman in sun glasses
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Neda Saeedi with her work “Monuments of Oblivion: Rivers of Lethe” at Klosterruine Berlin. Credit: Piotr Pietrus
Dark room with two screens showing a video of a naked person
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Opening of DISLOCATIONS-in sight at Kunst Raum Mitte. Credit: Juan Saez
Street in evening light with billboard that says
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Opening “rübermachen” by msk7. KISR Leipziger Straße. Credit: Laura Fiorio
Blue object on the floor of a bear cage
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Theresa Weber, Woven Spirits, 2025. “This, too, is a way of keeping each other close” at Bärenzwinger. Credit: Cleo Wächter
Photos of people of different ages, genders, skin colour on a white wall, alongside the title
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The Exhibition “Wege des Erinnerns” Yero Adugna Eticha, Nicolas Premier and Siska at Galerie Wedding. Credit: Wataru Murakami
People on a lawn between two shipping containers
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Opening of the exhibition”Der Krieg und ich” at Mitte Museum. Credit: Piotr Pietrus
Four children in front of canvasses paiinting
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Painting at Atelier Farbklang. Credit: Ulrike Stiehring
Three pink shapes stacked on top of each other in a white room
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Susanne Ring, “Körper Speicher Tempel”, Galerie Nord 2025. Credit: Oliver Möst
Twisted tubes in a church ruin, at the centre stands a woman in sun glasses
Neda Saeedi with her work “Monuments of Oblivion: Rivers of Lethe” at Klosterruine Berlin. Credit: Piotr Pietrus
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Dark room with two screens showing a video of a naked person
Opening of DISLOCATIONS-in sight at Kunst Raum Mitte. Credit: Juan Saez
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Street in evening light with billboard that says
Opening “rübermachen” by msk7. KISR Leipziger Straße. Credit: Laura Fiorio
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Blue object on the floor of a bear cage
Theresa Weber, Woven Spirits, 2025. “This, too, is a way of keeping each other close” at Bärenzwinger. Credit: Cleo Wächter
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Photos of people of different ages, genders, skin colour on a white wall, alongside the title
The Exhibition “Wege des Erinnerns” Yero Adugna Eticha, Nicolas Premier and Siska at Galerie Wedding. Credit: Wataru Murakami
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People on a lawn between two shipping containers
Opening of the exhibition”Der Krieg und ich” at Mitte Museum. Credit: Piotr Pietrus
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Four children in front of canvasses paiinting
Painting at Atelier Farbklang. Credit: Ulrike Stiehring
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Three pink shapes stacked on top of each other in a white room
Susanne Ring, “Körper Speicher Tempel”, Galerie Nord 2025. Credit: Oliver Möst
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Exhibitions

Klosterruine | Exhibition
7.6.25 — 26.4.26
Monument of Oblivion: River of Lethe
Neda Saeedi:

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?

Mitte Museum | Exhibition
28.9.25 — 15.3.26
Charter Flight into the Past – The Berlin Senate’s Invitation Program for Former Refugees Turns 50
Ausstellungsplakat (Gestaltung: Tina Raccah)

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.

Kunst Raum Mitte | Exhibition
13.9.25 — 23.11.25
DISLOCATIONS—on the spot
DISLOCATIONS-on the spot, Installationsansicht, Kunst Raum Mitte. Foto: Jannis Uffrecht

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.

Galerie Wedding | Community Space
13.9.25 — 1.2.26
Emergent Archives
Emergent Archives in der Galerie Wedding. Foto: Wataru Murakami

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.

Galerie Wedding | Exhibition
12.9.25 — 1.2.26
Cemetery of the Nameless
Eröffnung

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.

Mitte Museum | Exhibition
18.7.25 — 10.5.26
Flucht ins Innere: The Artist Paul Gurk during the Nazi dictatorship
Gestaltung: Form und Konzept

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.

Exhibitions

Schiller-Bibliothek | Talk
11.11.25, 17:30h – 19:00h
Presentation: Artist Residencies Leopoldplatz 2025
Malen des Murals im Rahmen von Re_membering the Protection of Purpose. Foto Ese Xzen

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.

Klosterruine | Concert
30.11.25, 16:00h
Advent Concert Musikschule Fanny Hensel
Advent Concert Musikschule Fanny Hensel

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.

Klosterruine | Exhibition
7.6.25 — 26.4.26
Monument of Oblivion: River of Lethe
Neda Saeedi:

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?

Mitte Museum | Concert, Reading, Talk
20.11.25, 18:00h – 20:00h
Jewish-Muslim Salon meets Sinti: Experiences of the Sinti under National Socialism
Mitte Museum | Concert, Reading
13.11.25, 18:00h – 20:00h
Noel far from Home: A musical reading about life and work of Jan Meyerowitz
Daniel Seroussi und Simon Wallfisch im Mitte Museum (Fotografie: Luise Haubenreiser).

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.

Dependance des Mitte Museums | Talk
6.11.25, 17:00h
Rosa Lindemann and her antifascist network
Der Lindemann-Stuhl in der Dependance des Mitte Museums (Fotografie: Heike Stange).

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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The Department of Art, Culture and History is an important point of contact for key cultural projects and initiatives. The department advises on approval and application procedures for funding and art projects in public space, supports the public promotion of art and remembrance projects on both a regional and supra-regional scale, facilitates networking and transcultural exchange and has for years successfully coordinated cultural education work aimed at predominantly young people.

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