Events | Spring Festival in Schloss Wiepersdorf
Sunday, May 25, 2025, 2:00 pm–6:00 pm |
Spring Festival in Schloss Wiepersdorf
Note for visitors coming from Berlin: Construction work will take place on the railway line between Berlin and Jüterbog on May 24 and 25. As a result, replacement bus services will operate between Teltow and Trebbin for lines RE3 and RE4. Please allow for approximately 60 minutes of additional travel time. You can find the exact departure times for the buses here.
On May 25, we cordially invite you to the spring festival. The program includes music, open studios, readings and talks by current and former fellows as well as activities for kids. A special exhibition will be opened in the museum in the presence of the artist. At 5:00 p.m., Milonga DJamila will be playing tango music on the castle terrace.
The café in the orangery and other locations will offer savory and sweet dishes. Initiatives and products from the region can be admired at stands in the castle park.
At 1:30 p.m., a free shuttle bus departs from Jüterbog train station to Wiepersdorf and at 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. back from Wiepersdorf to Jüterbog train station. Please register at info@schloss-wiepersdorf.de or by phone at (033746) 699-0. For individual travel, the Rufbus can be booked regional in Brandenburg with advance notice by calling (03371) 62 81 81 or online at vtfonline.de/rufbusapp.html. Parking is available on the street. On the grounds of the Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf (Am Konsum 4, 14913 Wiepersdorf), there are two publicly accessible electric charging stations with four normal charging points.
The Spring Festival 2025 is organized by the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf and is supported by the Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture of Brandenburg.
Free admission
By attending the event, you agree that pictures and recordings made there may be used for public relations purposes.
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Program
Castle Terrace
2:00 p.m. – Opening
5:00 p.m. – Closing
Tango on the Castle Terrace
Music & Dance: Milonga DJamila
Tankhalle
2:30 p.m. – Paula Fürstenberg & Lena Dorn
Reading & talk: Family of Winged Tigers
Paula Fürstenberg, born in 1987, grew up in Potsdam and studied at the Swiss Literature Institute and Humboldt University in Berlin. Family of Winged Tigers, published in 2016, is her first novel. The main character is a young woman from the Uckermark who is trying to come to terms with the fact that she has no memories of her father and no memories of the GDR, the country in which she was born. Her second novel has now also been published: Weltalltage. The author will read from the book and present her work in conversation with Lena Dorn, project manager at Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Paula Fürstenberg will be coming to Wiepersdorf as a scholarship holder in the fall.
3:00 p.m. – Dr. Gunnar Decker & Thomas Grimm
Reading & talk: Rilke – The Distant Magician
Dr. Gunnar Decker has published numerous biographies as a journalist and author, for example on Gottfried Benn, Franz Fühmann and Hermann Hesse. At this event, he will be reading from his book "Rilke. Der ferne Magier", which was published by Siedler Verlag in 2023. Afterwards, Thomas Grimm will talk to him about his work.
Dr. Gunnar Decker was born in Kühlungsborn in 1965, grew up in Bad Doberan and studied philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin, where he completed his doctorate in 1994. He is currently a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Thomas Grimm, born in 1954, was a film editor at the Film Archive of the GDR from 1983 to 1986 and has been working as a freelance author and director and founder of Zeitzeugen TV 1989 since 1987. He published numerous film portraits of people and several books.
Studio House
2:00–6:00 p.m. – Open studios
Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson
Nick Crowe and Ian Rawlinson present two works: the sculpture „Citizenship“, 2010, and new works from the series „Rust Drawings“, 2024. They started working together in 1994 and since 2007 have worked solely as a collaborative practice focussed on moving-image and sculptural projects. Their video work VLADA, that was presented earlier at Schloss Wiepersdorf, will be part of the 2025 OSTRALE-exhibition in Dresden.
The artists live and work in Manchester, UK and Niederer-Fläming, Germany. Solo exhibitions include Kotti Shop, Berlin, 2025; Vorbrenner, Innsbruck, 2024; Outernet, London, 2023; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, 2018; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2017; MEWO, Kunsthalle Memmingen, 2016; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, 2015.
Marion Cziba
Marion Cziba, born in 1973, lives and works in Saarbrücken. She completed her postgraduate master studies five years ago at the University of Fine Arts Saar, studying under Daniel Hausig and Georg Winter. Marion Cziba primarily works with installations, performances, video, and drawing. Her work explores the linear element as a kinetic drawing sculpture or material-based drawing, while questioning the purpose of machines through absurd and unconventional uses.
Marion Cziba is currently a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Jeanna Kolesova
Jeanna Kolesova, (*1988 in Moorland Village, Russia) is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. They work predominantly with moving image, performance, web, installation, and text. Their works reflect on the manipulation of history and information and the influence of imperial technologies on human and non-human bodies and landscapes.
Jeanna Kolesova is currently a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Kaj Osteroth
Kaj Osteroth, born in 1977, lives and works in Berlin and Brandenburg. She graduated from the Berlin University of the Arts in 2006 as a master student of Stan Douglas and completed her master's degree in ethnology and art history at the Free University of Berlin in 2008. In her paintings, Kaj Osteroth tracks down allies and ghosts and dissects broken relationships and the shift to the right in a majority society that tends towards ignorance.
