Exhibitions in Berlin

Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and video, the exhibition delves into societal issues such as violence and urban life. more

The Alte Nationalgalerie will be presenting Claude Monet’s three earliest views of Paris, from 1867, which are considered to be the first Impressionist cityscapes. more

For the exhibition, Andrea Pichl has devised an architectural installation dealing with the economic transfer between West and East Germany and the transformation occurring after 1989. more

In her artistic practice Mariechen Danz explores methods and models of human cognition. The starting point for her artistic research is the fragmented human body. more

Christmas smells, tastes, sounds and lights up. All our senses are stimulated in a special way at this time of year. more

Fireworks are a momentary, ephemeral art form that leave nothing behind except for fond memories and a great deal of waste. For centuries, they have been the most violent and expensive art form in existence. more

Media artist Harald Fuchs presents spatial stagings that defy clear definitions and sends visitors on an aesthetic journey full of paradoxes and surrealisms. more

Max Ernst repeatedly broke with artistic conventions and experimented with new techniques. However, he was not a photographer. This special exhibition is the first to look for points of contact between his work and photography. more

Patty Carroll, the winner of the BBA Photography Prize 2023, brings her celebrated series Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise to BBA Gallery in Berlin. This solo exhibition showcases Carroll’s distinctive style, which blends humour, poignant social commentary,... more

Over the past twenty years, the French-Austrian artist, choreographer, and director has created a complex and idiosyncratic body of work that traces the dreams and abysses of adolescence and counterculture. more

Alfredo Jaar is an artist, architect and filmmaker. For over 40 years, he has been dealing with complex socio-political issues and the limits and ethics of representability. more

The retrospective at Fotografiska shows where the heart of hip-hop beats and traces over 50 years of its history, from its roots in the Bronx in the 1970s to its evolution as a global billion-dollar industry. more

Since the early 1990s, the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra has produced an impressive body of photographic- and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. more

Love Letters to the City, curated by Michelle Houston, is a tribute to urban spaces and encourages reflection on the role of art in shaping our collective urban experiences. more

In her model-like reconstructions of existing buildings, Tracey Snelling examines the social relationships of the individuals living in them. more

Rirkrit Tiravanija has been associated with Germany and Berlin in particular for over thirty years. Rirkrit Tiravanija: ‘Happiness is not always fun at the Gropius Bau’ is the first survey exhibition to take a closer look at this close relationship. more

The exhibition ‘Summation’ at the Nordic Embassies shows works by ten important Nordic artists who deal with the interplay between individuality and community. more

The exhibition ‘Maurice de Vlaminck: Rebel of Modernism’ at the Barberini is the first posthumous retrospective devoted to the Fauvist and influential artist of the French avant-garde at a German museum. more

To mark the 80th birthday of art collector Egidio Marzona, a special project from the collection featuring 80 first books by 80 artists from the 1960s and 1970s is being presented to the public for the first time. more

With works from the 1960s to the 2000s, the exhibition in the Schinkel Pavilion brings together paintings, photography, films and prints - including works that have not been on public display for decades. more

Loved and hated, admired and reviled, disappeared and remembered: where the Humboldt Forum stands today was once the site of the Palace of the Republic, a representative building of political power in the GDR. more

Hardly any other era was so marked by division, rupture and transformation as the period after the Second World War. In light of this, the Neue Nationalgalerie has consciously chosen the title Extreme Tension for the upcoming presentation of its postwar... more

Hamburger Bahnhof offers a polyphonic panorama of the Berlin art scene and the city itself from the threshold of the opening of the Wall to the present. more

Hamburger Bahnhof is dedicating a major retrospective to the Turkish painter and opera singer Semiha Berksoy (1910 - 2004) in the east wing of the museum. more

The exhibition at Fotografiska explores the facets of human transience and shows Rinko Kawauchi's own ageing process. more

Starting with Odilon Redon’s charcoal drawing Fleur du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1880) in the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, this exhibition traces a path from early modern art to contemporary works, shedding light on the influence that Charles Baudelaire’s... more

Planet Africa: An Archaeological Journey Through Time is a unique, intercontinental exhibition project focussing on African archaeology. more

Kafka comes to Berlin! One hundred years after the death of Franz Kafka, the Jewish Museum Berlin is providing new insights into his work with its exhibition "Access Kafka". more

Using Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, video, game simulations, sculpture, and sonic fiction, Ayoung Kim creates expansive fictional universes with their own temporal and spatial laws. more