Guided tour through the current exhibition Weathering by Beverly Buchanan. In German language. Admission to the exhibition is included in the ticket.

As part of Family Sunday at Haus am Waldsee, we will walk through the exhibition Beverly Buchanan. Weathering together and explore the colourful drawings and wooden sculptures by artist Beverly Buchanan. Her small huts tell the story of how people use their strength and imagination to shape their homes and lives, and at the same time, the obstacles they encounter in doing so. Inspired by her work, you will then design your own huts. Who lives in your little house?

Max. 20 people. Ages 4 and up, accompanied by parents.
*Free ticket for children under 18. The ticket includes admission to the exhibition.
Booking information: A maximum of 2 tickets for adults and 4 tickets for children can be booked per transaction. For larger groups, we kindly ask you to make multiple bookings.

In German.
Facilitated by: Luise Bichler

Note on accessibility

Dear visitors,
Haus am Waldsee has limited accessibility. If you have any questions about accessibility on Family Sunday, please email us at: vermittlung@hausamwaldsee.de. We will do our best to find solutions for your visit!

On the occasion of the exhibition Beverly Buchanan. Weathering, Haus am Waldsee, in collaboration with Bierke Books, has reissued three of Buchanan’s artist zines. In these simple, self-produced publications, Buchanan’s humorous yet incisive view of both the urban art world and her immediate surroundings in the rural American South comes to the fore. Through comic-like sketches and hastily scribbled text fragments, she creates brief, anecdotal stories of everyday life.

As part of the book launch, Yvette Mutumba (Director Contemporary And) and Katz Tepper (artist, researcher, and writer) will discuss questions of artistic self-publishing, archiving, and their art-historical as well as social implications. Moving between the American South and Berlin, and across Afro-diasporic, European, and U.S. perspectives, the conversation explores the resonances Buchanan’s work opens up within different geographic and historical contexts.

*Free tickets are available at the box office from 3 pm. We recommend arriving early, as places are limited.
The exhibition is open until 6 pm.

Katz Tepper is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and writer based in Chicago. Recent exhibitions and screenings of their work include Prairie (Chicago), White Columns (New York), Cushionworks (San Francisco), Laurel Gitlen (New York), the Tang Teaching Museum (New York), Fluentum (Berlin), and the British Film Institute Southbank (London). Together with Mo Costello, their research on Beverly Buchanan’s period in Athens, Georgia received a 2024 Teiger Foundation Single Project Grant for their co-curated exhibition Beverly’s Athens (Athenaeum, University of Georgia, 2026). The accompanying catalog titled Beverly Buchanan, Athens, GA, 8 July 1995 received a 2025 Graham Foundation Award and will be published by Soberscove Press in 2026.

Yvette Mutumba is the co-founder and director of Contemporary And (C&), a platform for contemporary art and thought in Africa and the Global Diaspora, founded in 2013. Rooted in a global network of contributors and collaborators, C& publishes two online magazines in four languages and develops educational and discursive projects across digital and physical spaces. Alongside her work with C&, Yvette teaches at the Institute for Art in Contexts at the Berlin University of the Arts. From 2020 to 2024, she served as Curator-at-Large at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Previously, she was part of the curatorial team of the 10th Berlin Biennale and held a visiting professorship for Global Discourses at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. From 2012 to 2016, she served as curator at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, where she worked on the museum’s colonial and postcolonial collections. As an author and editor, she has published widely on contemporary art and art history. She studied art history at the Freie Universität Berlin and earned her PhD from Birkbeck, University of London.

Guided tour through the current exhibition Weathering by Beverly Buchanan. In German language. Admission included in the exhibition ticket.

Zehlendorf is considered by many to be a green, quiet district – but traces of Germany’s colonial past can also be found here. On our decolonial tour, we want to make this history visible and ask ourselves:

What colonial interconnections still shape the district today?

How is colonial heritage manifested in public spaces – in street names, monuments or places of remembrance?

And how can we work together to create a decolonial culture of remembrance?

Together, we will explore various locations in Zehlendorf, hear stories of resistance and colonial violence, and discuss perspectives on a more equitable narrative of history. The tour invites participants to think, ask questions and learn together.

Decolonial city tours in Berlin impart knowledge about German colonial history and show how its legacy continues to shape our society and city today. The tours invite participants to reveal colonial continuities in urban spaces – individually, in teams or in organisations – and offer personal, flexible and impressive learning experiences. More information here: https://www.dekolonialestadtfuehrung.de/en

Meeting point: at the entrance to Haus am Waldsee

The tour takes place in the vicinity of Haus am Waldsee.

The tour will take place even if it rains, so please bring an umbrella and rainproof clothing.

Language: German

Duration: ca. 90 minutes

Tour: Justice Mvemba

Ticket price: €15, €12 reduced

Tickets can be booked via our ticket website or at the box office on the day of the event.

Maximum number of participants: 20 people. Ages 12 and up.

Alongside the exhibition Beverly Buchanan. Weathering with Ima-Abasi Okon, this special reading features Jamaica Kincaid revisiting one of her earliest texts, My Mother — a formative piece in which she began to shape the voice and rhythm that would later define her writing. “It was one of those pieces,” she recalls, “in which I was developing something that would later become a style of mine. In a way, it was like teaching myself to walk.”

In this reading and conversation, Kincaid reflects on the intimate and complex relationship between writing, motherhood, and gardening — a connection first cultivated through her mother, whose garden became both a source of wonder and a site of instruction. Over the years, this relationship grew into a central metaphor in Kincaid’s work, where gardens appear as spaces of beauty and care, but also of domination and erasure — microcosms of colonial history.

Kincaid will speak about the generative and destructive qualities of gardening, the act of cultivation as an expression of both love and control, and the ways in which tending to the land can become an act of resistance and reparation.

Jamaica Kincaid is currently in Berlin as part of her fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin.

Tickets include admission to the exhibition.

Jamaica Kincaid is a writer and Professor Emerita of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She holds honorary degrees from Amherst College, Tufts University, Middlebury College, and the University of the West Indies, among others. Celebrated for her evocative reflections on family, memory, gender, colonialism, her native Antigua, and gardening, Kincaid is the author of numerous award-winning and widely translated essays, short stories, and novels, including At the Bottom of the River (1983), Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990), A Small Place (1988), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), My Brother (1997), Mr. Potter (2002), Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalayas (2005), See Now Then (2013), and most recently An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children (with Kara Walker, 2024). Her “Talk of the Town” columns for The New Yorker appeared in Talk Stories (2001). She is the winner of the 2022 Paris Review Hadada Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the 2017 Dan David Prize, a 2014 American Book Award, and the 2000 Prix Femina Étranger, among many other honors. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009.