Exhibitions in Berlin

C/O Berlin

C/O Berlin Talent Award 2026 (Body Politics): Amin Yousefi's solo show combines photography, diagrammatic drawings and mapped gestures on how state control is enacted through the body.

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.

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.

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.

Fotografiska Berlin

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

Fotografiska Berlin

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

Humboldt Forum

Mirae kh Rhee asks how objects reached their places in collections and who collects and why, in a cabinet-of-curiosities project from a transnational feminist, decolonial view.

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.

Kunstgewerbemuseum

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

Alte Nationalgalerie

For the 150th anniversary, 20th- and 21st-century works from the Nationalgalerie collection are set beside 19th-century art on all three floors.

Brücke-Museum

Germany's first comprehensive survey of Swedish modernism: Sigrid Hjertén, Isaac Grünewald, Nils Dardel and the Göteborg Colourists, on loan from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

Bode-Museum

A musical intervention pairing historical and modern instruments with artworks that depict music, from late antique textiles and angel choirs to Canova's 'Dancer'.

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.

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.

Fotografiska Berlin

Roger Ballen's path from black-and-white photography to mixed media and Art Brut, with Polaroids, etchings, drawings and a new Drawing Man installation.

Gemäldegalerie

Around 80 portraits spanning five centuries, from rulers in full glory to intimate scenes of friendship and proud self-portraits, Botticelli to Lempicka.

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.

Kulturforum

Traces the word "bizarre" from the Renaissance to 21st-century imagery, with works from the Kunstbibliothek, Gemäldegalerie and Kupferstichkabinett.

Bröhan-Museum

Berlin's first monographic show on Cesar Klein, 150 years after his birth: Neue Secession co-founder, painter, and a leading stage and interior designer of the 1920s.

Humboldt Forum

Marks 120 years of the East Asian Art Collection with the fisherman motif in Chinese painting, a symbol of escape from a turbulent world.

Humboldt Forum

Netta Weiser's first sound exhibition in Berlin, in the Listening Space: 1930s wax cylinder recordings from Siwa, Egypt, by Brigitte Schiffer, reworked through a queer-diasporic lens.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Sophie Calle combines works made in Berlin with others that reference the museum's history as a railway station.

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.

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.

Deutsches Historisches Museum

A comparative exhibition on colonial and Nazi violence in the 20th century: racism, forced labour and concentration camps, and how the two regimes resemble and differ.

Museum für Fotografie

The Kunstbibliothek traces a material history of photography, from glass and paper to screens and AI, through the varied objects of its Photography Collection.

Neue Nationalgalerie

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

Neue Nationalgalerie

Ulay's early photography, S'he and FOTOTOT, and his 1976 theft of Spitzweg's The Poor Poet from this museum, plus his 1976–88 collaboration with Marina Abramović.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Non-representational art made under National Socialism by Willi Baumeister, Jeanne Mammen, Alexej von Jawlensky and others.

Museum für Fotografie

Over 200 photographs from Newton's three landmark books of 1976–81, with original maquettes and prints, marking 50 years of White Women.

Humboldt Forum

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

Hamburger Bahnhof

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

Hamburger Bahnhof

Group show in the Rieckhallen with Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson and Tomás Saraceno, on view until further notice.

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

Twenty artworks from Brazil, Colombia and Chile show water as a source of knowledge and spirituality and as a ground of environmental conflict, made with Indigenous and traditional communities.

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.

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.

KulturforumFree

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