Photo: Leonard Scheicher. Design: Katharina Reinsbach.
A public presentation of works by the recipients of the Bernhard Heiliger Scholarship from the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and the Weißensee School of Art Berlin in Bernhard Heiliger’s former studio in the East Wing of Kunsthaus Dahlem
Opening: 10 October 2025 at 18:00
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
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.