14 May 2026 – 25 April 2027 Opening: Wed, 13 May, 18:00 DJ-Set Marylou. 19:00–21:00 Free entrance
For the 2026/27 programme year, artist Nazanin Noori was selected by an independent expert jury. In her site-specific work, she engages with the monastery ruins as a former sacred space, tracing the layers of transformation embedded within them. Over the centuries, the monastery church served first as a place of worship; later, a secondary school and a library were added. After its destruction during the Second World War, the GDR government made a deliberate decision not to rebuild it. Unlike other churches that were reconstructed through socialist or restorative efforts, the monastery church was preserved in its ruined state – as a memorial to war and destruction. Listed as a historic monument since the 1950s, it continues to resonate today as a stone-carved memory of Berlin.
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