Berlin in Pictures

The Neue Nationalgalerie honours the artist Isa Genzken with the exhibition "Isa Genzken. 75/75" on the occasion of her 75th birthday and is showing a total of 75 sculptures until November 2023.  more

Popular summer tradition: On July 8 and 9, 2023, "Staatsoper für alle" once again attracted numerous music fans to Bebelplatz.  more

After a four-year break, the Berlin Fire Brigade once again held its popular open day on 09 July 2023. This year, the Berlin Fire Brigade's open day took place at the former Tegel Airport.  more

In bright sunshine, the "Rave the Planet" technoparade took place for the second time in Berlin on 08 July 2023. The parade is considered the successor to the Love Parade and this year focused on the Straße des 17 Juni.  more

In the exhibition "Wolf Biermann: A Poet and Songwriter in Germany", the German Historical Museum illuminates the life and work of the songwriter from a cultural-historical perspective.  more

Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas has transformed the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin into a landscape of amorphous sculptures.  more

Unbeatable Together: Pictures of the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023 in the Olympic Stadium.  more

The Re:publica 2023 fair took place at the beginning of June under the motto "Cash" in the Arena Berlin and the Festsaal Kreuzberg.  more

After months of renovation, the federally owned Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) celebrated its reopening under its new director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the first weekend of June 2023 with a festival lasting several days.  more

In bright sunshine, Berlin celebrated the diversity of the city at the 25th edition of the Carnival of Cultures in Kreuzberg on the Whitsun weekend of 2023. Photos of the big parade, the street festival and the children's carnival.  more

In the exhibition "Dürer for Berlin - A Search for Traces in the Museum of Prints and Drawings", the Kupferstichkabinett presents around 130 works by the artist and thus provides a broad insight into his entire artistic oeuvre.  more

At the e-sports tournament "ESL One Berlin Dota 2 Major", the best teams will compete against each other on the final weekend in May 2023 at the Berlin Velodrom.  more

Impressions of the Berlin E-Prix 2023 at Tempelhofer Feld.  more

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Marienfelde Refugee Center Museum, the artist couple Maria Vill and David Mannstein, together with young people currently living in the transitional home, designed facades with paste-ups for the exhibition "Here and Now!".  more

Cherry blossoms in the rain: At the traditional cherry blossom festival in the Gardens of the World, the pink cherry blossoms this year were a match for the colourful umbrellas of the visitors.  more

The Institut Français presents "Notre-Dame de Paris - A Cathedral's World Tour", an interactive exhibition with exciting insights into the history of the world-famous cathedral and the current restoration work.  more

Numerous people came to the traditional start of the bathing season at the Wannsee lido on Good Friday 2023.  more

With "Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin", the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is showing for the first time 100 works by Gerhard Richter that have been transferred to the Nationalgalerie by the artist's foundation under a long-term loan agreement.  more

Life-size dinosaurs will move into the Tierpark Berlin for the exhibition "Dinoworld" between April and October 2023.  more

Photos of the rehearsal of "The Seagull" at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. The play celebrates its premiere on 07 March.  more

The new exhibition "The Sun: Source of Light in Art" at the Museum Barberini brings together around 80 works from antiquity to the present.  more

Kristen Stewart, Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, Willem Dafoe, Matt Damon, Steven Spielberg, Helen Mirren and other celebrities will be guests at the Berlinale 2023 in Berlin.  more

Impressions of the multimedia exhibition "Zineb Sedira. Dreams Have No Titles" at Hamburger Bahnhof.  more

The ISTAF Indoor took place in the Mercedes-Benz Arena on 10 February 2023 in front of 11,850 spectators.  more

Transmediale 2023 presents events throughout Berlin at the beginning of February under the motto "A model, a map, a fiction".  more