Exhibitions in Berlin
January 2027
January at a glance: 1 exhibition opening, 22 closing, and 32 more on view across the city.
Opening in January
Closing in January
Shilpa Gupta: What Still Holds3 JanHamburger Bahnhof
Works by Shilpa Gupta on language, borders and power, in direct dialogue with Joseph Beuys and the Marx Collection.
Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–19303 JanNeue Nationalgalerie
Around 35 collection works by Dix, Höch and others on Berlin between war, excess, poverty and emancipation in the 1910s and 1920s.
Destiny in the Stars: The Beginnings of the Zodiac10 JanNeues Museum
The history of the zodiac from Babylonia to Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, from star tablets to celestial ceilings.
The Opposite of Now10 JanJewish Museum Berlin
Twelve contemporary art projects, by Yael Bartana, William Forsythe, Alexander Kluge and others, imagine paths to a different present. Old Building, level 1.
Klaus Hack10 JanKäthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin
Wood sculpture, reliefs, woodcuts and drawings by Klaus Hack (b. 1966), whose carved figures sit between surreal creatures and structural forms.
Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726–1801. Images of the Enlightenment in Berlin10 JanGemäldegalerie
A cabinet show marking the 300th birthday of Chodowiecki, star of late-18th-century Berlin, with 20+ of his key works on the Enlightenment's social questions.
Founded on Antiquity: Berlin's First Museum10 JanAltes 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.
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KOO JEONG A: OUSSSEAN10 JanKW Institute for Contemporary Art
KOO JEONG A's first major solo show in Germany: multisensory environments of light, scent, sound and temperature, reconfigured for KW's architecture.
Rafik Greiss: The City and the City10 JanKW Institute for Contemporary Art
Rafik Greiss's first institutional solo show premieres a new film essay drifting through Cairo, Alexandria and the Western Desert on time, memory and history.
Susan Hiller: Bad Dreams10 JanKW Institute for Contemporary Art
The first Berlin survey of Susan Hiller, a pioneer of conceptual and video art, with hypnotic audiovisual installations probing fantasy, fear and the unconscious.
BPA// Exhibition 202610 JanKW Institute for Contemporary Art
New work by ten emerging artists from the BPA// Berlin program for artists, the mentoring scheme founded by Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny and Willem de Rooij.
CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours10 JanHamburger Bahnhof
Lina Lapelytė turns the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography.
Lauren Greenfield: Social Studies12 JanFotografiska Berlin
Lauren Greenfield's social experiment on growing up in the digital age: teenagers, selfies and the pressures of social media.
Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Power17 JanDeutsches 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.
Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 196017 JanGropius Bau
Around 130 works on labour migration, exile, housing, racism and solidarity in Kreuzberg since the 'guest worker' era, from rarely shown historical pieces to new commissions.
InterNationalgalerie 1: National Museum in Warsaw17 JanAlte Nationalgalerie
The National Museum in Warsaw opens a new guest series with “Inventing Myths”, showing Polish masters such as Malczewski and Matejko on the first floor.
Christoph Schlingensief: Es ist nicht mehr mein Problem, macht eure Scheiße alleine17 JanGropius Bau
Schlingensief's first comprehensive Berlin exhibition in over a decade, from political actions to radical stage productions and performance art, focused on questioning, doubt and failure.
Sofie Dawo. Textile Experiments17 JanKunstgewerbemuseum
22 textile works by Sofie Dawo (1926–2010), who reworked fabric by disrupting and damaging it, creating objects that sit between art and craft.
Stelios Kallinikou: Cliffs Among Dreams20 JanC/O Berlin
After Nature Prize 26: photographs, films and sculptural assemblages from Akrotiri, Cyprus, where rich ecosystems meet military infrastructure.
Susanne Kriemann: In the Sun's Fever Flutter Butterflies in the Stomach20 JanC/O Berlin
After Nature Prize 26: Berlin artist Susanne Kriemann traces the atomic age's remnants at former uranium mines, using autoradiography in her Pechblende (Fever) series.
Lovis Corinth. Then came Berlin!25 JanBerlinische Galerie
Major show on Lovis Corinth's rise in Berlin after 1900: his expressive painting, his women's painting school, his theatre work and his domestic circle.
The Holocaust – What Did the Germans Know?31 JanTopography of Terror · Free
Around 300 objects in three parts – propaganda, everyday clues and pieced-together knowledge – ask what ordinary Germans knew about the Holocaust.
