Exhibitions in Berlin

December 2027

December at a glance: 0 exhibitions opening, 1 closing, and 4 more on view across the city.

Exhibition view of Intermezzo with the wall of Helmut Newton exhibition posters

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11 album covers in varying sizes

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Catherine Opie's Dyke beside Hans Holbein the Younger's Hermann Hillebrandt de Wedigh

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View from the Landwehrkanal into Matthäikirchstraße, 1930s

Closing in December

Intermezzo: Revisiting Helmut Newton31 Dec 2027
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.

Also on through December

Schlagerto 23 Apr 2028
Jewish Museum Berlin
Album covers and stories of Jewish figures in the Schlager music scene, tracing the genre from the Weimar Republic through divided Germany.
Art, Seen: Contemporary Photography and the Old Mastersto 23 Apr 2028
Gemäldegalerie
Around 90 photographic works by artists including Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall shown in dialogue with the Gemäldegalerie's Old Master paintings.
Ai Weiwei at the Bode-Museumto 4 Jun 2028
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.
Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten Districtto 31 Dec 2028
KulturforumFree
Free Kunstbibliothek presentation on the artistic community around Matthäikirchplatz a century ago, whose cultural life ended in 1933.

Image credits

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Intermezzo: Revisiting Helmut Newton© Newton Foundation / Photo: Gerhard Kassner
SchlagerJewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
Art, Seen: Contemporary Photography and the Old Masters© Catherine Opie, Courtesy of Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York, Hong Kong, London and Seoul; Thomas Dane Gallery / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie / Jörg P. Anders
Time Travel in the Old Tiergarten District© Bildarchiv Foto Marburg

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