Free admission (donations welcome)
Exhibition 9 / 6 Euros

With a tombola organised by the Friends and Supporters of Haus am Waldsee

1 pm
Start of the Sommerfest in the garden
The exhibition and the café are open from 11 am.

1–3 pm
Dario Wokurka
Water Bar
Situation

In his artistic practice, Dario Wokurka is interested in conceptual, score-based approaches—particularly in relation to their potential translatability into painting.

At the start of the Sommerfest, the artist will be serving a curated selection of different types of water, chosen for their varying mineral compositions. Upon request, he will explain how these differences affect aroma, taste, and finish. The first Water Bar took place in 2019 as part of the artist’s exhibition of the same name at the exhibition space new joerg in Vienna.

Adjacent to the Water Bar, Wokurka presents a video piece that features an extract from his series of watercolors, which he has been creating exclusively in A4 portrait format and using the pigment PBk9 (bone black) since 2016.

1–8 pm
Jasmine Parsley
Find me in the garden!
Schatzsuche / Treasure hunt

The “Schatzsuche” is not only about discovering hidden candies—it’s also about uncovering hidden social norms and ideologies that have been “naturalized” through the design of the English landscape garden and the plants within it. The sweets themselves are infused with flavors gathered from the very places where they are hidden, creating a sensory link between taste and territory.

Tucked alongside the treats are fragments of information: the cultural narratives, symbolic associations, and historical layers that tie specific plants and landscape features to broader ideas about nature, class, gender, and power. Some riddles will guide participants toward specific actions—small gestures of attention, interaction, or reflection. Others are puzzles that speak directly about the plants and places in which they’re concealed.

2–4 Uhr
Luise Bichler
Colour, water and ice
Family workshop

During the Sommerfest, we invite families to help create a large collaborative painting. Fabric panels flutter in the wind between the trees in the garden. Using ice cubes, water pistols, brushes, and pipettes, we let colors flow, drip, and splash—transforming the white fabric into a vibrant sea of color. Come paint with us and watch the artwork evolve before your eyes!

4 pm
Franco Mazzucchelli
Elica
Performance

In the 1960s Franco Mazzucchelli began to radically experiment with synthetic materials—particularly PVC—using them to create inflatable sculptures and site-specific interventions in public space. These works disrupted the flow of everyday life and invited direct interaction.

He intentionally left his sculptures in public or remote spaces so that these works became temporary parts of the urban or natural fabric, prompting spontaneous and unscripted interactions. Passers-by didn’t simply observe the pieces; they touched them, moved them, played with them, even took them home.

The Elica series (Italian for “Propeller” or “Helix”) is a continuation of Mazzucchelli’s engagement with inflatable forms and transient materials. These large-scale PVC sculptures, with their twisting, turbine-like shapes, embody movement and transformation. Elica reflects Mazzucchelli’s interest in the poetic potential of industrial materials and invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries of public space and the nature of artistic interaction.

5 pm
“Suche nach den Spuren eines Selbstmords” by Tezer Özlü 
Read by Yade Nargis (in German)

“Ich sitze hier mitten im Berliner Himmel und lasse Don Giovanni gegen die Juni-Abenddämmerung schreien. Mit ihm schreie ich alles aus mir heraus. In meinem Schweigen. Es ist unvorstellbar, dass sich derselbe Himmel über alle Länder der Welt erstreckt. Über die heutige Welt, auf der alle Jahrhunderte, aller Frieden, alle Todesstrafen, alle Kriege, alle Ungerechtigkeiten, alle Freiheiten, alles Essen, aller Hunger, alles Elend, alle Folterkammern weiterexistieren.
Die Nacht wird sich bald auf die Dächer der Berliner Alt- und Neubauten setzen. Alte Frauen, die heute Abend vielleicht den Tod finden werden. Alte Frauen, die morgen in einem Park im Schatten eines Baumes ein Eis lecken werden. Ein sanfter Juniabend nähert sich den Dächern Berlins. Dieser ungeheuren Stadt. Dieser verkleinerten Welt mit West, Ost und der Türkei dazwischen.”

In 1982, Tezer Özlü wrote Suche nach den Spuren eines Selbstmords in German, but published it only in Turkish. In the book, the author and translator takes us on two journeys: one from West Berlin to Prague, Trieste, and Turin—to the cities of the writers she revered. The other leads inward—to her dreams, sensations, and desires.

Yade Nargis is an actress. She will read excerpts from the first German-language publication of the original text, released in 2024 by Bibliothek Suhrkamp.

7 pm
CTM + Frederik Worm
LIVE IN CONCERT
Music

CTM and Frederik Worm have been informally collaborating on live performances and new audiovisual works since 2022. From that moment on initiated by CTM, they started touring music venues in Europe experimenting with pairing Frederik Worm’s photography and text with the compositions and layered drama of CTM’s live performed cello soundtrack.

For the Sommerfest at Haus am Waldsee, they will present a special open-air performance that brings together long-time collaborators and integrates the unique conditions of daylight and the outdoors into their collective practice.

CTM/Cæcilie Trier is a musician living in Copenhagen and Frederik Worm is a visual artist.  

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Additionally, there will be culinary offers by Café im Haus am Waldsee

A medical team will be present on site during the Sommerfest.

Families:

Baby changing facilities can be found in the ladies’ and men’s toilets in the basement.

For wheelchair users:

You can reach our park on the right through the garden hall, where our café is also located. There is another entrance to the park on the left-hand side of the building (with a slope).

You can reach the exhibition via a lift to the left of the building. Please press the bell on the lift so that our ticket office team can activate the lift. As the lift leads directly into the exhibition, for safety reasons you must ring the bell before using the lift. Access to both exhibition floors is possible via the lift. Please note the restricted turning circle in front of the lift on the ground floor and the restricted turning circle on the first floor.

Access to the wheelchair-accessible WC in the basement is also possible via the lift. The lift door remains open automatically as long as you are in the toilet. Your privacy is guaranteed in this way – the lift remains closed to others.

Dogs:

Unfortunately, it is not possible to take dogs into the exhibition rooms. This does not apply to assistance dogs, i.e. dogs belonging to people with visual impairments or other disabilities. These dogs may be taken into any exhibition.

Dogs are welcome in our sculpture park, provided they are kept on a lead.

Haus am Waldsee Sommerfest is organised by: Pia-Marie Remmers

Supported by:

Review of the 2024 Sommerfest programme