Exhibitions in Berlin
August 2025
August 2025 at a glance: 0 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 14 more were on view across the city.
Was on view in August
Gearing Up! More Cycling in the Cityto 4 JanDeutsches TechnikmuseumPast
500 square metres on urban cycling in the Ladestraße, from mountain bikes to e-bikes, tracing the shifting balance between cars, bikes and pedestrians on city streets.
The City Aliveto 27 JanDeutsches TechnikmuseumPast
A photographic game of encounters: 70 images by Berlin's Cadavre Exquis collective, launching the museum's "City of the Future" focus for European Month of Photography Berlin.
Feliciano Lana: The Story of White Peopleto 5 OctHumboldt ForumPast
Watercolours by Indigenous Brazilian artist Feliciano Lana on encounters between Indigenous people and white settlers along the Rio Negro.
- Manatunga: Artistic Interventions by George Nukuto 30 Nov
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.
Founded on Antiquity: Berlin's First Museumto 10 Jan 2027Altes 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.
Conservation in Dialogueto 8 Mar 2027Humboldt 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.
Dioscuri – The Given Dayto 14 Mar 2027Neues Museum
Artist Michael Müller reworks the myth of the twins Castor and Polydeuces in the staircase hall, a meditation on time and mortality.
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society (1945–2000)to 4 Apr 2027Neue 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.
Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99to 25 Apr 2027Neue Nationalgalerie
A room devoted to Christoph Schlingensief, centred on Deutschland versenken (1999), his action of 'sinking Germany' in New York.
Histories of Tanzaniato 7 Jun 2027Humboldt Forum
Over 10,000 Tanzanian objects from the Ethnologisches Museum shown alongside Tanzanian curators' and artists' perspectives on German and British colonial rule.
ZUGvögel – Collection in Motionto 30 Jun 2027Museum 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.
The Crown of Kerch: Treasures from the Dawn of European Historyto 22 Sept 2027Neues Museum
Migration-period gold and garnet jewellery from the Diergardt collection, on loan from Cologne, led by a noblewoman's diadem from Crimea.
DINOSAURS! – Age of the Giant Lizardsto 30 Nov 2027Museum 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.
Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten Districtto 31 Dec 2028KulturforumFree
Free Kunstbibliothek presentation on the artistic community around Matthäikirchplatz a century ago, whose cultural life ended in 1933.
Image credits
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- Gearing Up! More Cycling in the CityCourtesy of Deutsches Technikmuseum
- The City AliveCourtesy of Deutsches Technikmuseum
- Feliciano Lana: The Story of White People© SHF / Feliciano Lana / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / digital Reproduktion: Thiago da Costa Oliveira & Claudio Aparecido Tavares
- Founded on Antiquity: Berlin's First MuseumPhoto: Johannes Laurentius
- Conservation in DialogueStiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum, Foto: Christoph Schmidt / Gemäldegalerie
- Dioscuri – The Given Day© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung / Rendering: Studio Michael Müller
- Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society (1945–2000)Photo credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Roman März © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023
- Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99Courtesy Filmgalerie 451, Estate Christoph Schlingensief, Berlin
- Histories of Tanzania© Stiftung Humboldtforum im Berliner Schloss / Studio Gründer Kirfel, Foto: Michael Degener
- ZUGvögel – Collection in MotionCourtesy of Museum für Naturkunde
- The Crown of Kerch: Treasures from the Dawn of European History© Römisch-Germanisches Museum/Rheinisches Bildarchiv Cologne
- DINOSAURS! – Age of the Giant LizardsPhoto: Verena Brüning
- Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg
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