Also on through January
Josef Kaiser. Building for the GDRto 1 FebBerlinische Galerie
Drawings, photographs, films and models on the GDR architect behind Karl-Marx-Allee's Kino International, with new works by three contemporary artists.
Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matterto 3 FebC/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.
Thomas Billhardt: Die Augen weit offento 7 FebFotografiska Berlin
Key series from 1959 to 1972 by the late Berlin photojournalist, from Alexanderplatz and FDJ events to Vietnam and Cuba.
Swedish Modernismto 28 FebBrücke-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.
Across Epochs: Gursky, Lucas, Miró, Warhol and the Art of the Long 19th Centuryto 28 FebAlte Nationalgalerie
For the 150th anniversary, 20th- and 21st-century works from the Nationalgalerie collection are set beside 19th-century art on all three floors.
2101 – Future Ceramics: Dining Culture of the Futureto 28 FebKunstgewerbemuseum
Berlin University of the Arts students imagine the tableware of 2101, shown alongside historical porcelain and faience from the museum's collection.
Maurizio Cattelan. NIGHT – Preis der Nationalgalerie 2026to 7 MarNeue 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.
Sound Bodies – Variations on a Theme of Artto 7 MarBode-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'.
Conservation in Dialogueto 8 MarHumboldt 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 MarNeues Museum
Artist Michael Müller reworks the myth of the twins Castor and Polydeuces in the staircase hall, a meditation on time and mortality.
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[ materialistin ]: Matter of Care, Care of Matterto 14 MarHamburger Bahnhof
Group exhibition by the artists' collective [ materialistin ], highlighting new forms of collective practice and solidarity.
Portraits! Surprising Encounters from Botticelli to Lempickato 14 MarGemäldegalerie
Around 80 portraits spanning five centuries, from rulers in full glory to intimate scenes of friendship and proud self-portraits, Botticelli to Lempicka.
Roger Ballen: roger ballen.! drawing meets photographyto 14 MarFotografiska 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.
Cesar Klein. Image Space Stageto 29 MarBröhan-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.
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society (1945–2000)to 4 AprNeue 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.
Sophie Calle: Is It Better?to 4 AprHamburger Bahnhof
Sophie Calle combines works made in Berlin with others that reference the museum's history as a railway station.
Jeewi Lee. Residual Memories. GASAG Art Prize 2026to 5 AprBerlinische Galerie
The GASAG Art Prize winner's first institutional solo show in Berlin: paintings, sculptures and installations built from sand and traces of time.
Controversial Kinship. Colonial and National Socialist Violenceto 11 AprDeutsches 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.
Photography Mattersto 18 AprMuseum 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.
Christoph Schlingensief. Deutschlandsuche ’99to 25 AprNeue Nationalgalerie
A room devoted to Christoph Schlingensief, centred on Deutschland versenken (1999), his action of 'sinking Germany' in New York.
Plate Collection: Spray-Decorated Ceramics from the Bröhan Museumto 9 MayBröhan-Museum
Weimar-era cake plates bright with stencilled spray decoration show how Art Deco, Bauhaus and Constructivism found their way onto the German coffee table.
Helmut Newton. White Women / Sleepless Nights / Big Nudesto 16 MayMuseum 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.
Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing timeto 20 JunHamburger Bahnhof
The first major European retrospective of Ryuichi Sakamoto: seven works in five large-scale installations, opening during Berlin Art Week.
SuperCity 3000. Our City of the Futureto 27 JunDeutsches 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.
ZUGvögel – Collection in Motionto 30 JunMuseum 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.
If I Were King or Queen…to 30 AugHumboldt 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.
Dara Tûyê – The Mulberry Treeto 30 AugHumboldt Forum
Feminist voices on war and gardens: art, photography and interviews on women's solidarity across borders and the healing power of community gardens.
The Crown of Kerch: Treasures from the Dawn of European Historyto 22 SeptNeues Museum
Migration-period gold and garnet jewellery from the Diergardt collection, on loan from Cologne, led by a noblewoman's diadem from Crimea.
On Water: WasserWissen in Berlinto 27 SeptHumboldt Forum · Free
Free show in the Humboldt Lab pairing Berlin University Alliance water research with artistic takes on water and the climate crisis.
Unsere Münzen! Gedenkprägungen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (2006–2026)to 17 OctBode-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.
Objects. History. Stories. Reviewing the Collectionto 31 OctDeutsches 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.
Intermezzo: Revisiting Helmut Newtonto 31 DecMuseum 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.
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