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Petrit Halilaj | Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?! | ChertLüdde | 02.05.–25.06.2026
until 02.04. | #4952ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde shows from 2. May 2026 (Opening: 01.05.) the exhibition Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?! by the artist Petrit Halilaj. ChertLüdde is pleased to present the exhibition “Who Owns the Earth While Painting the Wind?!” by Petrit Halilaj, which has emerged from decades of collaboration between the artist and the gallery and is taking place at the Hamburger Bahnhof in conjunction with Halilaj’s largest institutional exhibition in Germany, “An Opera out of Time.” Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2026, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Exhibition Dates: Saturday, May 2 through Thursday, July 25, 2026 Preview: April 29–30, 2026, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Caption Petrit Halilaj, Charred remains of a Kosovar quilim rug following an arson attack, Syrigana, 2025 Photo by: Esad Duraki He presents new works related to his 2025 open-air opera, incorporating materials and ashes that survived a politically motivated attack in which props and the set were destroyed and burned just days before the premiere. With great effort, Halilaj managed to redesign everything in time. Now he reinterprets these remnants both as a testament to resilience and as a material reminder of the event. Bildunterschrift Titel: Portrait of Petrit Halilaj, Syrigana, Kosovo, […]
MAXIMILIAN VERHAS | MIRRORS IN MOTION | Galerie Friedmann-Hahn | 28.03.-09.05.2026
until 09.05. | #4987ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friedmann-Hahn shows from 28. März 2026 the exhibition Mirrors in motion by the artist Maximilian Verhas. In the exhibition MIRRORS IN MOTION, GALERIE FRIEDMANN-HAHN presents new works by the German sculptor Maximilian Verhas, including, for the first time, his “Imaginary Rolling Bodies” in highly polished stainless steel. The reflective surface lends the sculptures a particular lightness: Instead of perceiving solely mass and physicality, they reveal distorted, inverted reflections of the surroundings, and the viewer recognises themselves as part of this multi-layered pictorial space. The cool, silvery sheen of the stainless steel intensifies this fascinating tension between materiality and immateriality. The result is sculptures that appear both present and imaginary. In addition to the new stainless steel works, the exhibition features an extensive selection of his bronze sculptures. A particular highlight is the complete presentation of the successful Open House series. Verhas’ sculptures are sometimes endlessly intertwined bands, sometimes organically shaped, sometimes sharp-edged and architectural. Yet Verhas’ highly diverse works have one thing in common: they are mobile, dynamic rolling forms! Sculptural works are generally regarded as static. Since 1990, Maximilian Verhas has been addressing this problem of the immobility of sculpture in his rolling […]
Sofia Hulten | Armscye | Galery Nordenhake | 21.03.–24.04.2026
until 24.04. | #4921ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from, 20. März 2026 die Ausstellung „Concrete Head“ by the artist Sofia Hultén. Opening: Fryiday, 20 March 2026, 18:00–20:00 Uhr Exhibition dates: Saturday, 21. March – Friday, 24. April 2026 In her fifth solo exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake, Sofia Hultén presents new kinetic sculptures, a series of works on paper, and two groups of new sculptures. The title draws on an expression from her hometown of Birmingham: While the term usually refers to a stubborn or mentally rigid person, the artist knows it from her youth, when it was colloquially used to describe someone who could consume drugs without any noticeable physical consequences. In her practice, linguistic ambiguities intersect with material narratives, generating new meanings through their friction. […] –United Fuckers of Contingency in Stasis, 2026, aluminum pole, jeans, coins, motor, stainless steel Sofia Hultén wurde 1972 in Stockholm, Schweden geboren. Sie wuchs in Birmingham, UK auf und studierte Bildhauerei an der Sheffield Hallam University. Seit 1998 lebt und arbeitet sie in Berlin. Seit 2023 ist sie Professorin an der Staatlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart. Zu den jüngsten Einzelausstellungen ihrer Arbeit gehören Ausstellungen im KINDL Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, […]
Amy Dury | Always, Everything | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 27.03.-25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4985ARTatBerlin | The Galerie Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin shows from Friday, 27. March 2026 (Opening: 26.03.), the exhibition „Always, Everything“ by the artist Amy Dury. A family portrait: a father, a mother and two daughters. A nuclear family. So far, so ordinary. Each child holds a bright red rose. their legs are dappled with sunlight, a little dog lies at their feet in the grass, behind them is an abstract floral scene that seems to be on the verge of enveloping thern. And the mother is ablaze, her whole body burning from within. This is Always, Everything, the titular painting of Army Dury’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin. Dury works from photographs drawn from our recent past images she describes as joyful holiday snaps. On the surface they capture familiarity, contentment and beauty. Yet in their subtler details, more complex narratives begin to surface. Through the painting process, she brings this underlying sense of unease to the surface, pointing to the complicated act of remembering itself-how the truth shifts, slips and dissolves so that we never quite grasp the full story. If I only could depicts a couple in a typically middle-class living room from […]
Anna Clegg | Hustlenomics | Schiefe Zähne | 13.03.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4986ARTatBerlin | Schiefe Zähne shows from 13. March 2026 the Exhibition “Hustlenomics” by the artist Anna Clegg. Opening: Friday, 13. March- 6-9 pm Exhibiton dates: Friday, 13. March– Saturday, 18. April 2026 Title imagen caption: ART at Berlin- Schiefe Zähne- Anna Clegg- Hustlenomics Exhibition Hustlenomics – Schiefe Zähne | Zeitgenössische Kunst – Contemporary Art Guide | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Maggi Hambling+Sarah Lucas | OOO LA LA | Contemporary Fine Arts | 13.03.–25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4982ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from Friday, 13. March 2026 the exhibition „OOO LA LA“ the artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Contemporary Fine Arts is pleased to present OOO LA LA, an exhibition by British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas. Hambling and Lucas first met 25 years ago, on 23 October 2000, their shared birthday, at the Colony Room Club in Soho. Since then, they have built a friendship marked by admiration and trust. They laugh a lot together. They are also neighbours in rural Suffolk, which keeps their bond grounded in the everyday, and sustained through conversation. That long proximity sits at the heart of the exhibition, showing how two distinct practices can speak to each other. OOO LA LA explores the affinities between their approaches, above all their alertness to how sex and death coexist. These themes belong to the same lived register, met with frankness and nerve. The exhibition is not the result of a joint studio process. The works were developed in parallel, and the connection becomes vivid when they are brought together. In their words, “The extraordinary thing is that when you’re in the show, it’s as if we were working at opposite ends of the […]
Helena Hafemann | Birds of Prey | Jarmuschek + Partner | 20.03.-13.05.2026
until 13.05. | #4981ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 20. March 2026 the exhibition Birds of Prey by the artist Helena Hafemann. With the exhibition “Birds of Prey,” Jarmuschek+Partner Gallery presents new works by Helena Hafemann. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition at the gallery and includes compelling pieces as well as a new series. In her work, Hafemann takes objects from the everyday world, which she artistically alters, repairs, or transforms into new forms. These interventions create surprising constellations that place familiar objects in a new context and challenge the viewer’s perception. Opening: Friday, 20. March 2026, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 21. March to Wednesday, 13. May 2026 Temporarily closed: Friday 3.– Monday 6. April 2026 Special opening times: Friday 1.– Saturday 3. Mai 2026 Image caption: Courtesy of Jarmuschek + Partner Exhibition Helena Hafemann – Jarmuschek + Partner | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Anica Blagaj | STILLE WASSER | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 13.03.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4980ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne (backstage) shows from Friday, 13. March 2026 the exhibition „STILLE WASSER“ by the artist Anica Blagaj in the backstage of the gallery. Anica Blagaj’s working method: ‘The line is at the heart of my work – both the individual, freely formed line and the complex, geometric line. Starting with the individual line, I have approached the theme of the accumulation of lines in several steps. Beginning with pencil, a complex structure of lines is first drawn, in which there are constant overlaps with lines that have already been drawn. This results in superimpositions and condensations. To examine the relationship between the line and the surface, several fine layers of Polychromos are applied. An archaeologically reversed process – the more layers, the more visible the lines become and at the same time become part of the emerging surface. Through a special technique, the lines drawn in pencil appear ‘white’ and retain this characteristic even in interaction with light and colour. The composition develops from the rhythm of the constantly varying line structure and the layers of colour. The line creates structure and texture and gives the surface its expression. Opening: Friday, 13. March […]
Ryan Mosley | Seasons | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 12.03.–25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4979ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from ,Thursday 12. March 2026 the exhibition Seasons by the artist Ryan Mosley. The seasons are not merely perceived, but lived. They subtly alter how body and mind move and feel, even before we are aware of it. In Mosley’s paintings, figure and landscape merge into a unified whole. The figures reflect the contours of the terrain or seem to rise from it; they are part of the landscape, rather than placed upon it. In “Bedrock,” the striding figure visually merges with the water and rocks behind. Its body takes on the colors of the landscape, its skin touched by the peach-colored light of dusk. Where we often experience the body as a barrier between inner life and the outer world, these paintings instead visualize continuity. They suggest that the experience of the seasons is both internal and external—felt through the body and shaped by the world around us. […] Excerpt from the press release by Beth Hughes Ryan Mosley (born 1980) lives and works in Sheffield, UK, and studied painting at the Royal College of Art, London. The artist often synthesizes art-historical themes, styles and movements to create […]
Hoch-Tief-Flach-Durch-Druck | Gruppenausstellung | Raab Galerie | 13.03.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4978ARTatBerlin | Raab Galerie shows from 13. March 2026 the exhibition Hoch-Tief-Flach-Durch-Druck by the artists Giacomo Piussi, Alex Katz, Nicole Wittenberg, Ross Bleckner, Bill Hickey, Molly Goldfarb, David Kuijers, KH Hödicke, Markus Lüpertz, Rainer Fetting, Luciano Castelli, El Bocho, Eliot, Karoline Kroiss, Rachel Haaze, Eliot, Mando Marie, Paul Uwe Dreyer, Harry Kögler, Raws, Skenar73, Thomas Baumgärtel, Hubertus Giebe, Torsten Schlüter, Ronja Look, Lilith Nossol, Akware Elnah, Lilith Nossol und Ronja Look. We have been familiar with printmaking since Albrecht Dürer or from etchings from Andrea Mantegna’s time, which were of a high technical and intellectual standard. Today, works are often developed by the artist in collaboration with the print workshop. This leads to new approaches, ideas, techniques and processes. David Hockney, for example, has created highly complex works with the help of his sister and the latest technically sophisticated printers. Molly Godfarb also uses this technique, designing her prints in multiple layers on her iPad. In recent decades, new printing techniques have emerged whose brilliance and vibrancy enchant the viewer. Experimentation is taking place in spraying, and stencils are particularly attractive because an artist can work with different colours on the same motif, using the spray very […]
Eduardo Basualdo | false bottom | PSM Gallery | 13.03.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4977ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from Friday, 14. March 2026 (Opening: 13.03.) the exhibition false bottom by the artist Eduardo Basualdo. -At stake in Eduardo Basualdo’s art (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) is an imaginary that reflects on the tension between language and the body as builders of reality. The artist makes use of fiction to expand cartographies, to generate territories where all there seems to be is a line. His work summons viewers to an experience in the present time; it suggests a fragile balance on the verge of breaking; it dares us, on occasion, to heighten our senses. The principles that govern space, the body, and reason engage in dialogue to shape an experience of freedom in a physical and philosophical sense. Basualdo’s installations are akin to landscapes steeped in dramatic tension where the viewer is asked to play a leading role in a palpable fiction. He tackles the category of the sublime with a sense of darkness: Viewers are captives of an imposing image while also, somehow, eagerly awaiting something that never happens to happen. Danger and curiosity vie in unabating contradiction. Opening: Friday, 13 March 2026, 6 to 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. […]
Peter Dreher | 31 952 | Meyer Riegger | 14.03.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4976ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger Berlin shows from Saturday, 14. March 2026 the exhibition „31 952“ by the artist Peter Dreher. The exhibition brings together various groups of works that the artist has created over a period of half a century. “The empty glass somehow symbolises the beginning of something and the end of something. Peter Dreher’s series Tag um Tag guter Tag (Day after day, good day) does not show a real glass (see Magritte), but a rather good, almost photorealistic representation of a glass. External forces push their way into the picture and are thrown back at the viewer. The curvature of the glass offers no opportunity to observe the artist painting. He is there, but then again he is not.” Excerpt from Towards an Empty Glass by Jonathan Monk Peter Dreher, Day after Day, Good Day (Day) 1983, 2006, oil on canvas, 25 x 20 cm. Photo: RMJ Peter Dreher was fascinated by Andy Warhol’s desire to be a machine. Although his American colleague was surrounded by something like a royal court or a bee colony around its queen, he himself remained strangely untouched and deeply detached from it all. Peter Dreher had a retreat […]
Wiliam N. Copley | X-Rated (1972–1974) | Galerie Max Hetzler | 13.03.-22.04.2026
until 22.04. | #4974ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Goethestraße 2-3) shows from 13. March 2026 the exhibition X-Rated (1972–1974) by the artist Wiliam N. Copley. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, is pleased to announce the solo exhibition “X-Rated (1972–1974)” featuring paintings and works on paper by William N. Copley. This is the fourth presentation of the artist’s work at the gallery. Copley came to painting from an unusual direction. He initially aspired to become a writer before turning to painting, and in the late 1940s he briefly co-founded a gallery in Beverly Hills that specialized in Surrealists. The Copley Galleries—run together with his brother-in-law, the artist John Ployardt—brought him into close contact with Surrealists living in exile such as Man Ray, Max Ernst, and Marcel Duchamp, as well as the gallerist Alexander Iolas, who encouraged him to continue his budding artistic career. Around the time the gallery closed, he adopted the artist’s signature CPLY and, shortly before moving to France, presented his first exhibition in 1951 at a bookstore in Los Angeles. Although he was a generation younger than the Surrealists, Copley’s work is deeply shaped by the movement on both a conceptual and personal level. His distinctive black outlines and […]
Jake Longstreth | Where We’re Going We Need Roads | Galerie Max Hetzler | 13.03.-25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4973ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße 45) shows from 13. March 2026 the exhibition Where We’re Going We Need Roads by the artist Jake Longstreth. For this exhibition, Longstreth presents a new body of oil on canvas paintings and works on paper from 2025 and 2026. Depicting distant highways punctuated by tiny, ant-like cars, amidst vast, hazy expanses, the works are foregrounded by an abundance of trees and plants: California buckwheat, red-berried toyons, lilacs, manzanita, canyon oaks, and eucalyptus. In these new paintings, Longstreth has moved further into the brush and bramble of the region’s hillsides, registering seasonal shifts from spring’s unexpected verdancy to autumn’s brittle dryness underfoot. Yet the roads persist, always present in the distance, carrying the implied ambient hum of traffic. Even in elevated, seemingly remote places, there is a constant din, ‘to live here like we do, we need roads,’ Longstreth explains, ‘but of course, the paintings are silent.’ The views assembled in these works were gathered during Longstreth’s hikes along the region’s dense network of trails that wind through nearly every canyon. In contrast to his earlier paintings of chain restaurants and corporate retail seen from the car, these images are shaped by a […]
Robert Elfgen | utopisch | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 02.05.-01.08.2026
until 01.08. | #4971ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 2. May 2026 the exhibition utopisch by the artist Robert Elfgen. Robert Elfgen explores the relationship between humankind and nature through a distinctly mythical, poetic lens. His assemblages, collages, light objects, and floor- and wall pieces are often staged as room-filling installations that unfold like immersive paintings. On the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Sprüth Magers is pleased to present utopisch, a solo exhibition of new and recent works by the artist. Contrast serves as a foundational principle in Elfgen’s practice. His new sandblasted glass panes—set within wooden frames he built himself—range from filigree organic motifs to geometrical shapes that coalesce into industrial structures. These sculptural pieces divide the exhibition space while simultaneously connecting it through their transparency. In his paintings, materials shape the imagery: Elfgen layers pigments onto wooden supports, then sands them back to reveal grain patterns that become atmospheric elements like fog or overcast skies. Through controlled use of color and light, he imbues his unexpected subjects with a subtle romanticism, creating an artistic universe rooted in everyday observation yet attuned to mythic resonance. Oppening: Saturday, 2. May 2026, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 2. May […]
Jim Lambie | High Voltage | Konrad Fischer Galerie | 24.01.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4972ARTatBerlin | Konrad Fischer Galerie currently shows the exhibition High Voltage by the artist Jim Lambie. Konrad Fischer Gallery is pleased to present Jim Lambie: High Voltage—the first exhibition of 2026 and the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery since joining the programme in 2004. Rooted in the transformation of found and reused materials, Jim Lambie’s practice reflects a longstanding relationship with music and colour, shaped by his early years as a musician, as well as themes of space and light. His installations challenge viewers to readjust their perception and experience of their surroundings. In this dynamic interplay of ideas and an inventive yet rigorous line of research, Lambie creates experiences that often have an almost revelatory character. The exhibition title ‘High Voltage’ is an indirect reference to the gallery building’s former use as a substation. Spread over two floors, the exhibition highlights Lambie’s sensitivity to the architectural spaces in which his works are displayed. On the first floor, a new iteration of the iconic Zobop floor covered with vinyl tape introduces a chromatic field in which reflective chrome and white stripes – scaled to the width of the building’s supporting beams – trace the architecture of […]
Nick Dawes | Trace Elements | Galerie KORNFELD | 06.03.–18.04.2026
until 18.04.| #4970ARTatBerlin | Galerie KORNFELD shows from 06. March 2026 the exhibition Trace Elements by the artist Nick Dawes. With Trace Elements, KORNFELD Gallery presents a solo exhibition by London-based artist Nick Dawes (b. 1969, Johannesburg), bringing together new works from his current phase of practice. Curated by Charles Moore, the exhibition is dedicated to a painterly approach that consciously resists the visual acceleration of the present, placing time, materiality, and attention at its core. Nick Dawes’ works are created by pouring thin layers of paint onto untreated canvas. Transparency, layering, and a visibly inscribed temporal dimension shape the surfaces of the paintings. Color appears not as a decorative element, but as a structuring principle. The painterly process remains openly legible, lending the works a quiet yet intense presence. Conceptually, Dawes’ work enters into a contemporary dialogue with key positions of postwar abstract painting such as Ed Clark, Mark Rothko, and Sam Gilliam, without citing them directly. His painting carries forward their inquiries into color, space, and materiality with consistency and clarity, asserting the continued relevance of painting as a site of concentrated perception and temporal experience. Internationally, Nick Dawes’ work is held in public and private collections, including […]
Carries | Group Exhibition | alexander levy | 27.02.–11.04.2026
until 11.04. | #4968ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy currently shows the exhibition Carries by the artists Mariechen Danz, Friedrich Einhoff and Xie Lei. What becomes visible when a body is represented, shaped, or fragmented? Bodies are not closed units. They are in constant relationship with their environment. They preserve experiences and memories in dreams, gestures, routines, and scars. They function as a threshold between inside and outside, between individual experience and social structure, between past and present. “Carriers” brings together three artistic positions that examine the body as a repository and projection surface for memory, power, and transformation. Mariechen Danz, Friedrich Einhoff, and Xie Lei analyze, in different ways, how experience is deposited in our bodies. Mariechen Danz, Friedrich Einhoff, Xie Lei,Carriers, installation view alexander levy, Berlin, photo: Marcus Schneider, courtesy of the artists, alexander levy, Berlin. Xie Lei’s painting operates in the liminal space between dream state and consciousness. His figures appear in states of suspension, without clearly definable locations or narrative fixation. They remain anonymous. What matters is not who they are, but their state of being. Xie Lei is interested in intense states of human sensation such as pain and pleasure, and the ambiguity of human relationships. […]
