Die dritte Ausgabe von KISR – Kunst im Stadtraum führt in die Leipziger Straße (2023- 2025) und damit in ein weiteres Stadtquartier im Bezirk Mitte, dem eine utopische stadtplanerische Idee zugrunde liegt. In seiner heutigen Form entstand das Quartier in den 1970er Jahren. KISR Leipziger Straße verbindet die vielschichtige Geschichte dieser Straße mit aktuell geführten Debatten über die künftige Entwicklung des Stadtquartiers. Ab Frühjahr 2024 entstehen hier drei temporäre Kunstprojekte: Den Beginn macht Gertraudenhain des Künstlers Christof Zwiener ab März 2024, im September 2024 folgt dann Diadéo trésor der Künstlerin Kandis Friesen und im März 2025 wird rüber machen der Künstlerinnengruppe msk7 zu sehen sein. Über die gesamte Laufzeit von KIST schafft Poligonal mit ihrem Rahmenprogramm weitere Anlässe, um sich mit Kunst im Stadtraum, Architektur und Stadtentwicklung auseinanderzusetzen und ins Gespräch zu kommen.

In summer 2025, Galerie Nord is presenting two parallel exhibitions: “Körper Speicher Tempel” by Berlin sculptor Susanne Ring with an installation of ceramic sculptures, paintings and drawings and the participatory project “Artministration” by curators Julia Heunemann and Ulrike Riebel, which self-ironically examines administrative practices in art and culture.

The exhibition dedicated to the people and initiatives whose decades of commitment through art, culture, science and mediation have contributed significantly to the transformation of Berlin’s urban space and broadened the view of Berlin’s colonial past. The exhibition is co-curated by Ibou Coulibaly Diop and Julien Enzanza.

The exhibition with contributions from Field Narratives (hn. lyonga & Lene Markusen), Sarnt Utamachote, Theresa Weber, Zhou Yichen & Lauryn Youden is dedicated to those lives and losses that often remain invisible or unappreciated in our society’s dominating culture of grief and remembrance. The artistc positions reflext forms of grieving and remembering that resist this unequal recognition of loss.

The exhibition »KaKaKaTi Nno Munange« shows new photographic works by DeLovie Kwagala aka Papa De. Kwagala uses the camera as a means of self empowerment and self-questioning. The photographs recall a family’s photo album and explore the fault lines between the generations. Which memories do we carry with us, and how do we newly tell our own history?

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?

For the day of liberation on May 8th Mitte Museum opens the multi-media exhibition “Der Krieg und ich – Kriegskinder 1939 bis 1945” in the museum’s garden. The exhibition focusses on children’s perspectives and their experiences of the second world war.
Visitors can walk through three containers where they can interact with objects, experience sound documents and historical film excerpts. Especially young visitors are invited to reflect on the way migration and war affect their own lives.

Visions for the reconstruction in a divided city: Photographs by Bettina Cohnen 2022/2024 and photographers of the Berlin administration 1947-1954