Gropius Bau
Located in the centre of Berlin, Gropius Bau is a lively place to encounter art and each other. The internationally renowned institution is part of the Berliner Festspiele and stages large-scale exhibitions and performances by contemporary artists, offering new perspectives on our present. Its diverse events focus on exchange, bringing together local and global positions.
Here, artists are at the centre: they not only present their own work, but also develop projects for the institution and, in some cases, work for extended periods of time in one of the building’s on-site studios. By inviting artists to shape programme and place equally, Gropius Bau proposes a new model for institutions in the 21st century.
Now on view
2 exhibitions
Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition
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,…
Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigen
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…
Opening soon
3 upcoming
Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine
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
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…
Florentina Holzinger SEAWORLD VENICE (WT)
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…
