Exhibitions in Berlin

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

Achieving the highest degree of luminosity and harmony—this was the goal Paul Signac set himself when he introduced a new style of painting to the art world in the mid-1880s together with Georges Seurat. more

The exhibition features sculptures and site-specific installations at the Hamburger Bahnhof that explore social and cultural-political issues. more

The Kyiv Biennial in Berlin is a nomadic, international project that interweaves artistic, political, and social issues. more

C.B. Evans' artistic practice explores the structures of the digital world and their impact on our present. more

For over five decades, Gabriele Stötzer has been addressing issues such as justice, self-determination, and gender. 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

In 2026, the Alte Nationalgalerie is paying tribute to Paul Cassirer (1871-1926), one of the most important art dealers of his time. more

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

Queer cinema tells the stories, experiences and realities of life of queer people - usually outside of normative expectations and social orders. In doing so, it often questions cinematic conventions and develops its own resistant formal languages. The... 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

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

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

The portraits by photographer Anton Corbijn, who has been accompanying influential artists on the international music and culture scene for decades, are known worldwide. more

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

The exhibition “Rooms / Stages” dispenses with artistic documentation, instead shifting the context and focus from the performative act to the stage space itself. more

In celebration of Walter Schels’s ninetieth birthday, C/O Berlin and the F.C. Gundlach Foundation present the photographer’s first retrospective in Berlin. 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 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

Through his sculptures, installations, films, and interventions, Iván Argote consistently explores the relationships between people, power structures, and belief systems, and challenges prevailing historical narratives. more

The starting point is newly curated material drawn from Bjørn Melhus’s 35 years of artistic practice, which resonates with the present in an uncanny way: religious imagery meets pop-cultural visions of the apocalypse and technoid exit strategies. more

In 2026, students from the Institute of Architecture (IfA) will once again present their projects from the past year. The entire building will open its doors, and all of the projects will be accessible to anyone interested through the so-called “tour.” more

Unexpected juxtapositions play an important role in Surrealism – so much so that they can be described as a foundational principle: “As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table,” as Lautréamont so pithily... more

Today, we are more likely to encounter sculptures in photographs than in person. These images shape how we see, remember, and understand three-dimensional art. Photography Tells Sculpture explores this shift in perspective by placing sculptures and their... more