Upcoming date:

• 7 June 2026

12 am – 3 pm

Drop-in offer
from 8 to 99 years
Registration possible on location from 11 am

Entrance fee on KollwitzSunday: 4 €
Participation included in the entrance fee

The museum invites you to a creative printing workshop!

Even adults are allowed here!

Upcoming dates: 

1 February Relief printing: Creating shared stories with linocuts

1 March Relief printing with Tetra Pak: Sustainable and alternative printing

5 April The printing workshop is taking a break

3 May Planographic printing: Designing with screen printing

7 June Relief printing: Creating shared stories with linocuts

5 July Intaglio printing: Tetra Pak printing Etching: Sustainable and alternative printing

KollwitzSunday

On the first Sunday of every month, the museum opens its doors at a special price of 4 euros. The entrance fee also includes participation in the print workshop.

Children and young people under the age of 18 as well as holders of an authorisation card (formerly berlinpass), members of the Berlin City Guide Association, representatives of the press and members of ICOM continue to enjoy free admission on KollwitzSunday.

Upcoming date:

• 7 June

Admission € 4
Participation in the programmes included in the admission price.

Kollwitz Sunday – more than just a visit to the museum!

Every first Sunday of the month, the Käthe Kollwitz Museum invites you to a special experience: explore the collection for a special price of just 4 euros, join an exciting guided tour and immerse yourself in the fascinating world of printmaking!
In our open print workshop, you can try out various artistic printing techniques – no prior experience required. During our guided tour, you’ll also learn fascinating insights into the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz.
Join us – be inspired and get creative yourself!

The programmes:

Kollwitz Sunday was initiated to maintain the popular format of the open print workshop even after the free Museum Sunday was cancelled. The positive response from many interested museum visitors has reinforced our decision.

We hope that the reduced admission price of 4 euros will continue to facilitate low-threshold access to our museum for everyone. Children and young people under the age of 18, as well as holders of a valid pass (formerly the BerlinPass), members of the Association of Berlin City Guides, members of the press and members of ICOM will continue to enjoy free admission on Kollwitz Sunday.

School project day

Free of charge

For school grades 7-13

Bookings open from 1 April 2026

Dates on request | Time: 10.00–13.00 | 180 minutes

Location: Public space around Kollwitzplatz / Museum Pankow (Prenzlauer Allee 227–228, B-10405)

Meeting point: Kollwitz monument at Kollwitzplatz, Prenzlauer Berg

Concept: Katharina Grantner

Course leaders: Katharina Grantner and Juan Camilo Alfonso

Registration: via the Käthe Kollwitz Museum by email to bildung@kaethe-kollwitz.de

In cooperation with the Museum Pankow.

Next dates in 2026:

• 7 June
• 5 July
• 6 September
• 1 November
• 6 December

Public guided tour as part of Kollwitz Sunday

Public guided tour as part of Kollwitz Sunday | 3 pm
in German language
approx. 60 minutes
Participation included in the special admission price for Kollwitz Sunday.
Number of participants minimum three persons, maximum 20 persons

Meeting point in the foyer, no pre-booking necessary.

Dates, can also be booked individually:

4 July 2026, 3.00–4.30 p.m.
1 August 2026, 3.00–4.30 p.m.
5 September 2026, 3.00–4.30 p.m.

Limited number of participants:
Prior registration required at: bildung@kaethe-kollwitz.de

Costs: Participation: 10,- Euro plus reduced admission

Guidance: Katja Schöppe Carstensen, Art historian and Cultural geragogue

Film series at the Bundesplatz-Kino

„Käthe Kollwitz goes to the Cinema”

Saturday 25 April and Sunday 26 April 2026

Admission is 10 euros per film per person.

Curator-led tour

Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Tuesday, 28 April 2026

All at 4 p.m.
In German
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Guided tour included in the admission price.
No booking required.

“RAINER WÖLZL – CONSTELLATIONS”
6 June to 9 August 2026
Opening: Friday, 5 June 2026, 7 pm

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Berlin is presenting “Constellations,” a comprehensive solo exhibition by Austrian artist Rainer Wölzl. The exhibition offers a compelling insight into the multifaceted work of an artist who has been grappling with the cultural, social, and political upheavals of our time for decades.

Rainer Wölzl, born in Vienna in 1954, works primarily with charcoal drawing today. His mostly large-format works are based on art-historical and media-based visual sources. He takes up motifs with contemporary historical and current sociopolitical relevance and, through montage, transforms them into complex visual constellations in which past and present converge.

The exhibition brings together works from a long-term project developed under the broader concept of a “Museum of Shadows.” The notion of the shadow functions here as both a poetic and political space for reflection—as a trace of the past, a surface for projection, and a component of both individual and collective memory.

