Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park

Schwante Castle was built between 1741 and 1743 by an unknown architect under the ownership of landowner Erasmus Wilhelm von Redern and his wife Catherina Elisabeth von Bredow. In 1888, Friedrich August Richard Sommer, builder of Sommerswalde Castle, acquired the property. After his death, the castle came into the possession of Vicco Karl Alexander von Bülow-Schwante. After 1945, it served as a makeshift hospital and later as an educational center for the FDJ. In 2009, after a long period of vacancy, the Hexenkessel Hoftheater und Strand GmbH became the owner and has used it as a theater ever since. In 2019, the property was resold to a married couple of art dealers and collectors, who live there and offer smaller public events. In June 2020, a sculpture park opened in the 20-hectare palace gardens with works by Hans Arp, Martin Creed, Tony Cragg, Björn Dahlem, Dan Graham, Carsten Nicolai, George Rickey and Ai Weiwei.

Texts by Anne Seubert can be read – and heard – at the sculpture park at Schlossgut Schwante.