“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.

Pomona Zipser usually conceives her works as assemblages and collages – carefully composed constructions of wood, rope, metal, or paper that seemingly defy the laws of gravity. In the exhibition at Kunsthaus Dahlem, her abstract compositions invite viewers to explore figurative associations. What do you see in her wall pieces – landscapes, mapping systems, or something entirely your own? Or perhaps an animal in a wooden sculpture standing on the floor?

Kunsthaus Dahlem is temporarily closed for the setup of the next exhibition.

The opening will take place on 27 March 2025.

In December 1950, the Association of German Artists was founded in Berlin as a revival of the association that had been forcibly dissolved by the National Socialists in 1936. The artists Karl Hofer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Karl Hartung were appointed as chairmen, while Willi Baumeister, Carl Caspar, Werner Gilles, Erich Heckel, Bernhard Heiliger, Max Kaus,…

With works by Andreas Mühe as well as Joachim Bandau, Göksu Baysal, Barbara Klemm, Hubert Kiecol, Wilhelm Klotzek, Tobias Kruse, Konrad Mühe, Erasmus Schröter, Paul Virilio and the designer Ursula Wünsch.

As monumental forms made of concrete, the bunkers dot Europe’s landscape; from Berlin and Germany, to French Brittany, the English Channel, even to the northern and southern coasts (as the “Atlantic Wall”). In Italy, Austria, Germany, etc., bunkers can be found in the middle of cities as oversized, indestructible bodies. The National Socialists called their bunker construction project “Fortress Europe”. Their dark past is firmly inscribed in the bunkers.