Exhibitions in Berlin

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.

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.

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.

Kulturforum

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

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.

Gemäldegalerie

Around 80 portraits spanning five centuries, from rulers in full glory to intimate scenes of friendship and proud self-portraits, Botticelli to Lempicka.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Berlinische Galerie

A video programme by Creamcake exploring how the real and the invented bleed into each other, with work from four artists on power, identity and institutional critique.

Museum für FotografiePast

Some 300 photographs from the Bauhaus-Archiv celebrate the women photographers of the Bauhaus and Chicago's New Bauhaus, from portraits to abstract experiments.

Bode-MuseumPast

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.

Humboldt ForumPast

Watercolours by Indigenous Brazilian artist Feliciano Lana on encounters between Indigenous people and white settlers along the Rio Negro.

Neue NationalgaleriePast

Glenn Ligon's 2012 neon Double America, the word AMERICA doubled by a reversed shadow, questioning a single American narrative.

KunstgewerbemuseumPast

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.

Bröhan-MuseumPast

Weimar-era cake plates bright with stencilled spray decoration show how Art Deco, Bauhaus and Constructivism found their way onto the German coffee table.

Bröhan-MuseumPast

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.

Neue NationalgaleriePast

A site-specific fog installation by Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya fills the sculpture garden with ephemeral fog at regular intervals, blending with the sculptures and Mies van der Rohe's architecture.

Brücke-MuseumPast

Beloved and rarely shown Brücke works celebrating nature, from the collection, with new responses by Lizza May David, Alina Schmuch and atelier le balto.

Berlinische GaleriePast

Film trilogy in the IBB Video Space on the water, desert and silicon behind chips and AI, from drought-hit Hsinchu, Taiwan, to Arizona's data-centre desert.

Fotografiska Berlin

Emerging artist Carola Lampe mixes street photography, staged scenes and AI-generated images until you can't tell photographed reality from machine fiction.

Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin

About 40 paintings and drawings by Ida Gerhardi (1862–1927), mostly from her Paris years around 1905: expressive dance-hall scenes and self-portraits. Her first Berlin show in 25 years.

Fotografiska Berlin

Lee Shulman turns forgotten amateur slides from his archive of around a million into an immersive domestic landscape of anonymous family life.

Humboldt Forum

Video installation on endangered languages and family, with community members documenting their languages, made with the Endangered Languages Archive.

Museum 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.

DDR 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.

Museum 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.

Alte Nationalgalerie

The painter, writer and traveller whose 1887 painting Mors Imperator, rejected by the Berlin Academy of Arts, made her famous overnight.

Jewish Museum BerlinFree

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.

Humboldt Forum

Three large interventions by Māori artist George Nuku in two rooms of the Oceania galleries, made in polystyrene and Plexiglas during his Collaborative Museum fellowships.

Gropius 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.

Humboldt Forum

Marks 100 years of the Society for East Asian Art with museum holdings and loans, including an 18th-century Japanese Buddhist painting.

Deutsches TechnikmuseumFree

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.

Neues 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.

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.

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.

Hamburger Bahnhof

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

Fotografiska Berlin

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Neue Nationalgalerie

A room devoted to Christoph Schlingensief, centred on Deutschland versenken (1999), his action of 'sinking Germany' in New York.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.