Exhibition from November 17, 2025 to February 27,  2026 
Opening: November 16, 2025, 6:00 pm with a performance by Iman Hasbani

Curated by Regina Weiss and Benno Hinkes
Exhibition on the upper floor

With: Thomas Eller, Iman Hasbani, Benno Hinkes, Martin Honert, Abdulkarim Majdal Albeik, Wenfeng Liao, Gerenot Richter, Peter Strickmann, Kleopatra Tsali, Evgenija Wassilew, Bignia Wehrli, Regina Weiss

‘So what is “time”? If no one asks me, I know; if I want to explain it to someone who asks, I don't know.’

With these words, the Roman scholar Augustine summed up the dilemma more than 1,600 years ago. Much time has passed since then, yet little has changed in terms of the existential problem that humans are at the mercy of a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp or explain. For the ancient Greeks, time in the form of Chronos was a powerful god, a creator who freed the world from chaos, thus bringing order to it in a sense, but at the same time making it transient. The Mexican Zapotec people have a different image: here, time is an ocean that is constantly in motion with its waves, tides and currents, but does not move as a whole.

The exhibition Time is an Ocean approaches the subject of time from an artistic perspective. It brings together 12 positions whose media range from drawing and printmaking, to sculpture and spatial installation, as well as performance, sound and video works. The aim of the exhibition is not so much to bring together works that explicitly deal with the subject ; rather, it aims to make time itself tangible by immersing visitors in artistic works that each offer their own unique approach to the experience of time. To this end, the exhibition takes its visitors on a short tour past various thematic aspects.

The exhibition is complemented by a video lounge presenting film works in which the experience of time plays a special role.

Exhibition from November 17, 2025 to February 27,  2026 
Opening: November 16, 2025, 6:00 pm

Curated by Carola Rümper
Exhibition on the ground floor

With: Vera Lossau, Neak Sophal, Lilla von Puttkamer, Carola Rümper, Sao Sreymao, Sao Sopheak

The may day project presents the German-Cambodian network of female artists and curators. The intercultural collaboration between the participating artists began in 2022. Since then, projects and exhibitions have been realised at various locations in Berlin (Germany) and Phnom Penh (Cambodia). The network was founded to establish a sustainable exchange. Cultural differences are incorporated into the discursive, artistic debate. An important focus of the network is the realisation of projects in both countries.  

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.