Exhibitions in Berlin

Bode-Museum

Ai Weiwei's existing and new works, plus pieces from his own collection, set in dialogue with 2,000+ years of art in the Bode-Museum's galleries, on exile, belonging and memory.

Gemäldegalerie

For Gainsborough's 300th birthday, some 50 works from Berlin's British collection and international loans, focused on the poetic bond between portrait and nature.

Kulturforum

Retrospective of Jonathan Meese's artist's books, from school notebooks to large collage books, in a room-filling installation by the artist.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Berlin's first solo show of Katharina Sieverding's complete oeuvre across nearly six decades, with monumental photomontages on German history, identity and global politics in the glass hall.

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.