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Saskia Groneberg: Fragments of Eden

13.12.2025  to 08.03.2026 

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  • Saskia Groneberg: Photograph from the Vesuv Venus series; Image: Black-and-white photograph from Wörlitz Park: Classicist round column temple with sculpture surrounded by numerous deciduous and coniferous trees

Fragments of Eden / Nach dem Paradies
Focus > Freising 5

Termine

13 December 2025 ‒ 8. March 2026: Exhibition
September/October: Tuesday to Saturday 2 – 7 pm, Sunday and holidays 10 am – 7 pm
November: Tuesday to Saturday 2 – 6 pm, Sunday and holidays 10 am – 6 pm
The Café MUSE is open during exhibition opening hours.

12 December, Friday 7 pm: Exhibition Opening

  • Greeting: Rainer Schneider, Vice President of the District Council of Upper Bavaria
  • Introduction: Isabel Oberländer and Eike Berg (European Art Forum) in conversation with the artist

Shuttle taxi from Freising station: 6:45 p.m.; return approx. 8:50 p.m.

6 January, Tuesday 4 pm: meetup+art
Guided tour of the exhibition with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

25 January, Sunday 4 pm: ART⟲DIALOG 001
Guided tour and discussion with Saskia Groneberg and Tanja Beuthien, art historian and correspondent for the magazine ART

11 February, Wednesday 4 pm: meetup+art
Guided tour of the exhibition with Alexandra M. Hoffmann

The exhibition rooms and café are accessible without steps.
Admission to the exhibition and accompanying programmes is free of charge.

About the Exhibition

‘Every garden, whether built, planned, dreamed, written, painted or even just imagined, is an echo of paradise, and thus ultimately compensation for a loss,’ writes Hans von Trotha.

The exhibition Fragments of Eden / After Paradise concludes the Art Forum's annual theme of City – Country – Transition and offers a comprehensive insight into the work of artist Saskia Groneberg over a period of more than thirteen years. The exhibition revolves around the fragile relationship between humans and nature, between ideal and reality, inscribed in an environment constructed by humans.

Saskia Groneberg's interest unfolds along those places where the artificial and the organic meet. From the cultivated plants of the working world (Büropflanze / Office Plant) to the staged landscapes in Vesuv, Venus or Wasserfall (Waterfall) to the current group of works Nachwelt (Posterity) , which is dedicated to Berlin cemeteries, an arc spans from working life to the end of human existence. Groneberg's works reveal how deeply our relationship with nature and landscape is permeated by cultural projections – and how longing, control and loss overlap in these projections.

In addition to comprehensive photographic works, Groneberg also incorporates video works, screen prints, thematic collections, artist books and installations into her artistic work. The exhibition is supported by the Steiner Foundation Munich and loans from the Wemhöner Collection Berlin.

Further information: www.saskiagroneberg.de


About the Artist 

Saskia Groneberg, born in Munich in 1985, grew up in Freising and now lives and works in Berlin. She completed her studies as a master student of photography at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, having previously studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart.

For her work, she has received the City of Munich's Photography Award and was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Pictet. She has received scholarships from the Goethe Institute, the Villa Kamogawa Kyoto, the Kunstfonds Foundation and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's scholarship programme.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Museo de Arte Moderno Mexico, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg, the Fotomuseum Winterthur and the Arthena Foundation Düsseldorf. Her artist books Vesuv, Venus and Büropflanze have been published by Edition Taube.