Open Studios 2025 – Künstlerhof Frohnau
As every year, Künstlerhof Frohnau opens its doors on the first weekend of September:
Saturday, September 6, 2–8 pm & Sunday, September 7, 11 am–6 pm
With open studios and contributions by:
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
SATURDAY, SEPT 6
14:00 Guided studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point: entrance
15:00 / 15:45 / 16:30 Ray Kaczynski Music Terrarium – three multimedia performances with electro-acoustic Sound Sculptures (“IT’s”), 4-channel sound design, and the solo musician as observed object in the terrarium Novo Natür. With video, light, and plants. Studio 17, limited to 10 visitors per performance.
16:00–19:00 Silke Eva Kästner Entanglements – fabric strips woven into a rusty security fence, a relic from the Künstlerhof’s past as psychiatric hospital. Visitors are invited to contribute traces, colors, and gestures. Fence, back entrance of new building.
17:00 Guided studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point: entrance
17:30 Almut Flentje Didgeridoo Performance, Studio 15
19:09 Meline Saoirse & SHIN Hyo Jin Kosmogones – Presence of Openness – a vertical journey between heaven and earth. Saoirse, multidisciplinary artist and Culture Moves Europe resident, explores body, movement, sound and consciousness. SHIN Hyo Jin, musician, performer and co-curator of Walden Festival, is a member of Berlin’s Ensemble ~su and Graz’s Daily Rhythms Collective. Project space
SUNDAY, SEPT 7
12:00 Guided studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point: entrance
13:00 / 13:45 / 14:30 Ray Kaczynski Music Terrarium – multimedia performance, Studio 17 (limited to 10 visitors per performance)
15:00 Bardo Henning & Detlef Landeck – Composed and improvised passages meet Thelonious Monk’s jazz classics. Together with trombonist and composer Detlef Landeck, winner of the Hessian Jazz Prize, Henning presents a set between experiment and tradition. Studio 5
16:00 Guided studio tour with art historian Katarzyna Sekulla, meeting point: entrance
17:30 Almut Flentje Didgeridoo Performance, Studio 15
EXHIBITIONS
- Kirstin Rabe & Gudrun Sailer – Resonances: Painting and sculpture creating a field between heaviness and lightness. Pavilion
- Laure Gilquin – Le chant silencieux de l’amadouvier (The Silent Song of the Tinder Fungus): Impressions, ceramics, and shifting forms. Old building foyer
- Sylvia Seelmann – Reflections: Paintings tracing light and water reflections, abstracting riverside vegetation. New building foyer
- Astrid Weichelt – Castings: Hanging casts of lamps from the site’s past as psychiatric hospital, translated into new sculptural forms. New building, 1st floor foyer
- Norman Behrendt & Eric Pawlitzky – The Kyiv–Berlin Metro Construction: A fictional metro line built from plaster, sound, and imagination; field recordings from Berlin and Kyiv merge into a sound installation of war, hope, and closeness. Created with Ukrainian artists. Outside, in front of new building
Children’s workshops organized by Deutsche Waldjugend (beside the pavilion)
Catering by Der Charlottenburger (food, drinks, coffee & cake, old building foyer)
Poster motif: Laure Gilquin (detail)
Getting there: S-Bahn S1 to Frohnau station, Bus 125 (direction Invalidensiedlung) to Hubertusweg, then 400m walk towards Hubertussee.
Support: The Open Studios are supported by Dezentrale Kulturarbeit. Künstlerhof Frohnau is funded through the Berlin Senate’s program for project spaces and initiatives 2024–2025.
