Name: State of Acquisition. Collection Accessions from 2021-2025
Start: 2026-08-14T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-14T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

New Collection Worlds at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus

The exhibition State of Acquisition. Collection Accessions from 2021-2025 offers a concentrated view at the Brandenburg State Museum of Modern Art on what keeps a museum in motion: collection, selection, context, and present. On August 14, 2026, at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus, painting, photography, poster art, and other forms of expression come together in a show that places recent acquisitions and donations from the last five years into an art-historical readable context. ([cottbus-tourismus.de](https://cottbus-tourismus.de/de/sommer/cottbus-erleben/veranstaltungskalender/artikel-aufnahmezustand_sammlungszugaenge_aus_den_jahren_2021-2025-61.html))

An Art Experience Between Contemporary History and Current Events

The BLMK understands its collection as a living resource that is contextualized in changing exhibitions in supra-regional and international contexts. Here, the examination of the works gains depth: individual pieces do not appear in isolation but as part of a curated narrative about artistic attitudes, visual languages, and lines of tradition. Thus, the exhibition visit becomes an aesthetic experience that connects perception and knowledge. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/museum/))

Works, Media, and Artistic Diversity

The exhibition brings together work groups across the visual arts and includes positions from Horst Bartnig, Ingrid Behla, Jan Brokof, Elżbieta Chojna, Karl-Heinz Drescher, Lutz Fleischer, Kerstin Franke-Gneuß, Alex Jordan, Renata Kaminska, Klaus Kehrwald, Eva Mahn, Christoph Niemann, Dietmar Nieschler, Andrzej Nowacki, Helga Paris, Núria Quevedo, Thomas Ranft, Wolfram A. Scheffler, Christine Schlegel, Henrik Schrat, Gudrun Trendafilov, Niklaus Troxler, Claus Weidensdorfer, Albert Weis, and Susanne Werdin. This diversity makes the exhibition a precise panorama of contemporary and East German-influenced art. ([cottbus-tourismus.de](https://cottbus-tourismus.de/de/sommer/cottbus-erleben/veranstaltungskalender/artikel-aufnahmezustand_sammlungszugaenge_aus_den_jahren_2021-2025-61.html))

The Museum as a Place of Education

The BLMK is not only an exhibition space but also an integrative educational and learning environment. Besides guided tours and art educational formats, lectures, readings, performances, and publications are part of the institution's profile. In Cottbus, the exhibition rooms, the event hall, and the mukk. are accessible by elevator; opening hours are from Tuesday to Sunday between 11 am and 7 pm. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/museum/))

Exhibition Atmosphere in an Industrial Monument

The Diesel Power Plant Cottbus gives the presentation a special spatial effect. The former industrial architecture combines functional clarity with museum concentration, making colors, surfaces, and formats appear particularly intense in the interplay of light and space. This creates an atmosphere for works of painting, graphics, and photography that generates closeness and distance at the same time. ([blmk.de](https://www.blmk.de/museum/architektur/?utm_source=openai))

Conclusion

For those who want to not only see recent collection accessions but understand them as a cultural narrative, State of Acquisition offers a worthwhile exhibition visit. The show demonstrates how contemporary art, collection policy, and museum educational mediation interact. A visit to the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus promises a precise, inspiring, and very contemporary encounter with modern art. ([cottbus-tourismus.de](https://cottbus-tourismus.de/de/sommer/cottbus-erleben/veranstaltungskalender/artikel-aufnahmezustand_sammlungszugaenge_aus_den_jahren_2021-2025-61.html))