TOURS
Discover Berlin Art Week with our wide variety of tours! Our guided tours provide an overview of the work of contemporary artists. The gallery tours provide an exclusive look behind the scenes with artists and gallerists. The Network of Independent Berlin Project Spaces and Initiatives is organizing four bike tours to the project spaces. If you would prefer to set out on your own, check out our ›Berlin Art Week x Cee Cee Kieztours‹ for useful tips.
Guided Kieztours
Take a tour of Mitte, Kreuzberg, or Steglitz-Zehlendorf with the experts from Museumsdienst Berlin by foot or by bus and immerse yourself in the diverse artistic programmes at our partner institutions.
17 + 18 SEP, 5—8pm
Route: St. Agnes, Berlinische Galerie, KOW
A twilight tour of Kreuzberg: From Alicja Kwade’s scientific-philosophical considerations on human individuality at Berlinische Galerie, to new art at the remodelled church St. Agnes on to the exhibition of the artist Michael E. Smith in the KOW Gallery
Meeting point: Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jacobstraße 124—128, 10969 Berlin (Plan your route with Google Maps)
18 + 19 SEP 11am—2pm
Route: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Museum Frieder Burda, ifa-Galerie Berlin, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
A tour all around Auguststraße. You can stop and view the spaces of Michael Stevenson beig exhibited KW Institute for Contemporary Art, discuss Katharina Sieverding’s political photography at Museum Frieder Burda, view films and installations on the Andean cultures of Peru at ifa-Galerie and learn more about the Fluxus pioneer Tomas Schmit at n.b.k.
Meeting point: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin (Plan your route with Google Maps)
18 + 19 SEP, 3—6pm
Gropius Bau, Schinkel Pavillon, PalaisPopulaire, Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin (Ride from the Gropius Bau to the Schinkel Pavilion by large-capacity taxi)
On this tour, you can discover a range new works and scenarios: object arrangements by Thea Djordjadze at Gropius Bau, supernatural creatures by HR Geiger and Mire Lee at Schinkel Pavillon, statements on the human condition at the ›Artists of the Year‹-exhibition at PalaisPopulaire and video works on the subject of violence and powerlessness at the Julia Stoschek Collection.
Meeting point: Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin (Plan your route with Google Maps)
19 SEP, 11am—2pm
Fluentum, Brücke-Museum, Haus am Waldsee, ›BAW Garten‹
Contemporary art on the edge of Grunewald: to discover here is the exhibition ›Time Without End‹ with video works on the history of the location at Fluentum, works of this year’s ars-viva prize winners in dialogue with the Brücke artists at Brücke Museum, and drawings by sculptor Tony Cragg at Haus am Waldsee. The tour begins at ›BAW Garten‹ in front of Kindl—Center for Contemporary Art in Neukölln, a meeting point and outreach centre for Berlin Art Week.
Meeting point: Fluentum, Clayallee 174, 14195 Berlin (Plan your route with Google Maps)
19 SEP, 3—6pm
›BAW Garten‹, Haus am Waldsee, Brücke-Museum, Fluentum
Contemporary art on the edge of Grunewald: to discover here is the exhibition ›Time Without End‹ with video works on the history of the location at Fluentum, works of this year’s ars-viva prize winners in dialogue with the Brücke artists at Brücke Museum, and drawings by sculptor Tony Cragg at Haus am Waldsee. The tour begins at ›BAW Garten‹ in front of Kindl—Center for Contemporary Art in Neukölln, a meeting point and outreach centre for Berlin Art Week.
Meeting point: ›BAW Garten‹, c/o Kindl—Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Am Sudhaus 3, 12053 Berlin (Plan your route with Google Maps)
Berlin Art Week x Cee Cee Kieztours
Would you like to explore the Berlin gallery and art world on your own? We have prepared five tours in various neighbourhoods that in two to three hours lead to various exhibitions at galleries, institutions, project spaces, and private collections during Berlin Art Week. Cee Cee Berlin has suggestions on where to take a break along the way.
A relaxed tour through Mitte: From Schlegelstraße to Auguststraße
After a short stretch along the busy Chausseestraße, this tour down Linienstraße—since 2008 reserved for bikes—is a real treat. Here you can enjoy the neo-classical façades occasionally interrupted by prefab housing from the GDR period or luxurious new architecture.
North and south of Leipziger Straße: from Unter den Linden to Kochstraße
This tour takes place in the shadow of the tourist hotspots Schlossplatz, Gendarmenmarkt, and Checkpoint Charlie. This route is steeped in history, as shown by the commemorative plaques along the way. On Oberwallstraße, the first barricades were erected during the Revolution of 1848; near Hausvogteiplatz the press conference was held that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall; on Rudi-Dutschke-Straße, massive left-wing demonstrations were held against the powerful conservative publisher Springer Verlag. Along Zimmerstraße, a dual line of bricks in the pavement recall that the wall separated Mitte and Kreuzberg here for 28 years.
Underway in Multicultural Kreuzberg: From Berlinische Galerie zum Kottbusser Tor
This tour leads though quiet residential estates from the 1960s over Ritterstraße and gets more interesting on the way east, where the former Pelikanhaus today houses the popular eyewear brand Mykita, and then to Oranienstraße and Adalbertstraße, where you can immerse yourself in lively, multicultural Kreuzberg.
A tour of posh Charlottenburg: From Ernst-Reuter-Platz to Spichernstraße
This tour leads down some of the loveliest streets in the Charlottenburg area. On the ground floors of the turn of the century buildings, jewellery stores, cafes, and noble galleries that have been here for many years. The galleries chosen for this tour are recent additions to the neighbourhood, usually formerly from Kreuzberg.
A bike tour through the green neighbourhood of Steglitz-Zehlendorf: from Brücke-Museum to Haus am Waldsee
If you would like to combine your tour with an outdoor excursion, you should make your way to southwest Berlin. This bike tour from Brücke-Museum to Haus am Waldsee is perfectly suited for families.
Gallery tours
Visit selected galleries in a small group with an experienced art advisor. There are five tours to choose from through Charlottenburg, Tiergarten, Mitte, Kreuzberg and other parts of the city by foot or by bike.
All tours are fully booked.
Project Space Tours
Get to know this year’s winners of the Project Space Prize on a bike tour. You must provide your own bike. Registration required by 16 SEP: biketours@projektraeume-berlin.net
All tours are fully booked.