Neo-Baroque gardens like the Körnerpark were meant to illustrate human mastery over nature. The exhibition Unruly Splendour invites viewers to find beauty in chaos, disorder, and uniqueness, rather than focusing on symmetry, standardization, and normality.

sometimes i hold onto the air is an exhibition in which young Belarusian artists in exile reflect on the protests that radically transformed their lives and the years that followed. Their art works deal with the repression in their home country and the fear of constant surveillance that is incessant even in exile.

The collaborative project If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag examines the artistic scenes in West Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall, based on the history of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Galerie im Körnerpark will host the first German solo exhibition by Agnes Denes since 1979, retracing the artist’s original ideas for a residency that never materialized.

Soil Conversations presents nine artistic propositions from South Africa and Germany, looking at the granularity of soil as material, our relationship to the ground on which we build life on and soil as a bearer of memory, identity and speculative futures.

Loss and grief are inevitable and universal experiences that nevertheless each of us encounter unexpectedly sooner or later. The exhibition “Contours of Grief” explores this tension and examines the different emotional states of mourning through various artistic media.