When does the exhibition start?

On 23.08.2026 at 10:00 AM. The exhibition visit is scheduled until 5:00 PM.

What is the admission fee?

The admission fee is €11. Reduced tickets cost €8, and children and teenagers up to 18 years have free admission.

Where does the exhibition take place?

At the Fürst Pückler Museum Park & Schloss Branitz in Cottbus, Robinienweg 5, 03042 Cottbus.

Is the exhibition indoors or outdoors?

The event takes place indoors in the museum.

Are there official social media channels?

No verified official social media profiles were found.

Is the visit barrier-free?

The museum refers to barrier-related information and visitor notices in the official documents. For detailed questions, direct inquiries to the museum are recommended.

Branitz Shows Pückler's Orient as a Poetic Exhibition Full of Presence

Name: Special Exhibition "Strangers and Freedom: Connecting Worlds. Pückler's Orient in His Landscapes"
Start: 2026-08-23T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-23T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Fürst Pückler Museum Park & Schloss Branitz

Between Orient Travel and Landscape Vision: Branitz Opens a Poetic Thought Space

At the Fürst Pückler Museum Park & Schloss Branitz, the special exhibition Strangers and Freedom: Connecting Worlds. Pückler's Orient in His Landscapes unfolds an impressive encounter of art history, landscape art, and contemporary visual language. The exhibition connects the Oriental travel imaginations of Prince Pückler with an intervention by Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras, weaving painting and photography into a new, multifaceted whole. ([cottbus.de](https://cottbus.de/veranstaltungen/sonderausstellung-fremde-und-freiheit-welten-verbindend-puecklers-orient-in-seinen-landschaften-65/?utm_source=openai))

An Art Experience Between Memory, Space, and Imagination

Branitz is perfectly suited for such exhibition atmospheres: The park is considered Pückler's masterpiece and, with its landscape compositions, watercourses, and the famous pyramids, is among the art-historically significant garden facilities of the 19th century. Those who visit the special exhibition not only experience individual works but also an artwork reflection in dialogue with a place that can itself be read as a total work of art. ([pueckler-museum.de](https://www.pueckler-museum.de/pl/park-palac/park-branitz/?utm_source=openai))

Painting and Photography in Dialogue

The artistic collaboration between Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras is based on a similar working method in layering surfaces. According to the event information, the two artists have even worked into each other's pieces. It is this dense, reflective visual language that intertwines foreign spaces, cultural translation, and historical imagination. For this, large-format works have been created in Pückler's breakfast room, opening the view on images of the Orient not decoratively but critically and poetically. ([cottbus.de](https://cottbus.de/veranstaltungen/sonderausstellung-fremde-und-freiheit-welten-verbindend-puecklers-orient-in-seinen-landschaften-65/?utm_source=openai))

Branitz as a Place of Cultural Education

The museum offers an environment with the castle, park, and visitor center that is particularly suitable for cultural education and art-historical contextualization. The official information refers to the visitor center in the estate economy as well as barrier-related hints and a regulated visitor order. For the exhibition visit, this means: Art is not presented in isolation here but embedded in a multifaceted museum landscape. ([pueckler-museum.de](https://www.pueckler-museum.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Anlage-1-ENO-Stand-2023.pdf?utm_source=openai))

What Makes This Exhibition Special

This special exhibition connects historical Orient references with a contemporary perspective on landscape, memory, and cultural exchange. It is aimed at those who do not understand the art experience as a mere museum visit but as an aesthetic experience with depth. The works of Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras give Pückler's world a new resonance space and make Branitz a place of lively curation. ([cottbus.de](https://cottbus.de/veranstaltungen/sonderausstellung-fremde-und-freiheit-welten-verbindend-puecklers-orient-in-seinen-landschaften-65/?utm_source=openai))

Conclusion

Strangers and Freedom is an exhibition for all who wish to think of landscape, history, and present together. Those who engage with this presentation will discover Pückler's Orient not as a distant idea but as an inspiring dialogue between space, art, and perception. A visit to Branitz is definitely worth it in person. ([cottbus.de](https://cottbus.de/veranstaltungen/sonderausstellung-fremde-und-freiheit-welten-verbindend-puecklers-orient-in-seinen-landschaften-65/?utm_source=openai))