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Weekend Tips: What to Do This Weekend in Berlin
August 7 to 9, 2026: Events, festivals, exhibitions and more things to do for your perfect weekend in Berlin. more
If Animals Could Talk
Funda Özgünaydin
Deer-Bird Duo I, 2026
© Funda Özgünaydin
Funda Özgünaydin (born 1978 in Frankfurt am Main) draws on an extensive archive of artistic materials to create hybrid visual realities that emerge through the collaging, deconstruction, and (re)construction of heterogeneous elements. Through a constant interplay between photographic source material, applied materials, and subjective overpainting, the artist generates new perspectives on visual conventions and established narratives. In the process, genre boundaries blur, as do the textures of artistic techniques. Two-dimensional works acquire haptic qualities, and analog media continue to transform into the digital realm. Questions of authenticity, aura, and the meaning of the image dissolve into visual impulses that, beyond rational approaches, place particular emphasis on the emotional experience. Surrealist strategies of camouflage, exaggeration, and irony repeatedly play a central role in a visual cosmos that is almost impossible to fully grasp.
With her exhibition in the ZAK lounge, Funda Özgünaydin offers insights into her wide-ranging artistic processes and presents both photography-based series exploring the relationship between animals and humans, as well as video miniatures and large-format paintings that elevate the chimera —the hybrid, in-between being—into a new medium for critical exploration of the world. Many of her works examine traditional structures and fixed identities in order to get a little closer to the question of the truth behind the surface in the age of complex imaging techniques.
ZAK / LoungeTranslated with DeepL
With her exhibition in the ZAK lounge, Funda Özgünaydin offers insights into her wide-ranging artistic processes and presents both photography-based series exploring the relationship between animals and humans, as well as video miniatures and large-format paintings that elevate the chimera —the hybrid, in-between being—into a new medium for critical exploration of the world. Many of her works examine traditional structures and fixed identities in order to get a little closer to the question of the truth behind the surface in the age of complex imaging techniques.
ZAK / LoungeTranslated with DeepL
Runtime: Sat, 19/09/2026 to Sun, 03/01/2027
Price info: Almost every 1st Sunday of the month is Citadel Sunday and admission is free.
Price: €4.50
Reduced price: €2.50
Reduced price info: Pupils - children aged 6-14 - students - trainees - people who receive transfer benefits (ALG II, social welfare, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) - GdB 50, MdE on presentation of the relevant ID.
public guided tours of Spandau Citadel
every Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm
€4.50 per person plus Citadel ticket
(on the last Saturday of the month, the guided tour of the exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments")
The following guided tours are canceled due to major events:
11.07.2026
03. + 04.10.2026
Price: €4.50
Reduced price: €2.50
Reduced price info: Pupils - children aged 6-14 - students - trainees - people who receive transfer benefits (ALG II, social welfare, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) - GdB 50, MdE on presentation of the relevant ID.
public guided tours of Spandau Citadel
every Saturday and Sunday at 2 pm
€4.50 per person plus Citadel ticket
(on the last Saturday of the month, the guided tour of the exhibition "Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments")
The following guided tours are canceled due to major events:
11.07.2026
03. + 04.10.2026
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