Open Studios 2025
When
Saturday, September 6, 2-8pm +
Sunday, September 7, 11am-6pm.
With
Open studios and contributions from:
Marion Angulanza, Claudia Bachmann, Norman Behrendt & Eric Pawlitzky, Volodymyr Budnikov, Roberta Busechian, Gudrun Fischer-Bomert, Almut Flentje, Annette Frick, Laure Gilquin, Bardo Henning & Detlef Landeck, Saskia Hubert, Rosika Jankó-Glage, Ray Kaczynski, Silke Kästner, Anetta Küchler-Mocny, Maisha Maene, Nora Mertes, Gertrud Neuhaus, Essam Hamdi NORREM, Pierre de Mougins, Kirstin Rabe & Gudrun Sailer, Vlada Ralkov, Heike Ruschmeyer, Meline Saoirse & SHIN Hyo Jin, Clemens Schill, Susanne Schill, Gudrun Schlemmer, Zuzanna Schmukalla, Klaus-Uwe Seelmann, Sylvia Seelmann, Annette Selle, Hein Spellmann, Tina Tahir, Barbara Salome Trost, Daniel Stolzenburg, Gesa Titgemeyer, Michael Walter, Astrid Weichelt, Nat Wilms, Christiana Wirthwein-Vormbäumen, Marian Zaic
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Support
The Open Studios are supported by the Dezentrale Kulturarbeit. Künstlerhof Frohnau is also being supported by Basisförderung für Projekträume und -initiativen of the Berlin Cultural Senate 2024-2025.
Exhibitions
Kirstin Rabe & Gudrun Sailer
Under the title Resonances, Kirstin Rabe and Gudrun Sailer create, through painting and sculpture, a field of tension between earthly gravity and lightness. A space of mutual resonance.
Pavilion
Laure Gilquin
Le chant silencieux de l’amadouvier (The Silent Song of the Tinder Fungus):
There are rivers, faces, paths, ravines, eyes, mountains. Dance, cartography, or landscape? In the midst of all this, or everything at once. The imprints of the tinder fungus begin to vibrate gently. The ceramics are trapped in glass. The earth dissolves. Nothing here is fixed; everything is something and at the same time something else.
Historic building, foyer
Sylvia Seelmann
Sylvia Seelmann presents paintings that trace the play of light and reflection on water. In her series Reflections, she abstracts the reflections of shoreline vegetation into delicate, condensed pictorial spaces.
New building, foyer
Astrid Weichelt
On the stair landing of the first floor, Astrid Weichelt presents a series of hanging objects at varying heights. These are casts of light fixtures that have remained on the grounds of Künstlerhof Frohnau from its former use as a hospital. Traces of a past function translated into new forms.
New building, 1st floor foyer
Norman Behrendt & Eric Pawlitzky
The Kyiv–Berlin Metro Construction is a fictional metro line between Berlin and Kyiv, built from plaster, sound, and imagination. Field recordings from the subway systems of both cities merge into a sound installation filled with resonances of war, hope, and proximity. Created together with Ukrainian artists, the work becomes a symbol of connection, solidarity, and a borderless Europe.
In front of the new building
More
Workshops for children
Organized by the German Forest Youth Association, next to the pavilion.
Catering
“The Charlottenburger” offers food and drinks, coffee and cake.
Historic building, foyer
Poster
Image motif: Laure Gilquin (detail)
Program
Saturday, 6 Sept
14:00 Studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point at the entrance of the courtyard
15:00 / 15:45 / 16:30 Ray Kaczynski
Musician Terrarium: three multimedia performances with electroacoustic sound sculptures (“ITs”), four-channel sound design, and the solo musician as an observed object in the Terrarium Novo Natür. Video, light, and plant materials condense into an immersive experience. Studio 17, only 10 visitors per performance
16:00–19:00 Silke Eva Kästner
Entanglements: Fabric strips made from discarded clothing are woven into the grid of a rusty high-security fence, a relic from the Künstlerhof’s past as a psychiatric hospital. Visitors are invited to reoccupy the site with traces, colors, and gestures.
Fence at the rear entrance of the new building
17:00 Studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point at the entrance of the courtyard
17:30 Almut Flentje, Didgeridoo performance, Studio 15
19:09 Meline Saoirse & SHIN Hyo Jin
Kosmogones – Presence of Openness, performance: a vertical journey between sky and earth. Meline Saoirse is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the connection between body, movement, sound, and consciousness. As a fellow of the Culture Moves Europe program, she spent six months as artist-in-residence at Künstlerhof Frohnau. SHIN Hyo Jin is a musician, performer, co-curator of the Walden Festival at Künstlerhof Frohnau, and founder of the production office Tangram Projects. She is a member of the trans-traditional Berlin jazz formation Ensemble ~su and the artist collective Daily Rhythms Collective in Graz.
Project space
Sunday, 7 Sept
12:00 Studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point at the entrance of the courtyard
13:00 / 13:45 / 14:30 Ray Kaczynski
Musician Terrarium: three multimedia performances with electroacoustic sound sculptures (“ITs”), four-channel sound design, and the solo musician as an observed object in the Terrarium Novo Natür. Video, light, and plant materials condense into an immersive experience.
Studio 17, only 10 visitors per performance
15:00 Bardo Henning & Detlef Landeck
In Bardo Henning’s studio, composed and improvised passages meet jazz classics by Thelonious Monk. Together with the renowned trombonist and composer Detlef Landeck, a multilayered set emerges between experiment and tradition.
Studio 5
16:00 Studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point at the entrance of the courtyard
17:30 Almut Flentje, Didgeridoo performance, Studio 15