Exhibitions in Berlin

Jewish Museum BerlinFree

Fruit and vegetable sculptures by the classically trained sculptor Henry Rox, known today through photographs after he emigrated from Berlin to England in 1934. Free, Libeskind Building.

Brücke-Museum

Around 40 of the 130 women whose work the Nazis confiscated as 'degenerate', among them Käthe Kollwitz, Paula Modersohn-Becker and Lotte Laserstein, 90 years after the 1937 campaign.

Alte Nationalgalerie

Around 150 works for Arnold Böcklin's 200th birthday, bringing together several versions of The Isle of the Dead. With Kunstmuseum Basel.

Berlinische Galerie

First major German exhibition of the Norwegian artist: some 40 paintings and prints, 1930–1970, from satirical drawings to metal-leaf abstract landscapes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.