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With 125 partners and more than 300 events, Berlin Art Week brought the contemporary art world together across the city for a week. The programme for its fifteenth anniversary edition captured the vitality and diversity of Berlin’s art scene. The festival drew attention far beyond its individual exhibitions and events, attracting about 200,000 visitors from Berlin and international guests from around the world.

From 9 to 13 SEP, Berlin Art Week celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. With more than three hundred events, including over one hundred exhibition openings, contemporary art takes over the capital: one hundred and twenty-five museums, private collections, project spaces, galleries, and the Positions Berlin Art Fair present the latest developments in contemporary art.

The festival’s central meeting point is the ›Berlin Art Week Garten‹, hosted this year at Kulturforum, with locations at both the Gemäldegalerie and the Neue Nationalgalerie. By day, the Gemäldegalerie presents talks, workshops and artistic interventions; by night, the Neue Nationalgalerie comes alive with performances, DJ sets and open-air cinema—five days long, from 9—13 SEP 2026, under the open sky and free of charge.

From 9—13 SEP 2026, Berlin Art Week celebrates its fifteenth anniversary with an extensive city-wide programme presented in collaboration with around 120 museums, private collections, project spaces, galleries, and the art fair Positions Berlin Art Fair. Berlin Art Week Garten, hosted by Neue Nationalgalerie and Gemäldegalerie at Kulturforum, will become the festival’s central meeting point.

From 9—13 SEP 2026, Berlin Art Week celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. More than 120 museums, private collections, galleries, project spaces and the art fair Positions will present a diverse festival programme, turning the German capital into a hotspot for contemporary art for five days.

To mark the fifteenth anniversary of Berlin Art Week, Kulturforum will become this year’s festival centre  from 9—13 SEP 2026. As an open gathering place, ›Berlin Art Week Garten‹ brings together institutions, partners, and audiences, providing a shared starting point for exploring the festival programme across the city.

Berlin Art Week 2025—With more than 140,000 visitors, the 14th edition of the festival week draws to a successful close. From Wednesday to Sunday the capital—working with more than 100 partners and across more than 300 events—presented an expansive and diverse programme of contemporary art.