Bunny Rogers | My Original Friend | SOCIÉTÉ | 12.03.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4969ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from Thursday, 12. March 2026 the exhibition “My Original Friend” by the artist Bunny Rogers. Bunny Rogers’ conceptual practice draws on deeply personal references to reflect on experiences of alienation and intimacy. Her complex narrative worlds often focus on “forgotten objects”, lending humble everyday items the presence of people and moments that have shaped her life. For Rogers, imagination is not secondary to ‘reality’ but a parallel structure through which experiences are processed and reconfigured. Drawing on the pop culture of the late 1990s and early 2000s, her multifaceted practice analyses how notions of identity and belonging were reshaped at a time when the virtual and the real began to overlap and merge in unprecedented ways. In his fourth solo exhibition at SOCIÉTÉ, Rogers transforms the gallery into an immersive installation that spatially translates the familiar iconography of video game missions. In this dark and strangely flattened environment of grey bricks, pseudo-classical columns and torch lighting, we encounter a series of self-portraits in the guise of Joan of Arc, a cartoon character from the short-lived MTV series Clone High. Joan acts as a mask or proxy for the artist, allowing Rogers to […]
X JOY X | Group exhibition | Galerie Z22 | 19.03.2026 – (to follow)
until (to follow) | #4967ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 19. March 2026 the exhibition LUXUS by the artists X JOY X. From 19 March 2026, Galerie Z22 will be showing the group exhibition LUXUS by the artist group X JOY X with invited artists. What does luxury mean in a world that seems to be falling apart? In times of global crises, wars and collective exhaustion, amid constant digital accessibility, we want to re-examine this word – with warmth, wit and foresight. Is luxury the excess of wealth, champagne in the VIP area – or an afternoon that belongs only to us? Is it exclusive or inclusive? Tangible or fleeting? Something you own – or something you give away? The LUXURY exhibition brings together twelve artistic positions: works by the artist group X JOY X and six invited guests. Together, they create a multi-layered picture of what is perceived, missed, criticised or celebrated as ‘luxury’ today. X JOY X, a group that consciously dedicates itself to joy – as an artistic strategy, as resistance, as a gesture of hope – approaches the topic in its own way: playfully, multi-layered, with a reflective gaze. With: Ariane Kipp, Axel Bunt, Conrad […]
Michael Glasmeier | »mit ohne alles« | oqbo | 14.03.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4966ARTatBerlin | Gallery oqbo shows from Saturday 14. March 2026 the exhibition »mit ohne alles« Poems, pictures, constellations since 1975 by the artist Michael Glasmeier. For the first time in over 40 years, the literary and artistic work of art historian Michael Glasmeier is once again the focus of an exhibition. It comprises an extensive collection of poetic texts that could be classified as concrete and visual poetry – mainly from the 1970s and 1980s. Typewriters, scissors, cameras (cassette recorders for acoustic experiments) were the economical media used in the search for new forms of expression inspired by avant-garde methods such as text-image montage, cut-up, readymade, montage, appropriation and reduction. Glasmeier, whose poetic work was first presented comprehensively in 1982 at the Berlin Merve Verlag publishing house, published his poetic works in literary magazines, on the occasion of exhibitions and in the context of international mail art. He published poetic cycles as self-published booklets. For several years now, photography and exhibitions have been the focus of his poetic exercises. The exhibition, conceived by artist Christian Schiebe, includes exemplary text-image cycles, publications, typewriter poetry, photography and readymade poetry. Opening: Saturday, 14. March 2026, 3 pm –7 pm Exhibition […]
Renate Zeun | betroffen | Loock Galerie | 06.03.–25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4965ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie shows from Friday, 6. March 2026 the exhibition betroffen by the artist Renate Zeun . betroffen brings together vintage prints from Renate Zeun’s eponymous photographic series, produced in the first half of the 1980s, in which the East German artist turns the camera on herself. Created within a visual culture that long resisted the circulation of aged, ill, or damaged bodies, the work insists on visibility at a moment when such images were only just becoming permissible in the GDR. Zeun’s self-imaging resonates transnationally with artists such as Jo Spence and Robert Mapplethorpe, who similarly traced illness and corporeal change through their own bodies. Yet these photographs are neither confessional nor allegorical; instead, they sustain a cool, analytic intensity that collapses the distance between observer and observed. On view at LOOCK Galerie from 6 March to 25 April 2026, betroffen frames the body as a political and affective site, where self-representation becomes an act of resistance against silence, erasure, and sanctioned regimes of visibility. Opening: Friday, 6. March 2026, 3 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 6. March – Saturday, 25. April 2026 Image caption: Renate Zeun, 10. Dezember 1983 © Renate Zeun, Courtesy LOOCK, […]
Süheyla Asci + Kübra Yarar | Paralelle Ströme | Galerie Sievi | 07.03-10.04.2026
until 10.04. | #4963ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 7. March 2026 (Opening 06.03.) the exhibition Paralelle Ström by the artists Süheyla Asci and Kübra Yarar. Süheyla Asci works in three stages. While she reflects her ideas almost simultaneously on the surface of her miniature works, these ideas are modified in her large canvas paintings. The original concept of the small format undergoes a transformation in the process. The artist’s new ideas and corrections push their way into the large-format works, expanding them in an unrestrained and expansive manner. The more time she devotes to a work, the more multifaceted and complex it ultimately becomes. Kübra Yarar was born in 1991 and lives in a small town in Bodrum, Turkey, and Berlin. She studied painting at the Mugla Fine Art Faculty. After graduating, she opened her studio for international artists. These connections led to exhibitions in Istanbul, Paris, Tokyo, and London. She has also participated in art fairs such as Art Fair Karlsruhe (2025, 2026), Positions Art Fair Berlin (2025), and Art Fair Affordable Hamburg (2025). Opening: Friday, 6. March 2026, 7pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 7. March until Friday, 10. April 2026 Bildunterschrift Titel: Süheyla Acsi, Wandelbarkeit I, […]
Pop Shop | Group Exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 03.03.2026–(to follow)
until (to follow) | #4975ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin show from Tuesday, 3. March 2026, the exhibition Pop Shop. Pop is everywhere. In our media, in our advertising, in our consumer behavior. What millions see, share, and desire daily has been elevated to art in Pop Art. The Pop Art pioneers of the 1950s and 60s made mass appeal their subject matter: They isolated everyday images, product worlds, and icons from their original context and transformed them into powerful, recognizable visual symbols. The reproducible became unique. With our new exhibition concept, ARTES Pop-Shop, we embrace precisely this idea. Throughout the year, we present a rotating selection of significant Pop Art works—directly accessible, directly experienceable. What once began as artistic provocation is now itself part of global pop culture. Opening: Tuesday, 3. March 2026 Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 3. March 2026– (to follow) Image caption: Roy Lichtenstein: Bild “Crying Girl (Mailer)” (1963) by cortesy of ARTES Berlin Exhibition Pop Shop – ARTES Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin – Contemporary Art | Exhibition Galleries Berlin | ART at Berlin
La Vie en Rose | Group exhibition | Luisa Catucci Contemporary | 13.03.-25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4983ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Contemporary shows from Friday, 13. March 2026 (Opening: 12.03.) the group exhibition La Vie en Rose by the artists Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Clara Tournay and Mana Urakami. Curated by Luisa Catucci and Mario Bermel. Curated by Luisa Catucci in collaboration with Mario Bermel, the exhibition is the first to be presented under the new name “Luisa Catucci Contemporary” and marks the transition of the former “Luisa Catucci Gallery” into an expanded platform for contemporary art. Mana Urakami, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary The exhibition brings together works by Maike Freess, Barbara Boekelman, Clara Tournay and Mana Urakami, and unfolds around the presence of the colour pink – not as a decorative motif, but as a quiet, persistent pulse. Historically, pink has been layered with shifting meanings, ranging from spiritual embodiment and Rococo excess to its later gendered domestication; here it is reclaimed as a symbol of resilience and lived strength. It appears in drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs and embroideries as a stain, a reflection, an interruption or a subtle trace, uniting tenderness and strength in a single breath. Maike Freess, courtesy of Luisa Catucci Contemporary The title alludes to Édith Piaf’s “La […]
Susanne Waltermann | Galerie Haas | 14.03.–24.04.2026
until 24.04. | #4964ARTatBerlin | Galerie Haas shows from Saturday, 14. March 2026 (Opening: 13.03.) an exhibition by the artist Susanne Waltermann. Stitch by stitch, Susanne Waltermann creates iconographically idiosyncratic works that are as complex as the list of materials used and permeated by a wide variety of thread types. Her own body and its perception play an important role in her artistic practice: ‘I lay the paper on the floor, then lie down on it myself and paint the outline around me.’ In a lengthy, intuitive process, she creates works that are sewn in several layers onto Japanese paper and tissue paper. In art history, sewing represents a deeply personal activity; cutting, tearing, sewing and joining are associated with ideas of atonement and the expression of emotional tensions. The motifs of Waltermann’s votive images range from cooking pots to homeopathic vials, depicting stockings, underpants, fish and sausages. By elevating everyday objects into the sacred realm, the sacred is trivialised and the trivial is simultaneously aestheticised. It is about a search for meaning that could not be found in an imagery of a blood-drenched saviour, nor in the intellectualised Catholicism of Cologne in the 1960s. Waltermann is concerned with the […]
Nick Zinner | Crowds | janinebeangallery | 12.03.-11.04.2026
until 11.04. | #4962ARTatBerlin | janinebeangallery shows from Thursday, 12. March 2026 the exhibition Crowds by the artist Nick Zinner. With “Crowds,” the janinebeangallery Berlin presents a focused selection of photographic works by Nick Zinner. The exhibition shows exclusively photographs from 2003 and 2004, a formative phase both in Zinner’s artistic development and in the context of international music and club culture of the early 2000s. Nick Zinner is internationally known as the guitarist and songwriter of the New York band Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Since the band’s founding in 2000, he has significantly shaped its characteristic sound – with precise, often edgy guitar work that oscillates between post‑punk energy, noise elements, and melodic restraint. Together with singer Karen O and drummer Brian Chase, Zinner developed a musical language that played a decisive role in the band’s international breakthrough in the early 2000s. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are among the central protagonists of New York’s indie‑rock scene of that era. With their debut album Fever to Tell (2003) and songs like Maps, the band became known worldwide. Their concerts were marked by intense physical presence, direct proximity to the audience, and an emotional immediacy that reflected the spirit of a generation. The […]
how to see | Robert Filliou | Galerie Barbara Wien | 07.03.-15.04.2026
until 15.04. | #4961ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara shows from 7. März 2026 the exhibition how to see | Robert Filliou. “What the visitor knows is enough. To accept the ‘knowledge that one knows,’ but also to ‘know what knowledge is’—that is the spirit of Permanent Creation.” – Robert Filliou / Joachim Pfeufer in Le Poipoidrome Ambulant 00, 1975 “I thought I could measure things according to the criterion of the moment. For example, I am a little over sixty tomatoes tall, and I am 111,225 Copenhagen–Paris train journeys old.” – Robert Filliou in an interview with Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, 1976 “Robert Filliou is one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Perhaps it will take the 21st century to recognize this.” Curator Anders Kreuger finds clear words for Robert Filliou, whom he presents not only as an artist but also as a playwright, poet, and thinker. In 2017, Kreuger curated a major retrospective at M HKA in Antwerp titled The Secret of Permanent Creation, accompanied by an outstanding publication. It was the fourth retrospective dedicated to Filliou since 1984. Although Filliou’s actions—he died in 1987—and even the retrospectives of his work now lie well in the past, Kreuger notes […]
Renaud Regnery | The Weird and the Eerie | KLEMM’S | 13.03.-17.04.2026
until 17.04. | #4960ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from Friday, 13. March 2026 the exhibition The Weird and the Eerie by artist Renaud Regnery. For his latest exhibition at Klemm’s, The Weird and the Eerie, Renaud Regnery further advances his inquiry into the emotional and social conditions of modern and contemporary image production, presenting a new series of works that convey layered gestures in charcoal and photorealistic wallpaper. Drawing its title from the eponymous book by Mark Fisher, the exhibition unfolds Regnery’s ongoing interest in the unheimlich, inherited social conventions, their aesthetic manifestations, and the psychological questions they entail. Ultimately, The Weird and the Eerie is structured by a process of deconstruction—one that highlights how the symbolic elements of late capitalism’s visual language are entangled in human psychology, subjectivity, and sensitivity. Opening: Friday, 13. March 2026, 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. March until Friday, 17. April 2026 Title image caption : Renaud Regnery, Viral, 2026, Charcoal and wallpaper on canvas, 180 x 135 cm. Exhibition Renaud Regnery – KLEMMS | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries| ART at Berlin
Hyper-soft: double-down | Group Exhibition | KLEMM’S | 20.03.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4959ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S (Downstairs) shows from Friday 20. March 2026 the exhibition hyper-soft: double-down by the artists Maxime Chabal, Marcus Nelson and Sarah Neumann. hyper-soft: double-down brings together works that hover at the threshold between the bodily, the psychological, and the architectural. Spanning drawing, installation, and painting, hyper-soft: double-down unfolds as a field of tension. On one hand, the works mirror a social anxiety embodied through architectural containment and repression. On the other, they pry open these conditions, gesturing toward flight, shelter, and ambiguity, as industrial materials and formal vocabularies are appropriated and transformed into gestures of tenderness. Opening: Friday, 20. March 2026, 6 until 9pm Exhibitions dates: Friday, 20. March 2026 until Saturday, 18. April 2026 Title image caption: Marcus Nelson, Muzzle (III), 2025. Steel window grate and oil on canvas, 90 x 80 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Exhibition Hyper-soft: double-down– KLEMMS | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Susanne Winkler | – HIER UND JETZT – Im Dialog mit dem Modell | Galerie Creative Game | 07.03.-22.03.2026
bis 22.03. | #4958ARTatBerlin | Galerie Creative Game shows from 7. March 2026 (Opening: 06.03.) the exhibition – HIER UND JETZT – Im Dialog mit dem Modell (> HERE AND NOW – In dialogue with the model) by the artist Susanne Winkler. For the first time, an exhibition at the gallery is dedicated exclusively to nude drawings. Susanne Winkler’s works are created live during encounters with the model. The artist is less concerned with an exact reproduction of the body than with spontaneously capturing the charisma, posture, and presence of each pose. Susanne Winkler, Back view In dialogue with the model. Drawings and hybrid forms of drawing and painting emerge in short, time-limited sequences, preserving the fleeting nature of the pose. The intuitive capturing of the moment forms the central concept in Susanne Winkler’s artistic work and is particularly evident in her nude drawings. Susanne Winkler, Nude landscape She works with a variety of materials such as pencil, charcoal, India ink, acrylic, watercolor, or pastels. The drawings are not reworked and remain immediate snapshots of a moment. Susanne Winkler The works are imbued with the aura and presence of the model. Susanne Winkler’s artistic output encompasses not only figure drawing […]
Florian Pelka | Syntagma | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 28.02.–11.04.2026
until 11.04. | #4957ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from Saturday, 28. February 2026 the exhibition Syntagma by the artist Florian Pelka. Florian Pelka’s colorful images are reminiscent of collages. In a dynamic field of abstraction and figuration, he combines elements from the plant and animal world, mythology, and iconography to create multi-layered visual worlds. The exhibition Syntagma refers to the composition of fragments of our world and makes the visual language tangible as an open, ambiguous system. Opening: Saturday, 28. February 2026, 4–8 pm Artist Talk: with Florian Pelka on Saturday, 14. March, at 4 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 28. February – Saturday, 11. April 2026 <iframe width=”960″ height=”600″ src=”https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=bnCids3t8A2″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen allow=”autoplay; fullscreen; web-share; xr-spatial-tracking;”></iframe> Titel image caption: Florian Pelka, Wunde, 2020, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm Exhibition Florian Pelka – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Maria + Natalia Petschatnikov | Berlin, A Rough Cut | BBA Gallery | 10.03.–25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4956ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from Tuesday, 10. March 2026 (Opening: 07.03.) the exhibition Berlin, A Rough Cut by the artist duo Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov. In their exhibition “Berlin, A Rough Cut,” artist duo Maria and Natalia Petschatnikov transform BBA Gallery into a cinematic storyboard of urban life. The title refers to the filmmaking process: like a first edit, individual scenes and fragments of Berlin are juxtaposed to create a non-linear narrative. The twin sisters approach their practice as “anthropologists of the ordinary,” treating the city’s streets as an ongoing site of field research. Focusing on the neighborhood around Heinrich-Heine-Straße—shared by both their studio and the gallery—the artists explore the constant state of transformation that defines Berlin. With wit and poetic precision, they give meaning to the seemingly insignificant traces of daily existence. “Berlin, A Rough Cut” is a reflection on time and space, capturing the present as a fleeting film still held for a moment before it disappears, inviting us to see the city as a living, unfinished archive. Opening: Saturday, 07. March 2026, 6–9 pm Exhibition dates: Tuesday, 10. March – Saturday, 25. April 2026 Titel image caption: Maria & Natalia Petschatnikov […]
Shahin Afrassiabi | Francis – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025 | Soy Capitán | 13.02.–28.03.2026
until 28.03. | #4955ARTatBerlin | Galerie Soy Capitán currently shows the exhibition Francis – Paintings Drawings Sculptures 2023–2025 by the artist Shahin Afrassiabi. Soy Capitán presents more than seventy works that emerged from an intensive engagement with an iconic photograph by Francis Bacon taken in his studio in 1971. Starting with this image, Afrassiabi developed a multifaceted body of work over several years, which is not understood as a portrait, but rather as a series of variations and transformations of a motif. Recurring elements and formal shifts open up new pictorial spaces in which gestures, structures, and meanings are constantly changing. The photograph serves as the starting point for an open artistic investigation that increasingly detaches itself from the original image and generates independent visual worlds. Photo: Roman März, Courtesy Soy Capitán, Berlin The presentation deliberately avoids a hierarchical order, instead creating a dense, immersive situation in which the works enter into a dialogue with one another. The serial structure and the diversity of variations point to the possibilities of painting as a process between control and openness, repetition and difference. In this context, engaging with Bacon becomes a reflection on painting itself, as well as on fundamental questions of […]
Marieta Chirulescu + Fred Sandback | Phase | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 27.02.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4953ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstraße) shows from Friday, 27. February 2026 the exhibition Phase by the artists Marieta Chirulescu and Fred Sandback. The exhibition “Phase,” presented at Galerie Thomas Schulte, unites paintings by Marieta Chirulescu and expansive installations by Fred Sandback. Muted and mutable surfaces appear as liminal spaces where perception unfolds between materiality, light, and space. The works follow a process-oriented and intuitive approach that explores the changing properties of light and spatial experience. What initially appears reduced or emptied reveals further dimensions over time, particularly a moment of transience that sets seemingly stable geometric orders in motion. Between surface and transparent physicality, the gaze is directed toward the seemingly invisible: space itself as a subtle, material presence. Opening: Friday, 27. February 2026, 6–9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 27. February until Saturday, 18. April 2026 Titel image caption: Marieta Chirulescu, 2025 Exhibition Marieta Chirulescu + Fred Sandback – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Monia Ben Hamouda + Rodrigo Hernández | After Totality + The Long Pond | ChertLüdde | 24.02.–02.04.2026
until 02.04. | #4952ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde shows from 24. February 2026 (Opening: 22.02.) the exhibitions After Totality by the artist Monia Ben Hamouda and The Long Pond by the artist Rodrigo Hernández. In her upcoming exhibition at ChertLüdde, Monia Ben Hamouda presents “After Totality.” The title refers to her recent exhibition “Path of Totality,” which was on view at the Museo Casa Rusca in Locarno (September 20, 2025 – January 11, 2026). In astronomy, the term “path of totality” refers to the area of the Earth from which a total solar eclipse is visible, when the moon completely obscures the sun and daylight briefly gives way to darkness. For Ben Hamouda, this phenomenon becomes a metaphor for the present, overshadowed by war, a worsening climate crisis, and the resurgence of fascist and racist ideologies. “After Totality” thus alludes to a fragile threshold: the uncertain, tentative possibility of a new beginning after the darkness. Rodrigo Hernández, Detail of I wonder how quickly you will forget about me in Paris (P+R), 2026, Bronze, 2 elements, Courtesy of the Artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin Rodrigo Hernández (born 1983 in Mexico City) works with drawing, painting, relief, sculpture, and installation, creating meticulously composed visual constellations […]
Claudia Desgranges | Jaune de Mars | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 07.03.-17.04.2026
