Exhibitions in Berlin

Berlinische GaleriePast

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 GaleriePast

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

Museum für FotografiePast

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

Kunstgewerbemuseum

Some 100 pewter works at Schloss Köpenick trace the material from sacred objects to everyday items, including furniture by cabinetmaker Johann Daniel Sommer combining tortoiseshell, horn and pewter.

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.

Neue Nationalgalerie

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

Neue NationalgaleriePast

A site-specific fog installation by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya fills the sculpture garden with ephemeral fog at regular intervals, blending with the sculptures and Mies van der Rohe's architecture.

Hamburger BahnhofPast

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

Hamburger BahnhofPast

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

Bode-MuseumPast

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

Deutsches TechnikmuseumPast

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.

Humboldt ForumPast

Watercolours by Indigenous Brazilian artist Feliciano Lana on encounters between Indigenous people and white settlers along the Rio Negro.

Bröhan-MuseumPast

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.

Humboldt Forum

Video installation on endangered languages and family, with community members documenting their languages, made with the Endangered Languages Archive.

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.

Humboldt Forum

Three large interventions by Māori artist George Nuku in two rooms of the Oceania galleries, made in polystyrene and Plexiglas during his Collaborative Museum fellowships.

Hamburger Bahnhof

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

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.

Neues Museum

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

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.

Topography of TerrorFree

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

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.

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.

Humboldt Forum

Over 10,000 Tanzanian objects from the Ethnologisches Museum shown alongside Tanzanian curators' and artists' perspectives on German and British colonial rule.

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

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

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.

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 ForumFree

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

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.

KulturforumFree

Free Kunstbibliothek presentation on the artistic community around Matthäikirchplatz a century ago, whose cultural life ended in 1933.