What's on in Berlin

Jewish Museum Berlin

Twelve contemporary art projects, by Yael Bartana, William Forsythe, Alexander Kluge and others, imagine paths to a different present. Old Building, level 1.

Berlinische Galerie

Film trilogy in the IBB Video Space on the water, desert and silicon behind chips and AI, from drought-hit Hsinchu, Taiwan, to Arizona's data-centre desert.

Gropius Bau

Around 130 works on labour migration, exile, housing, racism and solidarity in Kreuzberg since the 'guest worker' era, from rarely shown historical pieces to new commissions.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Cattelan's first major solo show in Germany, for the 2026 Preis der Nationalgalerie: Him, Novecento and new commissions in Mies's glass hall.

Hamburger Bahnhof

The first major European retrospective of Ryuichi Sakamoto: seven works in five large-scale installations, opening during Berlin Art Week.

Berlinische Galerie

The GASAG Art Prize winner's first institutional solo show in Berlin: paintings, sculptures and installations built from sand and traces of time.

C/O Berlin

After Nature Prize 26: photographs, films and sculptural assemblages from Akrotiri, Cyprus, where rich ecosystems meet military infrastructure.

C/O Berlin

After Nature Prize 26: Berlin artist Susanne Kriemann traces the atomic age's remnants at former uranium mines, using autoradiography in her Pechblende (Fever) series.

C/O Berlin

Four-decade retrospective of Carrie Mae Weems: over 100 photographs and videos, from the Kitchen Table Series and Family Pictures and Stories to her new Preach series.

Gemäldegalerie

A cabinet show marking the 300th birthday of Chodowiecki, star of late-18th-century Berlin, with 20+ of his key works on the Enlightenment's social questions.

Fotografiska Berlin

Lauren Greenfield's social experiment on growing up in the digital age: teenagers, selfies and the pressures of social media.

Gemäldegalerie

Works by the American-born artist Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022), who lived in Berlin, shown in dialogue with pieces by Alejandra Pombo Su (born 1979).

KW Institute for Contemporary Art

The nomadic Kyiv Biennial's Berlin chapter fills the whole building, linking post-Soviet Europe, Central and Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean in art, sound and talks.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Giulia Andreani's first institutional solo show in Germany reframes historical collections from a contemporary perspective.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Saâdane Afif's Fountain Archives, gifted to the Nationalgalerie in 2023, shown alongside other works by the artist.

Berlinische Galerie

Vedova's monumental walk-around 'plurimi': hinged, double-sided painted wooden panels made in divided West Berlin in 1964 and shown at documenta III.

Berlinische Galerie

Major retrospective of the Berlin graphic artist: about 150 photo-based pencil drawings, videos, tattoo editions and photographs on the contrasts of urban life.

Bode-Museum

The 1478 attack on Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici in Florence Cathedral, told through medals, sculpted portraits and Botticelli's posthumous portrait of Giuliano.

Fotografiska Berlin

Nearly 150 works from Anton Corbijn's 50-year career, from grainy black-and-white portraits of Depeche Mode, U2 and Tom Waits to Nina Hagen and Wim Wenders.

Deutsches Technikmuseum

An intervention across the museum: yellow canisters and new labels recast steam engines and other exhibits by their carbon footprint, tracing 200 years of burning coal, oil and gas.

Alte Nationalgalerie

Over 100 works honouring dealer Paul Cassirer, who brought Degas, Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh to German audiences around 1900.

Museum für Fotografie

Some 300 photographs from the Bauhaus-Archiv celebrate the women photographers of the Bauhaus and Chicago's New Bauhaus, from portraits to abstract experiments.

Bode-Museum

Sculptures from the collection shown beside historical photographic reproductions from the museum's archive, asking how photographs shape the way we see and remember 3D art.

Bode-Museum

Jérémie Queyras's official portrait of Angela Merkel, Chancellor for 16 years, on public display for the first time before it joins the Chancellery's gallery.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Glenn Ligon's 2012 neon Double America, the word AMERICA doubled by a reversed shadow, questioning a single American narrative.

Kunstgewerbemuseum

Around 150 pieces on haute-couture pioneer Madame Grès, including the museum's 25 Grès garments, one of the largest holdings outside Paris, shown with sculpture and student designs.

Bröhan-Museum

Artist and designer Linde Burkhardt (b. 1937): paintings, carpets, ceramics and her metal-and-ceramic objects for Alessi. Most works then pass to the museum as a gift.

Fotografiska Berlin

Emerging artist Carola Lampe mixes street photography, staged scenes and AI-generated images until you can't tell photographed reality from machine fiction.

Brücke-Museum

Beloved and rarely shown Brücke works celebrating nature, from the collection, with new responses by Lizza May David, Alina Schmuch and atelier le balto.

Bröhan-Museum

Posters, books, graphic works and paper installations from more than 25 years of practice by graphic designer Jumping He. Free public tours on Sundays at 15:00.

Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin

About 40 paintings and drawings by Ida Gerhardi (1862–1927), mostly from her Paris years around 1905: expressive dance-hall scenes and self-portraits. Her first Berlin show in 25 years.

Fotografiska Berlin

Lee Shulman turns forgotten amateur slides from his archive of around a million into an immersive domestic landscape of anonymous family life.

DDR Museum

What became of the GDR's flags, emblems and medals after 1990: dumped in containers, sold at flea markets, and still shaping how Germany remembers.

