Exhibition from 16 March 2026 to 14 June 2026 (on ground floor)
Opening Sunday, 15 March 2026, 6 p.m.

Juwelia Soraya, painting – Anja Teske, photography 

curated by Karin Scheel

The exhibition Juwelias Blüten (Juwelia's Blossoms) presents garden paintings by drag queen and artist Juwelia Soraya alongside photographs by Anja Teske, who has known Juwelia's garden for years and has been documenting it with her camera. The works of both artists convey their great enthusiasm for gardens and their often idiosyncratic and whimsical details.

Juwelia Soraya is a Berlin drag icon, artist, painter, actress, singer and myth. Her exuberant paintings are characterised by bright acrylic colours, a cheerful, naive style and dreamlike motifs: Juwelia herself on the stage of her salon, everyday scenes from Berlin, erotic encounters – and, time and again, her garden in all its excessive splendour. Since 2019, Juwelia has been designing her small anarchic garden paradise with artificial flowers, textiles, sculptures and plants in an allotment colony in the middle of Berlin. On Sanderstraße in Berlin-Neukölln, Juwelia runs the Studio St. St. gallery, a personal and special place for art, music and legendary salon evenings. Juwelia is the protagonist of several films, including ‘Überleben in Neukölln’ (Surviving in Neukölln, 2017) by Rosa von Praunheim. In 1991, ZEITmagazin named her Berlin's most beautiful female man in a cover story.

Anja Teske is a photographer based in Berlin who takes great pleasure in discovering the unspectacular and the bizarre, treating them with seriousness and viewing them as a narrative field. Her work is characterised by her belief in the quiet expressiveness of images. In her photographs of Juwelia's allotment garden, Anja Teske sensitively approaches the stage of the garden and observes the casual, quirky and unspectacular aspects of the Neukölln idyll with precision and calm. Her photo book ‘Juwelia's Blossoms. The Garden of Eden in Neukölln’ was published by Martin Schmitz Verlag in 2025.

The exhibition is supported by the Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries and the Exhibition Remuneration Fund of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Exhibition from 16 March 2026 to 14 June 2026
Opening Sunday, 15 March 2026, 6 p.m.

Artists:  Anni Albers, Kirstin Arndt, Horst Bartnig, Max Bill, Antje Blumenstein, Katrin Bremermann, Klaus Dennhardt, Cécile Dupaquier, Anne Gathmann, Kiki Gebauer, Hermann Glöckner, Monika Goetz, Pablo Griss, Carla Guagliardi, Erwin Heerich, Zora Janković, Peter K. Koch, Karsten Konrad, Franz Küsters, Axel Lieber, Thomas Lenk, Doris Marten, François Morellet, María Muñoz, Lilian Nachtigall, Susanne Piotter, Esther Rosenboom, Fiene Scharp, Thomas Scheibitz, Maik Teriete, Klaus Martin Treder, Sinta Werner, Renate Wolff

Curated by Rüdiger Lange (loop – raum für aktuelle kunst) 

The group exhibition IDEE + RAUM brings together artists from different generations whose works can be classified as concrete art or have a concrete appearance. All works are based on a clear idea that precedes their visualisation and materialises in space. The sculptures, objects, installations, drawings and wall works open up current perspectives on space, structure, science, architecture and design. Contemporary Berlin positions are shown alongside works from the Beeskow Art Archive, the ‘Collection and Documentation Centre for Art of the GDR’, supplemented by further works from the late 20th century.

The exhibition is supported by the Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries and the Exhibition Remuneration Fund of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Exhibition from May 26, 2025 on at Heino Schmieden Hall
Vernissage: Sunday, May 25, 2025 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm

Curated by Dr. Oleg Peters

To mark the 650th anniversary of the first documentary mention of Biesdorf and the 190th birthday of Heino Schmieden, Biesdorf Palace is exhibiting seven rediscovered drawings by the palace architect.

Heino Schmieden's buildings still characterize the urban face of Berlin today as important cultural monuments. 

The drawings by the former student were made 165 years ago, during a study trip through France lasting several months, financed by the prize money from the Schinkel competition. The travel sketches of sacred buildings are not only the earliest evidence of his artistic talent, they are also the architect's only surviving original pictorial works. They have only been presented once before, on the occasion of the memorial service for the exceptional architect who died in 1913 in the vestibule of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, now the Martin-Gropius-Bau.

The historian and curator of the exhibition, Dr. Oleg Peters, discovered the drawings during his many years of research into the life and work of Heino Schmieden with a great-grandson of the architect. Dieter Schmieden from Garmisch-Partenkirchen has now made these unique testimonies from Schmieden's pen available for the exhibition at Schloss Biesdorf.