A Piece of the Palace — Plaster Casting Workshop

A workshop to learn about the architecture of Biesdorf Palace and the technique of plaster casting. Found objects, surfaces, and ornaments on the palace façade are moulded and artistically created using an organic moulding compound. Cast in plaster, handy art objects are created — your personal piece of the palace that you can take home! […]

Art Salon at Schloss Biesdorf

Schloss Biesdorf extends an invitation to all to attend an Art Salon and picnic in the palace gardens on the final day of the exhibitions “Hemmungen sind die falsche Form des Widerstandes – Die Klasse A. R. Penck” (Restrictions are the Wrong Form of Resistance — The Students of A.R. Penck) and “Das Schloss, darin […]

Hemmungen sind die falsche Form des Widerstandes

On the upper floor of Schloss Biesdorf, this exhibition showcases works by A.R. Penck with close to 100 pieces by 53 of his former students. After Penck escaped the GDR to West Germany, he was professor at Düsseldorf Art Academy where he passed on his vision of uninhibited artistic creation to students.

Das Schloss, darin sich Schicksale kreuzen

The exhibition “Das Schloss, darin sich Schicksale kreuzen” (The Palace where Fates Intersect) by Anna Borgman and Morten Stræde plays with Schloss Biesdorf’s history as an actual palace. It engages with the building, recontextualising the spaces in the late neoclassical villa.

Schloss Biesdorf

The municipal gallery at the listed Biesdorf Palace presents temporary exhibitions of contemporary art on relevant social themes, often with a focus on urban space. Art projects dealing with similar themes and an extensive array of events accompany the exhibitions. There is a permanent exhibition highlighting the building’s turbulent history and unique architecture, as well […]