The thematic exhibition ›Image Ecology‹ presents twelve new artistic approaches that go beyond pictorial representations of the climate crisis while critically reflecting on their own conditions of production.

Our writer Sophie Jung looks at four of the twelve special projects presented as part of the new ›Featured‹ section within the 12th edition of Berlin Art Week. An exploration of disparate venues, each with a unique perspective on contemporary art

Sounds, notes, and music sit at the heart of Annika Kahrs’s practice. A new work by the artist will be on view at Schering Stiftung to coincide with Berlin Art Week.

Sound art as practice of collective listening plays an expanding role in contemporary art. This is also evident at this year’s Berlin Art Week. Sound artist Jessica Ekomane on aspects of intimacy, the incomplete historiography of sound and noise, and the beauty of multiplicity in listening.

The art world, too, is grappling with advancements in Artificial Intelligence, as evidenced by the numerous events during Berlin Art Week dedicated to the topic. Our writer, Anika Meier, takes a moment to look back at the history of technological innovations in the art world, which has consistently been marked by one prevailing reaction above all: rejection.

A talk with artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed on her text-based work, the importance of meaningful relationships, Gertrude Stein and cultures of play and leisure

A stroll at Schlachtensee with Lisa Marei Schmidt (Brücke-Museum), Anna Gritz (Haus am Waldsee), and Kathleen Reinhardt (Georg Kolbe Museum)—exploring contemporary perspectives on a difficult legacy, the potential in the histories of their institutions, and the garden as a place where everyone gets together

Artist Rachel Rossin speaks about her new project ›The Maw Of‹ that will be on view during Berlin Art Week at Tieranatomisches Theater.

For almost 20 years now, the Berlin-based NGO Tactical Tech aims to help people around the world to critically reflect on digital technologies and teaches them how to use technology wisely and responsibly. For Berlin Art Week, the award-winning organization teams up with HAU Hebbel am Ufer to create an outdoor exhibition that is supposed to tackle the various crises of today—and how we might use technology to solve them. We spoke with Marek Tuszynski, one of Tactical Tech’s co-founders and a co-curator of the exhibition.

Haus am Waldsee has a new director: Anna Gritz. The first exhibition under her aegis will open during Berlin Art Week. We spoke to Gritz in the run-up to the show—about her programme, about the building and its garden, and about (various) questions of perspective.

Grotesquely twisted bodies, ergonomic seating, sleek building façades—Anna Uddenberg’s sculptures and performances explore the very real corporeal conditioning that is capitalism and its underlying power mechanisms. Uddenberg’s first institutional solo show in Berlin opens at Schinkel Pavillon during Berlin Art Week.

Artist Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg answers our questionnaire: on tired horses, chubby seals, diving and resurfacing

Gallerist Thomas Fischer answers our questionnaire: from the former GSW headquarters to Mulackritze and on to the Brandenburg countryside with the bike

LuYang answers our questionnaire: on Buddha, vultures and Kentucky Fried Chicken

The Berlin Art Prize team—Leonie Huber, Sophie Jung, Zoë Claire Miller, and Alicia Reuter—answer our questionnaire.

Artist and composer Ayumi Paul answers our questionnaire: on dragon-serpents, hummingbirds and an archive of all water on earth

We asked some of the protagonists of Berlin’s art scene for their take on the current—and future—state of contemporary art in the city.

This year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin establishes a second annual programme in autumn. Titled *Discoveries, it looks mostly—but not only—at the latest emerging art.

What is generally referred to as Berlin’s cultural policy is in reality a complex thicket of fragmented responsibilities, diverging interests, and diverse stakeholders. An essay by authors Hans-Jürgen Hafner and Kito Nedo offers insight into the sometimes complicated situation and its resultant problems.

Fluentum guest curator Dennis Brzek and Junia Thiede, Head of Exhibitions and Programmes, answer our questionnaire together.

Artist Alicja Kwade answers our questionnaire: »Not being sad about not having to constantly smooch people.«

Gallerist Alexander Levy on coffee in the morning

Performance artist caner teker answers our questionnaire. »Translating, Transforming, Transfiguring . . .«

Artist D’Ette Nogle answers our questionnaire. Four and a bonus.

Artist Henrike Naumann answers our questionnaire. On Commitment, Power Dressing, and ›Möbilisierung‹

Artist Tatjana Doll on puddles, presence, and high-end speakers

Tomas Schmit was a key figure in the Fluxus movement of the early 1960s. Work by the artist, who died in 2006, is the subject of a comprehensive retrospective at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and Kupferstichkabinett, on view throughout Berlin Art Week. We present a preview selection of Schmit’s drawings.

KW Institute for Contemporary Art turns 30 this year. Jenny Dirksen, who has been organising the archive of this influential post-1989 Berlin art institution since 2018, presents and comments on a specially compiled assortment of invitation cards from the KW’s various phases—from 1991 to 2021.

Berlin Art Week is taking place for the tenth time in 2021: an occasion for a brief look back in pictures.

Artist Sung Tieu has been nominated for this year’s Preis der Nationalgalerie. We spoke with the artist about the role of research in her work and how it can be integrated.

Sandra Mujinga is one of four nominees for the Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst this year. We spoke to her about the role of the human figure in her work, questions of camouflage and opacity and how to think the body through music. Oh, wait—and dinosaurs, too!

The exhibition for the prestigious ars viva prize 2022 will be held at Brücke-Museum in Berlin. Meet the three prize-winners.

Artist Bendik Giske answers our questionnaire: »Wetting the reed never ceases to ground me.«

Artist Mire Lee answers our questionnaire. Laughing out loud while reading Thomas Bernhard.

