FREE ADMISSION! Four Museums in Berlin’s (South-)West

Together with Haus am Waldsee, the Georg Kolbe Museum and the Brücke-Museum, we invite you to enjoy free admission and a varied programme of activities and workshops.

This joint initiative builds on Berlin’s Museum Sunday, which offered free admission to numerous museums across the city once a month until the end of 2024. Together, we highlight the importance of making art and culture accessible to everyone.

Programme

At Kunsthaus Dahlem:

11 am–5 pm
Exhibitions with free admission:
Eva Frankfurther – Drawn from Life
The Making of People – Antonio Peña
Time Is Not Lost – Sculptures for living spaces by Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger

11 am
Matinée
30 YEARS OF THE BERNHARD HEILIGER FOUNDATION
in German

What are art foundations for? Prof. em. Dr Robert Kudielka, a founding member of the foundation, explores this question in his talk. Photographer Jens Liebchen offers insights into the installation of Kosmos 70 at the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus in January 2026 through his presentation. Dr Friedrich Meschede, a member of the board of the Bernhard Heiliger Foundation, welcomes guests to the matinée. The event concludes with a curatorial tour of the exhibition Time Is Not Lost – Sculptures for living spaces by Ruth Maria Linde-Heiliger.

13 Uhr
Reading
FÜHLEN SIE SICH WIE ZU HAUSE, ABER VERGESSEN SIE DABEI NICHT, DASS SIE ZU GAST SIND
with the author Anna Schapiro
in German

Anna Schapiro reads selected passages from her new book, a novel spanning an era of Soviet Jewish life in the 20th century.

About the novel:
At the funeral of her legendary grandmother Sweety, Anna Schapiro decides to seek out her family’s untold stories. With a recording device in her luggage, she travels to New York and Boston, Arad and Haifa, visiting distant relatives and her grandparents’ former fellow students and friends. Each conversation bears witness to one person’s unique path through life. Yet they all share Anna’s story.

Followed by a conversation moderated by Anne Fäser (Curator of Outreach, Kunsthaus Dahlem)

► Anna Schapiro was born in Moscow in 1988 and came to Germany with her parents in 1992. She studied Fine Art in Dresden and Jewish Studies in Stockholm. Work and fellowship stays have taken her to New York, Warsaw, London and Mexico, among other places. She exhibits internationally and teaches at various universities and art colleges.

2–4 pm
Workshop
GESICHT ZEIGEN – HOW TO REMEMBER PEOPLE
сreating portraits through drawing, collage and text
in German and English

Eva Frankfurther painted people who were often overlooked: workers, immigrants and neighbours in London’s East End. She looked closely and gave them a face.

Who would you like to remember? How would you like to remember this person?

First, we visit the exhibition to see Eva Frankfurther’s portraits. Afterwards, we create our own images of people who matter to us. This could be a grandmother, a neighbour or someone from a completely different time. We draw, make collages and write texts. Speech bubbles are welcome too. Gradually, we create a shared archive of memories of many special people, which will be made accessible at Kunsthaus Dahlem during the exhibition.

Everyone is welcome, whether coming alone or with others, of any age, with or without disabilities.

3 pm
Curatorial tour
of the exhibition
EVA FRANKFURTHER – DRAWN FROM LIFE
with Sarah MacDougall
in English

Through exhibitions and publications, art historian Sarah MacDougall has made a significant contribution to the study and rediscovery of Eva Frankfurther. Drawing on her many years of research, she offers insights into the artist’s life and work during the tour.

More about the exhibition

At the Brücke-Museum, Georg Kolbe Museum and Haus am Waldsee:

Find out more about the other museums’ event programmes on the websites of the Brücke-Museums, the Georg Kolbe Museums and Haus am Waldsee.