until 17.04. | #4951ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Saturday 7. March 2026 the exhibition “Jaune de Mars” by the artist Claudia Desgranges. The artistic work of painter Claudia Desgranges reflects an engagement with abstract modernism, minimalism, abstract expressionism, and color field painting. And in doing so, she creates something entirely new. When asked about her painting, she says: “My goal is to achieve freedom in painting, to transcend conventions, to initiate new ways of seeing. We are exposed to so many media; everything is constantly accelerating, many things happening simultaneously. I respond to this with the slow medium of painting… The aim is not to become immersed in a single image, but rather to allow the eye to wander.” Claudia Desgranges is known for her vibrant, luminous paintings characterized by intense color harmonies. Whether on canvas, foil, or metal surfaces, encounters with her artworks are always immersive. Claudia Desgranges demonstrates through her art just how inexhaustible painting can be. Claudia Desgranges (born 1953 in Frankfurt) lives and works in Cologne and Conilhac-Corbières, France. Desgranges studied painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy / Münster branch. She received numerous scholarships and awards. including from: Kunstfonds Bonn (1988), Sparkassenstiftung Bonn (1998), […]
Dennis Fuchs | Cold Soup | Laura Mars Gallery | 21.02.-28.03.2026
until 28.03. | #4950ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 21. February 2026 (Opening: 20.02.) the exhibition Cold Soup by the artist Dennis Fuchs. Cold Soup does not refer to gazpacho or a smoothie-like concoction. Metaphorically speaking, the soup in Dennis Fuchs’s new works is anything but cold. With his characteristically subtle humor and a wink at the viewer, he presents large-format drawings, ultra-fine airbrushed clouds and pencil lines, a magnificent ceramic vessel, small figurative sculptures in cool poses—and, surprisingly, his venture into painting. Over the years, Dennis Fuchs has scaled up his ambitions, moving from his beloved small cups and bowls to a centerpiece that lends the exhibition its name: a grand soup tureen, lidless and hand-shaped rather than wheel-turned. With this, Fuchs steps into a lineage of ceramic artistry, the vessel’s surface alive with folds, sculpted forms, and etched marks that echo Bernard Palissy’slegendary rustiques figulines. Geckos crawl and dangle along the rim, kin to Palissy’s reptiles. Figures and body parts twist from inside to out and back again, conjuring a dreamlike, deeply personal universe where forms melt and reassemble. Fuchs playfully distorts traditional forms and motifs, but his color choices nod to history: the vessel’s striking green […]
Thilo Heinzmann | Keep On | neugerriemschneider | 03.03.–04.04.2026
until 04.04. | #4949ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse) shows from 3. March 2026 (Opening: 28.02.) the exhibition Keep On by the artist Thilo Heinzmann. Following the publication of his latest monograph, Thilo Heinzmann presents selected sand paintings in Keep On, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider. In these works, the latest results of his exploration of composition, texture and color, the white of the base of his pigment paintings is inverted into the complementary non-color black. Sand and pieces of glass, subtractive gestures and impasto application of black on black create a brilliant interplay of light and depth that always appears new and different depending on the point of view. After three decades of conceptual painterly investigation along the antagonisms and synergies of idea/process, chaos/precision and tradition/innovation, these new paintings build on the artist’s previous bodies of work. In their reduction and rigor, they concentrate Heinmann’s work, in which the individual elements continually relate to one another and question one another. Heinzmann’s painting practice is a continuous search for something new in a medium that is repeatedly presented as having been told. Using both traditional and unconventional techniques, the artist questions materials as diverse as Styrofoam, parchment, aluminum, pressboard or […]
Suzanne Stein | US: Slow Code | Verena Kerfin Gallery | 23.02.–17.04.2026
until 17.04. | #4948ARTatBerlin | Verena Kerfin Gallery shows from Monday, 23. February 2026 (Opening: 21.02.) the solo exhibition US: Slow Code by the artist Suzanne Stein. Suzanne Stein is a New York City–based social documentary and street photographer who describes her approach as social realism: presenting life as she sees it unfolding, as honestly as possible, so photography in public space can serve as a critical record. Her work is built in proximity and over time—most recently through years of photographing in Kensington, Philadelphia. „I came to photography late and out of necessity. I was a single mother raising a son on the autism spectrum while struggling financially in a wealthy part of Southern California. I spent years advocating for him inside a school system that treated him with misunderstanding and indifference. That experience changed the way I saw the world. It sharpened my awareness of who gets ignored, who gets blamed, and who gets left behind. When I picked up a camera in 2015, I had no technical background. I wasn’t thinking about photography as a career or an art movement. I was responding to what I felt. I found myself drawn to people living on the margins […]
Manuela Sambo | Roots | Galerie Michael Janssen | 31.01.–28.02.2026
until 28.02. | #4947ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Janssen currently presents the exhibition Roots by the artist Manuela Sambo. Galerie Michael Janssen presents the exhibition ‘Roots’ by Angolan artist Manuela Sambo. For this exhibition, Sambo invited Canadian artist Curtis Talwst Santiago to develop a sound installation. This will be experienced for the first time on the evening of the opening. At the centre of the show is a monumental mask sculpture that imposingly spans two floors and permeates the gallery space. This impressive installation symbolises the unstoppable spread of roots – independent of time and space. Roots as a metaphor for invisible but nevertheless powerful forces. The mask embodies not only the increasing interpenetration of different cultures in the present, where African and Western traditions interweave, but also personal elements, such as her spiritual inner life and cultural roots, which are becoming increasingly present in her. Manuela Sambo, Roots, 2026, Installation view Galerie Michael Janssen, Photo: Lepkowski Studios Berlin. In addition to this sculptural work, the paintings selected for the exhibition also address the themes of origin and identity, creation and destruction, and traditional collective and universal spiritual knowledge. Sambo’s more recent works are characterised by questions about these aspects, some […]
Nora Schattauer | Galerie Dittmar | 21.02.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4946ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Saturday, 21. February 2026, an exhibition by the artist Nora Schattauer. Nora Schattauer, born in Duisburg in 1952, lives and works in Cologne. Exhibitions and participations include the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, the Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and the Museum Ostwall, Dortmund. Since 2010, she has been the editor of monographic booklets on contemporary drawing. Numerous publications and workbooks. 2020 Fritz Winter Prize. 2021 Catalogue raisonné of artist’s books published by Walther König. Works in Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kupferstichkabinett Dresden; Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf; Hamburger Kunsthalle, among others. Nora Schattauer deals with questions of form and image processes that transcend conventional genre boundaries. She experiments with new methods, working with chemical solutions and mineral salts. The substances react with the paper, forming compounds; the result cannot be entirely controlled, but experience allows for some degree of control. Structured composition and colorful appearance are inextricably interwoven; the microscopic diversity of forms evokes associations with nature, the pulsation recalls memories of processual events. There is a slight movement, a vibration in the surface, an oscillation in the depth, an interplay of line and color, and […]
Matt Mullican | Above and below the three worlds | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 13.02.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4945ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) shows from Friday, 13. February 2026 the exhibition Above and below the three worlds by the artist Matt Mullican. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents ABOVE AND BELOW THE THREE WORLDS, an extensive solo exhibition of works on paper, rubbings, and objects by Matt Mullican. Familiar systems of organizing and representing information and knowledge, including charts, models, and bulletin boards, coalesce with idiosyncratic ones that are at the core of Mullican’s practice. His use of primary colors and basic forms, particularly the circle or sphere, comes to the fore as initial legibility gives way to underlying complexity. Mullican has been developing his cosmology and system of signs and symbols since the ‘70s. Here, early works on paper from that period alongside recent rubbings highlight continuities and the elaboration of a reality structured across multiple levels – condensed and expansive, highly personal yet broadly encompassing. Opening: Friday, 13. February 2026, 6–9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. February until Saturday, 18. April 2026 Titel image caption: Matt Mullican, “Untitled (double-sided 1835)”, 2025 (detail), Oilstick on canvas, rubbing, 2 parts, total image, 200 x 400 cm | 78 3/4 x 157 1/2 in […]
Sue Hayward + Bettina Sellmann | Shimmer | Galerie Tammen | 13.02.–04.04.2026
until (04.04) | #4944ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from Friday, 13. February 2026 the exhibition Shimmer by the artists Sue Hayward and Bettina Sellmann. The common denominator of these two impressive painterly positions is reflected in the title of the exhibition. Shimmer means appearance or illusion in English, and this is precisely where the connection between the works of both artists lies. Shimmer refers to an iridescent light, like the reflection of the moon in water. The word evokes velvet, silver and pearls, a surface that is more than just matter. It appears different depending on the angle and the incidence of light. It is about a state that does not exist materially. Gallery owner Werner Tammen in front of works by Sue Hayward Sue Hayward and Bettina Sellmann are painters. Both flirt with past visual worlds, with a symbolism of beauty and power that was mostly established by men. How is it possible to find a contemporary form of expression that is not a repetition? Each artist’s signature style is unique. Transparency and transcendence are intertwined using extremely different techniques. The result is figurative pictorial spaces that represent perceived realities.” (Quote from the opening speech by Dr Helen Adkins […]
Ritta Päiväläinen | Phantasma | Persons Projects | 21.03.–25.04.2026
until 25.04. | #4942ARTatBerlin | Persons Projects shows from 21. March 2026 (Opening: 20.03.) the exhibition Phantasma by the artist Ritta Päiväläinen. The series, titled Phantasma, was created in the dramatic, isolated landscapes of Iceland and Lapland. Phantasma evokes the fleeting, ghostly presence of her textile installations, capturing ephemeral moments where memory, imagination, and nature converge. Since 1997, Päiväläinen has photographed and produced site-specific fabric installations within natural environments. She has developed a singular visual language, creating delicate, temporary interventions in remote, pristine places seemingly untouched by human activity. She selects her locations with care, choosing forests, valleys, or riverbanks as the stage for her work. Using second-hand clothing and found fabrics, she constructs temporary organic sculptures that engage with the landscape, forming fragile shelters and intimate spaces that evoke childhood memories and invite reflection on our relationship with nature. The installations are ephemeral, existing only briefly in the landscape before being carefully dismantled. Their memories are preserved through a single photograph that captures their delicate presence, with the artist patiently awaiting the perfect interplay of light, wind, and atmosphere. These images transform ephemeral gestures into enduring works of art, revealing a poetic tension between the familiar and the unfamiliar, […]
20 Years of Kunstkontakter | Group exhibition | Galerie Z22 | 14.02.-28.02.2026 – extended until 07.03.2026
until 07.03. | #4954ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 14. February 2026 the group exhibition 20 Years of Kunstkontakter featuring works by 13 artists. With: Thorsten Brinkmann, James Clancy, Anke Eilergerhard, Emess, Frank Massholder, June Newton, Edmund Piper, Peter Schlangenbader, Konstantin Schneider, Ha Schult, Jan Sobottka, Thorsten Solin, Gerard Waskievitz starring Matthias Arndt, Blixa Bargeld, Georg Baselitz, Roger M. Buergel, Jonas Burgert, Antoine de Caune, Kai Diekmann, Nezaket Ekici, Harald Falckenberg, Rainer Fetting, Marc Gisbourne, Herbert Grönemeyer, Asta Gröting, Ali Güreli, Eddie Hara, Jörg Heiser, Ernst Hilger, Damien Hirst, Candida Hoefer, Feng Huanian, Wolfgang Joop, Georg Kargl, Udo Kittelmann, Herlinde Koelbl, Aino Laberenz, Thomas Levy, Markus Lüpertz, Gerd Harry Lybke, Jonathan Meese, Angela Merkel, Hermann Nitsch, Dieter Nuhr, Thomas Olbricht, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Jean Pigozzi, Peter Raue, Magnus Renfrew, Daniel Richter, Stefan Ringel, Thaddäus Ropac, Lorenzo Rudolph, Salome, Thomas Scheibitz, Cornelia Schleime, Christoph Schlingensief, Seo, Johanna Smiatek, Marc Spiegler, Ha Schult, Michael Schultz, Klaus Staeck, Werner Tammen, Wolfgang Tillmanns, Peter Weibel, Marc Wellmann special thanks to AVMGMbh Opening: Saturday, 14. February 2026, 7-10 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 14. February – Saturday, 28. February 2026 ATTENTION: extended until Saturday, 07. March 2026 Titel image: courtesy of Galerie Z22 […]
Alexander Iskin | „What if“ … forever | Sexauer Gallery | 13.02.-28.03.2026
until 28.03. | #4941ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from Friday, 13. February 2026 (Opening: 12.02.) the exhibition „What if … forever“ by the artist Alexander Iskin. In his eighth exhibition at SEXAUER, titled “What if” … forever, Alexander Iskin presents new works created during a stay in Mexico. As always, Iskin—the inventor of Interrealism—connects different worlds. He worked for several months in Mexico City (Santa María la Ribera) and in Mazunte, a small coastal town on the Pacific. Alongside his artistic practice, he volunteered at the turtle sanctuary Centro Mexicano de la Tortuga. There he witnessed egg-laying, the hatching of baby turtles, their journey to the sea, observed mating, and accompanied a turtle in death. Yet Iskin did not become an animal painter. Rather, his works invite us to dive into depth of the ocean and of the unconscious. As an Interrealist, Iskin has always been interested in in-between worlds, seeking to make this “interreality” tangible. After initially exploring the space between digital-virtual and physical reality, and turning in 2024 to spirits and myths in Use the exit as an entrance, he expands the interreal space once more in “What if” … forever. Here, collective myths recede in favor of […]
ABSTRACT – North America – Germany – An Atlantic Bridge II – NOW? | Galerie Kremers | 13.02.–05.05.2026
until 05.05. | #4650ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kremers shows from 13. February 2026 the exhibition ABSTRACT – North America – Germany – An Atlantic Bridge II – NOW? with works by the artists Christian Achenbach, Fiona Ackerman, Adochi, Claudia Chaseling, Jonni Cheatwood, Virginia Glasmacher, Gregor Hiltner, Juan Logan, Natascha Mann, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Szot, Howard Sherman, Ernst Weil and Taylor A. White. This is a continuation of the 2019 exhibition “The New Abstract – An Atlantic Bridge – USA – BERLIN”, featuring both established and emerging artists from both sides of the Atlantic. Given the deteriorating political relations, one might expect a breakdown rather than the rebuilding of bridges; yet this is not the case in the realm of art. Since the days of De Kooning and Kurt Schwitters, a dialogue has been taking place across the transatlantic bridge in the universal language of painting, through which the partners have mutually influenced and enriched one another. Social media and the globalisation of the market have further reinforced this trend. One could say that the artists are weaving a shared visual language through a rampant process of mutual appropriation. We have taken account of the fact that this dialogue also takes place […]
Masters of Colour Woodblock Printing | Group Exhibition | Galerie Martin Mertens | 28.02.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4940ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from Saturday, 28. February 2026 the group exhibition “Masters of Colour Woodblock Printing” by the artist Eline Brontsema, Brian Curling, Christine Ebersbach and Susanne Werdin. The exhibition brings together four artists who have continued the traditional technique of colour woodcut in very different forms and brought it to great mastery. In the 18th and 19th centuries, woodcut printing lost its importance due to new printing techniques and industrial reproduction. However, colour woodcut printing experienced a resurgence around 1900, particularly in the wake of the Japanese ukiyo-e woodcut, which gave European artists new impetus in composition, colour and surface design. In Germany, representatives of Expressionism such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff took up the technique and used colour woodcut as a direct, powerful means of expression. The strong simplification of forms and the expressive use of colour made it a central medium of modernism. After the Second World War, colour woodcut continued to be used in Germany and Europe in both fine art and book and graphic design, but increasingly outside the mainstream of art history. Since the 1970s, the technique has experienced a revival: contemporary artists are […]
Abstraction | Group Exhibition | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 10.02.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4939ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach shows from 10. February 2026 (Opening: 07.02.) the exhibition Abstraction by the artists André Butzer, Thilo Heinzmann and Victor Payares. Two years after a similarly conceived exhibition entitled Traces, with works by Tamina Amadyar, Hinako Miyabayashi, and Minh Lan Tran, once again three large-format abstract canvas works by different artists are being juxtaposed with one another. And as before, an entire room is dedicated to each painting on display. But the commonalities between the two exhibitions also continue in terms of content. While Traces critically addressed the circumstance that, in the age of the internet, painting is increasingly geared toward its effect in photographic reproduction, Abstraction questions a related phenomenon: Painting is currently experiencing its umpteenth renaissance. Not only at art fairs, but also in exhibitions in galleries and museums, as well as at biennials, the often-declared-dead discipline is once again very much present. At the same time, however, it can be observed that it is primarily the figurative variant that is benefiting from the momentum, while abstract painting, with a few exceptions that prove the rule, is hardly enjoying any increased attention. Ohne Titel, 2008. André Butzer. Oil on canvas, […]
Marco Di Coscio | Selling Romance By The Pound | BBA Gallery | 11.02.–21.02.2026
until 21.02. | #4943ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from Wednesday, 11. February 2026 the exhibition Selling Romance By The Pound by the artist Marco Di Coscio. The collection’s title is a reference to the Genesis album *Selling England by the Pound* from 1973. Di Coscio understands “romanticism” here as a commodity—an idealized, softened version of the self that his subjects present to the camera. Deeply rooted in his experience in film directing and method acting, Di Coscio’s work explores the “transaction” between subject and viewer: How much of our “authentic self” are we willing to give up in order to be seen? Inspired by the technical clarity of great masters like Mark Seliger and Albert Watson, Di Coscio’s real focus lies in the moment when the charade crumbles. His portraits capture the raw tension and fragility that remain when the “mask” falls, revealing the fine line between conscious self-presentation and the desperate defense of one’s inner self. The exhibition showcases a wide range of global subjects, including actors and athletes, sex workers, Nepalese monks, and people with disabilities. By portraying these diverse individuals with the same visual rigor, Di Coscio creates a democratic space of visibility. He compels the viewer […]
Tobias Kielinger | The search for the self between moderation and intoxication | Galerie Creative Game | 14.02.-01.03.2026
until 01.03. |#4938ARTatBerlin | Galerie Creative Game shows from 14. Februar 2026 the exhibition “The search for the self between moderation and intoxication” by the artist Tobias Kielinger. Tobias Kielinger presents a retrospective that goes far beyond the purely aesthetic. Under the name of the gallery, he conducts an artistic experiment that understands painting as an existential game and radical self-questioning. Inspired by the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, Tobias Kielinger reveals the tension between the two primal forces of human existence: the Apollonian and the Dionysian. Neue Horizonte 1. 2022, Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 80 cm Two ways of working – one principle for life The exhibition juxtaposes two contrasting poles of his artistic work. On the one hand, there are the Apollonian works: images of architectural clarity and deliberate austerity. They represent the search for order, structure, and mastery of form. On the other hand, there are the Dionysian works, which arise from a state of ecstasy and intoxication. Here, Tobias uses abstract painting as a tool for self-liberation. It is a conscious break with the control of the ego in order to give free rein to the impulses of the subconscious. For Tobias Kielinger, abstraction only becomes […]
VOYAGE COLLAGE II | Group Exhibition | Galerie feinart berlin | 20.02.–21.03.2026
until 21.03. | #4937ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from Friday, 20 February 2026 the exhibition “VOYAGE COLLAGE II” by the artists Samira Freitag, Jürgen Tenz (1942–2021), Maud Tutsche, ARATORA and Christiane Kowalewsky. With “VOYAGE COLLAGE II”, Galerie feinart berlin presents the second edition of an exhibition series dedicated to collage as an independent contemporary art form. Five artistic positions open up a broad range of collage techniques and reveal how closely individual formal approaches are intertwined with questions of content. ARATORA, Café Slavia, Egon Erwin Kisch war hier, Prag, 2025, Woodblock print with collage and additional elements, 30 × 30 cm, edition of 3 Since the early 20th century, collage has been associated with the avant-garde, standing for the combination of disparate materials and the conscious breaking of conventions. From fragmented, damaged or underestimated elements emerge hybrid visual languages that oscillate between poetry, provocation and irony. Its deconstructive character also carries a critical potential toward systems of consumption, capital and media. Jürgen Tenz, Bezwungen, 1995, Relief-Collage, 35 × 30 cm Three of the artists in the exhibition – Samira Freitag, Maud Tutsche and Jürgen Tenz (1942–2021) – engage with representations of the female body and erotic imagery. ARATORA (alias […]
Parallelparadies | Im Wasser | Galerie Schindler | 12.02.–11.04.2026
