“The Crack” in Amalienpark

This is precisely the central theme of the upcoming art exhibition at the “Galerie Amalinenpark”

From April 11 to May 21, 2026, nine artists will exhibit works there under the collective title “The Rift”: Barbara Bräuer, Dirk Biermann, Carola Cempik, Anna Mields, Liz Mields-Kratochwil, Paula Paula, Mechthild Rieffel, Katja Stögmüller, and Tilman Burgert.

The exhibition’s supporting program includes the opening reception on Friday, April 10, starting at 7:30 p.m., featuring music by PAULA PAULA, as well as a lecture by Dr. phil. Alex Gross on Friday, at 7:30 p.m., a lecture by Dr. phil. Alex Gross—“The Crack as Part of Becoming”—followed by another concert with PAULA PAULA.

On Friday, May 8, starting at 7:30 p.m., Annett Gröschner will read from her new book “Schwebende Lasten,” and the closing event will take place on Thursday, May 21, starting at 7:30 p.m.

Two workshops round out the program:

Friday, May 8, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with the RambaZamba artists’ collective, and on

Tuesday, May 12, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m., painting and drawing for schoolchildren with Anne Sophie Malmberg, to which children are warmly invited to participate.

The exhibition “The Fissure” explores the role of the fissure as part of change and becoming—for example, within society, within human relationships, and thus also in art. Each individual artistic position unfolds its own understanding of the fissure—as part of a system, a landscape, a memory, or a story. And with it arises the question of what comes after: the adhesions, the legacy, and the resonance of what is brought about by the fissure.

While complexities, layers, and connections increase, the crack remains, as an unfinished element, an integral part of the continuous growth and becoming of the world’s things—a patchwork-like life, experienced everywhere.

Without claiming to be exhaustive, the exhibition demonstrates precisely this: the openness and incompleteness, the diversity of possible understandings of the fissure in contemporary art—and at the same time, with each work, offers a possible answer to how the fissure can be read, understood, and given artistic form.