Ull Hohn: Revisions and 2025 programme

For Ull Hohn (b. 1960 in Trier, d. 1995 in Berlin), painting was far more than just an artistic form—it was a space where discourse, techniques, and personal reflections intertwined. At a time when painting was widely seen as an exhausted medium, Hohn sought renewal from within. In his works from the late 1980s and early 1990s, he explored the connections between formal and political approaches to art through several series of paintings. He experimented with forms of representation that probed the boundaries of mass media appropriation and the tension between virtuosity and amateurism, opening painting to self-questioning. 

A recurring theme in Hohn’s work—which spans figurative and abstract compositions—is his critical engagement with traditional painterly tropes, particularly landscape art. Redefining notions of nature and naturalness and consciously tying them to current debates such as the heated discourses of the Culture Wars in New York in the 1990s and the activism surrounding the AIDS epidemic, Hohn explicitly addressed his own homosexuality. 

In the final years of his life, Ull Hohn focused on the series Revisions (1994–95), which lends its title to this exhibition. Here, he revisited early works from his youth, reinterpreting classical motifs such as interiors, everyday objects, and still lifes from the perspective of a mature artist. This series can be seen as an artistic reflection on his personal development and life as an artist—a biography already overshadowed by illness. Hohn died in 1995 at the age of thirty-five from AIDS-related complications. With this return to his artistic beginnings, he deliberately created a kind of autobiographical narrative, extending his method of stylistic appropriation to his own earlier works.

The exhibition at the Haus am Waldsee offers a comprehensive overview of the various phases of the artist’s tragically short career and includes rarely seen works from his early years. True to Hohn’s vision, it brings together different series of paintings, allowing them to enrich one another conceptually.

Curated by  Anna Gritz / Supported by Haus am Waldsee – Freunde und Förderer e.V., Between Bridges, Stiftung Stark

Upcoming in 2025
Nina Könnemann
May 25–September 14, 2025

In May 2025, Haus am Waldsee will present a comprehensive solo exhibition by the Berlin-based artist Nina Könnemann. In her work, Könnemann explores how people behave in public spaces, focusing on marginal areas, everyday behaviour, and subcultural dynamics. With precision and astute observation, she documents movements shaped by latent social conventions. Her camera often captures the transitional zones of public events: spaces on the periphery of festivals, demonstrations, sports events, and the traces people leave behind at such mass gatherings. Könnemann condenses these seemingly insignificant moments into filmic reflections on unnoticed social mechanisms, creating portraits of contemporary life through unofficial narratives.

For her exhibition at Haus am Waldsee, Könnemann will show new videos, developed through a collaborative, decentralised approach that follows the process of creating an artistic film in real time. A new sculptural installation will also be on display, continuing her ongoing project Lithic Reductions.

Curated by Beatrice Hilke / Supported by  Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Haus am Waldsee—Freunde und Förderer e.V.

Beverly Buchanan
October 3, 2025–January 11, 2026

This exhibition spans Beverly Buchanan’s (*1940, Fuquay, North Carolina, †2015, Ann Arbor, Michigan) wide-ranging oeuvre and marks the artist’s first survey in Germany. It brings together works from all periods of her practice, ranging from early series on canvas and paper addressing the increasing gentrification of New York in the 1970s to critically humorous writings and artist books In her later works, Buchanan reflects on the characteristic architecture and building practices in the rural southeastern United States—often through interventions in the landscape or sensitive miniature recreations. Informed by an astute engagement with the topics of class, gender, or memory, her works highlight the intrinsic connection between architecture and structural disparities while celebrating the resilience and beauty of the provisional to counter the mechanisms of oppression. 

Developed with support from gta exhibitions (ETH Zürich)and in collaboration with Menzel-Dach (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Fisk University (Nashville), and others, the project aims to broaden perspectives on Buchanan’s legacy and spark local reflections on persistent inequalities and collective memory. The exhibition is accompanied by a new work by British artist Ima-Abasi Okon.

Curated by  Anna Gritz, Beatrice Hilke, Pia-Marie Remmers / Supported by TERRA Foundation for American Art, Haus am Waldsee – Freunde und Förderer e.V., Rudolf Augstein Stiftung

Sommerfest
July 20, 2025

Save the date for our annual Sommerfest, bringing together a programme of performances and culinary interventions in the sculpture park. Further information will soon be available on the website.

Summer School: August 2025
In preparation for Haus am Waldsee’s 80th anniversary in 2026, a Summer School will be held in August 2025. Participants will engage in workshops, lectures, and performances led by artists, historians, and scholars, exploring the institution’s founding era in the late 1940s. Central to the programme are questions about how the house’s structure and history—as a residence for both victims and perpetrators of the Nazi regime—as well as the political paradigm shift during the onset of the Cold War influenced its post-war transformation into an art institution.

Organised by Pia-Marie Remmers / Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation). Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media)

Mediation and outreach 2025
In addition to our ongoing programme of guided tours, family Sundays, and school workshops, two major projects in 2025 will shape our educational work. In “I make art!”, children and young people with a refugee background are invited to explore the Haus am Waldsee and experiment with an array of different artistic techniques. As part of ‘Queering the Museum’ participants explore the archive and look at aspects of queer history in the museum’s institutional and exhibition history in preparation for Haus am Waldsee’s 80th anniversary.

Organised by Luise Bichler / Supported by Bundesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung e.V., Bundesstiftung Magnus Hirschfeld

Press contact
Erik Guenther, presse [​at​] hausamwaldsee.de, T +49 30 801 89 35.