Talking bears, smart foxes, and rowing moles – in Peter Wächtler’s works, we encounter animals, mythical creatures, and characters from fairy tales. They often behave like humans: they think about things, have hopes, are sad, funny, or strange. Take a close look and then create your own imaginative figures out of clay. What stories do they tell?

Children, families and anyone interested are invited to attend the Drop-In Workshop and create their own pictures of Haus am Waldsee. Using illustrations of the building as inspiration, you can paint and make collages based on your own ideas. What art should be shown in the garden and inside the rooms? Who visits the house, and who might live here?

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Haus am Waldsee, you can learn about the house’s history, its previous residents and past exhibitions, and create images of  your own vision of the place. Drop in at any time during the session and get creative!

No booking necessary.

Haus am Waldsee, Brücke-Museum, Georg Kolbe Museum, and Kunsthaus Dahlem invite you to a free museum visit with a wide range of activities and workshops. With this free admission Sunday, we want to open our houses wider to the public – as a reminder what has been lost with the end of Museum Sunday and to spark the conversation about a long-term solution.

Join us for a free visit of our current exhibitions, a guided tour, and our Drop-In Workshop!

Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition Peter Wächtler. Ständig.

Haus am Waldsee warmly invites its neighbours, friends, families, and everyone interested to explore and tend to the garden with the Haus am Waldsee team. Together, we want to work in the garden, prepare it for winter, and get in touch with each other. Drop in and out any time!

During short guided tours, we’ll take a closer look at the garden: its plants, history, and the works of art it contains. In a workshop, we’ll create a Harvest Blanket together from leaves. Under the apple trees in the front garden, we’ll press juice from the garden’s apples and taste it together. Anyone wishing to contribute apples and pears from their own garden is very welcome to bring them along. Together, we’ll end this autumnal garden day coming together by the fire pit with punch and tea.

To thank you for your participation, all volunteers receive free admission to the exhibition Peter Wächtler. Ständig on the day.

Programme

12 – 12.30 pm
A Glimpse into the Sculpture Park
Curators’ Tour with Jo Pistorius, Curatorial Assistant

12.30 – 1 pm
The Historic Garden and its Restoration
Guided Tour of the Garden with Georg von Gayl, Landscape Architect

During short guided tours, we take a closer look at the garden: its plants, its history, and the works of art it houses.

1 – 4 pm
Community Garden Work

Guided by our gardener Ryan Ballinger, we want to work in the garden in teams and prepare it for the winter. Drop in and out at any time. 

1 – 4 pm
Harvest Blanket 
Drop-In Workshop by Sarah Sekles

In a workshop by the artist Sarah Sekles, we will create a Harvest Blanket together from leaves to tuck the garden in for winter.

2 – 4 pm
Apple Juice from the Waldsee

Under the apple trees in the front garden, we will press juice from the garden’s apples and taste it together. Donations of apples and pears from your own garden are very welcome.

4 – 5 pm
Fire Pit and Punch

We will end this autumnal garden day together by gathering at the fire pit with punch and tea.

Jo Pistorius, Curatorial Assistant, guides you through the exhibition Peter Wächtler. Ständig. Admission is included in the exhibition ticket.

The joint tour begins at Haus am Waldsee at 2 pm with a guided tour of the exhibition Peter Wächtler. Ständig by Anna Gritz, Director of Haus am Waldsee. The second part follows at 3.30 pm at Fluentum with a guided tour by Raoul Klooker, Director of Fluentum, on the exhibition Arash Nassiri. A Bug’s Life.

Free admission. Please register until November 5 at: info@hausamwaldsee.de

On the occasion of the third and final chapter of Since…, Nina Akhvlediani will give a lecture on the development of the display architecture conceived for the exhibition series at Haus am Waldsee and its place within her wider practice, followed by a conversation with curator Pia-Marie Remmers.

Presented in the former garage, now the café, Since… unfolded across three chapters over the course of Haus am Waldsee’s 80th anniversary year. In each chapter, the artists Luciano Pecoits, Veit Laurent Kurz, and Sophie Kovel approached the institution’s history from different perspectives. The display architecture, which served as the foundation for each of the three exhibitions, is based on an open, scalable modular system structured through a shared geometrical grid. Its elements function as an adaptable framework rather than a fixed scenography, enabling assembly, disassembly, and reconfiguration in situ. The architecture resists a single chronological order and instead foregrounds fragmentation and re-enactment, sustaining gestures in a state of becoming and allowing materials to unfold as layered iterations.

Drawing on Akhvlediani’s wider practice, the conversation will consider durational exhibition models, working with archival materials and the relationship between display, documentation, and printed matter. Moving-image footage documenting the production process of the display architecture for Since… will accompany the conversation.

Children, families and anyone interested are invited to attend the Drop-In Workshop and create their own pictures of Haus am Waldsee. Using illustrations of the building as inspiration, you can paint and make collages based on your own ideas. What art should be shown in the garden and inside the rooms? Who visits the house, and who might live here?

To celebrate the 80th anniversary of Haus am Waldsee, you can learn about the house’s history, its previous residents and past exhibitions, and create images of  your own vision of the place. Drop in at any time during the session and get creative!

No booking necessary.