When does the exhibition take place?

The opening is on 28.06.2026 at 11:00 AM. The exhibition will run until 23.08.2026 according to the announcement.

Where can the exhibition be seen?

At the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art - Diesel Power Plant Cottbus, Am Amtsteich 15, 03046 Cottbus.

How much is the entrance fee?

The entrance fee is charged. 4 euros are mentioned for regular admission and 3 euros for reduced admission.

Is the museum accessible?

Yes, the exhibition rooms are accessible via elevators. The official announcements of the house also mention accessible entrances depending on the location.

Are there tours and educational offerings?

Yes, the BLMK regularly accompanies exhibitions with tours, lectures, and museum educational formats.

What are the opening hours?

The Diesel Power Plant is open Tuesday to Sunday from 11 AM to 7 PM, with special opening hours on holidays.

Strangers and Freedom connects Pückler, Painting, and Photography into a Quiet Art Experience

Name: Strangers and Freedom: Pückler Dialogue with Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras
Start: 2026-06-28T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-08-23T21:00:00+02:00
Location: Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst - Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus

An Art Conversation about Freedom, Landscape, and the Image of the Stranger

With Strangers and Freedom, the Brandenburg State Museum for Modern Art at the Diesel Power Plant Cottbus opens an exhibition space in which painting and photography enter a poetic dialogue. Mona Höke and Kathrin Karras approach Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau not as a historical statue, but as a cultural figure full of friction, mobility, and European expansiveness.

A Cycle that Makes Historical Distance Productive

The three-part exhibition cycle connects artistic research with aesthetic experience. Höke, whose painting combines literary impulses, color harmony, and image movement, encounters Karras, whose photography deliberately shifts the boundaries of the medium. Together, they create images in which photography, digital image production, and unique painting overlap and charge each other.

Pückler as a Cosmopolitan Projection Figure

Pückler here stands for the ambivalence between representation and openness, between garden art and cosmopolitanism. The exhibition questions foreignness as a productive experience and freedom as a cultural attitude. Especially in Cottbus, in the architecturally striking Diesel Power Plant, this discourse gains a special spatial tension: industrial shell, modern art, and a view of European ideas intersect.

Painting and Photography in Artistic Exchange

Mona Höke is known for a visual language in which color, proximity to text, and formal condensation coalesce into intense states of work. Kathrin Karras, on the other hand, develops an independent photographic position that works with poetic depth of field, materiality, and internal image spaces. In Strangers and Freedom, both intertwine into an exhibition that wants to be not just viewed but read and experienced.

Exhibition Atmosphere at the Diesel Power Plant

The Diesel Power Plant is one of the most prominent places for modern and contemporary art in Brandenburg. The exhibition is embedded in the collection practice and educational work of the house, which offers tours, lectures, and museum educational formats. This creates an art experience that caters equally to art lovers, those interested in cultural history, and visitors curious about new visual languages.

What to Expect for Visitors

Those who visit this exhibition do not experience a linear narrative but a multifaceted consideration of work about identity, landscape, memory, and freedom. Strangers and Freedom invites you to see the present anew through art and to fill Pückler's images, cosmopolitanism, and cultural openness with your own associations. A visit is definitely worthwhile live on site.