Annual programme 2025

Status May 26, 2025

March 10 – April 13, 2025
Opening: March 9, 2025, 6:00 pm

G L Ä S E R N / G L A S S I L Y
forms of uncontrolled control

Curated by Harald F. Theiss 
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor

With: Ina Bierstedt, Carsten Becker, Roberto Uribe Castro, Monika Goetz, Tilman Hornig, Isa Melsheimer, Monira Al Qadiri, Felix Kiessling, Marcel Buehler, Sunah Choi, Kai Schiemenz, Thilo Westermann, Christian Niccoli, Shirin Sabahi, Julius Weiland, Nicole Wendel & Emma Cocker, René Wirths

The group exhibition ‘Gläsern’ at Schloss Biesdorf brings together artists who approach the ambiguous term in their photographs, paintings, installations, sculptures, objects as well as video and neon works.

UNESCO declared manual glass production an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the end of 2023. The translucent material plays just as important a role in historical arts and crafts as it does in architecture: from the precious, mostly coloured glass windows of sacred buildings to the visionary belief in boundless openness and democracy, which can be seen not least in modernist architecture. In a figurative sense, ‘glass’ also refers to an empty view or the limits of the career ladder (the glass ceiling) and the term also serves as a metaphor for data protection, surveillance or the screening of state control mechanisms.

April 28 – July 20, 2025
Opening: April 27, 2025, 6:00 pm

Where our strength lies – to be continued

Curated by Andrea Pichl
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor

With: Tina Bara, Sibylle Bergemann, Barbara Berthold, Yvon Chabrowski, Regina Fleck, Ellen Fuhr, Sabina Grzimek, Monika Hamann, Angela Hampel, Doris Kahane, Petra Kasten, Susanne Kutter, Ingeborg Lockemann, Barbara Lüdde, Emerita Pansowowa, Helga Paris, Nuria Quevedo, Evelyn Richter, Jana Richter, Ute Richter, Ricarda Roggan,Elske Rosenfeld, Karin Sakrowski, Christine Schlegel, Luise Schröder, Gundula Schulze, Maria Sewcz, Ulrike Theusner, Christine Wahl, Ulla Walter, Ute Weiss-Leder, Steffie Wendt, Karin Wieckhorst, Gabriele Worgitzki, Miro Zahra, Tanja Zimmermann

The group exhibition Where our strength lies – to be continued shows the variety and complexity of female artists from the GDR and ties in with current national and international discourses on the GDR. Andrea Pichl combines nine contemporary positions by female artists from different generations who were born in the GDR before the fall of the Wall with works by female artists from the Beeskow collection of art from the GDR.

An exhibition project by Schloss Biesdorf in co-operation with the Museum Utopie und Alltag, Beeskow

May 26 – November 2, 2025
Opening: 25 May 2025, 6:00 pm

L'hexagone – a historical journey through France.
Drawings by Heino Schmieden (1835-1913)

Curated by Dr Oleg Peters
Exhibition in the Heino Schmieden Hall

165 years ago, the 25-year-old architecture student at the Berlin Bauakademie Heino Schmieden, equipped with the prize money from the Schinkel competition, undertook a study trip through France lasting several months and made drawings of sacred buildings. To mark the 190th anniversary of his birth and the 650th anniversary of the first documentary mention of Biesdorf, Schloss Biesdorf is showing a selection of his drawings in Schloss Biesdorf, which he designed. The drawings were last presented in 1914 in the vestibule of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, now the Martin-Gropius-Bau.

August 4 – November 2, 2025
Opening: August 3, 2025, 6:00 pm

Lumen – Light

Curated by Römer + Römer 
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor

With:  Sonja Alhäuser, Aljoscha, Deniz Alt, Emanuel Bernstone, Marc Bijl (NL), Irina Birger (NL), Stephen Chambers, Sven Drühl, Marcus Eek, Thomas Fischer, FreelingWaters (NL), Wineke Gartz (NL), Daphne Glasmacher (NL), Gregor Hildebrand, Klaus Jörres, Elena Karakitsou, Hanna Mattes, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Jirka Pfahl, Römer + Römer, Sandra Schlipkoeter, Tracey Snelling, Lukas Troberg, Atelier Van Lieshout (NL), Veerle Thoben (NL), Jonas Vansteenkiste (NL), Peter Vink (NL), René Wirths, Sylvie Zijlmans & Hewald Jongenelis (NL)

Artists from the Netherlands and Germany explore the theme of light in all its facets - from the poetic to the political, from the scientific to the speculative, from the absurd to the humorous.

November 17, 2025 – February 27,  2026 
Opening: November 16, 2025, 6:00 pm

Time is an ocean 

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

With: Martin Honert, Bignia Wehrli, Iman Hasbani, Evgenija Wassilew, Abdulkarim Majdal Albeik, Wenfeng Liao, Thomas Eller, Regina Weiss, Benno Hinkes

Artists from various countries living in Berlin approach the concept of time and temporality in their own individual ways. The exhibition unites culturally different perceptions of time and gives viewers a very unique feeling for the passing of time. 

November 17, 2025 – February 27,  2026 
Opening: November 16, 2025, 6:00 pm

may day (AT)

Curated by Carola Rümper
Exhibition on the ground floor

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

The collaboration between the participating artists from Cambodia and Germany began in 2022, when they founded a network to engage in a sustainable exchange in joint projects and to incorporate cultural differences into the discursive, artistic dialogue. They are continuing this dialogue in Biesdorf.