Artistic memorial project by the renowned Israeli artist Sigalit Landau to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, presented at Kunsthaus Dahlem in the form of a short film
Duration: 20 min
The film plays on a loop during opening hours
Due to the exhibition changeover for the upcoming show Bernhard Heiliger – The Female Heads, presented by the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation, Kunsthaus Dahlem will remain closed until the opening on 20 July.
The café remains open throughout the closure: Wednesday to Monday, 11:00 to 18:00
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Scholarship, the Studienstiftung (German Academic Scholarship Foundation), together with the Brücke-Museum and Kunsthaus Dahlem, presents a weekend-long programme featuring the 17 finalists of the scholarship.
Key visual of the “10 Years – 10 Days!” Anniversary Festival. © Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, 2025.
Pop-up installations, performances, workshops, and much more from the artists who have worked with Kunsthaus Dahlem over the years, as well as numerous new national and international guests.
Featured images: Ewald Mataré: Standing Cow, 1923; Large Kneeling Cow, 1925/1997; Large Lying Cow, 1930/2001, Museum Kurhaus Kleve. © Photo: Annegret Gossens, Kleve; © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025.
“I can’t stop sculpting cows yet,” the German artist Ewald Mataré (1887–1965) wrote in his diary. For years, he observed this animal – “without a single thought, completely intuitive”. He sketched and experimented to achieve the desired pure plastic form.
The exhibition at Kunsthaus Dahlem is dedicated to this thematic focus – with over 70 works, it illustrates the formal and aesthetic development of the cow and other animal sculptures in Mataré’s artistic oeuvre.