Berlin in Pictures

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

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

At the Berlin Six-Day Race 2023, numerous fans once again cheered on the athletes on the track of the Velodrom during the various competitions.  more

Impressions of the photo rehearsal of "La Cage Aux Folles" (The Cage of Madwomen) at the Komische Oper.  more

The Green Week, the world's largest trade fair for food, agriculture and horticulture, takes place again in January 2023 after a break due to the coronavirus.  more

The US-American photographer Nan Goldin will receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize 2022 at a festive event on 3 March. On the occasion of the award ceremony, the Akademie der Künste shows photographs by Nan Goldin from five decades.  more

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's film "Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horror" premiered in 1922 in the Marble Hall of the Zoological Gardens in Berlin and has long since become part of popular culture.  more

For the first time since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, hundreds of people hugged each other in front of the Brandenburg Gate to wish each other a Happy New Year.  more

In the exhibition "Kyiv is the Unbreakable Heart of Europe" in the Red City Hall, Ukrainian photographers show the everyday lives of courageous people in Kyiv who have retained their confidence and dignity despite suffering and destruction.  more

New site-specific architectural installations, sculptural objects, performative and sound works as well as a selection of well-known works by Monica Bonvicini will be shown in the Neue Nationalgalerie as part of the exhibition "I Do You".  more

At "Christmas at the Tierpark 2022", visitors can get into the Christmas spirit on an illuminated circular walk with projections and millions of lights.  more