Exhibitions in

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This week's highlights

All current exhibitions

Brigitte
Meier-Denninghoff
Ends in 16d
Sep 5, 2025 — Aug 3, 2026

Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff

Berlinische Galerie

Brigitte Meier-Denninghoff (1923–2011), one of the most successful women in post-war sculpture, was not only sought after in Germany. In the 1950s and 1960s, her innovative metal sculptures went on show, for example, at…

Monira Al Qadiri
Ends in 30d
Jul 11, 2025 — Aug 17, 2026

Monira Al Qadiri

Berlinische Galerie

Monira Al Qadiri intensively examines the social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of the oil industry. Her works shed light on the connections between crude oil as the leading fossil fuel of the twentieth century…

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition
Apr 15 — Aug 30

Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition

Gropius Bau

One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism,…

The Lure of the Image
Jun 20 — Sep 2

The Lure of the Image

C/O Berlin

How do images bait or beguile us as they circulate online? How do they compel, capture, or control us? The fourteen artists presented in this exhibition engage with visual phenomena that serve as vehicles for online…

Walter Schels
Jun 20 — Sep 2

Walter Schels

C/O Berlin

In celebration of Walter Schels’s ninetieth birthday, C/O Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation presents the photographer’s first retrospective in Berlin. With more than three hundred works, the exhibition offers new…

Mila Zhluktenko
& Daniel Asadi Faezi
Jun 3 — Sep 7

Mila Zhluktenko & Daniel Asadi Faezi

Berlinische Galerie

“Aralkum” (2022, 14 min.) was the first video work co-directed by Mila Zhluktenko and Daniel Asadi Faezi. The film serves as a memorial to the Aral Sea, the fourth-largest inland sea in the world until the 1960s, though…

Emilio Vedova
Apr 17 — Sep 14

Emilio Vedova

Berlinische Galerie

The installation “Absurd Berlin Diary ’64” by Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) is one of his most significant works and is unique within his œuvre for its complexity and monumentality. The work consists of…

Marc
Brandenburg
Apr 17 — Sep 14

Marc Brandenburg

Berlinische Galerie

Marc Brandenburg (*1965) ranks internationally among the leading graphic artists of our day. His work is a mix of drawing, collage, installation, video and performance. Detailed pencil drawings based on photographs…

Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen
Jun 19 — Dec 6

Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen

Gropius Bau

For more than five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been grappling with questions of justice, gender and self-determination. Her own body often plays a central role in her work – not as an object, but as a site of…

Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine
Oct 9, 2026 — Jan 17, 2027

Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine

Gropius Bau

Over the course of his artistic career, Christoph Schlingensief relentlessly confronted the absurdities of the present. In autumn 2026, Gropius Bau presents his visionary work with Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht…

Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960
Sep 10, 2026 — Jan 17, 2027

Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960

Gropius Bau

Nowhere were the social and cultural changes of 1960s and 1970s West Germany more powerfully manifest than in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Here, the broader transformations reshaping life in the Federal Republic…

After Nature Prize 26
Sep 12, 2026 — Jan 20, 2027

After Nature Prize 26

C/O Berlin

In his new project, Stelios Kallinikou (b. 1985) explores Akrotiri Salt Lake, which forms part of a British military base as an overseas territory on Cyprus. The lake is an important wetland habitat in the eastern…

Lovis Corinth
Oct 9, 2026 — Jan 25, 2027

Lovis Corinth

Berlinische Galerie

Then came Berlin!

Josef Kaiser
Aug 28, 2026 — Feb 1, 2027

Josef Kaiser

Berlinische Galerie

Building for the GDR

Carrie Mae Weems
Sep 12, 2026 — Feb 3, 2027

Carrie Mae Weems

C/O Berlin

The exhibition and accompanying monograph offer a major new survey of internationally renowned artist Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953), known for her incisive photographic explorations of cultural identity, patriarchy, and…

Jeewi Lee
Sep 11, 2026 — Apr 5, 2027

Jeewi Lee

Berlinische Galerie

Residual Memories GASAG Art Prize 2026

Florentina Holzinger SEAWORLD VENICE (WT)
Spring 2027

Florentina Holzinger SEAWORLD VENICE (WT)

Gropius Bau

In spring 2027, Gropius Bau will present Florentina Holzinger’s interdisciplinary project SEAWORLD VENICE (working title), first realised for the Austrian Pavilion at the 61st La Biennale di Venezia in 2026, in an…

Anna-Eva
Bergman
Mar 19 — Aug 2, 2027

Anna-Eva Bergman

Berlinische Galerie

Anna-Eva Bergman (1909–1987) is one of the best-known women’s names in 20th-century Norwegian art. The retrospective at the Berlinische Galerie, covering the years from 1930 until 1970, is the first major exhibition of…

Rolf von Bergmann
Feb 26 — Sep 13, 2027

Rolf von Bergmann

Berlinische Galerie

Photography

207 m²
Permanent

207 m²

Berlinische Galerie

Since September 2019 the Berlinische Galerie has had an additional space for cultural education: 207 m² devoted to workshops, collaborative projects and artistic activities. This welcoming platform offers a range of…

Art in Berlin
Permanent

Art in Berlin

Berlinische Galerie

The collection at the Berlininsche Galerie occupies more than 1000 square metres. Waiting to be discovered among roughly 250 works on show are paintings, prints, photographs, architecture and archive materials. Walking…