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Saturday, 6/9/2025,
2 PM

Meeting point: 15 minutes before the start of the event at the entrance to the Bärenzwinger.

Language: German

Registration required

Free entry

Link to audio flyer (German)

The Bärenzwinger Berlin warmly invites you to the inclusive event “Bilder im Kopf. Dialogical Art Mediation for Listening and Touching” with Katrina Blach (sighted) and Sebastian Schulze (blind) on Saturday, 6 September 2025, at 2 PM. Please meet 15 minutes before the start at the entrance to the Bärenzwinger.
As part of the exhibition “Politics of Being Heard”, the Bärenzwinger invites people with and without visual impairments to exchange views on works from the exhibition.

The exhibition “Politics of Being Heard” asks what it means to be heard—in everyday life, in institutions, and in artistic contexts. At its centre is how we deal with barriers that impede or prevent access: physical, structural, and social. The Bärenzwinger—a listed historic site with limited accessibility—becomes part of this enquiry. The exhibition understands itself as an open process: it makes structural exclusions visible and asks how spaces must be designed so that more people feel heard—not as an exception, but as a matter-of-course within cultural publics. The artistic contributions show that exclusions are deeply anchored in social structures—and open up new perspectives on visibility, responsibility, and care. Through multimedia installations, videos, photographs, textile works, and sculptures, they make the complexity of accessibility tangible—and pose the question under which conditions participation in art and society becomes possible.

Registration
Participation is limited to 20 people.
Please register by 4 September 2025 by phone at 030 901837461 or by email at info@baerenzwinger.berlin.

Need assistance with your journey?
We are happy to pick you up from the nearest public transport stop. Please let us know by 5 September 2025 via email at info@baerenzwinger.berlin.

Katrina Blach works with photography, video, and participatory formats. A central focus of her practice is inclusive and dialogical art mediation, which she understands as a shared process of discovery, questioning, and reflection. Rather than transmitting knowledge, she seeks to create spaces where diverse perspectives can meet. Blach develops projects in art and cultural education that foster empowerment and enable participation.

Sebastian Schulze is blind and has been engaged in inclusive art mediation for many years. As a member of the Inclusion Advisory Board at the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig (MdbK), he contributed to making exhibitions accessible for blind and visually impaired audiences—through tactile reproductions, audio descriptions, and Braille information. He emphasizes the importance of including blind perspectives from the outset. Schulze understands art mediation as a dialogical process that engages multiple senses and encourages exchange.

Every first Sunday of the month

Free admission

No registration required

Languages: German and English

Starting in August, Berlin-Mitte will be bursting with colour and creativity! Every first Sunday of the month, visitors will have the opportunity to discover, try out and participate in contemporary art! The brand-new Sunday Art Makers (SAM) format will launch at the municipal galleries Kunst Raum Mitte, Bärenzwinger and Galerie Wedding. Together with experienced art educators and creative professionals, children, teenagers and adults can discover, experience and help shape contemporary art in new, interactive ways. The formats are organised in collaboration with the municipal galleries Berlin-Mitte and the MiK Youth Art School.

The gallery is transformed into a place full of possibilities – a space for imagination, curiosity and inspiration: Who organises an exhibition and what happens behind the scenes? Who decides what art is and where does it even begin? Where do the materials in an exhibition come from and how can you actually turn everyday objects into works of art yourself? Whether alone, with friends or the whole family – SAM is for everyone who wants to spend their Sunday being creative and active. Instead of the traditional Sunday rest, we focus on imaginative activities: painting, designing, writing, modelling, experiencing and experimenting. Participants can try out various forms of artistic expression – regardless of their previous knowledge. SAM invites you to discover your own creativity – in a relaxed atmosphere with plenty of room for your own ideas. We look forward to seeing you – let’s make some art! – and become a SUNDAY ART MAKER!

DATES, DURATION AND NOTES
Every first Sunday of the month, free admission
Drop-in/drop-out workshops, 3 hours each: 2–5 PM / no registration required
Open to everyone aged 6 to 15
Children, young people and families
Languages: German and English

NEXT DATES:
Sunday, 7 September:

• ‘Smart Cards’ at Galerie Wedding with Hirmiz Akman
• ‘Searching for Traces’ at Bärenzwinger
• Workshop with Zora Jankovich at Atelier Farbklang / Galerie Wedding

Since September 2017 the former bear pit of the heraldic animals of the city of Berlin has re-opened as a cultural venue for site-specific contemporary art in Berlin-Mitte.

A refurbishment is soon to expand its potential uses.