until 11.04. | #4936ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from Thursday, 12 February 2026 the exhibition “Im Wasser” by the artist duo Parallelparadies. In “Im Wasser”, the artist duo Parallelparadies – consisting of painter Annette Beisenherz and sculptor Wilken Skurk – presents recent collaborative works developed through an ongoing artistic dialogue. Parallelparadies, Not Ready, 2024, Mischtechnik auf Holz, 90 × 87 cm. Founded in 2023, Parallelparadies brings together contrasting elements within a shared pictorial space. Abstract, fluid backgrounds created through poured paint encounter realistic figurative scenes. Chance and intention, the unconscious and the conscious, abstraction and figuration coexist in deliberate tension. Parallelparadies, Ohne Titel, 2025, Mischtechnik auf Holz, 125 × 110 cm. The works explore themes of human relationships, communication, dependency and balance. Motifs such as surfacing and submerging, confinement, doors, keyholes and keys point to transitional states – moments poised between fear and ecstasy, emergence and disappearance. Parallelparadies, Ringen, 2024, Mischtechnik auf Holz, 152 × 137 cm. Through their joint artistic process, Parallelparadies seeks to visualize the limits of communication and, at the same time, to overcome them on an image-based level. The resulting works form a shared visual territory in which differing perspectives remain distinct while entering into a […]
Sandra Schlipkoeter | Δs = kλ | Taubert Contemporary | 13.02.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4935ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from Friday, 13. February 2026 the exhibition Δs = kλ by the artist Sandra Schlipkoeter. In the exhibition Δs = kλ, Sandra Schlipkoeter explores the conditions of perception in the tension between line, light, and space. The title, borrowed from a physical formula, describes not a closed system, but a relationship: minimal shifts, differences, and distances that give rise to measurable changes. In Schlipkoeter’s artistic practice, this figure of thought becomes a precise model of seeing — a seeing that is not stable, but rather composed of overlaps, refractions, and temporal moments. For many years, Schlipkoeter has been working with the phenomenon of interference, the overlapping of light waves that is visible in both natural and digital image worlds. The starting point for her work is photographic observations of screen and camera light, whose supposed disturbances — lines, flickering, shifts — she translates into a painterly process. The focus is not on the representation of a motif, but on the translation of a visual event: light becomes structure, line becomes the carrier of movement and duration. The works on display evolve from painting into an open pictorial space. Pourings and line drawings […]
Hendrik Czakainski | Was bleibt, wenn es kippt | AOA;87 contemporary | 20.02.–02.04.2026
until 02.04. | #4933ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from Thursday, 20 February 2026 the exhibition “Was bleibt, wenn es kippt” by the artist Hendrik Czakainski. In Was bleibt, wenn es kippt, Hendrik Czakainski explores processes of displacement, sedimentation and instability. His works are created using industrial materials such as MDF, cardboard, filler and paint, which are layered, scraped and reassembled through iterative processes. Hendrik Czakainski, Non Point sources #7 (Detail), 2025, MDF, Karton, Spachtel, Farbe, 145 × 145 cm. Operating between painting and object, Czakainski’s works retain visible materiality. Fractures and compressions form an essential part of the pictorial structure, addressing transitional states in which order tips over and new configurations emerge. Hendrik Czakainski, Künstlerportrait im Studio. Hendrik Czakainski, Non Point sources #7, 2025, MDF, Karton, Spachtel, Farbe, 145 × 145 cm. Hendrik Czakainski, Scrapper (Detail), 2024, MDF, Karton, Spachtel, Farbe, 156 × 91 cm. Opening: Thursday, 20 February 2026, 6:00–8:00 pm Exhibition dates:Thursday, 20 February – Thursday, 2 April 2026 Image caption tittle: Hendrik Czakainski, Deposit #blend5 (Detail), 2025, MDF, Karton, Spachtel, Farbe, 154 × 89 cm. Exhibition Hendrik Czakainski – AOA;87 contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien […]
Izabel Angerer | proof of existence | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 14.02.–18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4934ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from Saturday, 14. February 2026 (Opening: 13.02.) the exhibition proof of existence by the artist Izabel Angerer. Galerie kajetan is pleased to present proof of existence, the first solo exhibition of the Austrian artist Izabel Angerer (*1969) in its spaces. The exhibition gathers her most recent works on paper and aluminum, emerging from line, perforation, and a precise engagement with material. They occupy a space at the intersection of drawing, painting, and object. Angerer’s practice is based on a focused yet open working process. Her densely placed lines testify to precision while being carried by minimal deviations; perforations accumulate progressively but never uniformly, shifting their rhythm and activating the support into a dynamic surface that can, at times, appear tactile. Izabel Angerer | proof of existence | Exhibition view 2026 | Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski The artist’s individual marks are never conceived as isolated gestures but always as parts of a sequence. Meaning arises from the temporal dimension of artistic creation—the continuous repetition, deviation, and spontaneity that shape each of the exhibited works. Her theoretical point of reference is the thought of the pre-Socratic philosopher […]
Joel Sternfeld | American Prospects | Buchmann Galerie | 07.02.-21.03.2026
until 21.03. | #4932ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 07. February 2026 the exhibition American Prospects by the artist Joel Sternfeld. Opening: Saturday, 07. February 2026, from 3 to 6 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. February – Saturday, 21. March 2026 Titel image caption: Joel Sternfeld. Space Center Houston, Houston, Texas, March, 1979. Archival inkjet print. 142 x 177,8 cm, 56 x 70 in Exhibition Joel Sternfeld – Buchmann Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Calla Henkel + Max Pitegoff | The End of Theater | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 07.02–21.03.2026
until 21.03. | #4931ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from Saturday, 07. February 2026 the exhibition The End of Theater by the artists Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff. The gallery presents the third exhibition by Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, entitled The End of THEATER. The exhibition comprises the complete series of episodes of THEATER, which were filmed at the New Theater Hollywood in Los Angeles, the black box theater that both artists have been running since January 2024. The films, starring Leilah Weinraub, tell a story centered around a character named Kennedy, interweaving this narrative with footage shot during rehearsals for theater productions at New Theater Hollywood. Complementing this, the artists present new video works from their latest play, THE END IS NEW, which premiered at REDCAT in Los Angeles in the fall of 2025. Opening: Saturday, 07. February 2026, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 07. February until Saturday, 21. March 2026 Title image caption: Calla Henkel + Max Pitegoff, THEATER (Episode 4), 2025. Pictured: Georgia Ford, Leilah Weinraub Exhibition Calla Henkel + Max Pitegoff – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Anders Scrmn Meisner | Picked an Orange for a Renaissance Girl | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 14.02–21.03.2026
until 21.03. | #4930ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from Saturday, 14. February 2026 (Opening: 13.02.) the exhibition Picked an Orange for a Renaissance Girl by the artist Anders Scrmn Meisner. A woman lying within a giant oyster shell within a blue garden. A ring lying on a blanket of grass. Kimono-wearing dancers swaying within a wall of leaves. Danish artist Anders Scrmn Meisner’s latest paintings draw on sense memories and the language of shared symbolism, inviting us into a cocoon of romance, beauty and connection. The exhibition’s title painting “Picked an Orange for a Renaissance Girl” captures the mood. It evokes the idea of stepping back to a simpler time, when we were perhaps more in touch with the natural world and our emotions, when the gift and receipt of an orange was enough to convey love, admiration or simply, mutual understanding. But as with all of Meisner’s works, the line as well as the composition itself – an orange stretched almost to the full parameters of the canvas – has a playful knowingness about it. Here, the artist is relishing in the luxury of painting a piece of fruit, of imbuing it with importance, while in full […]
Winter 2026 | Group exhibition | Galerie Esther Schipper | 20.01.-21.02.2026
until 21.02. | #4927ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper is currently showing the Group exhibition “Winter 2026”. Esther Schipper Berlin is currently presenting “Winter 2026″, bringing together works by Saâdane Afif, Rosa Barba, Angela Bulloch, Julius von Bismarck, Martin Boyce, Etienne Chambaud, Thomas Demand, Ryan Gander, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Lee Bae, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Philippe Parreno, Anri Sala, and Anicka Yi. Over four decades ago, Gil Scott-Heron observed that – “politically, and philosophically, and psychologically” – there was only one prevailing season, “the season of ice”; words that, without doubt, mirror the current atmosphere. While the winter solstice promises the gradual return of light, days remain swayed in darkness for weeks on end. Though tiresome, this long night opens a space for introspection, even spurs the fire in one’s belly. Winter, for Scott-Heron, signified a state of frozen aspiration and inspiration. Yet this bitter condition provoked a moody, by now iconic, song that he liked to perform seasoned with a grain of salt. In this vein, and uncovering the creative underbelly of such chilled times, the works on view navigate the uncanny and the cosmic across decades, centuries, even millennials. They draw on a fossilized, charred, or blurred past and envision smart, weird, or weirdly rosy nurseries of the future; their aesthetics converge at a dense point of thick materiality and precise formal execution. Light fractures the exhibition space, transforming it into a chiaroscuro landscape suffused by shadow and spotlight. The exhibition opens on a vexed double-entendre signaled by the figure of a […]
Erika Stürmer-Alex | Malerei, Grafik und Objekte | Galerie mutare | 31.01.-04.04.2026
until 04.04. | #4928ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from Saturday, 31. January 2026 the exhibition “Malerei, Grafik und Objekte” by the artist Erika Stürmer-Alex. Erika Stürmer-Alex (signature EST), born in Wriezen/Oderbruch in 1938, studied painting, graphic design and architectural art at the Berlin-Weißensee Art Academy from 1958 to 1963. She then moved to Woltersdorf near Erkner. She travelled to countries in the Eastern Bloc as well as Paris and Venice, and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, to Naxos, Brazil, London and New York. Since 1982, she has lived near Frankfurt/Oder, where she established the Kunsthof Lietzen. Here, EST continued the art courses she had been giving at the Kulturhaus Rüdersdorf since 1969. In 1991, she co-founded the artists’ association ‘Endmoräne’. In 1992, she received the Brandenburg State Sponsorship Award. In 1994, she was a guest of honour at Villa Massimo in Rome. In 2015, she was honoured with the Brandenburg Art Prize for her life’s work. Since 1990, her works have also been featured in international exhibitions. Works by Erika Stürmer-Alex can be found in the following collections, among others: Berlin State Museums/Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Museum Barberini, Potsdam; Minsk, the Kunsthaus Potsdam; National Gallery; Brandenburg Art Collections […]
Albert Heiser | Beyond The Black Hole | Galerie Creative Game | 30.01.-08.02.2026
until 08.02. |#4929ARTatBerlin | Galerie Creative Game presents from 30. January 2026 the year-opening exhibition Beyond The Black Hole with works by the artist Albert Heiser. Beyond the Event Horizon: Albert Heiser, AH, opens the 2026 art year at Creative Game Gallery with the exhibition Beyond the Black Hole. The show opens on Friday, 30 January 2026, at 7 p.m., as part of a New Year’s reception and will be open to the public over two weekends. Beyond the Black Hole is an artistic expedition into the unknown—into a realm where matter, time, space, and meaning collapse, giving rise to singularity. In Heiser’s work, the black hole becomes a metaphor for fundamental questions of existence: for the tension between nothingness and totality, for an endpoint and a beginning at once. While light awaits at the end of many tunnels, here the unimaginable persists in darkness. Earth and humankind appear as fleeting companions within an infinite cosmos. Albert Heiser, Black Hole 2, Mercier 87 Heiser’s works invite viewers to cross the event horizon and embark on a visual journey into depth. Moving between matter, space, and spirit, his paintings unfold a luminous, chromatic pictorial world of compelling intensity. Within these works, […]
CIRCULATIONS | Group exhibition | QGallery Berlin | 21.02.-14.03.2026
until 14.03. |#4926ARTatBerlin | Q Gallery shows from 21. February 2026 (Opening: 20.02) the group exhibition “CIRCULATIONS“ with works by six Latin American artists. CIRCULATIONS is a project that arose from the urgent need to convey everyday experiences and perceptions of identity, historical memory and representation in the works of six Latin American artists who share a common experience of migration. The starting point is the question of how to approach this implicit conversation, in which visual practices converge in their materiality and imagery without solidifying their respective narratives. Angie Bonino, Die Wiederkehr des Inkarri, erweiterte Realität, courtesy of QGallery Berlin The works on display navigate sensitive intersections between different historical moments and contexts in Latin America and its diaspora. They examine urban spaces, utopias and dystopias, and their relationship to still-effective “civilisational” paradigms. Fernando Hierro, Silent Matter, Akryl auf Canvas, courtesy of QGallery Berlin Participating artists: Víctor Hugo Bravo (Chile), Angie Bonino (Peru), Danilo Espinoza Guerra (Chile), Ricardo Fuentealba-Fabio (Chile), Fernando Hierro (Argentina-Sweden) and Iván Zambrano Downing (Chile). Opening: Friday, 20. February 2026, 7 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 21. February – Saturday, 14. March 2026 Title image caption: Danilo Espinoza Guerra, Archivo Ochagavía, Rauch auf Leinwand, courtesy […]
Johannes Regin | Punktspiel | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 30.01.–07.03.2026
until 07.03. | #4924ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from Friday, 30 January 2026 the exhibition “Punktspiel” by the artist Johannes Regin. With Punktspiel, Johannes Regin unfolds a distinctive resonant space centred on the fleeting, the overlooked and the deliberately imperfect. His subtle point structures invite close looking and patient perception, revealing minute deviations, rhythmic shifts and traces of earlier marks beneath the surface. Regin works in close dialogue with his chosen materials. Whether drawn, painted, incised or embedded, each point follows an internal system that the artist increasingly disrupts through self-generated traces. Found materials act as counterparts whose cracks, breaks and histories are integrated through layered over-drawing, producing a fragile balance between control and openness. Stronger colours enter from the edges, expanding the grid into pulsating fields. Memory traces remain unfixed, forming a visual network that continues to evolve through perception. In parallel, Wichtendahl Galerie presents the exhibition backstage: REINHARD WÖLLMER | circles. Opening: Friday, 30 January 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 30 January until Saturday, 7 March 2026 Image caption title: Johannes Regin, o. T., 2025, Marker und Lack auf Karton, 13,3 × 8,5 cm. Exhibition Johannes Regin – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst […]
Gili Tal | Soft and Bouncy | Buchholz Galerie | 30.01.-14.03.2026
until 14.03. | #4925ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 30. January 2026 the exhibition Soft and Bouncy by the artist Gili Tal. Opening: Friday, 30. January 2026, 6 to 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 30. January until Saturday, 14. March 2026 Title image caption: Gili Tal, Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz Exhibition Gili Tal – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Asta Gröting | Herz | carlier | gebauer | 17.01.–05.03.2026
until 05.03 | #4923ARTatBerlin | carlier | gebauer currently shows the exhibition Herz by the artist Asta Gröting. Paradoxically, the atmosphere of emptiness forms the heart of this exhibition, which refers like a delayed echo to the absent, the intangible. To what remains when seemingly nothing remains. Gröting brings minimal forms together to tell a story: squares on the floor complete a double bed, a washing machine performs gentle, rocking movements, all that remains of an intimate moment between two women is an imprint, a cold stainless steel heart with a needle poses the question of under what conditions one defends one’s country. The air has gone out of the pig. With these settings, Gröting creates a poetry of space within space, where the material, tangible works become protagonists just as much as the relationships between the objects themselves. In this exhibition, Gröting confronts us with the intimate and familiar, the everyday. However, she does so in a subtle and distorted way, so that the “secret” always threatens to tip over into the uncanny and alien. She exhibits a kind of inner life, yet leaves its precise definition and the question of what exactly constitutes it open. In Space Between […]
Jeehye Song | hey, I’m still here | WENTRUP | 30.01.–14.03.2026
until 14.03. | #4922ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Friday, 30. January the exhibition hey, I’m still here by the artist Jeehye Song. Wentrup is pleased to present Jeehye Song’s first solo exhibition with the gallery: hey, I’m still here. The exhibition opening will take place on Friday, January 30, from 6 to 8 p.m. and will run until March 14, 2026. In Stephen Hawking’s black holes, the world curves inward. Mass accumulates, time loses its direction, and everything visible is pushed to a boundary beyond which meaning does not disappear but becomes more concentrated. Black holes are not emptiness, but superabundance. Jeehye Song’s paintings have a similar effect. Her paintings show bodies and faces that dissolve and shift, their contours unstable. Identity seems to disintegrate at the moment of viewing. The bodies flow, skin becomes color, color becomes movement. The fluidity creates both closeness and unease. One recognizes bodies, but cannot hold on to them. Like water, they are in flux, and therein lies their courage: not to freeze. Hawking’s event horizon is a boundary of knowledge. In Song’s paintings, it is the boundary of the self. One does not see the whole, but traces, like light reaching the edge […]
Patricia Treib | Armscye | Galerie Nordenhake | 24.01.–14.03.2026
until 14.03. | #4921ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from Friday, 23 January 2026 the exhibition “Armscye” by the artist Patricia Treib. With Armscye, Galerie Nordenhake presents Patricia Treib’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Germany. The title refers to a dressmaking term describing the armhole of a garment, subtly linking sight and touch—an association central to Treib’s painterly investigations. Her paintings combine gestural abstraction with visual references to dress, ornament and bodily form. Through colour, rhythm and surface, Treib explores historical connections between painting, fashion and the body without illustration, allowing abstraction and figuration to remain in productive tension. Opening: Friday, 23 January 2026, 6:00–8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 24 January until Saturday, 14 March 2026 Image caption title: Patricia Treib, Mauve Icon, 2025, Öl auf Leinwand, 215,9 × 162,6 cm. Exhibition Patricia Treib – Galerie Nordenhake Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Zilla Leutenegger | Plein Soleil | Galerie Judin | 14.02.-11.04.2026
until 11.04. | #4920ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from 14. February 2026 (Vernissage: 13.02.) the exhibition Plein Soleil by the artist Zilla Leutenegger. Galerie Judin presents Plein Soleil, Zilla Leutenegger’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist utilises the light-filled architecture of the main exhibition space, which was once built as a printing hall for the Tagesspiegel newspaper, combining installations, video projections and monotypes to transform the space into a sequence of experimental environments. The exhibition unfolds as a psychological and spatial journey through the life of the artist’s alter ego Z, with light as a central thematic and formal element, not only conceptually but also architecturally, as the striking skylights have a decisive influence on the perception of the space. The psychogram that Leutenegger draws with her installation focuses on the dialectic of light and shadow. Instead of presenting her alter ego as a fully articulated subject – the metaphorical source of light – the artist reveals its traces: the shadows cast by a life, its gestures and moods. The absent figure is hinted at through fragments and impressions, and we, the viewers, are invited to participate in the process of finding meaning. In the course of this […]
Paulo Nazareth | ALLEMANN | Meyer Riegger | 23.01.–28.02.2026
until 28.02. | #4919ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger Berlin shows from Friday, 23 January 2026 the exhibition “ALLEMANN” by the artist Paulo Nazareth. With ALLEMANN, Meyer Riegger in Berlin presents a new exhibition by Paulo Nazareth, whose practice operates at the intersection of painting, language, performativity and cultural attribution. Nazareth explores questions of identity, belonging and cultural coding, situating them within broader social and political contexts. The exhibition title points to linguistic shifts and ambiguities and exemplifies Nazareth’s approach, in which meanings remain deliberately open rather than fixed. His works engage with signs, colours and references that both reveal and challenge cultural narratives. In the paintings presented in Berlin, these concerns are condensed into a precise and reduced visual language. Formal clarity meets conceptual depth, opening up a space in which cultural identity emerges as a dynamic and negotiable process. Opening: Friday, 23 January 2026, 6:00–9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 23 January until Saturday, 28 February 2026 Caption image title: Paulo Nazareth, Sem título [Camisa 10], AlemaN’o / Série Amarelo-Laranja, 2025, Acryl auf Leinwand, 40 × 30 cm. Exhibition Paulo Nazareth – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at […]
Chris Kondek | Pixel Desires | BBA Gallery | 22.01.–21.02.2026
until 21.02 | #4910ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery shows from Thursday, 22. January 2026 the exhibition Pixel Desires by the artist Chris Kondek. Kondek’s works begin with a simple photograph—an index of reality—which is then transformed by a specially developed algorithm. Over 2,000 iterative steps, each pixel is slowly and systematically shifted. This movement is not random, but follows a simulated logic of flow and turbulence that determines the path of each pixel and creates an invisible choreography in digital space. The resulting images exist in a fascinating liminal space: landscapes that appear both organic and procedural, evoking associations with memory, geological erosion, or the flow of data and code. At the heart of Pixel Desires is a reflection on control and perception in an algorithmic world. The exhibition shows how what we see is shaped by rules that remain invisible. The algorithm in Kondek’s works thus becomes a powerful metaphor for the invisible forces that determine how information, images, and identities circulate and transform in digital space. Each pixel gains a kind of autonomy, detaching itself from its original position, following its “desire” while remaining strictly bound to the larger, invisible logic of the system. This principle reflects our contemporary […]
