Vernissage at ZAK – Center for Contemporary Art

Axel Anklam (1971 - 2022) is known as a sculptor for his abstract, organically shaped, light-filled sculptures. In his works he combines classic and contemporary materials - hard materials such as stainless steel and innovative materials such as glass fiber reinforced plastic, epoxy resin and carbon. With in-depth knowledge of static and musical-rhythmic laws, Anklam's sculptures combine weightlessness, transparency and mass in a fascinating way. The translucent sculptures are based on the impression of landscape spaces, especially mountain worlds and the dynamics of the wind.

ZAK / Gallery / Ground floor

Alex Müller – Alexandraplatz

Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Alex Müller has developed a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural and installation works in her first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin. Equally poetic and objective, her pictures, objects and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life. The narratives are multi-layered and use the female figure, the physical and subjective as well as unusual things and materials to trace the lines, paradigms and distortions of life in a broad visual field.

ZAK / Gallery / Upper floor

From autumn 2023 to spring 2024, the draftsman Matthias Beckmann was a guest at the Citadel almost every day in the exhibition Unveiled. Berlin and its monuments. At a time when people around the world are thinking about how to deal with so-called toxic monuments and are demanding a more critical approach to them, it was Beckmann's impulse to approach this topic artistically in his own individual way. In the midst of the monuments from the 19th century to the present, he made drawings that show the collection in a new light.

ZAK / Project Room

In 2024, two art in architecture competitions were announced in the Spandau district. A total of 15 contributions from 22 artists will now be presented in a joint exhibition. The competition for the new construction of a primary school on Wiesen-/Weidenweg in the Staaken district was carried out on behalf of the Senate Department for Urban Development, Building and Housing and the competition for the redesign of the Jonny K. Active Park in the Staaken district was carried out on behalf of the Streets and Green Spaces Office of the Spandau district.

ZAK / Lounge