Exhibitions in Berlin
July 2026
July 2026 at a glance: 8 exhibitions opened, 0 closed, and 44 more were on view across the city.
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Opened in July
The Portrait of the German Chancellor: First Unveiling of the Official Portrait of Former Chancellor Angela Merkel1 JulBode-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.
Digital Sovereignty Experience Space1 JulDeutsches Technikmuseum · Free
Free, hands-on space by the MobilitätDigital initiative in Hall 6 of the Ladestraße: VR accident replays, AI avatars and an image-recognition challenge on data and AI in mobility.
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[ materialistin ]: Matter of Care, Care of Matter3 JulHamburger Bahnhof
Group exhibition by the artists' collective [ materialistin ], highlighting new forms of collective practice and solidarity.
Glenn Ligon: Double America4 JulNeue Nationalgalerie
Glenn Ligon's 2012 neon Double America, the word AMERICA doubled by a reversed shadow, questioning a single American narrative.
Nature... In the Museum5 JulBrücke-Museum
Beloved and rarely shown Brücke works celebrating nature, from the collection, with new responses by Lizza May David, Alina Schmuch and atelier le balto.
2101 – Future Ceramics: Dining Culture of the Future9 JulKunstgewerbemuseum
Berlin University of the Arts students imagine the tableware of 2101, shown alongside historical porcelain and faience from the museum's collection.
Photography Tells Sculpture16 JulBode-Museum
Sculptures from the collection shown beside historical photographic reproductions from the museum's archive, asking how photographs shape the way we see and remember 3D art.
Sofie Dawo. Textile Experiments17 JulKunstgewerbemuseum
22 textile works by Sofie Dawo (1926–2010), who reworked fabric by disrupting and damaging it, creating objects that sit between art and craft.
Was on view in July
Dorothy Iannone: The Berlin Beauties. In Dialogue with Alejandra Pombo Suto 13 SeptGemäldegalerie
Works by the American-born artist Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022), who lived in Berlin, shown in dialogue with pieces by Alejandra Pombo Su (born 1979).
Kyiv Biennial: A Bird That Cannot Landto 13 SeptKW Institute for Contemporary Art
The nomadic Kyiv Biennial's Berlin chapter fills the whole building, linking post-Soviet Europe, Central and Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean in art, sound and talks.
Giulia Andreani: Sabotageto 13 SeptHamburger Bahnhof
Giulia Andreani's first institutional solo show in Germany reframes historical collections from a contemporary perspective.
Saâdane Afif: Five Preludesto 13 SeptHamburger Bahnhof
Saâdane Afif's Fountain Archives, gifted to the Nationalgalerie in 2023, shown alongside other works by the artist.
Emilio Vedova. Absurd Berlin Diary ’64to 14 SeptBerlinische Galerie
Vedova's monumental walk-around 'plurimi': hinged, double-sided painted wooden panels made in divided West Berlin in 1964 and shown at documenta III.
Marc Brandenburg. 20th Century Debristo 14 SeptBerlinische Galerie
Major retrospective of the Berlin graphic artist: about 150 photo-based pencil drawings, videos, tattoo editions and photographs on the contrasts of urban life.
The Pazzi Conspiracy: Power, Violence and Art in Renaissance-Era Florenceto 20 SeptBode-Museum
The 1478 attack on Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici in Florence Cathedral, told through medals, sculpted portraits and Botticelli's posthumous portrait of Giuliano.
Anton Corbijn: Corbijn, Antonto 20 SeptFotografiska Berlin
Nearly 150 works from Anton Corbijn's 50-year career, from grainy black-and-white portraits of Depeche Mode, U2 and Tom Waits to Nina Hagen and Wim Wenders.
Carbon Culture. Museum of the Fossil Fuel Ageto 27 SeptDeutsches Technikmuseum
An intervention across the museum: yellow canisters and new labels recast steam engines and other exhibits by their carbon footprint, tracing 200 years of burning coal, oil and gas.
Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionismto 27 SeptAlte Nationalgalerie
Over 100 works honouring dealer Paul Cassirer, who brought Degas, Cézanne, Manet, Monet, Renoir and Van Gogh to German audiences around 1900.
New Woman, New Vision: Women Photographers of the Bauhausto 4 OctMuseum für Fotografie
Some 300 photographs from the Bauhaus-Archiv celebrate the women photographers of the Bauhaus and Chicago's New Bauhaus, from portraits to abstract experiments.
Many Shades of Grès: Fashion Becomes Artto 11 OctKunstgewerbemuseum
Around 150 pieces on haute-couture pioneer Madame Grès, including the museum's 25 Grès garments, one of the largest holdings outside Paris, shown with sculpture and student designs.
“I am not a ceramist.” Linde Burkhardtto 18 OctBröhan-Museum
Artist and designer Linde Burkhardt (b. 1937): paintings, carpets, ceramics and her metal-and-ceramic objects for Alessi. Most works then pass to the museum as a gift.
Paperwork – Jumping He. Blackbox #18to 1 NovBröhan-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.
The Anonymous Project by Lee Shulman: No Place Like Hometo 1 NovFotografiska Berlin
Lee Shulman turns forgotten amateur slides from his archive of around a million into an immersive domestic landscape of anonymous family life.
A Country in a Container – The Disposal of East German State Symbolsto 15 NovDDR Museum
What became of the GDR's flags, emblems and medals after 1990: dumped in containers, sold at flea markets, and still shaping how Germany remembers.
Scandal! Hermione von Preuschen and the “Mors Imperator”to 15 NovAlte Nationalgalerie
The painter, writer and traveller whose 1887 painting Mors Imperator, rejected by the Berlin Academy of Arts, made her famous overnight.
Rooms / Stagesto 15 NovMuseum für Fotografie
Helmut Newton Foundation group show on space as stage: a dozen artists' rooms, sets and deserted interiors beside Newton's hotel-suite fashion shoots and murals.
Helmut Newton's One-off Albumto 15 NovMuseum für Fotografie
A unique album Newton assembled in 1999 for collector Gert Elfering, shown in Berlin for the first time: hand-annotated small prints, Polaroids and outtakes.
Between the Lines: Daniel Libeskind and the Jewish Museum Berlinto 22 NovJewish Museum Berlin · Free
For the building's 25th anniversary, drawings and models trace how Libeskind's 1989 competition design became one of the most influential museum buildings. Free.
DINOSAURS! – Age of the Giant Lizardsto 30 NovMuseum 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.
Gabriele Stötzer: Dabei sein und nicht schweigento 6 DecGropius Bau
The largest institutional solo show yet of East German artist Gabriele Stötzer: about 150 works in painting, photography, textile, Super 8 film and performance on justice, gender and resistance.
100 Years of the Dictionary of the Egyptian Languageto 31 DecNeues Museum
In the Mythological Hall, a centenary show on the Egyptian Dictionary, begun in this building in 1897 from over a million hand-copied index cards.
Shilpa Gupta: What Still Holdsto 3 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 1910–1930to 3 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 Zodiacto 10 JanNeues Museum
The history of the zodiac from Babylonia to Egypt and the Greco-Roman world, from star tablets to celestial ceilings.
Founded on Antiquity: Berlin's First Museumto 10 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.
CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hoursto 10 JanHamburger Bahnhof
Lina Lapelytė turns the Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography.
Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – Powerto 17 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.
InterNationalgalerie 1: National Museum in Warsawto 17 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.
The Holocaust – What Did the Germans Know?to 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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