Sophia Berg | Erden | Galerie Dittmar | 17.01.–19.02.2026
until 19.02. | #4916ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Saturday, 17 January 2026 the exhibition “Erden” by the artist Sophia Berg. With Erden, Galerie Dittmar presents a solo exhibition by Sophia Berg, whose practice is firmly rooted in drawing. For Berg, drawing is not merely a representational tool but a process that actively shapes perception and the act of seeing. Her works are based on the direct engagement with sand and earth, combined with paper, graphite, stone dust and mineral pigments. A defining aspect of her approach is the deliberate distance between subject and execution: material and depiction come into contact without merging. Conceptually, Berg explores landscapes and geological processes, often in relation to human intervention such as resource extraction, gardening or nomadic land use, partly in collaboration with scientific institutions. The exhibition brings together two groups of works. Drawings on paper based on sand and stone from the southern Negev form cartographic compositions that emphasise fragmentation and movement. They are complemented by wooden panels using the sgraffito technique to reveal soil structures, opening up a depth dimension in which landscape and human history intersect. Opening: Saturday, 17 January 2026, 12:00–4:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 17 January until Thursday, 19 […]
Ode from Japan – Japan in Berlin | Gruppenausstellung | Semjon Contemporary | 30.01.-18.03.2026
until 18.03. | #4918ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from Friday, 30. January 2026 (Opening: 29.01.) the exhibition Ode from Japan – Japan in Berlin by the artists Takayuki Daikoku, Renate Hampke, Mayako Kubo, Taijoh Mori, Teppei Miyaki, Cornelia Nagel, Kazuki Nakahara, Ursula Sax, Ken‘ichiro Taniguchi, Hitomi Uchikura and Tomoyuki Ueno. The reunification of Germany and the parallel phase of intense globalization sustainably accelerated international exchange. In this context, Berlin developed into a central site for the production of contemporary art and attracted a growing community of Japanese artists. This development is rooted in a long tradition of cultural exchange between Japan and Europe. European modernism is closely linked to the reception of non-European art. In particular, the Japanese woodblock print influenced French Impressionists as well as German Expressionists, including artist groups such as Der Blaue Reiter and Die Brücke. As early as the late 19th century, Japanese woodblock prints were widely circulated in Europe; artists such as Franz Marc owned and studied these works. Especially influential were the works of Katsushika Hokusai, whose Great Wave is today among the most widely recognized prints worldwide. As early as 1931, a comprehensive exhibition of contemporary Japanese art was realized in Berlin. Against […]
Cindy Crawford | Gruppenausstellung | CAMERA WORK | 31.01.-14.03.2026
until 14.03. | #4917ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 31. January 2026 a group exhibition by the artists Michel Comte, Patrick Demarchelier, Victor Demarchelier, Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Russell James, Peter Lindbergh, Vincent Peters, Herb Ri’s, Ellen von Unwerth, Albert Watson and David Yarrow. The exhibition brings together classic and contemporary photographic works from five decades, including fashion, nude, and portrait photography, as well as staged works. It begins chronologically in 1987 with a portrait of Cindy Crawford by Arthur Elgort for the French edition of Vogue and a staged photograph by Hans Feurer for Elle. The exhibition concludes with a work from 2021: a collaboration between Cindy Crawford and David Yarrow that photographically references Crawford’s legendary 1992 Pepsi commercial. The work on display is a unique piece signed by both artists. Further works by renowned fashion photographers such as Peter Lindbergh, Herb Ritts, Albert Watson, and Patrick Demarchelier document Crawford’s status as a defining icon of the supermodel era. They also trace her path as a successful entrepreneur, presenter, and brand ambassador. Cindy Crawford effortlessly combines the classic elegance of haute couture with a vibrant, approachable charisma—qualities that have been the basis of her extraordinary success for decades and […]
Thomas Kitzinger und Jörg Bach | DIE LEERE UMARMEN – UMARMTE LEERE | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 17.01.–21.02.2026
until 21.02. | #4915ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from Saturday, 17 January 2026 the exhibition “DIE LEERE UMARMEN – UMARMTE LEERE” by the artists Thomas Kitzinger and Jörg Bach. The exhibition “Die Leere umarmen – Umarmte Leere” brings together paintings on aluminium by Thomas Kitzinger and steel sculptures by Jörg Bach, creating a dialogue between surface and volume, reduction and movement, proximity and distance. Jörg Bach, Höhlenblock, 11, o. J., Cortenstahl, 88 × 84 × 133 cm. Thomas Kitzinger’s paintings are characterised by a rigorously reduced visual language. Here, emptiness is not conceived as absence but as a concentrated state shaped through restraint, precision and subtle colour fields. The works open up quiet pictorial spaces in which material, colour and perception are carefully recalibrated. Jörg Bach, Höhlenblock, 25, o. J., Cortenstahl, 63 × 75 × 80 cm. In contrast, Jörg Bach’s sculptures consist of interlaced and winding forms that often approach one another without fully touching. Despite the solidity of the material, the steel sculptures convey a surprising sense of lightness and transparency. Tension and near-contact become defining elements, forming a spatial counterpart to Kitzinger’s painterly restraint. Jörg Bach, Wasserspiel, 36, 2016, Edelstahl, 51 × 53 × 31 cm. […]
Nature’s Signature | Group Exhibition | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 29.01.–08.03.2026
until 08.03. | #4914ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from Thursday, 29. January 2026, the group exhibition Nature’s Signature by the artists Zak van Biljon, Tom Kretschmer and Samanta Malavasi. Nature’s Signatures unfolds a sensitive dialogue between art and nature, bringing together three solo exhibitions in which the artists each explore the subtle inscriptions of nature. On the upper floor, Zak van Biljon uses near-infrared light to open up new perspectives on landscapes by revealing areas of color that are normally hidden from the human eye, thus enabling an expanded perception of reality. On the ground floor, Tom Kretschmer follows the movements of water and time in video works and analog installations that tell of rivers, sediment, and memory. In the immediate vicinity, Samanta Malavasi’s monochrome canvases invite viewers to engage in introspective contemplation, in which natural forms resonate with mental states and hint at subtle connections between the outer world and inner landscapes. Together, these three positions form a kind of cartography of nature’s signs—an invitation to pause, observe, listen, and re-perceive a world that communicates incessantly: through visible and invisible gestures, legible to those who take the time to follow them attentively. Modernizing Nature by Zak van Biljon […]
Viktoria Binschtok | Digital Semiotics | KLEMM’S | 23.01.-07.03.2026
until 07.03. | #4913ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from Friday 23. January 2026 the exhibition Digital Semiotics by the artist Viktoria Binschtok. With digital collages, enigmatic still lifes, and a wide range of photographic techniques, “Digital Semiotics” presents Viktoria Binschtok’s innovative visual approach. Her works create constructed image spaces that refer to abstract concepts such as algorithms, visual codes, and networks, and examine how these structures intertwine online and offline realities in complex ways. At the center is an examination of the coded symbols of increasingly visual digital communication—symbols that simultaneously connect and divide. Viktoria Binschtok is one of the most prominent artists in the field of conceptual image design. For years, her practice has been dedicated to the profound changes in visual culture, with a particular focus on questions of visibility. By deliberately removing the source, context, and form, she examines which contents are conveyed within clearly defined image boundaries and which—supported by shared cultural knowledge—extend beyond them. In doing so, she works with images from different media contexts as well as her own photographic recordings in order to analyze their function and modes of representation. The exhibition will be complemented by an open discussion on February 12 with Dr. […]
Maja Behrmann | Lemmata | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 15.01.–07.03.2026
until 07.03. | #4912ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from Thursday, 15. January 2026 the exhibition Lemmata by the artist Maja Behrmann. In her artistic practice, which spans painting, installation, object art, and textile art, Maja Behrmann forms schemata and formal structures into expansive ensembles. Color-intensive wooden sculptures, fluid knitted works, and collaged tableaux enter into a dynamic interplay between object, space, and viewer. The repertoire of formal fragments and elaborate characters is fed by a bureaucratic-seeming practice of collecting and organizing drawn outlines of exhibits from a wide variety of disciplines—including crafts, geology, architecture, design, and everyday objects—and is constantly expanding. Relationships between forms, transitions, and overlaps, as well as material-related conditions, continually generate new constellations and inventions. Each change of perspective opens up further overlaps and cutouts, relates elements to one another, and forges new connections. Sharpening tools, grinding. Changing the blade. Changing position. Changing my position. Threading, stringing together. Not new; transformed. Balancing, regrouping. (Against) the desire to categorize. Rotating to orient oneself in the gap in explanation. A set piece is movable and can be transferred, i.e., integrated from an existing context into a new one. Mobility, reuse, correction. Fill cavities with other material […]
Jörg Brüggemann | Tres Viajes | Robert Morat Galerie | 17.01.-21.03.2023
until 21.03. | #4911ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie shows from Saturday, 17. January 2026 (Opening: 16.01.) the exhibition Tres Viajes by the artist Jörg Brüggemann. The three-part series Tres Viajes by German photographer Jörg Brüggemann is dedicated to exploring Chile—its landscapes, its people, and the complex relationships that unfold between individuals. Mi Madre Tiene Novio (2018) is a deeply personal examination of grief. Ten years after his mother’s death, Brüggemann embarks on a search for her. Starting in Chile, he crosses the South American continent and returns to the place where he once received the news of her death—a journey through South America marked by memory and loss. Jörg Brüggemann, Mi Madre Tiene Novio No.7, 2018 A year later, he created the series El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (2019). Upon his return to Chile, Brüggemann encountered a country in a state of social upheaval. The population rose up against political injustice, and the streets became the scene of protest and violence. As a witness to this historic moment, his work allows viewers to immerse themselves directly in the dynamics of the uprising. The concluding series, Aguas Que No Has De Beber (2022), takes the form of a poetic essay. […]
Anna Tuori | Paradise News | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 17.01.-28.02.2026
until 28.02. | #4906ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from Saturday, 17. January 2026 (Opening: 16.01.), the exhibition “Paradise News” by the artist Anna Tuori. Anna Tuori’s paintings navigate the tension between the visible and the hidden. Her work revolves around the question of how reality can be experienced and whether it often only reveals itself indirectly – through the imaginary, through fiction, through illusions. Tuori does not understand reality as something stable or unambiguous, but as something fragile, contradictory, and sometimes disturbing. For this reason, she approaches it not by attempting to explain and understand it rationally, but by accepting ambivalence and paradox. Her paintings combine different painterly approaches: transparent, almost immaterial layers of color contrast with dense, physical passages of oil paint. Flowing, watery moments encounter a strongly perceptible materiality. Painting is not understood as a closed system, but as an open field in which formal and emotional levels interact simultaneously. Tuori often begins her paintings from a point of abstraction – as a composition of color, rhythm, touch, and light. Only during the process do these initial structures dissolve and open up to the unexpected. The works engage in a loose dialogue with the tradition of still […]
Irina Zatulovskaya | Shadow of the Future | Galerie Volker Diehl | 17.01.–28.02.2026 – extended until 20.03.2026
until 20.03. | #4909ARTatBerlin | Galerie Volker Diehl shows from 17. January 2026 (Opening: 16.01.) the exhibition Shadow of the Future by the artist Irina Zatulovskaya. Irina Zatulovskaya (*1954) emerged on the Moscow exhibition scene during the years of Perestroika—a period in which censorship eased and nonconformist artistic practices became increasingly visible. Moving away from the traditional canvas, she turned to rough found materials, including metal sheets, wood fragments, limestone, and fabrics. Her engagement with stone materials developed in the late 1980s and stems from an early fascination with fresco painting. Even her small-format works retain a monumental presence. Biblical themes as well as scenes from rural and village life form central cycles within her oeuvre, often overlapping and conveying a worldview in which the everyday is imbued with sacred significance. Zatulovskaya is also a poet, and literature therefore plays an essential role in her work. She created extensive portrait series of artists, thinkers, and writers—from Socrates and Plato to Fyodor Dostoevsky. Despite the apparent lightness and simplicity of her visual language, her art is deeply rooted in the visual memory of world culture, ranging from ancient painting to the avant-garde of the twentieth century. Her work is often associated with […]
GRANULAR | Group exhibition| Galerie oqbo | 09.01.–25.01.2026
until 25.01. | #4908ARTatBerlin | Galerie oqbo shows from Friday, 9 January 2026 the group exhibition “GRANULAR” with works by Achim Kobe, Maike Schröder, Anna Schuster, Renate Wolff and Julia Ziegler. The group exhibition “GRANULAR” brings together artistic positions that examine spatial perception, movement and the tension between continuity and fragmentation. Departing from the idea of a granular space-time, the exhibition considers perception and orientation not as continuous flows, but as sequences of discrete steps. This theoretical notion is translated into visual, material and spatial configurations. Achim Kobe presents paper works from 2018 based on linear abstract structures. Within a self-imposed system, serial deviations emerge that make the relationship between order and disturbance visible. Using resin-bound pigments on handmade paper, Kobe creates transparent layers of colour, built either wet-on-wet or in carefully structured strata. The works aim at formal complexity while maintaining a reduced haptic presence. Maike Schröder, Night Lines, 2024, transparenter Fotoabzug über Licht/Holografiecollage, 180 × 120 cm. Maike Schröder’s work “Night Lines” extends painting beyond the canvas into space. Light, shadow, reflection and photographic elements enter into dialogue, expanding the image into the architectural environment. Her practice addresses space not only as a physical condition but also as […]
Hanne Darboven & Julia Gaisbacher | Counted Hours | Crone Berlin | 17.01.-07.03.2026
until 07.03. | #4907ARTatBerlin | Crone Berlin shows from 17. January 2026 (Vernissage 16.01.) the exhibition Counted Hours by the artists Hanne Darboven & Julia Gaisbacher. Crone Berlin invites visitors to the opening of its first exhibition of the new year. Under the title ‘Counted Hours,’ the gallery in Berlin presents a dialogue between works by German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven and Austrian photo and video artist Julia Gaisbacher. As part of the Foto Wien 2025 festival, Crone Berlin presented the first part of the exhibition at its Vienna premises, and now it is coming to Berlin in a modified and expanded form. Purely visual means are used to establish a very personal, intimate relationship between two artists who never met: Julia Gaisbacher spent several weeks in Hanne Darboven’s former studio and living quarters, which have remained unchanged since her death in 2009. Her sensitive black-and-white photographs taken there are juxtaposed with large-format works by Darboven, in which she herself worked with the medium of photography. Hanne Darboven (born in Munich in 1941, died in Hamburg in 2009) was one of the most important representatives of conceptual art. She devoted much of her work to the visualisation of time. As […]
Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau | CHURCH | Russi Klenner | 16.01.-28.02.2026
until 28.02. | #4905ARTatBerlin | Russi Klenner shows from Friday, 16. January 2026 the exhibition “CHURCH” by the artist Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau. Raphaël Fischer-Dieskau works with sound, light, sculpture and at the intersection of science and art. In his works, he explores how technological systems shape human existence. His installations combine traditional knowledge with new technologies and draw on religious iconography and ecological narratives to explore themes such as identity, detachment and the loss of collective beliefs. For his first solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist brings together gestures, symbols and rituals in a space where faith becomes an experiment. CHURCH understands faith as infrastructure – cherished, automated, outsourced or simulated, and slowly hollowed out. CHURCH unfolds in a culture that claims disbelief, yet obediently kneels before its own ideologies. Between devotion and doubt, it asks how the meaning of community survives its own erosion. The exhibition, which constantly pushes boundaries, tests visitors’ obedience and ability to act, forcing them to decide whether to give in or resist. It invites visitors to enter, actively participate and leave changed, without certainty about what was offered or received, and without any guarantee of absolution. Opening: Friday, 16. January 2026, 7:00 pm. Exhibition […]
Heidrun Rathgeb | Solo-exhibition | Haverkampf Leistenschneider | 07.01.-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4904ARTatBerlin | Haverkampf Leistenschneider presents from Wednesday, 7. January 2026 a solo-exhibition by the artist Heidrun Rathgeb. Galerie Haverkampf Leistenschneider presents a body of small-scaled works by Heidrun Rathgeb in their Gallery Cabinet. Living and working near Lake Constance in southwestern Germany, the surrounding light and landscape deeply informs her intimate egg tempera paintings, luminous and patiently layered. Working from plein air sketches that she calls her “daily epiphanies,” she translates lived moments (never photographs) into layers of color and light that evoke both connection and devotion. Heidrun Rathgeb, Füße in San Mamete (Feet in San Mamete), 2025, egg tempera on gesso on panel, 14 x 9 cm Influenced by early Sienese painters as well as modern artists like Winifred Nicholson and Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rathgeb approaches painting as an act of attention and care, drawing inspiration from her family, home, and long hikes through the Alps, Norway, and Scotland. Heidrun Rathgeb, Zeichnen bei Nacht (Drawing at Night), 2025, egg tempera on gesso on panel, 8 x 12 cm Heidrun Rathgeb (b. 1967) received her MFA in London at the Slade School of Fine Art, after attending the Byam Shaw School of Art. She has held recent solo exhibitions at Sea View, […]
Gowara Minsa + Simona Soare + Gäste | Empfangen. Gedruckt. Gesendet | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 13.12.2025–24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4903ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne currently shows in the backstage of the gallery the exhibition “Received. Printed. Sent.” with works by the artists Gowara Minsa and Simona Soare and guests. The print project Telepathic Satellite presents the artistic collaboration of various artists who work separately on copper plates in different locations. City and even national borders are transcended through postal exchange, allowing different systems of signs and cultural contexts to be set in contrast with one another as well as brought together. Lines are taken up and carried forward into something new. Along the opposing edges, transitions between lines become visible, visualizing the exchange of ideas. Telepathic Satellite – an ongoing project since 2016 by Simona Soare and Gowara Minsa + guests: Anne Mundo (Berlin), Wannes Lecompte (Brussels), Patrick Jambon (Berlin), Paul DD Smith (Berlin), Ola Jonsrud (Oslo), Ryn Lim (Busan), Catherine A. Hiley (Ferrières), Silvia Lorenz (Dresden). Opening: Saturday, 13 December 2025, 3:00–6:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 13 December – Saturday, 24 January 2026 Image caption title: Gowara Minsa + Simona Soare, courtesy of Galerie Inga Kondeyne Exhibition Gowara Minsa + Simona Soare + Guests – Galerie Inga Kondeyne | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]
Ivan Liovik Ebel | Mapping the concrete | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 16.01.-20.02.2026
until 20.02. | #4902ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Friday, 16. January 2026 the exhibition “Mapping the concrete” by the artist Ivan Liovik Ebel. The exhibition Mapping the Concrete presents a body of work created between 2021 and 2025, in which Ebel explores the relationship between artistic practice and philosophical operation. The works mark zones in which “concreteness” is understood not as tangible materiality, but as a form of relationship: a mode that allows visual, conceptual, and spatial elements to coexist without hierarchy. The numerous references, which appear in a discreet or more obvious manner, do not serve as illustrations, but rather as operative traces that subtly shift the visitors’ perception. The central element of the exhibition is an A2-format plan that functions as a methodological map. It does not represent a classic overview, but opens up a space for thought in which the concrete itself is mapped: as a network of relations, overlaps, and possible paths through the exhibition, as a network of relationships between works and thoughts. The plan allows visitors to navigate and understand the conceptual architecture of the concrete. It serves both as a navigation tool and as a visual hypothesis—as a physical and metaphorical map […]
In the Mood | Group exhibition | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 29.11.2025–10.01.2026
until 10.01. | #4901ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN currently shows the group exhibition In the Mood. With artworks by Ariane Boss, Martin Wehmer, Andreas Amrhein, Roland Stratmann, Johannes Schramm, Hans Scheib, Bernd Schwarting, Susanne Auslender, Elvira Bach, Martina Ziegler, Jürgen Paas, Christiane Grimm, Florian Pelka, Georg-Friedrich Wolf, Jürgen Jansen, Carola Schapals, Sonja Weber Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. November 2025 until Saturday, 10. January 2026 Image caption title: Martina Ziegler, Nature under construction No 04, right, 2025, Lacquer on pigment, Alu-Dibond, 448 x 448 cm Exhibition In the Mood – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – Zeitgenössische Kunst – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin
Orbital | Group exhibition | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 08.01–07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4900ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from Thursday, 08. January 2026 (Opening: 07.01.) the exhibition Orbital by the artists Alina Birkner, Johan Deckmann, Kyriaki Goni, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Parsa Hosseinpour, Melanie King, Anna Kubelík & Tarik Goetzke, Maryam Lamei Harvani, Hannah Luxton, Roman Manikhin, Eeman Masood, Hormazd Narielwalla and Janet Vollebregt. “Seen from here, Earth resembles the sky. It is bursting with colour. A hopeful riot of colour.” This sentence from Samantha Harvey’s novel Orbital sums up the strange duality at the heart of the exhibition: the excitement of viewing our world from afar and the quiet longing that this distance can evoke. The group exhibition Orbital at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Berlin brings together paintings, sculptures, collages and prints by artists who see the cosmos not as a place of refuge, but as an opportunity to redefine our relationship with the Earth and with each other. In their works, images of the sky become a lens through which we can reflect on vulnerability, ecological change and our understanding of our place in the world. Anna Kubelík presents a series of large-format prints made with “stardust” and printing blocks that capture the traces of beetles […]
André Thomkins | Lackskins | Galerie Haas | 23.01.–06.03.2026
until 06.03. | #4897ARTatBerlin | Galerie Haas shows from Friday, 23. January 2026 the exhibition Lackskins by the artist André Thomkins. Gallery Haas is delighted to announce that is now representing the estate of Swiss artist André Thomkins (1930 Lucerne – 1985 Berlin). André Thomkins combines surrealist impulses, Dadaist language games, and experimental openness to create an artistic language that is truly one of a kind. At heart, Thomkins was less a painter than a draftsman, poet, conceptual and object artist with a penchant for poetic language systems and absurd worlds. Despite his experimental oeuvre, Thomkins is best known for his drawings. It was only in the last fifteen years that his group of works known as Lackskins was rediscovered; an unusual technique that the two-time documenta participant developed by chance in the 1950s: derived from a bookbinding process, he experimented with dropping lacquer onto a water surface using chopsticks. As in the traditional production of marbled paper, he worked on the resulting color film, incorporating chance, and finally removed the resulting image from the water with paper. Location: Niebuhrstraße 5, Berlin-Charlottenburg Opening: Friday, 23. January 2026, 6-8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 15. November – Freitag, 06. März 2026 Winter […]
Seasonal Detox | Group exhibition | Laura Mars Gallery | 13.12.2025-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4896ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery is currently showing the exhibition Seasonal Detox by the artists Martin Eberle, Ernstina Eitner, Robert Gfader, Thomas Rentmeister, Vincent Tavenne, Ina Weber, Marcus Weber and Reinhard Wilhelmi. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 13. December 2025 – Saturday, 07. February 2026 Winter break: Saturday, 20. December 2025 until Wednesday, 14. January 2026 Title image: Marcus Weber, Ente, 2020, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 x 90 cm Group Exhibition Seasonal Detox – Laura Mars Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
André Butzer | Solo exhibition | Galerie Max Hetzler | 13.02.-18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4895ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Straße 77–87) shows from 13. Februar 2026 an exhibition by the artist André Butzer. Location: Potsdamer Straße 77–87, 10785 Berlin Opening: Friday, 13. February 2026, 6 – 8 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 13. February, until Saturday, 18. April 2026 Bildunterschrift Titelbild: André Butzer, Frau mit Früchten, 2024, © André Butzer, photo: def image Exhibition André Butzer – Galerie Max Hetzler | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Barry Flanagan | On the other hand | Galerie Max Hetzler | 23.01.-28.02.2026
until 28.02. | #4894ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße 45) shows from 23. January 2026 the exhibition On the other land by the artist Barry Flanagan. For more than five decades, British sculptor Barry Flanagan worked with a wide variety of materials and forms of expression. His works range from stone, sheet metal and ceramics to monumental bronzes and reveal a consistent interest in materiality, scale and formal diversity. The exhibition focuses on this exploration and highlights four frequently used materials in particular, as well as Flanagan’s approach to size and weight. His early works include stone sculptures from the 1970s, which are characterised by their mass, three-dimensionality and close orientation to the properties of the material. These are complemented by sheet metal works known as ‘snoots’, in which organic forms, spirals and mythological references become visible. Flanagan’s interest in ‘pataphysics – a ‘science of imaginary solutions’ – shapes his playful and experimental approach. Another focus is on ceramic ‘pinch pots’ from the early 1990s. These small-format works are created using a simple, artisanal technique and illustrate seriality and repetition as central principles in Flanagan’s work. From the 1980s onwards, Flanagan turned increasingly to figurative art and became particularly well […]
Jörn Vanhöfen | Solo | Kuckei + Kuckei | 17.12.2025-31.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4893ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from Wednesday, 17. December 2025 the exhibition Solo by the artist Jörn Vanhöfen. „The idea was exhilarating, but as is so often the case, putting passion into practice proved to be arduous. In this case, I wanted to hike 681 kilometres across Germany from west to east, from my hometown of Dinslaken on the edge of the Ruhr region to Berlin.“ (Jörn Vanhöfen) A hike as a farewell to childhood and the time that followed. Farewell to the surroundings that shaped you. Farewell to memories. Moving away, on foot. Slowly, the roofs of childhood disappear on the horizon. New horizons open up. A hike with two aspects. The personal separation from a place. Mentally and physically. At the same time, an encounter with Germany. On a march from west to east. Encountering places that leave their mark on the hiker. Alternating between horror and beauty. Everyday life in Germany, in other words. Jörn Vanhöfen’s photographic mosaic pieces describe the journey without the cynical pathos of arrogance. It is what it is. We have to come to terms with that. Denis Brudna Opening and Talk: Wednesday, 17. December 2025, 6 pm Exhibition […]
35 years of Galerie Sievi – A celebration of art, journeys and growth | Galerie Sievi | 12.12.2025–16.01.2026
until 16.01. | #4899ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 12. December 2025 the exhibition 35 years of Galerie Sievi – A celebration of art, journeys and growth with works by 32 artists of the gallery. For 35 years now, Galerie Sievi has stood for encounters, inspiration and vibrant art. Three decades full of bold decisions, moving exhibitions and unforgettable moments – accompanied by highs that inspired and lows that strengthened. What once began as a visionary idea has developed into a place where artists find space, collectors find what they are looking for and visitors are touched again and again. The gallery has weathered storms, shaped change and reinvented itself time and again – driven by passion, perseverance and a deep love of art. On the occasion of its 35th anniversary, gallery owner Brigitte Sievi invites us to look back on this special journey together: On the beginnings full of pioneering spirit. To successes that opened doors. To challenges that allowed us to grow. To the people who have made this place what it is today. ‘Let’s celebrate the past – and look to the future of Galerie Sievi with curiosity and confidence.’ Particpiating artists Süheyla Asci, Edith Basseville, Beate […]
Alles Was Ihr Wollt | Group Exhibition | Galerie Z22 | 11.12.2025-31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4859ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 presents from 11. December 2025 the christmas exhibition Alles Was Ihr Wollt (All You Want) with works by 24 artists of the gallery. Participating artists Ariane Kipp, Axel Bunt, BENKA, Bernadette Arnaud, Conrad Artworx, Danielle Benvenuto, Dietmar Brixy, Evelyn Sommerhoff, Frank Massholder, JOAX, Kerstin Dzewior, Lars J. Fischedick, Lavely Miller, Leah Rudolph, Manzur Kargar, Marina Markovic, Nadia Valeska, Patrick Slepica, Peer Kriesel, Sador Weinsclucker, Sascha Stüven, Silvio Ukat, Sophia Frese, Sorina von Keyserling. Opening reception: Thursday, 11 December 2025, 7:00–10:00 p.m. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11 December 2025 – Saturday, 31 December 2026 Image caption title: courtesy of Galerie Z22 Exhibition Alles Was Ihr Wollt – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Marc Nagtzaam | Sidetracked | Galerie kajetan Berlin | 13.12.2025–31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4890AARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from Saturday, 13 December 2025 (Opening: 12.12.) the exhibition “Sidetracked” by the artist Marc Nagtzaam. Galerie kajetan is pleased to present Sidetracked, a solo exhibition by Dutch artist Marc Nagtzaam (*1968). The exhibition brings together recent graphite drawings and new Riso prints in which Nagtzaam expands his characteristic, geometrically inflected visual language through the use of color for the first time. Since the late 1990s, Nagtzaam has developed a drawing practice sustained by the tension between order and deviation. His works emerge slowly, layer by layer, as successive condensations of surfaces and rhythms. Drawing itself becomes the subject of the work — a process that records time, constructs visual space, and directs attention to the fundamental element of any image: the line. Marc Nagtzaam, Sidetracked, Exhibition view, Courtesy the artist & Galerie kajetan, Photo: Gunter Lepkowski In A Collection of Pages (2025), Nagtzaam creates a system of rectangular fields that seem to follow the logic of a grid, though their continuity is deliberately broken by intentional gaps. The open passages, revealing the support — the paper — and early drawing layers, testify to the linear buildup of the composition and make […]
Seasonal. Digital. | Online Christmas exhibition 2025 | Galerie Gilla Lörcher (Online) | 01.12.–31.12.2025
until 31.12. | #4889ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from 1. December 2025 The online Christmas exhibition of 2025 Seasonal. Digital. Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art is delighted to present the group exhibition Seasonal. Digital 2025. The online Christmas exhibition. It features a fine selection of unique original works of art. Painting, drawing, photography, and objects or sculptural works. All works of art are priced between £1,000 and £3,500. These include small/medium-format paintings by Sandrine Mahéo, Simone Strasser, Ab van Hanegem, John Cornu and Ivan Liovik Ebel, a drawing by Francisco Rozas created manually with an old typewriter, master prints and vintage photos by photographer Ute Schendel, whose exhibition can be seen at the Gilla Lörcher Gallery until 19 December 2025, objects by Claudia Zweifel, Capucine Vandebrouck and artist Quentin Lefranc, who had his second solo exhibition at the gallery a few months ago. Paining by Sandrine Mahéo. Untitled 2025, Acryl on canvas, 50 x 40 cm With this exhibition, Galerie Gilla Lörcher would like to focus on everything that art has to offer. May art bring joy, inspiration and moments of reflection. Galerie Gilla Lörcher wishes everyone a wonderful Advent season. All artworks can be conveniently purchased via […]
Annette Schröter | Rückblick | Galerie Brockstedt | 29.01.–28.03.2026
until 28.03. | #4888ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from Thursday, 29 January 2026 the exhibition “Rückblick” by the artist Annette Schröter. Annette Schröter, born in Meissen in 1956, studied from 1977 to 1982 in Leipzig at the “Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst” and was a master student of Bernhard Heisig. In 1985 she moved to Hamburg together with the photographer Erasmus Schröter (1956–2021) and returned to Leipzig in 1997. At the center of her figurative, vehemently expressive painting is the human being in all his diversity and complexity. “The artist repeatedly seeks contact with reality, taking inspiration from chance impressions of everyday life, from representations fed to her by the mass media, from photographs by others and photographs she has taken herself. What she makes of all this, however, is far more than a mixture: it is a fascinating excerpt from the great world theater, as reality presents itself to Annette Schröter,” says Professor Dr. Anselm Riedl of Heidelberg. Annette Schröter, Kleine Schwester-Große Schwester II, 1996, 190 x 130 cm, Oil on canvas With intense, luminous colors and expressive gestures, the figures draw us into their world, speaking vividly of deep emotions—expectations, disappointments, fears and longings. In unusual scenic and […]
Fabian Knecht | Frank | alexander levy | 14.11.–19.12.2025
until 19.12. | #4887ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy currently shows the exhibition Frank by the artist Fabian Knecht. Frank (2025) fills the exhibition space with a crackling and popping sound that is difficult to locate. The source of the sound—hidden behind a wall—comes from bubbles bursting in joint fluid. The work reveals a functional connection that is relevant to all of the exhibits: the physically demanding activity of art handling, which is a prerequisite for art to be receivable at all. For this work, Fabian Knecht regularly visits his chiropractor Frank, who also provides the sound basis for the work. Fabian Knecht, “Lachen ist verdächtig (Ist Fabian sich sicher, dass die Stoffe bunt sind?)”, 2025, Transport trolley, textile, 158 x 132,5 x 100 cm, courtesy of the artist and alexander levy, Berlin. Photo Fabian Knecht Two other works— Laughter is Suspicious (Is Fabian Sure the Fabrics Are Colorful?)) (2025) and Siegfried (2025)—were created by other artists and brought to the art space by Knecht. He has been supporting civil resistance in Ukraine in this way since 2022. The shapeless masses of textiles are camouflage nets that were knitted by the civilian population at the beginning of the war. Their significance […]
DIVERSE | Group exhibition | Galerie Schindler | 04.12.2025–24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4886RTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from Thursday, 4. December 2025 the exhibition DIVERSE with the latest works by 18 gallery artists and new positions. Diverse — ending the year with color, bite, and depth. For the last time this year, Diverse brings together a colorful mix of gallery artists and new, young talents. Karen Simon, innerlich, Ink on canvas, 70 x 50 cm Small to medium formats, all works in classic painting on canvas — but hey, there are two small exceptions: photography and printmaking, which earn extra points. In terms of content, the images range from vibrant landscapes and expressive portraits to quiet, daring still lifes. Constantin Schroeder, Dolly, 2025, Oil on canvas, 40x 30 cm The common denominator? Passion, craftsmanship, and an eye for detail — but each position tells its own cheeky or honest story. An exhibition that celebrates diversity, pushes boundaries, and is thoroughly enjoyable. Bettina Sellmann, Suffragette, Acrylic on canvas, 80 × 70 cm Participating artists Alvar Beyer Andreas Hildebrandt Anja Nürnberg Berit Mücke Bettina Sellmann Birgit Borggrebe Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow Constantin Schroeder Janosch Weiss Karen Simon Kathrin Rank Max Grote Nicole Heinzel Richard Drews rrOth Simone Westphal Su Weiss Sue Hayward […]
Michael Jastram + Michael Dressel | Here Today, Gone Tomorrow | Galerie feinart berlin | 04.12.2025-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4885ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from Thursday, 04. December 2025 the exhibition Here Today, Gone Tomorrow by the artists Michael Jastram and Michael Dressel. The sculptures of Michael Jastram and the desert photographs of Michael Dressel converge in their awareness of the essence of time. The exhibition is an encounter between two close friends in their artistic work, whose paths first crossed 47 years ago at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee, then scattered in different directions during the upheavals of the Berlin reunification period, and finally came together again in 2016. Just as external circumstances shaped their biographies, the sculptures of Michael Jastram and the photographs of Michael Dressel, taken in the North American desert, touch on a common theme: an awareness of the nature of time. One need not recall Hannes Wader’s lyrics to „Heute hier, morgen dort“ (1972) to hear a quiet melancholy about the fleetingness of the moment and the uncertainty of the future in the exhibition title chosen by the artists. Their works prove that there is a special beauty in the silence of this awareness. Michael Jastram, The Return of the Ten, 2024, Bronce, 34 x 103 x 14,5cm. ©M.Jastram Michael Jastram’s bronze sculptures […]
Sibylle Bergemann | Das Denkmal | Loock Galerie | 21.11.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4879ARTatBerlin | Loock Galerie shows from Friday, 21 November 2025 the exhibition “Das Denkmal” by the artist Sibylle Bergemann. LOOCK presents “Das Denkmal” (1975–1986), one of the most significant bodies of work by German photographer Sibylle Bergemann (1941–2010). Across this long-term documentary series, Bergemann followed the creation of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument in East Berlin, commissioned by the GDR government and inaugurated in 1986. Her images capture the process with a precise and subtly ironic documentary approach, marked by ambiguity, distance and a keen observational lens. The exhibition runs in parallel with the presentation Le Monument at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. A selection from the series was also shown at Paris Photo 2025, positioning the work within a broader international discourse. A publication accompanying the exhibition has been released by Kerber Verlag (eds. Frieda von Wild, Lily von Wild & Sonia Voss). It includes both iconic and previously unpublished photographs, as well as an extensive historical and critical reception of the work from the 1980s to today. Essays expand on historical, sociopolitical and photographic theory perspectives, reframing “Das Denkmal” as a landmark project at the intersection of art, ideology and collective memory. […]
Nassim L’Ghoul + Stefanie Schwarzwimmer | Barometer of Self-Optimization | KLEMM’S | 21.11.2025-10.01.2026
until 10.01. | #4883ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 21. November 2025 the exhibition Barometer of Self-Optimization by the artists Nassim L’Ghoul and Stefanie Schwarzwimmer. Klemm’s presents Barometer of Self-Optimization, a video programme featuring works by Nassim L’Ghoul (*1997 in Bad Soden) and Stefanie Schwarzwimmer (*1990 in Linz), with screenings at Klemm’s Downstairs. Complementing Sven Johne’s exhibition Eternal 20th Century, the programme explores conceptual links across generations, touching on themes of violence, labour, war, and the uncanny. In his works, Nassim L’Ghoul uses digital and conceptual tools to abstract personal experiences and interweave them with found material. By re-contextualising these fragments, hybrid environments are created that oscillate between the real and the imaginary. Stefanie Schwarzwimmer constructs virtual spaces mixing memories, media, and pop culture, forming satirical reflections on social trends. Her work examines content creation, self-optimization, consumerism, and visual power in a media-saturated world. Opening: Friday, 21. November 2025, 7 to 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. November 2025 to Saturday, 10. January 2026 Screenings: Saturdays, 12–6 pm and by appointment. Title image caption: Nassim L’Ghoul, ‘Soliloquy’, 2025. Film still. Exhibition Nassim L’Ghoul + Stefanie Schwarzwimmer – KLEMMS | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin […]
Ornella Fieres | We measure the Distance | Sexauer Gallery | 21.11.2025-24.01.2026
bis 24.01. | #4878ARTatBerlin | Sexauer Gallery shows from Ftriday, 21. November 2025 the exhibition “We measure the Distance” by the artist Sexauer Gallery. The nucleus of Ornella Fieres’s exhibition We measure the Distance is a photo album from the 19th century. It shows a French family who emigrated to Brazil. The photographs open a view into the past – black-and-white snapshots, preserved as memories. The album is bound in brown leather, the cover embossed with golden initials. We leaf through it. We immerse ourselves in the past. We? – No! An artificial intelligence. For over ten years, the artist has worked with machines, computers, algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Fieres instructed an AI to look at the photographs and interpret them. For years she has been exploring how artificial intelligence perceives images of the past. In doing so, she compares human and machine perception and examines their interaction. Sometimes Fieres manipulates the AI’s perception; sometimes she adopts its perspective and expands her own. Together with the AI, Fieres dives into moments of the past: a search for traces and a work of remembrance in a virtual coworking space. The exhibition presents four groups of works: The Essence of a Moment / Depth […]
Ingo Gerken | The minimal input | Kuckei + Kuckei | 28.11.2025-31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4881ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from Friday, 28. November 2025 the exhibition The minimal input by the artist Ingo Gerken. Ingo Gerken’s series of works entitled ‘Bibliosculptures’ engages in visual dialogue with international book publications on contemporary art history. Temporary object interventions are created in public art libraries, taking place directly in the books and thus establishing contact with the works printed there. This results in a coexistence of object and image, a fusion of perspectives, an associative exchange or a formal-aesthetic leap. At the interface between everyday artistic life and art-historical research, selected books become an expanded space for play and reception: trivial objects encounter significant works of art, shifting the boundaries between discourse and banal reality. Art and art books become accessible from new perspectives. In his photographs, Ingo Gerken creates fleeting sculptural constellations in the field of tension between representation, reference and resistance, which also question the relationship between authorship and artistic appropriation. He always understands the depicted works of art in the context of their journalistic reproduction and sees the open book as a mentally open terrain for poetic expansion or system-critical commentary. The works are sculptural assertions and contextual links between […]
Ensemble | Jac Leirner + Rafa Silvares | Esther Schipper | 14.11.–18.12.2025