Alte Nationalgalerie

The painter, writer and traveller whose 1887 painting Mors Imperator, rejected by the Berlin Academy of Arts, made her famous overnight.

Museum für Fotografie

Helmut Newton Foundation group show on space as stage: a dozen artists' rooms, sets and deserted interiors beside Newton's hotel-suite fashion shoots and murals.

Museum für Fotografie

A unique album Newton assembled in 1999 for collector Gert Elfering, shown in Berlin for the first time: hand-annotated small prints, Polaroids and outtakes.

Jewish Museum Berlin · Free

For the building's 25th anniversary, drawings and models trace how Libeskind's 1989 competition design became one of the most influential museum buildings. Free.

Museum für Naturkunde

Original fossils from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous, from early Plateosaurus to the superbly preserved T. rex Tristan Otto, with an Allosaurus skull.

Gropius Bau

The largest institutional solo show yet of East German artist Gabriele Stötzer: about 150 works in painting, photography, textile, Super 8 film and performance on justice, gender and resistance.

Neues Museum

In the Mythological Hall, a centenary show on the Egyptian Dictionary, begun in this building in 1897 from over a million hand-copied index cards.

Deutsches Technikmuseum · Free

Free, hands-on space by the MobilitätDigital initiative in Hall 6 of the Ladestraße: VR accident replays, AI avatars and an image-recognition challenge on data and AI in mobility.

Fotografiska Berlin

Computer-generated forms drift and collide on the museum's LED façade. Best seen after dark from the street opposite the entrance.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Works by Shilpa Gupta on language, borders and power, in direct dialogue with Joseph Beuys and the Marx Collection.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Around 35 collection works by Dix, Höch and others on Berlin between war, excess, poverty and emancipation in the 1910s and 1920s.

Neues Museum

The history of the zodiac from Babylonia to Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, from star tablets to celestial ceilings.

Altes Museum

The upper-floor show revisits the museum's 1830 beginnings, reuniting antiquities from its first display around a large model of Schinkel's original building.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Lina Lapelytė turns the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography.

Deutsches Historisches Museum

Eight centuries of how Germans defined and politicised 'nature', from medieval faith through Nazi ideas of natural law to 20th-century environmental and anti-nuclear movements.

Alte Nationalgalerie

The National Museum in Warsaw opens a new guest series with “Inventing Myths”, showing Polish masters such as Malczewski and Matejko on the first floor.

Kunstgewerbemuseum

22 textile works by Sofie Dawo (1926–2010), who reworked fabric by disrupting and damaging it, creating objects that sit between art and craft.

Topography of Terror · Free

Around 300 objects in three parts – propaganda, everyday clues and pieced-together knowledge – ask what ordinary Germans knew about the Holocaust.

Berlinische Galerie

Drawings, photographs, films and models on the GDR architect behind Karl-Marx-Allee's Kino International, with new works by three contemporary artists.

Fotografiska Berlin

Key series from 1959 to 1972 by the late Berlin photojournalist, from Alexanderplatz and FDJ events to Vietnam and Cuba.

Kunstgewerbemuseum

Berlin University of the Arts students imagine the tableware of 2101, shown alongside historical porcelain and faience from the museum's collection.

Humboldt Forum

A look at the hidden work of museum conservators, through restored objects such as Canadian crest poles, a Qing lacquer cabinet and a Mongolian shrine.

Neues Museum

Artist Michael Müller reworks the myth of the twins Castor and Polydeuces in the staircase hall, a meditation on time and mortality.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Group exhibition by the artists' collective [ materialistin ], highlighting new forms of collective practice and solidarity.

Neue Nationalgalerie

The Nationalgalerie's post-war collection from East and West, 1945–2000, including Barnett Newman's Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV.

Neue Nationalgalerie

A room devoted to Christoph Schlingensief, centred on Deutschland versenken (1999), his action of 'sinking Germany' in New York.

Bröhan-Museum

Weimar-era cake plates bright with stencilled spray decoration show how Art Deco, Bauhaus and Constructivism found their way onto the German coffee table.

Deutsches Technikmuseum

An exhibition by children for children: models built by 60 young 'future curators' from four Berlin schools imagine a liveable city of tomorrow, with hands-on stations in the Ladestraße.

Museum für Naturkunde

Around 11,500 historic mounted birds, moved out of the Historic Bird Hall during its restoration, tell stories of bird diversity, war, research and conservation.

Humboldt Forum

Young Visions from Neukölln: eleven young people on today's injustices and a fairer future. Visitors can take a seat on the throne. In BERLIN GLOBAL.

Humboldt Forum

Feminist voices on war and gardens: art, photography and interviews on women's solidarity across borders and the healing power of community gardens.

Neues Museum

Migration-period gold and garnet jewellery from the Diergardt collection, on loan from Cologne, led by a noblewoman's diadem from Crimea.

Humboldt Forum · Free

Free show in the Humboldt Lab pairing Berlin University Alliance water research with artistic takes on water and the climate crisis.

Deutsches Historisches Museum

Around 200 objects from the DHM's million-piece collection, some never shown before, exploring provenance, 150 years of collecting and how places have shaped history.

Museum für Fotografie

An immersive four-screen film on Helmut Newton with unseen footage and interviews, plus a wall of nearly 100 exhibition posters, before a new permanent display in 2027.