Exhibitions in Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie

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

Hamburger Bahnhof

Works by Shilpa Gupta on language, borders and power, in direct dialogue with Joseph Beuys and the Marx Collection.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Around 35 collection works by Dix, Höch and others on Berlin between war, excess, poverty and emancipation in the 1910s and 1920s.

Bode-Museum

Jérémie Queyras's official portrait of Angela Merkel, Chancellor for 16 years, on public display for the first time before it joins the Chancellery's gallery.

Jewish 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.

Altes 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.

Neues Museum

The history of the zodiac from Babylonia to Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, from star tablets to celestial ceilings.

KW 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.

Gemäldegalerie

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.

Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin

Wood sculpture, reliefs, woodcuts and drawings by Klaus Hack (b. 1966), whose carved figures sit between surreal creatures and structural forms. Public opening Sunday 15 November 2026.

KW 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.

Hamburger Bahnhof

Lina Lapelytė turns the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography.

KW 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.

KW 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.

Fotografiska Berlin

Lauren Greenfield's social experiment on growing up in the digital age: teenagers, selfies and the pressures of social media.

Fotografiska Berlin

Miji Ih's largest solo show: photography, archive material, sound and video on "comfort women" and the lives of women around US military bases in Japan, South Korea and Germany.

Gropius 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.

Gropius 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.

Kunstgewerbemuseum

22 textile works by Sofie Dawo (1926–2010), who reworked fabric by disrupting and damaging it, creating objects that sit between art and craft.

Deutsches 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.

Alte 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.

C/O Berlin

After Nature Prize 26: photographs, films and sculptural assemblages from Akrotiri, Cyprus, where rich ecosystems meet military infrastructure.

C/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.

Berlinische 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.

Kulturforum

More than 100 Flemish drawings from 1570 to 1650 by 28 artists, many shown for the first time in fifty years.

Topography of TerrorFree

Around 300 objects in three parts – propaganda, everyday clues and pieced-together knowledge – ask what ordinary Germans knew about the Holocaust.

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.

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.