Exhibitions in Berlin

In cooperation with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first major exhibition of this exceptional artist in Germany in over 50 years. more

Marina Abramović's exhibition at Berlin's Gropis Bau focuses on her ongoing interest in rituals, eroticism, death, and the body as a site of political resistance. more

In February 2026, painter Giulia Andreani opens the exhibition programme marking the 30th anniversary of Hamburger Bahnhof, presenting paintings that expose fractures within official histories. more

With the exhibition Ruin and Rush, the Neue Nationalgalerie focuses on selected works from its collection of Classical Modernism that address the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s. more

The exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie is dedicated to the multifaceted work of Marc Brandenburg, who has been shaping the Berlin art scene for decades. more

Starting point of Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is the monumental work Truth, situated at the intersection of language, power, and control. more

With his Impressionist painting, Max Liebermann initiated the first avant-garde movement in Germany. more

The female photographers at the Bauhaus experimented with photographic and design techniques, exploring the limits of their medium. more

The exhibition Persistence of Vision brings together the work of Peter Hujar and Liz Deschenes, placing them in a cross-generational dialogue about photography. more

The exhibition “Kunstwerke” (Artworks) by Berlin-based artist Klara Lidén spans three floors of KW and brings together key works from the early 2000s to the present day, including performances, sculptures, spatial interventions, and video works. more

Humans became sedentary for the very first time around 12,000 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocene. more

C/O Berlin presents the first major retrospective of Graciela Iturbide in Berlin, offering a deep insight into the work of one of Mexico's most important photographers. more

Gianna Surangkanjanajai works primarily in sculpture, attending to situations in which form seems to surface from the conditions that surround it. more

The focus of Saâdane Afif’s exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof is his multi-piece work, The Fountain Archives, which was given to the Nationalgalerie in 2023 and is being presented to the public for the first time at Hamburger Bahnhof. more

Reiner Maria Matysik uses instruments from the natural sciences and the visual arts for his speculative biology of the future. more

Works on paper depicting the cosmopolitan city of Istanbul and its inhabitants are the focus of the exhibition. more

Petrit Halilaj will present his first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof. The focus is on the artist's first opera work, “Syrigana” more

For more than four decades, James Nachtwey documented conflicts, injustices, and the fragile efforts to preserve a shred of humanity amid these crises. more

Edith Tudor-Hart, née Suschitzky, was a key figure in social documentary photography between 1930 and 1955. more

In her work, Stephanie Comilang engages themes of labour, technology and postcolonial entanglement in the context of global mobility. more

“Iliggocene: The Age of Dizziness” at Kindl presents artists' positions that seek new vocabularies for these states of vertigo. more

Every year, UNICEF Germany holds the international “UNICEF Photo of the Year” competition to recognize images and reports by professional photojournalists that document the personalities and living conditions of children. more

Simon Faithfull's exhibition “Earth-ling” brings together videos, photographs, and sculptures in which a figure (or body) encounters the living fabric of a planet. more

The exhibition “Eine Enterbung” is the result of an artistic exploration, ongoing since 1994, by British painter and filmmaker Barbara Loftus into the earlier life of her mother, Hildegard. more

The exhibition focuses on the contemporary perspective, a kind of worldwide written art that centers on the global dialogue of today's artistic positions. more

The new permanent exhibition at the Museum of Photography will respond even more dynamically to the different aspects of Helmut and June Newton's photographic works. more

Due to the great public interest, the NeueNationalgalerie will once again present the site-specific fog sculpture byJapanese artist Fujiko Nakaya in its sculpture garden in 2026. more

“Regular Animals” marks a new phase in Beeple's work and expands his engagement with artificial intelligence and digital art into a fully immersive physical-digital environment. more

French fashion designer Madame Grès was considered one of the most important pioneers of haute couture in the 20th century. more

For the second edition of the Chanel Commission Lina Lapelytė will transform the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography. more