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Europe is under political and social pressure. Speaking at the Monopol Talk during Berlin Art Week, Anda Rottenberg, Gitte Zschoch and Stephan Muschick discussed how cultural networks can safeguard freedom—and why retreat is not the answer.

An exhibition at Gropius Bau traces Kreuzberg’s long-overlooked art history of migration.

With its ›Featured‹ section, Berlin Art Week expands its reach. Institutional collaborations are increasingly joining exhibitions in project spaces, while visual art, theatre, film and radio open up to one another.

The São Paulo Biennial comes to Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Can it rethink a large-scale exhibition format that has begun to feel exhausted?

From Hellersdorf to Mitte, three exhibitions ask how memory and projection shape images of the »East«.

Ersan Mondtag and the Berliner Ensemble take over the Gemäldegalerie, the Maxim Gorki Theater opens its doors to visual art and the Volksbühne to performance. Theatre goes in search of new forms.

Leyla Yenirce came to painting through music. Now she brings paintings and a performance to Konzerthaus Berlin.

With her spare, poetic sculptures, Lin May Saeed imagined utopias of peaceful coexistence.

The VBKI-Preis BERLINER GALERIEN marks its tenth edition in 2026. It is presented by the Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller (VBKI) and the Landesverband Berliner Galerien e.V., with support from the Berlin Senate Department for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises.

Working across media, Jesse Darling examines the fragility of social structures. The art world celebrates him—yet Darling resists being co-opted by the market. Galerie Molitor presents his first solo exhibition in Berlin.

Im neu gegründeten Ausstellungsraum Paint Shop zeigt Paula Santomé Arbeiten, mit denen sie Weiblichkeit neu erzählt.

Haus am Lützowplatz presents paintings by Ruprecht von Kaufmann—stories of life in the big city.

n.b.k. presents Margarethe von Trotta’s cinematic oeuvre and, in parallel, three further projects about language.

Mark Leckey’s work moves between art, music, pop culture and technology—a new exhibition offers a comprehensive look at his practice.

In the Wilhelm Hallen, Alex Müller presents an installation comprising three hundred and forty letters sent from the GDR to the West.

Through his paintings, Lukas Luzius Leichtle explores the limits of the human body and perception.

At Schinkel Pavillon, Issy Wood presents paintings in a hypermodern visual language that reflect the feelings of a generation shaped by the context of the smartphone.

Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Charmaine Poh pushes back against her homeland’s restrictions.

Erik Schmidt is a Berlin art world fixture since the 1990s, oscillating between painting and video.

Issy Wood chronicles messed-up millennials. Schinkel Pavillon hosts her first solo show in Germany.

HKW trains a lens on fascism.

The artist community is not merely a network of people united by art production and its institutions but a testament to transnational solidarity and cultural exchange. Artists, bound by their shared pursuit of artistic expression, navigate a world increasingly defined by mobility and displacement, where borders are omnipresent and contested.

Alfredo Jaar spotlights the tragic consequences of extracting natural resources at Kindl Centre in Berlin.

Gasag Prize Winner Mariechen Danz explores new scientific models at Berlinische Galerie.

At 32, Danish painter Oliver Bak is already being celebrated as a star. Just what makes his mystical paintings so sought-after?

Performance artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s relationship with Germany, and Berlin in particular, goes back more than 30 years. Now, Gropius Bau is hosting the first survey exhibition to explore the connection.