Since...

Sophie Kovel, Metropolitan Backlot, Studio Babelsberg AG, 2026 – Gebäudeecke mit Glasfassade und weißen Vorhängen, moderne Architektur.

In 1946, still scarred by the bomb damage of the Second World War, the Zehlendorf Art Office was established in the former industrialist's villa Haus Knobloch. It soon became the Haus am Waldsee, which would go on to write an important exhibition history in the decades that followed.

For its 80th anniversary in 2026, the museum is looking back at its early years - at the transformation from a private residence to an exhibition venue, at the ruptures and continuities of the post-war period and at the traces that these developments have left behind in the institution's self-image.

A display architecture developed by the Georgian curator and archivist Nina Akhvlediani (*1989 in Tbilisi, lives and works in Tbilisi) for the former garage (now the café) enables flexible forms of presentation of archive materials. In dialog with contemporary artistic positions, new perspectives on the building open up, showing that archives are always a mirror of the present.

Since... is divided into three chapters. The third chapter is presented by the artist Sophie Kovel and is on view from 16.10.26 to 17.1.27.

Runtime: Fri, 20/02/2026 to Sun, 17/01/2027

Price: €9.00

Reduced price: €6.00

Reduced price info: Free for children and young people up to the age of 18

Takes place here:

• Haus am Waldsee