The 157-year-old Biesdorf Palace, which is now an art centre, is a gem in Berlin’s monumental landscape. Surrounded by a listed palace park, the municipal gallery of the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district under the direction of Karin Scheel presents changing exhibitions of contemporary art and cultural heritage free of charge. The programme is complemented by a comprehensive range of events with a special focus on art education. In addition, a romantic café invites you to visit. Schloss Biesdorf can be reached in just 20 minutes from the city centre via nearby underground and S-Bahn connections (U5 / S5). Until 23 February 2025, the retrospective ACHIM FREYER BILDER is the first to show the visual art work of Achim Freyer (*1934 Berlin) from over 70 years. The exhibition was curated by Johannes Odenthal (Achim Freyer Foundation) and Karin Scheel (Schloss Biesdorf).
Image above: Foto: Schloss Biesdorf.
G L Ä S E R N
forms of uncontrolled control
Curated by Harald F. Theiss
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, 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.
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor
Exhibition dates: Monday, 10 March – Monday, 13 April 2025
Opening: Sunday, 9 March 2025, 6 pm
Where our strength lies – to be continued
Curated by Andrea Pichl
With: Tina Bara, Barbara Berthold, Sibylle Bergemann, Yvon Chabrowski, Regina Fleck, Ellen Fuhr, Ulla Gottschalk-Walter, Sabina Grzimek, Monika Hahmann, Angelika Hampel, Petra Kasten, Susanne Kutter, Ingeborg Lockemann, Barbara Lüdde, Emerita Pansowowa, Helga Paris, Doris Kahane, Nuria Quevedo, Evelyn Richter, Ute Richter, Elske Rosenfeld, Karin Sakrowski, Luise Schröder, Gundula Schulze, Maria Sewcz, Ulrike Theusner, Christine Wahl, Ute Weiss-Leder, Steffie Wendt, Karin Wieckhorst, Gabriele Worgitzki, Miro Zahra
The group exhibition Worin unsere Stärke besteht – 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 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 Art Archive, the depot for commissioned art from the GDR.
An exhibition project by Schloss Biesdorf in cooperation with the Beeskow Art Archive
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor
Exhibition dates: Monday, 28 April – Sunday, 13 July 2025
Opening: Sunday, 27 April 2025, 6 pm
L’hexagone – a historical journey through France
Drawings by Heino Schmieden (1835-1913)
Curated by Dr Oleg Peters
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 Museum of Decorative Arts, now the Martin-Gropius-Bau.
Exhibition in the Heino-Schmieden-Saal
Exhibition dates: Monday, 26 May – Sunday, 3 August 2025
Opening: Sunday, 25 May 2025, 6 pm
Lumen – Light
Curated by Römer + Römer
With: Sonja Alhäuser, Aljoscha, Marc Bijl, Irina Birger, Stephen Chambers, Sven Drühl, Marcus Eek, Thomas Fischer, Gijs Frieling, Wineke Gartz, Uwe Henneken, Gregor Hildebrand, Daphne Glasmacher, Klaus Jörres, Toshihiko Mitsuya, Jirka Pfahl, Römer + Römer, Sandra Schlipkoeter, Tracey Snelling, Lukas Troberg, Joep van Lishout, Jonas Vansteenkiste, Peter Vink, Sylvie Zijlmans & Hewald Jongenelis
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.
Exhibition on the upper floor and ground floor
Exhibition dates: Monday, 4 August – Sunday, 2 November 2025
Opening: Sunday, 3 August 2025, 6 pm
Time is an ocean
Curated by Regina Weiss and Benno Hinkes
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 the viewer a very individual feeling for the passing of time.
Exhibition on the upper floor
Exhibition dates: Monday, 17 November 2025 – Friday, 27 February 2026
Opening: Sunday, 16 November 2025, 6 pm
may day (AT)
Curated by Carola Rümper
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.
Exhibition on the ground floor
Exhibition dates: Monday, 17 November 2025 – Friday, 27 February 2026
Opening: Sunday, 16 November 2025, 6 pm
WHEN?
Opening hours: Saturday – Monday, Wednesday – Thursday, 10am – 6pm, Friday, 12pm – 9pm
WHERE?
Schloss Biesdorf
Alt-Biesdorf 55
12683 Berlin
COST?
Free admission