Gallerist Tom Woo on eggshell yellow canvases, ›Talking Prices‹ and the freedom of art

Artists Clemens Krauss on Caravaggio, the long shadows of the past, and the joys of better hand hygiene

Gallerist Dorothée Nilsson on passion and focus

Artist Alice Z Jones answers our questionnaire: »When was the pre-pandemic world?«

»Everything comes from somewhere and everything is always already there.«— artist Daniela Bershan answers our questionnaire.

Once again, there is lots to read about Berlin Art Week! Newspapers and magazines are presenting the diverse programme of exhibitions, openings, performances, art fairs, and award ceremonies from 15―19 SEP 2021 and report on artists and protagonists. This year, we would like to draw your attention to three extensive and content-rich special publications.

It won’t be long until Berlin Art Week 2021 kicks off―and of course the programme of exhibitions, openings, galleries, tours, and events requires careful study! Four online and print magazines can help with selected recommendations for this year’s 10th edition, so you can gather inspiration for your visit! 

For her exhibition ›Readings From Below‹ at Times Art Center Berlin, curator Ariane Beyn evokes the concept of the archive to ask questions about artistic access to the present. A conversation about methods, ways of reading, yesterday, today—and of course, the Internet

After several years in Berlin-Lichtenberg, the haubrok foundation is back at the former ›Haus des Kindes‹ on Strausberger Platz. An exhibition about exhibition concepts opens in its new space on the fourth floor of the listed building

During Berlin Art Week, Lerato Shadi will open her solo show at KINDL—Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst. Here she talks about crocheting as writing, historical erasure—and the colour red

The artist Nevin Aladağ answers the twelve questions of our questionnaire: on pugmarks, teahouses, and reading glasses

For the exhibition ›Down to Earth‹ Stefanie Hessler has curated an ›exhibition within the exhibition‹ on the ocean. Here the curator speaks on the ocean’s potential as a model for different modes of thinking, questions of sustainability, and on infrastructures

Zeiss Großplanetarium, a major stellar theatre in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg district, will host the Berliner Festspiele programme series ›The New Infinity‹ for the first time this year. The domed planetarium will feature work by artists including Caterina Barbieri and Ruben Spini. It also has a long and eventful history

The building at Oranienstraße 25 in Kreuzberg has housed a symbiosis of various cultural institutions over the years. Now, rising rents threaten to displace more than just the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

Anne Duk Hee Jordan on ›Artificial Stupidity‹

The gallerist Johann König answers the twelve questions of our questionnaire. On young talents, Piero Manzoni, and the smartphone as workplace

Annette Kelm’s latest series shows a selection of books burned by the Nazis in 1933. This work is on view at Museum Frieder Burda’s Salon Berlin during Berlin Art Week

The artists Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader answer our questionnaire—on the Pink Panther, rupturing languages, and Netflix

The gallerist Tanja Wagner answers our questionnaire. On wool socks, art as a broadening of horizons—and the lack of female artists at high-profile exhibitions

Arts of the Working Class on distribution

C/O Berlin presents ›Voll das Leben!‹, the first retrospective of Harald Hauswald, co-founder of the legendary Ostkreuz agency and one East Germany’s most eminent photographers. The opening will coincide with Berlin Art Week

Each week, we ask two protagonists of Berlin Art Week to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Sung Tieu

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Marie DuPasquier and Ewa Dziarnowska

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Jonas Englert and Ivo Wessel

Two figures from the Berlin art world select a link and tell us something about it. This week: Anne Schwanz and Daniel Völzke

Marc Bauer is the winner of this year’s Gasag Art Prize. For his show at Berlinische Galerie, he turns to digital life and approaches it via his preferred medium drawing. A conversation about E-paper technologies, different image cultures—and drawing’s privileged relationship to memory

John Miller on PowerPoint

A project space known as The Watch calls a rather unusual building home: a former GDR guard tower in the former East Berlin district of Treptow. An archive of the site’s now 30-year history of artistic use will be on view for Berlin Art Week

During Berlin Art Week KINDL—Centre for Contemporary Art is opening four, parallel exhibitions. Christiane Meixner spoke with the new Artistic Director Kathrin Becker about her plans for the venue

Hyphen-Labs on Free Will

The Feminist Health Care Research Group (FHCRG) studies the history of the health care movement. The collective will present a new publication at the 11th Berlin Biennale. A conversation about research as an artistic medium, the need for access and what the health movement of the 1970s and 80s can teach us today

Two figures from the Berlin art world select a link and tell us something about it. This week: Anna Gritz and Christina Landbrecht

Each week, we ask two protagonists of the Berlin art scene to choose a link and tell us about it. This week: Aram Bartholl and Sven Beckstette

Noah Klink, one of three nominees for the VBKI-Preis Berliner Galerien, answers the twelve questions in our questionnaire

Artist Cao Fei answers your twelve-piece questionnaire—on headaches, dreams and on being your own audience

Vivian Suter has now spent more than three decades working in her garden in Guatemala, where nature intervenes in her paintings and contributes to their creation. After a 2017 presentation of her work at documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel comes ›Bonzo’s Dream‹ at Brücke-Museum in Berlin. Suter’s first institutional exhibition in Germany puts her work in dialogue with pieces by artists associated with the »Brücke«group

The London-based artist, whose solo exhibition at C/O Berlin opens on 11 SEP, is the first to answer the twelve questions on our questionnaire

Slavs and Tatars on Fermentation

Nadim Julien Samman, Curator Digital Sphere at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, speaks about curating in the digital sphere, his plans for Berlin Art Week and the »triumph of the screen typology« in the wake of COVID-19