In September, Gropius Bau will open ›BAUBAU‹: not an exhibition, but a playground. Designed by the artist Kerstin Brätsch, it is meant for children. A look at the project, the relationship between art and play, and what painting might have to do with it.

Since 2016, Alya Sebti has been artistic director of ifa-Galerie Berlin, which she now co-runs with Inka Gressel. With the ongoing project ›Untie to Tie‹, she has established a multidisciplinary and far-reaching research programme to investigate the colonial structures of the everyday. We meet Sebti, who in 2020 also co-curated Manifesta 13 in Marseille and who is currently part of the curatorial team for the forthcoming São Paulo Biennial 2025, in a café in Berlin-Mitte to discuss the forthcoming show during Berlin Art Week, modes of collaboration, infrastructural thinking—and questions of beauty.

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is one of the world’s most respected and prestigious residency programmes for established artists. For over five decades, it has played a pivotal role in Berlin’s emergence as a leading international art centre, and yet the history of this institution has remained relatively unexplored. A major research project, accompanied by three exhibitions at different institutions, seeks to rectify this. A conversation with art historian and curator Nóra Lukács and Melanie Roumiguière, Head of the Visual Arts Division at the DAAD—both of whom have been instrumental in organising these exhibitions—on their research, an often-challenging history, and lessons learned.

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

A conversation with the nGbK: on the present and future of the institution between centre and periphery

Our series ›The Work‹ introduces artworks that caught the Berlin Art Week team’s attention. It is a subjective selection, based on open criteria. Dominikus Müller writes about cameron clayborn’s ›homegrown #1‹ at Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart Berlin

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.