Kaj Osteroth is currently a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf.
3:30 p.m. – Tour of the Studios
Jana Sperling will lead a guided tour through the studios.
4:15 p.m. – Ying Wang
Interactive body percussion: Cosmic pattern – bodies in orbit
Ying Wang is a composer living in Berlin. In her compositions, she deals with topics such as environmental pollution, global social grievances, political persecution and people's relationship to technology.
Ying Wang is currently a fellow in Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Museum
2:30–5:00 p.m. – Museum visit
The museum illustrates over five rooms how the von Arnimsʼ manor house evolved into a residence for artists and scholars. The focus lies on the spirit of Romanticism as well as on the period from 1945 to 1989, when Schloss Wiepersdorf primarily hosted writers.
2:30 p.m. – Igor Tereshkov & Franca Wohlt
Opening of the special exhibition: Expatus
The artist Igor Tereshkov, former Wiepersdorf fellow, in conversation with Franca Wohlt from audan Kunststiftung.
Expatus is a series of rugs created using the tufting technique during an art residency at Schloss Wiepersdorf in the fall of 2024. The rugs feature pixel-art-style characters developed by Igor Tereshkov for the eponymous 2D platformer game Expatus. The name of the project comes from the Latin words ex – “out of” – and patria – “native country, fatherland.” Expatus explores themes of resettlement, forced migration, and adaptation through the visual language of pixel graphics. Each character represents a fragment of a world where real-life stories are translated into visual code. The Expatus pixel character is also used to create mosaics placed in public spaces as street art, expanding the scope of the project beyond exhibition walls and integrating it into the urban environment.
By translating digital aesthetics into a tactile form, the project connects the virtual and the physical, the personal and the collective. The textile medium becomes a means of documenting an experience that is both universal and deeply personal.
3:30 p.m. – Jakob Kraner & Lena Dorn
Reading & talk: Cosmology
In his debut Cosmology (Kosmologie, Matthes&Seitz 2022), Jakob Kraner works with geometric metaphors to deal with physical and psychological maturation processes that affect us all as individuals and as a society. In this way, he creates a fictional poetic-scientific treatise in which the readers involuntarily rediscovers themselves in many places.
Jakob Kraner was a literary fellow in Wiepersdorf in 2024. He lives in Vienna and studied Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts and Philosophy at the University of Vienna. He was nominated for the German Pop Literature Prize for his debut “Kosmologie” (Rohstoff/Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2022). Part of the literary performance duo VIEIDER/KRANER and the poetry punk band “Smashed To Pieces”.
4:30 p.m. – Luna Ali & Chris Grodotzki
Reading & talk: Waves of Solidarity – 10 Years of Sea-Watch and the Syrian Revolution
»The refugees, the cursed, who had crossed borders to reach Europe, reached for the eyes of the world, for in the eyes of Europeans, they were the world. They carried a question in their luggage: whoever only has their life left to save has nothing left to lose, not even their life, resistance is futile, but then, who still carries hope?«
Yes, who does carry hope? A question more urgent than ever. Two authors approach it from very different starting points, yet their perspectives meet in the salty waters of the Mediterranean: Luna Ali’s debut novel Da waren Tage draws on the experience of the Syrian diaspora in Central Europe, shaped by the 2011 revolution and its long, brutal suppression.
Chris Grodotzki’s upcoming essay collection Kein Land in Sicht, to be published at the end of February, tells the story of civilian sea rescue from 2015 to 2025 through the eyes of its activists.
Two critical, yet not hopeless, perspectives on—and across—the Mediterranean: a space that is not only a moat or a mass grave, but also an international realm of freedom of movement and solidarity.
Luna Ali was born in Syria in 1993 and studied cultural studies and aesthetic practice in Hildesheim, literary writing at the German Literature Institute Leipzig and anthropology at the University of Leipzig. She has worked as an author on productions at the Düsseldorf, Dortmund and Hanover theaters and in Berlin, among others. In 2023 she received the working scholarship for German-language literature from the Berlin Senate Department. In 2024, her debut novel Da waren Tage was published by S. Fischer. She is currently a fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf.
Chris Grodotzki works as a photographer, writer, and speaker. Formerly an environmental activist, he later served as press officer and mission leader for Sea-Watch. He now works freelance again for leftist media and organizations.
Orangery
2:00–6:00 p.m. – Coffee & Cake
Castle Park
2:00–6:00 p.m.
Music: Mermaid Mob
Open air music from the Mermaid Mob Swing band.
Cultural historical tour with ten stops
The cultural and historical tour "Kosmos Wiepersdorf" holds information and stories about the grounds, the buildings and the various residents of Schloss Wiepersdorf at ten stations.
At each of the stops you will find a sign with a QR code. If you scan these codes with your smartphone, you can hear stories of three to six minutes that introduce you to the object or topic in question. Everything you listen to on the tour can also be followed or read on your smartphone, tablet, or the website of the Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation. Additionally, each of the stops offers the opportunity to find out more in-depth knowledge about what you have heard or read with the help of expert information.
Catering, stalls with products from the region and activities for kids
In the park, you can purchase savory and sweet treats, ice cream and drinks. You can also find stalls with products from the region, a Tolerantes Brandenburg stall and activities for kids.
