# Kunsthaus Dahlem

Museum in Dahlem, Berlin.

- Address: Käuzchensteig 8, Berlin, 14195
- Website: https://www.kunsthaus-dahlem.de
- Instagram: [@kunsthausdahlem](https://www.instagram.com/kunsthausdahlem/)
- Directions: <https://www.google.com/maps/dir/?api=1&destination=Kunsthaus%20Dahlem%2C%20K%C3%A4uzchensteig%208%2C%20Berlin%2C%2014195>
- On the map: https://onview.so/berlin/map/kunsthaus-dahlem

## Exhibitions

### Eva Frankfurther: *Das Leben malen*

Oct 23, 2026 – Feb 14, 2027 · coming up

- Thu, Oct 22, 2026: Opening, 7 pm, with welcome remarks and an introduction by Dr. Dorothea Schöne, Ruth Ur and curator Sarah MacDougall

More than 40 paintings and works on paper by Eva Frankfurther, portraying immigrants and workers in postwar London.

The first solo show of Frankfurther’s work in Berlin-Dahlem, where she was born in 1930, covers her short career, which ended with her death in 1959. Her portraits and scenes of daily life centre on migrants, workers and residents of London’s East End, among them Whitechapel market traders and West Indian waitresses.

Her style draws on Käthe Kollwitz’s socially engaged imagery and on the new figurative realism of 1950s Britain. A bilingual German–English catalogue accompanies the show, which is organised with the Exilmuseum Berlin.

Full details: [kunsthaus-dahlem.de](https://kunsthaus-dahlem.de/ausstellung/eva-frankfurther/)

On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/kunsthaus-dahlem/das-leben-malen

### Antonio Peña: *Wie Bilder uns lesen*

Oct 23 – Nov 23, 2026 · coming up

Drawings that rework racist image motifs with humor and irony to question how Black and Indigenous people in Mexico are seen.

Peña, an Afro-Indigenous artist from Oaxaca, draws on imagery known from racist depictions, exaggerating and distorting it to expose how such images shape ideas of belonging and identity. Humor and irony reveal the contradictions in these attributions and their long afterlife.

The small cabinet show runs in dialogue with the gallery’s Eva Frankfurther exhibition, adding a contemporary view: where Frankfurther looks at people as individuals, Peña examines the image traditions that categorize them.

Full details: [kunsthaus-dahlem.de](https://kunsthaus-dahlem.de/ausstellung/antonio-pena/)

On On View: https://onview.so/berlin/kunsthaus-dahlem/wie-bilder-uns-lesen

## Past exhibitions

- [Gulnur Mukazhanova: *JETZTZEIT – Layers of the Present*](https://onview.so/berlin/kunsthaus-dahlem/jetztzeit-layers-of-the-present.md): Jul 4 – Oct 4, 2026
- [Melanie Ender: *Almost in Between*](https://onview.so/berlin/kunsthaus-dahlem/almost-in-between.md): Jul 4 – Oct 4, 2026

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