until 18.12. | #4880ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from Friday, 14. November 2025, the exhibition Ensemble by the artists Jac Leirner and Rafa Silvares. Esther Schipper is pleased to announce Ensemble, bringing together works by Jac Leirner and Rafa Silvares. The exhibition marks Silvares’s first and Leirner’s third with the gallery. The year Silvares was born some hundred kilometers inland, Leirner completed her artistic education; decades later, Silvares would study at the same institute in São Paulo. Continuing their rich correspondence, the exhibition is a result of the artists’s exchange within each other’s universes. Taking the habit to pick up, sketch, and keep quotidian items as a point of departure, the artists’s dialogue echoes a Benjaminian ode to collecting. A new iteration of Leirner’s groundbreaking work, Hip Hop (1998/2025), extends along the exhibition space’s walls. Held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim collection, Hip Hop has been presented in eight institutions across continents. For this presentation, Leirner has produced a new version of the historic piece, adding a motif, “scratch,” a sequence of four parallel, diagonal bars. The installation, while paying homage to Piet Mondrian’s penultimate painting Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942–43), takes its name from the unruly beats that jumped from New […]
All together now III: To the end of the year – little artpieces for lovers | Galerie Tammen | 21.11.2025–17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4884ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 the group exhibition All together now III: To the end of the year – little artpieces for lovers by the artists Joanna Buchowska, Ariane Boss, Dietmar Brixy, Persis Eisenbeis, Achim Freyer, Matthias Garff, Ellen Mäder-Gutz, Katharina Gerold, Harald Gnade, Johannes Hepp, Karsten Kusch, Michael Lauterjung, Volker März, Sabine Ostermann, Stephanie Pech, Rubica von Streng, Lars Theuerkauff, Sador Weinsĉlucker, Trak Wendisch, Uwe Wohlmacher and Bettina Sellmann. As the end of the year approaches, we once again have the opportunity to bring together the art and work of numerous artists in a comprehensive exhibition. The end-of-year exhibition All together now III pays tribute to the diversity of artistic positions that have shaped the exhibition programme over the past year. Opening: Friday, 21. November 2025, 7–10 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. November 2025 – Saturday, 17. January 2026 Titel image caption: Bettina Sellmann, „Dauphin“, 2024, Acrylic on canvas, 70 × 60 cm Exhibition All together now III: To the end of the year – little artpieces for lovers – Galerie Tammen | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Shuji Hijiya | Innige Landschaften | Galerie mutare | 27.11.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4877ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from thursday, 27. November 2025, the exhibition “Innige Landschaften” the exhibition Shuji Hijiya. Shuji Hijiya (1942–2018) was a Japanese painter who spent most of his life in Germany. After his first exhibitions in the 1970s, he withdrew from the art world to continue working in complete seclusion. Many of his works remained unseen until his death – paintings that are only now coming to light, decades after they were created. Born in Japanese-occupied China in 1942, the painter first studied sociology in Tokyo before moving to Vienna and later to Germany. Over the course of decades, he developed his own unique, Western-influenced visual language in Ostholstein and Berlin. At the same time, his painting remained imbued with a Far Eastern sense of emptiness, time and transience. The exhibition “Intimate Landscapes” invites visitors to discover this work. In his paintings, Hijiya develops a form of still life of the soul: not a naturalistic representation, but a condensation of perception and memory. Opening: Saturday, 29. November 2025, 2 pm. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 27. November 2025 until Saturday, 17. January 2026 Title image caption: Shuji Hijiya, o.T. (confidence) I (Ausschnitt) I Öl/Lw | […]
ROTATION | Group exhibition | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 27.11.2025–07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4876ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstraße) shows from Thursday, 27 November 2025 (Opening: 28.11.) the exhibition “Rotation” with Richard Deacon, Lena Henke, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Matt Mullican, Leunora Salihu, Fred Sandback, Dan Walsh and Jonas Weichsel. Galerie Thomas Schulte presents “Rotation”, a group exhibition bringing together eight artists from the gallery’s program. Spanning works from the late 1960s to today, the show highlights the evolving dialogue of formal and system-based approaches across generations. Featuring Richard Deacon, Lena Henke, Franka Hörnschemeyer, Matt Mullican, Leunora Salihu, Fred Sandback, Dan Walsh and Jonas Weichsel, the presentation underscores the intersections of structure, space, materiality and conceptual order. Each position contributes distinct strategies while sharing a focus on the interplay between form and system as organizing principles. The exhibition creates a multifaceted reading of formal thinking – from sculptural volumes to architectural interventions and conceptual system paintings. “Rotation” emphasizes the dynamic exchange among these artistic practices and reflects the gallery’s long-term curatorial trajectory. Opening: Friday, 28 November 2025, 7:00–9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 27 November 2025 until Saturday, 7 February 2026 Image caption title: Richard Deacon, “No Black”, 2013, glazed ceramic, 63 x 100 x 67 cm Group exhibition ROTATION – […]
Threads of Gold | Group exhibition | BBA Gallery | 20.11.2025–17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4875ARTatBerlin | BBA Gallery presents from Thursday, 20. November 2025 the group exhibition Threads of Gold. Gold fascinates as a symbol of power, divinity and eternity. The exhibition explores its significance beyond its material value. Presented by the BBA Gallery, 12 international artists use gold as a conscious choice – a medium to highlight, question and appreciate what really matters. Gold becomes a gesture, a form of resistance, a revelation. It draws attention to the essential, gilds the overlooked and challenges conventional values. A mixed media exhibition. Participating artists: Verena Bachl Anikó Boda Tim Bengel Claudius Clements Giulietta Coates Jahna Dahms Jens Juul Renata Kudlacek Katarina Kudelova Luca Ortis Kostas Papakostas Nicolas Vionnet Vernissage: Thursday, 20. November 2025, 6 pm, Dance Performance 7:30 pm with Ampelos Collective Exhibition dates: Thursday, 20. November – Saturday, 17. January 2026 Image caption title: Renata Kudlacek, Štity, 2025, Screenprint on Hahnemühle Paper, 48 x 40 cm, unique Group Show Threads of Gold – BBA Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Metropolis! People! Technology! Danger! | Group exhibition | GALERIE STEFAN RASCHE | 21.11.2025-31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4874ARTatBerlin | GALERIE STEFAN RASCHE shows from 21. November 2025 the exhibition Metropolis! People! Technology! Danger!. From 21. November 2025 to 31. January 2026, the gallery will present a group exhibition that, for the first time, brings together works of Modernism from 1920 to 1970 with positions in contemporary art. Under the alarming title “Metropolis! People! Technology! Danger!”—borrowed from a 1966 crime film—the exhibition focuses on urban spaces and architectures, on construction sites, industry, and transportation. This thematic focus has long played a central role in the gallery’s program. The selection of modern works follows this line as well and is displayed in dense arrangement on a large, colorfully designed wall. Paintings, drawings, and graphic works present a wide range of 20th-century depictions of cities and architecture. Pieces from Classical Modernism, Expressionism, and New Objectivity transition into various forms of representational-realistic postwar art. Different viewpoints and moods emerge—from the bustling activity of the metropolis to melancholic scenes of deserted streets and squares. Berlin motifs appear frequently, as many of the featured artists studied, lived, and worked in the city. Means of transportation—cars, airplanes, trains—also become subjects of artistic exploration. Although the collection includes well-known names, a key focus […]
Dirk Rathke | New Horizons | Semjon Contemporary | 28.11.2025-24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4873ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from Friday, 28. November 2025 (Opening: 27.11.) the exhibition New Horizons by the artist Dirk Rathke. The exhibition title is bold and self-assured—as well as risky. Dirk Rathke’s painting has long been recognized as a signature body of work because it is simultaneously color and form. In the early 2000s, the Berlin philosopher Dirk Koppelberg referred to this group of works as Curved Canvas. The term Shaped Canvas, which would also be appropriate, is already associated with the famous colleague Frank Stella. The artist himself calls them picture objects—painting that is expanded into space. The early works, some of them also of considerable size, are highly reduced to a simple form (square, horizontal and vertical rectangle), whose corners sometimes project deeply into space and are thus unmistakably sculptural at the same time. A fine example can be found in the collection of the Nationalgalerie. Over the years, the forms have become more complex, turning into polygons, and the picture edges can also appear wavy at times. Likewise, the artist has expanded the color palette. Pastel tones as well as gold and silver tones were added. The canvases, which he calls stretchings, could […]
Karl Haendel | Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs | WENTRUP | 08.11.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4871ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP is currently showing the exhibition ‘Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs’ by artist Karl Haendel. WENTRUP presents Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs, the fourth solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Karl Haendel. Known for his consistent exploration of drawing, the artist uses scale, installation, materiality and photorealism to emphasise the relevance of this medium in contemporary art. In this new series of works, Haendel explores existential themes such as faith, hope, deception and projection. His large-format, detailed drawings focus on collective myths and the fragility of human beliefs. Haendel’s works operate at the intersection of precise technique and emotional intensity. They confront viewers with questions of meaning, truth, and the human longing for redemption. Opening: Saturday, 8 November 2025, 3:00–7:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 8 November 2025 until Saturday, 20 December 2025 Image caption title: Karl Haendel, “Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs”, 2025, (© des Künstlers / Courtesy WENTRUP, Berlin) Exhibition Karl Haendel – WENTRUP | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Adrian Ghenie | Cloud Fever | Galerie Judin (Tankstelle) | 15.11.2025-18.01.2026
until 18.01. | #4872ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin (Tankstelle) shows from 15. November 2025 (Opening: 14.11.) the exhibition “Cloud Fever“ by the artist Adrian Ghenie. In this new body of works, Ghenie examines a society increasingly absorbed by social media and digital routines. Starting from the familiar image of a person eating breakfast while staring at a smartphone, the works address the consequences of excessive screen time: shrinking attention spans, weakened judgment, emotional amplification through algorithms, and the erosion of real-world interaction. The concept of “brain rot,” Oxford’s Word of the Year in 2024, serves as a point of departure for Ghenie’s artistic response. Ghenie himself has never engaged with social media, a position that grants him distance — though not without a certain envy for the effortless digital fluency of younger generations. As in his earlier series, he approaches the subject with quasi-scientific detachment, this time less as a historian and more as an anthropologist observing a new human type: the Homo digitalis. This species commands unprecedented access to information yet retreats into algorithmically curated digital worlds. For Ghenie, digitalization resembles a new ideology — one that simplifies complex realities while simultaneously producing fragmentation and echo chambers. The figures in […]
ARTES Winterausstellung | Group exhibition | ARTES Berlin | 15.11.2025–(to follow)
until (to follow) | #4882ARTatBerlin | ARTES Berlin shows from Saturday, 15. November 2025 the exhibition ARTES Winterausstellung. The exhibition invites visitors to rediscover the encounter between art and fairy tales – a silent journey through the winter season, characterised by light, shadow and delicate narratives between dream and reality. In this special season, familiar fairy tale characters and mythical figures emerge. They symbolise the human longing for light, hope and transformation and open up new perspectives on the poetic side of winter. Between reality and fantasy, a space is created in which art makes the quiet stories of winter visible – stories of memory, longing and wonder. The works of selected artists – including Gerhard Richter, Dagmar Vogt, Albert Hien, Edward B. Gordon and many more – come together in a multi-layered dialogue between light and darkness, transience and transformation. Dagmar Vogt presents bronze sculptures influenced by the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Her works take up familiar motifs and translate them into a contemporary, sensually perceptible form. With his light objects, Albert Hien transforms the exhibition spaces into a finely composed interplay of brightness and reflection that dissolves the boundaries between artwork and space. The paintings by […]
Gabriella Giroletti | Among Ripples and Folds | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 21.11.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4870ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 (Opening: 20.11.) the exhibition ‘Among Ripples and Folds’ by the artist Gabriela Giroletti. Shimmering, iridescent forms that curve, bend, push, squeeze, hold and expand. Brazilian artist Gabriela Giroletti’s latest paintings take the form of shaped surfaces that evoke shards of crystal and stone, earthly textures, bodily processes, the transference of energy and elemental movement. Among Ripples and Folds, her fourth solo exhibition with Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, comprises all new work born out of a period of play and experimentation. For Giroletti, art-making has always balanced instinct with control, but her process is evolving. Where she once followed the interaction of colour and paint, she now begins by constructing her surfaces – cutting, sanding, and gluing pieces of wood until she reaches the desired shape. This shape becomes a container onto which she works more quickly and fluidly, allowing forms to emerge organically before she applies dark outlines that serve both as barriers and supports. Giroletti likens these lines to a form of writing: they are the artist taking hold of her material and leaving her mark, while also guiding the eye and suggesting shifting atmospheres, […]
Archie Rand | Sons | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 15.11.-20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4869ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts presents from Saturday, 15. November 2025 (Vernissage: 14.11.), the exhibition “Sons” by the artist Archie Rand. Contemporary Fine Arts presents, in cooperation with Max Werner, “Sons” by American artist Archie Rand — his first solo exhibition in Germany. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1949, Rand is one of the most important voices in contemporary painting at the intersection of text, religion, and pop culture. For over five decades, he has been exploring the relationship between word and image in monumental series of works — often inspired by Jewish scripture and commentary, but always beyond classical illustration. His visual language is expressive, loud, and full of narrative energy: bright colors, grotesque figures, visual overlays. In his new series Sons (2018–2024), Rand references Francisco de Zurbarán’s Baroque paintings Jacob and His Twelve Sons, which he radically reinterprets. Instead of depicting the biblical patriarchs themselves, Rand paints their dreams – surreal scenes full of knights, dinosaurs, cowgirls, and urban heroes that seem to come from the visual worlds of postwar American comics. These works are both mythological and deeply autobiographical: fragments of a visual memory fed by childhood, religion, and art history. Rand’s painting oscillates between seriousness and playfulness, between religious […]
Colorful Abstracton | Group exhibition | Galerie Martin Mertens | 21.11.2025-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4865ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 the Group exhibition “Colorful Abstraction” by the artists Thorbjørn Bechmann, Antje Blumenstein, Katrin Bremermann, Joanna Buchowska, Martin Bünger and Matthias Kanter. Danish painter Thorbjørn Bechmann explores the tension between chance and control in his work. His pieces are created through the interplay of freely moving paint, which makes its way across the canvas, and the artist’s constant intuitive interventions. Bechmann creates soft gradients that resemble delicate veils of colour. The process of layering many colours creates surfaces full of tension. The large-format works have an impressive luminosity and are reminiscent of dazzling, harmonious plays of light. In recent years, colour, light and spatiality have become central aspects of Antje Blumenstein‘s work. The Berlin-based artist often uses special materials such as neon tubes or fluorescent acrylic glass panels, which she layers and/or mills lines into to create fascinating geometric colour spaces that generate an intensely colourful interplay of surface and space through transparency and densification. The colour itself is transformed into a three-dimensional form. They encourage the viewer to move constantly and change their perspective. Für die Berliner Künstlerin Katrin Bremermann steht das freie Spiel mit geometrischen Formen und die […]
Colourful Abstraction | Group exhibition | Galerie Martin Mertens | 21.11.2025-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4868ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 the exhibition „Colourful Abstraction“ by the artists Thorbjørn Bechmann, Antje Blumenstein, Katrin Bremermann, Joanna Buchowska, Martin Bünger and Matthias Kanter. At the end of the year, the Galerie Martin Mertens is presenting a group exhibition that brings together artists exploring the theme of color and abstraction. The artistic materials and forms of expression are incredibly diverse. The Danish painter Thorbjørn Bechmann‘s work explores the tension between chance and control. His pieces emerge from the interplay of freely moving paint, which makes its way across the canvas, and the artist’s constant, intuitive interventions. Bechmann creates soft gradients that resemble delicate veils of color. Through the process of layering many colors, he creates surfaces rich in tension. The large-format works possess an impressive luminosity and evoke shimmering, harmonious plays of light. In recent years, color, light, and spatiality have become central aspects of Antje Blumenstein‘s work. The Berlin-based artist frequently uses unusual materials such as neon tubes or fluorescent acrylic sheets, which she uses to create fascinating geometric color spaces through layering and/or milling lines. These spaces, through their interplay of transparency and density, generate an intensely colorful […]
Gerhard Hoehme + Delia Jürgens | Like wolves on the Fold | Galerie Georg Nothelfer | 15.11.2025-24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4867ARTatBerlin | Galerie Georg Nothelfer shows from 15. November 2025 (Opening: 14.11.) the exhibition Like wolves on the Fold by the artists Gerhard Hoehme and Delia Jürgens. At the intersection of two generations, the exhibition “Like Wolves on the Fold” presents works by Gerhard Hoehme (1920–1989), a central figure of postwar German Informel, and Delia Jürgens (born 1986), a young artist who grapples with questions of contemporary painting in the information age. “Fold” represents the invisible in-between, which manifests itself as an immaterial world: on the one hand, as an inverted, seismographic mountain fold that opens up a new meaning between the two artistic positions. On the other hand, “Fold” refers to Jürgens’ series “Facades – A Morning Full of Dust, You’re Half Inside and Half Way Out,” in which she processes impressions of street life outside her Los Angeles studio, thus simultaneously alluding to inequalities in Western societies. The exhibition unites both artistic perspectives in the day-night rhythm of light and invites the public to discover the tension-filled spaces between history, the present, and urban life. The works of Hoehme and Jürgens enter into a dialogue that opens up new avenues in the interplay of daylight […]
Joax | Darling, you are so sexy… | Galerie Z22 | 13.11.-23.11.2025
until 23.11. | #4891ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 13. November 2025 the exhibition “Darling, you are so sexy” by the artist Joax. According to Kant, evil is radical and the inclination or “propensity for evil” is just as deeply rooted in human nature as the “propensity for good”. Horny, sexy and porn are colloquial terms used today to describe both positions. Individual usage is determined by the individual, and despite encyclopaedic knowledge and civilisation, the “propensity for good” is not necessarily associated with it. A confusing world with an uncertain future is becoming increasingly radicalised. Thanks to their new worldview, those who harbour hatred once again know who their friends and enemies are. Autocrats are on the rise, and their willing accomplices can find instructions for their hatred in online shops. Opening: Thursday, 13. November 2025, at 7 pm. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 13. November – Sunday, 23. November 2025 Title image caption: courtesy of Galerie Z22 Exhibition Joax – Galerie Z22 | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Seth Price | „Portals“ | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 15.11.2025–17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4866ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from Saturday, 15 November 2025 the exhibition “Portals” by the artist Seth Price. Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi is pleased to present “Portals”, the fifth solo exhibition by Seth Price at the gallery. The exhibition features a new series of paintings alongside a concise presentation of the artist’s records, cassettes, books, and garments. Price’s new works merge digital image generation with material craftsmanship, combining acrylic paint, generative image reverse-transfers into acrylic polymer, and UV prints on aluminum composite. The resulting surfaces fluctuate between physical presence and algorithmic abstraction. Seth Price, Haruspex, 2025, Acrylic paint, generative image reverse-transferred into acrylic polymer, and UV-print on aluminum composite, 151.8 x 134.9 x 2.9 cm In works such as Nox Anima Lens (2025) and Haruspex (2025), Price explores the intersections of body, technology, and perception. His “portals” act as thresholds between worlds — between human and machine, surface and meaning, presence and digital residue. The exhibition invites visitors to engage with the tension between the analogue and the generative, a recurring theme in Price’s practice that has shaped post-digital aesthetics since the early 2000s. Opening: Saturday, 15 November 2025, 6:00–9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 15 November 2025 […]