At the heart of Wölzl’s work lies a continuous reflection on power structures, oppression, and their various manifestations in different social contexts. His artistic practice is conceived as a strategy of appropriation and transformation: visual material is not merely cited, but recomposed, shifted, and transferred into an open space of meaning.

Characteristic of Wölzl’s works is their multi-part nature as well as a grid-like structure that creates distance while simultaneously allowing for precise socio-political reflection. In deliberate contrast to the visual overload of digital imagery, the works stand as a testament against historical amnesia and for the enduring power of the drawn image.

The exhibition is the artist’s second museum presentation in Berlin, following his 2002 showing at the Georg Kolbe Museum, where he presented the extensive series “Aesthetics of Resistance” on Peter Weiss.

Image credit: Exhibition visualisation © Rainer Wölzl

Exhibition talks in DGS

Dates:
12 April 2026, 3 p.m.

The special exhibition “Käthe Kollwitz and the Theatre” offers the first comprehensive exploration of Käthe Kollwitz’s passion for the theatre and its influence on her work. It also highlights her family’s close ties to the stage during a formative period in Berlin’s theatrical history.

17 October 2026, 3 p.m.

Exhibition talk at the DGS on the special exhibition running at that time

Registration is appreciated: bildung@kaethe-kollwitz.de

Participation included in the museum admission price.

Special exhibition from 21 February to 3 May 2026

The Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin is opening a new perspective on the life and work of one of Germany’s most important artists in the former Theater building of Charlottenburg Palace. The special exhibition ‘Käthe Kollwitz and Theater’ focuses on a topic that has received little attention to date – Käthe Kollwitz and her family’s affinity for the theater.

Theater as part of everyday family life
Diary entries and letters to her son Hans document how visiting the theatre was a natural part of everyday family life – just like political discussions and artistic work. Käthe Kollwitz and her family experienced the most fruitful period in Berlin’s theater history at first hand and attended numerous innovative productions by the great directors of their time, including Otto Brahm, Max Reinhardt and Leopold Jessner. From the naturalism of the late 19th century to the expressionist theater of the 1920s, they followed the stage closely. Dance, concerts, film and cabaret were also part of this rich cultural cosmos.

Theater as a resonance chamber for artistic work
The exhibition examines the influence these intense visual experiences had on Käthe Kollwitz’s artistic work. Although she did not work directly for the theater, her oeuvre reflects a wide range of references to literary material, scenic situations and dramatic condensations. Theater is thus visible less as a concrete motif than as an intellectual resonance chamber for her work.

Highlights of the exhibition
A large number of loans from public and private collections, newly catalogued and digitised archive material, and interdisciplinary perspectives clearly show how closely the life of the Kollwitz family was interwoven with one of the most productive phases in Berlin’s theater history. In addition to works by Käthe Kollwitz, works by Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Georg Kolbe, August Macke, Max Liebermann, Ernst Oppler and Emil Orlik are also on display.

Extensive loans and research work
The exhibition comprises over 100 exhibits from 17 lenders, including the Alte Nationalgalerie SMB, Kupferstichkabinett SMB, Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Ernst Barlach Haus Hamburg, John Neumeier Stiftung Hamburg, Kollwitz Museum Cologne, and Tanzarchiv und Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung Cologne. It concludes three years of research by Kollwitz specialist Annette Seeler, which was carried out in collaboration with the museum.

Design and accompanying publication
The young Berlin-based design team Jason Kittner and Meret Schmiese are responsible for the architectural and graphic design of the exhibition. An accompanying catalogue with over 200 illustrations and approx. 240 pages will be published by Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg, which will deepen the dialogue between visual arts and performing arts.

Funding and support
The exhibition, catalog and educational programme have been made possible by the generous support of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, the Rudolf-August Oetker Foundation and the Richard Stury Foundation.

Educational programmes for the special exhibition
FOR SCHOOL CLASSES
School project day for the special exhibition
Bookable from 21 February to 3 May 2026

FOR ADULTS
Slow Art tour
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 5 p.m.
Registration required.

FOR ADULTS
Guided tours with guest curator Dr Annette Seeler
Tuesday, 31 March, 14 and 28 April 2026, 4 p.m. each day
Participation is included in the museum admission price.
No registration required.

FOR ADULTS
Tour in German Sign Language (DGS)
Sunday, April 12, 2026, 3:00 p.m.
Participation is included in the museum admission fee.
Registration required: bildung@kaethe-kollwitz.de

Events related to the special exhibition
Lecture by Dr Norbert Jaron
Max Reinhardt and the theater of the early 20th century
Thursday, 12 March 2026, 7 p.m.
Admission €8.00 | concessions €5.00
No registration required.