Exhibitions in Berlin

Alte Nationalgalerie

Around 150 works for Arnold Böcklin's 200th birthday, bringing together several versions of The Isle of the Dead. With Kunstmuseum Basel.

Berlinische Galerie

First major German exhibition of the Norwegian artist: some 40 paintings and prints, 1930–1970, from satirical drawings to metal-leaf abstract landscapes.

Berlinische Galerie

About 160 photographs of the queer, club and art scenes of 1970s–80s West Berlin and New York, from Klaus Nomi to Divine, by the little-known Rolf von Bergmann.

Jewish Museum BerlinFree

Fruit and vegetable sculptures by the classically trained sculptor Henry Rox, known today through photographs after he emigrated from Berlin to England in 1934. Free, Libeskind Building.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Berlin's first solo show of Katharina Sieverding's complete oeuvre across nearly six decades, with monumental photomontages on German history, identity and global politics in the glass hall.

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.

Kulturforum

Retrospective of Jonathan Meese's artist's books, from school notebooks to large collage books, in a room-filling installation by the artist.

Gemäldegalerie

For Gainsborough's 300th birthday, some 50 works from Berlin's British collection and international loans, focused on the poetic bond between portrait and nature.

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.

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.

Bode-Museum

The Münzkabinett shows 20 years of German commemorative coins across 200+ themes and asks who decides what our money looks like. Page in German only.

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.

Humboldt Forum

A film and research project by Deepak Tolange on the copper-gilded Chaturmukh Shiva Linga kosh in Berlin's Asian art collection and the loss of Nepal's cultural assets.

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.

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.

Bode-Museum

Ai Weiwei's existing and new works, plus pieces from his own collection, set in dialogue with 2,000+ years of art in the Bode-Museum's galleries, on exile, belonging and memory.

KulturforumFree

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