Wannsee Contemporary
Wannsee Contemporary is a contemporary art gallery based in the Wannsee district of Berlin, Germany. It is dedicated to exhibiting and supporting emerging German and international artists. Located in the outskirts of Berlin’s art scene, between Berlin and Potsdam, it aims to provide both artists and the public a platform to engage with new tendencies shaping the global art scene. Through collaborations and residencies Wannsee Contemporary is working with established artists on projects exploring Wannsee’s political, social and environmental landscapes.
History
Wannsee Contemporary was founded in 2021 by curator Avi Feldman, who sought to establish a contemporary art space outside Berlin’s central gallery districts.[1]
The gallery first exhibition was by painter Shanee Roe followed by a solo exhibition by Layla Nabi. Since then the gallery continues to support and initiate site-specific and community-based exhibitions and projects with artists such as aaajiao, Yael Bartana, Gábor Kristóf, Navot Miller, Muhammad Toukhy and Ran Zhang.[2]
Mission and Vision
The gallery’s mission is to provide an artistic, curatorial and educational platform to explore critical issues at the intersection of art, politics, history and ecology mostly through an engagement with the question: what is contemporary Wannsee?.[3]
Its curatorial program emphasizes dialogue between local and global perspectives. The term Wannsee anchors the gallery in a historically layered landscape, while Contemporary signals openness to imagination, experimental and future-oriented practices.[1]
Location
Wannsee Contemporary is located at Chausseestraße 46, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee.[4] The neighborhood, known for its lakes and villas, contrasts with Berlin’s urban gallery centers and supports a more contemplative, research-based art practices.
Programming and Exhibitions
Wannsee Contemporary presents solo and group exhibitions across media including painting, photography, sculpture, video, and installation.
Notable exhibitions include:
- The Book of Wannsee: Storm by Hinda Weiss (6 September – 15 November 2025).[4]
- ANIMA, a group exhibition with works by students from Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, curated by Prof. Nike Bätzner in collaboration with Dr. Avi Feldman. The exhibition was the outcome of a year-long seminar Wannsee: Laboratory for the Future, initiated by Dr. Avi Feldman. The course is also taught by Feldman at Bard College Berlin.
- A Pink Shul by Navot Miller (2024) creating the first inclusive synagogue of Wannsee, exploring queer identity and spatial memory.[5]
- Yael Bartana's solo exhibition in 2023 titled Rehearsal for Redemption (Artistic advice: Dr. Shelley Harten).
- A group exhibition titled Wannseewandeln (2023) Curated by Ran Zhang in collaboration with Avi Feldman
- A digital and installation-based exhibition titled I was dead on the Internet by the artist aaajiao that engaged with themes of censorship, death and visibility.[1]
Leadership
The gallery is directed by Dr. Avi Feldman, a curator, educator and writer whose research and teaching combine art, law, and curatorial theory.[2] Feldman’s work often investigates the relation between law and art, institutional critique, and political art and activism through curatorial imagination, knowledge and practice.
Reception
Wannsee Contemporary has been noted in Berlin’s art press and neighborhood culture media as a gallery extending the city’s art scene beyond its central districts. It has also been profiled in academic and curatorial journals for its approach to community engagement and site-specific practice.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Censorship, community and the search for identity in contemporary art: a conversation with Avi Feldman". OnCurating. 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dr. Avi Feldman combines the study of art and law while exploring the region of Berlin-Wannsee in new course". Bard College Berlin. 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ "About – Wannsee Contemporary". Wannsee Contemporary. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Wannsee Contemporary". Wannsee Contemporary. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
- ↑ "Navot Miller verbindet in seiner Malerei Welten: Der Traum von einer rosa Synagoge". Tagesspiegel. 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2025.
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