Mattias Selldén | „Träskalle“ + Gruppenausstellung: „Mark Makers“ | Galerie Nordenhake | 08.11.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4846ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from Saturday, 8. November 2025 (Opening: 07.11.) the solo exhibition “Träskalle” by the artist Mattias Selldén and the group show “Mark Makers” with Ana Cláudia Almeida, ektor garcia and Thea Ekström. Galerie Nordenhake presents two exhibitions that explore materiality and artistic process from distinct perspectives. In his solo exhibition “Träskalle,” Mattias Selldén creates objects that blur the boundaries between sculpture and functional design. The artist himself describes his works as “dysfunctional furniture that could easily be mistaken for sculpture.” This playful ambiguity opens a space where the ordinary transforms into the poetic. Meticulously crafted yet conceptually free, Selldén’s pieces invite viewers to reconsider the relationship between function and form. Installation view, TRÄSKALLE, Mattias Selldén, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, 2025 Running parallel, the group exhibition “Mark Makers” brings together works by Ana Cláudia Almeida, ektor garcia, and Thea Ekström, each engaging with different approaches to material and mark-making. Almeida’s layered compositions of paint, fabric, and imagery evoke memory and ritual. Garcia’s sculptural forms merge textile craft with queer-feminist and artisanal traditions. Ekström’s expressive drawings and symbolic gestures connect inner experience with mythological resonance. Ana Cláudia Almeida, photo by Terry Cole and Emily Fahlén (own […]
Reinhard Pods | Neue Bilder 2023-2025 | Galerie Michael Haas | 15.11.-19.12.2025
until 19.12. | #4864ARTatBerlin | Galerie Michael Haas shows from Friday, 15. November 2025 (Opening: 14.11.) the exhibition “Neue Bilder 2023-2025” the exhibition Reinhard Pods. Reinhard Pods, Ohne Titel (Pauline Schaum Meer Muschel), 2025, 170,5 x 180 cm. Foto: Jörg von Bruchhausen Location: Niebuhrstraße 5, Berlin-Charlottenburg Opening: Friday, 14. November 2025, 6-8 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 15. November – Friday, 19. December 2025 Title image caption: Reinhard Pods, Malen nach Zahlen, 2025, Öl und Aquarell auf Leinwand, 170 x 260 cm. Foto: Jörg von Bruchhausen Exhibition Reinhard Pods – Galerie Michael Haas | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Björn Dahlem | Great Cosmic Wall | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 15.11.2025-17.01.2026 – extended until 31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4863ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach shows from 15. November 2025 (Opening: 14.11.) the exhibition “Great Cosmic Wall” by the artist Björn Dahlem. Björn Dahlem refers to a phenomenon f6om the field of astronomy: the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a cosmic superstructure that so far only exists in scientific theory. It is supposed to consist of an enormous accumulation of gravitationally connected star clusters with a presumed extent of 10 billion light-years. This would make the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall — if it actually exists — the largest and most massive structure in the observable universe. Great Cosmic Wall adds a new chapter to Dahlem’s oeuvre. Formally and in terms of content, it deals with specific borderline areas; be it those between microcosm and macrocosm, mundane everyday life and transcendent experience, or between order and chaos. Accordingly, Great Cosmic Wall can also be read as an allusive metaphor for the invisible barriers that separate our subjective experience of reality from the infinite: the mist between us and the universe; the curtain of light and shadow that separates space-time and matter. With Great Cosmic Wall, Björn Dahlem attempts not only to illustrate this borderline areas, but also to penetrate them in his sculptures. Opening: […]
Miriam Cahn | TRAUMBEFEHL | Meyer Riegger | 15.11.2025–17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4862ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger Berlin shows from Saturday, 15. November 2025 the exhibition ‘TRAUMBEFEHL’ by the artist Miriam Cahn. Miriam Cahn’s new exhibition at Meyer Riegger, Berlin represents a powerful and radical evolution of the artist’s multi-decade practice. TRAUMBEFEHL consists of a single, monumental ‘room installation’ that extends over both floors of the gallery space. Comprising paintings and drawings on different materials, which mix her hitherto characteristic figurative style with more-abstract and text-based pieces, as well as sculptural elements, the installation is made up of 174 individual components that are conceived of as one cohesive artwork. Dealing with themes of mortality and dreaming, TRAUMBEFEHL functions as a diary, with visitors invited to follow Cahn’s thoughts and ‘read’ entries along a pre-determined path set by the artist. An artist’s booklet containing a text by Miriam Cahn has been produced to accompany the exhibition. Opening: Saturday, 15. November 2025, 11 am–2 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 15. November 2025 – Saturday, 17. January 2026 Title image caption: Miriam Cahn. Alles neu. Oil on wood, 20×36 cm. Exhibition Miriam Cahn – Meyer Riegger | Contemporary Art – Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin – Exhibitions Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin […]
Kara Walker | Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A— and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories | Sprüth Magers Berlin | 14.11.2025-04.04.2026
until 04.04. | #4861ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from 14. November 2025 (Vernissage: 13.11.) the exhibition “Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A— and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories” by the artist Kara Walker. Kara Walker’s œuvre scrutinises themes of race, gender, sexuality and violence, showcasing a profound exploration of societal complexities and positioning her as a preeminent figure among contemporary American artists. At Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Walker debuts all-new cutout collages in vibrant ink and watercolour. Presented on a grand scale akin to history paintings, these works build upon her iconic monochromatic silhouettes by harnessing the power of formal composition, texture and colour. The show is completed by new pastels that reimagine traditional genres and several arresting watercolour drawings. For her new series of works, Walker draws inspiration from an illustrated popular history of the United States from the 1870s to explore how the creation of history is negotiated—a negotiation that continues to this day, beneath the surface of her homeland’s difficult realities. By examining this post-Civil War source, she questions the mechanisms by which American identity has been constructed and mythologized. She employs vibrant paper cutouts, skillfully blending fluid, expressive layers of color with sharply defined forms […]
Ernesto Tatafiore | Einzelausstellung | Galerie Dittmar | 08.11.2025-10.01.2026
until 10.01. | #4898ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Saturday, 08. November 2025 an exhibition by the artist Ernesto Tatafiore. Ernesto Tatafiore was born in Naples in 1943. He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1970, 1980, and 1990. Since 1971, he has been in close contact with Jannis Kounellis. In 1969, he had his first exhibition at Lucio Amelio, one of the leading international avant-garde galleries of the time. Subsequent exhibitions included one there in 1981 with Joseph Beuys, Tony Cragg, Mimmo Paladino, and David Salle; in 1984, at Villa Campolieto, with Richard Long, Robert Rauschenberg, and Andy Warhol. In addition, there were other early groundbreaking gallery exhibitions, for example at Isy Brachot Paris, André Emmerich New York, Lisson Gallery London, and Paul Maenz Cologne. Exhibitions in numerous leading international museums with accompanying publications. Circe, 2008, Gouache und Aquarell auf Papier, 24,8 x 20,5 cm Tatafiore developed his forms of expression early on, working with different techniques and materials, combining painting and drawing, collage and object-like sculptures, and adopting a subversive approach. Central to his work is the theme of the French Revolution, which for the artist represents “a kind of ‘great metaphor’” (Jean-Christophe Ammann). Essential to this are […]
David Horvitz + Ali Eyal | „At the limits of the city“ + „Let Them Say Something“ | ChertLüdde | 22.11.2025–07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4857ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde (Ritterstr. 2A) shows from Saturday, 22 November 2025 the exhibitions “At the limits of the city” by the artist David Horvitz and “Let Them Say Something” by the artist Ali Eyal. ChertLüdde presents two parallel solo exhibitions by Los Angeles-based artists David Horvitz and Ali Eyal, each of which explores questions of place, memory and collective experience in a poetic and socially reflective manner. The opening will take place on Saturday, 22 November 2025, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery. David Horvitz – At the limits of the city In his exhibition At the Limits of the City, David Horvitz expands on the legacy of Californian conceptual art of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The artist explores geographical boundaries by transferring elements of his Los Angeles garden project to Berlin, thereby reinterpreting the dialogue between two urban spaces. David Horvitz, At the limits of the city, 2025, Four photographs printed Hahnemühle Photorag Baryta 315gsm paper, each, unframed: 35 × 44 cm At the centre of the exhibition is a reconstructed wooden platform based on a structure from Horvitz’s own garden. Recordings of poets who have performed there are played in the […]
Jens Risch | Knotted Time | Taubert Contemporary | 07.11.2025-31.01.2026
until 31.01. | #4858ARTatBerlin | Taubert Contemporary shows from Friday, 7. November 2025 the exhibition “Knotted Time” by the artist Jens Risch. With Knotted Time, Jens Risch presents his first solo exhibition at Taubert Contemporary – a concentrated insight into a body of work that has been radically dedicated to the interconnection of time, material, and action for over two decades. In the tradition of conceptual and process-based art, as encountered in the work of Hanne Darboven, On Kawara, or Tehching Hsieh, Risch transforms a seemingly simple, repetitive gesture – the knotting of a thread – into a poetic exploration of duration, presence, and existential perseverance. A multi-layered artistic universe unfolds across four rooms, quietly yet powerfully questioning the relationship between presence and absence, process and documentation. The focus is less on the visible result than on the invisible framework of time, discipline, and repetition that underpins these works – an approach that can be traced back to the meditative rigor of Eastern practices as well as the Western tradition of performative self-measurement. In the first room, visitors encounter three key works from the past decade: Seidenstück6 (2015–2017, 1,269 hours of work), Seidenstück7 (2017–2018, 1,679 hours of work), and Seidenstück8 […]
Anna Witt | Radical Optimism | Galerie Tanja Wagner | 14.11.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4856ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from Friday, 14. November 2025 the exhibition “Radical Optimism” by the artist Anna Witt. The exhibition presents new works exploring radical hope as both an emancipatory force and a strategy for navigating crisis and social change. At the centre of the exhibition is the two-channel video installation Nights of Labour. The work positions dreaming as a deeply personal, visionary mode of imagination that serves as a crucial precondition for societal transformation. For the project, Witt invited a group of people to gather and dream within the former industrial hall of the Hydra Werke in Berlin, a space poised between its industrial past and the pressures of gentrification. The camera moves gently across the stage-like setting of carpets and furniture, capturing the participants’ faces as they lie in quiet concentration, imagining their hopes for the future. Daydreaming emerges as both an intimate and collective experience. In the second video channel, the dreams and ideas articulated by the group return as voiceovers. We encounter the same space; however, it now appears deserted and gradually disintegrating. The work draws inspiration from Jacques Rancière’s non-fiction book Nights of Labor, which tells the story of 19th-century […]
Alexander Basil | Error 404 | Galerie Judin | 15.11.2025-24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4855ARTatBerlin | Galerie Judin shows from 15. November 2025 (Vernissage: 14.11.) the exhibition “Error 404“ by the artist Alexander Basil. Self-reflection, contemplation, searching – these are the terms that first come to mind when attempting to describe Alexander Basil’s latest paintings. With an artist like Basil, whose distinctive visual language is so immediately recognisable, even the subtlest changes in tone or nuance in his visual vocabulary are noticeable. In recent years, the artist has intensively explored his own unique form of self-expression by literally giving his own face to almost all the figures depicted in his works – not only human motifs, but also other living beings and even inanimate objects – resulting in dreamlike, surreal compositions. Now he presents himself with a slightly altered perspective: more analytical, more methodical – but by no means less attentive. Quite the contrary. His current work covers a specific period beginning with the artist’s birth and continuing to the present day. It is therefore a biographical retrospective in which several developments run parallel – primarily Alexander Basil’s career as an artist and his social and physical transition to manhood. To this end, Basil repeatedly draws on imagery reminiscent of scientific […]
Eleanor Swordy | Say less | Galerie Max Hetzler | 14.11.2025.-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4854ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Bleibtreustraße 45) shows from the 14th. November 2025 the exhibition “Say Less” by the artist Eleanor Swordy. In two paintings from Eleanor Swordy’s new exhibition at the Max Hetzler Gallery in Berlin, a figure in the centre of the canvas looks at the viewer. The eyes of these figures appear veiled, as each of them looks at (or perhaps more accurately, looks through) a task – basket weaving and cutting paper flowers – which their hands perform with somnambulistic attention. Although outward-looking, neither figure is confrontational, but rather completely absorbed in their respective activities, perhaps even appearing somewhat perplexed. Like Swordy, both have long blonde hair – a hint that they are representatives of the painter herself. Swordy’s works often contain elements that allegorically represent their inherent artificiality. In For You, the lower edge of the painting becomes a surface on which scattered fragments of coloured paper dropped by the flower cutter are collected. In this typically playful manner, Swordy alludes to the objectivity of the painting, with self-reflexivity being an important aspect of her work. Here, as even more clearly in Set Apart, the depicted action and the technical implementation together […]
NACKT – 30 Years of Galerie Deschler Berlin | Group exhibition | Galerie Deschler | 21.11.2025–14.2.2026 – verlängert bis 18.04.2026
until 18.04. | #4853ARTatBerlin | Galerie Deschler shows from 21 November 2025, the exhibition NACKT – 30 Years of Galerie Deschler Berlin by the artists Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Gerhard Kehl and Salomé. To mark its 30th anniversary, Galerie Deschler Berlin will be presenting the exhibition ‘NACKT’ (Naked) from 21 November 2025, featuring works by Rainer Fetting, Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli and Salomé – important representatives of the ‘Junge Wilde’ (Young Wild Ones) and their artistic milieu. The exhibition focuses on early erotic nudes from the 1970s and 1980s, which are regarded as symbols of sexual self-determination and artistic freedom. Special attention is given to the juxtaposition of Fetting’s ‘Figur an der Mauer’ (Figure at the Wall, 1987) with his sculpture ‘Die Drehung’ (The Turn), which takes up and continues the pose of the figure from the painting. Accompanying this, the ‘Blue Series’ by Gerhard Kehl, who died in 2024, in the basement commemorates the opening of the gallery on 16 December 1995 – as a tribute to three decades of committed, courageous and innovative gallery work. Opening reception: Friday, 21. November 2025, 7-9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. November 2025 – Saturday, 14. February 2026 – ATTENTION: […]
SALON: MAU R | AOA;87 X DŸSE | AOA;87 contemporary | 21.11.-20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4852ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary presents from Friday, 21. November 2025 (Opening: 20.11.) the group exhibition „SALON: MAU R | AOA;87 X DŸSE“, an anniversary exhibition about ruptures, conviction, and the end of the illusion of sugarland. “Unprepared. Unreflected. Naive. And dumb.” This is how DŸSE’s song Keine Mauern mehr ends – and with it, an entire narrative: the German reunification fairy tale that, in its euphoria, painted over the cracks. Sugar on every corner – and teeth long stuck in concrete. The words hit hard. No pathos, no pop – a reckoning. A reminder that freedom doesn’t fall from the sky, but requires conviction. SALON: MAU R is AOA;87’s response to this – and simultaneously a manifesto for the gallery’s fifth anniversary. Five years of dialogue, friction, courage. Born from an idea, from a conviction. The exhibition positions itself as a Salon des Refusés of our time – a place for discussion rather than decoration, for artistic conviction rather than conformity. Inspired by French salon culture, it opens as a hybrid space between art, music, politics, and society – a hub of diversity. DYSE © Maren Michaelis At its center stands the project MAU R by DŸSE […]
Ute Schendel | Solo exhibition | Galerie Gilla Lörcher | 08.11.-19.12.2025
until 19.12. | #4851ARTatBerlin | Galerie Gilla Lörcher shows from Saturday, 08. November 2025 (Opening: 07.11.) a solo exhibition by the artist Ute Schendel. For this exhibition, the artist has selected a large number of analogue photographs (vintage and master prints) from her archive, covering the period from 1968 to 2000. The motifs include architecture, portraits, landscapes, theatre, reportage and still lifes. For fifty years, Ute Schendel has preferred to work with black-and-white photography. She began her career as a theatre and portrait photographer in the 1970s at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin, accompanying productions by theatre directors such as Einar Schleef, Heiner Müller, Patrice Chéreau and Jan Fabre, among others. Her extensive image archive contains portraits of actors, directors, photographers, painters, writers and other creative artists. Ute Schendel has also created a large body of work in the field of landscape photography over the past decades. About Ute Schendel Ute Schendel, geboren 1948 in Berlin, lebt und arbeitet in Basel. Ihre fotografischen Arbeiten wurden in zahlreichen Institutionen und Galerien ausgestellt: Nietzsche-Haus, Sils Maria (Schweiz), Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt (Deutschland), Kunstmuseum Olten (Schweiz), Landesmuseum Mainz (Deutschland), Kunstverein Hattingen (Deutschland), Kunstverein Schallstadt (Deutschland), Kunsthaus Potsdam (Deutschland), Galerie Karin Sutter, Basel (Schweiz), Galerie […]
James Gregory | Rotation | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 21.11.2025-07.02.2026
until 07.02. | #4850ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) shows from Friday, 21. November 2025 the exhibition “Atkinson” by the artist James Gregory. Opening: Friday, 21. November 2025, 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 21. November until Saturday, 07. February 2026 Title image caption: “Juke-Joint”, 2023, Jukebox, vinyls (Leila Negra discography), Installation view, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Courtesy of the artist, Portikus, Photo: Eike Walkenhorst Exhibition James Gregory – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Marco Maria Zanin | Between Fields and Spirits | Robert Morat Galerie | 01.11.-20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4849ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from Saturday, 1. November 2025 (Vernissage: 31.10.) the exhibition „Between Fields and Spirits“ by the artist Marco Maria Zanin. Robert Morat Galerie presents the first exhibition by Italian visual artist and researcher Marco Maria Zanin in Germany. The exhibition project ‘Between Fields and Spirits’ unfolds in three chapters following the flow of the three rooms of the gallery. In the words of the artist, ‘Between Fields and Spirits’ is ‘an exhibition project moving between artistic practice, anthropology, and relational philosophy. Through ceramics, photography, installations, and visual ethnography, the show explores earth as a symbolic, affective, and spiritual force – a space of memory, gesture, and transformation.’ Marco Maria Zanin, Transcategorical Objects, 2021, Courtesy Robert Morat Galerie Marco Maria Zanin (*1983, Padua, Italy) is an artist and academic researcher whose practice lies at the crossroads of photography, contemporary art, anthropology, and social engagement. His career includes solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Palazzo dei Musei in Reggio Emilia, Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, Casa dei Tre Oci (Venice), Pivô – Arte e Pesquisa (São Paulo), as well as collaborations with international platforms including Fondazione Cologni and the National Museum of Ethnology in […]
Trisha Baga | MORE | Galerie Société | 07.11.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4848ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from Friday, 7. November 2025 (Vernissage: 06.11.) the exhibition “MORE” by the artist Trisha Baga. A throughline in Trisha Baga’s expansive practice is their ongoing exploration of machines as narrative creatures. Baga empathizes with the tools and systems their work engages, often invoking them as metaphors for reflection, connection, and destruction. MORE, their sixth solo exhibition with SOCIÉTÉ, takes its title from one of the first words a child utters as well as the driving desire behind technological development: perpetual “advancement,” more data, more speed. Immersive 3D videos and constellations of ceramic works transform the gallery space into an offbeat computer desktop through which its day-to-day operations remain visible. This suspension between the everyday and bizarre is mirrored in the exhibition’s central video work, which metabolizes original footage, Hollywood films, found media, and sound. These transparent layers accumulate into a fractured tale of domestic alien encounter, unfolding amidst broader reflections on the strange ecologies and shifting power dynamics between humans and technology. This suspension between the everyday and the bizarre is mirrored in the exhibition’s title video, an associative and recursive composition that metabolizes original footage, Hollywood science fiction, and found sound […]
Evelyn Sommerhoff | Bondage | Galerie Z22 | 30.10.-08.11.2025
until 08.11. | #4859ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 30. October 2025 the exhibition „Bondage“ by the artist Evelyn Sommerhoff. Bondage refers to practices of tying up or restricting the body’s freedom of movement in BDSM. The term comes from English and means, among other things, “unfreedom” or “servitude”. The goal is sexual stimulation; However, there are special forms in which bondage is used for aesthetic or other reasons. (WIKIPEDIA) Bondage – figurines – as an artistic examination of the boundary between control and devotion. The exhibition does not explore the technical practice of bondage, but rather the complex experience of the body in the area of tension between security, pain and release. It’s about the perception of one’s own body in changing life situations: elevated by adrenaline and risk, calmed by trust, challenged by boundaries and clear saying no. The works invite you to consider the subtle coherence of power, consent and self-determination – beyond clichés and pigeonholes. How does the experience of the body change when boundaries are pushed or tested? What role does consent, communication and safety play in the process of building and releasing tension? Which forms of devotion, trust and autonomy can be made visible without […]
Tomás Saraceno | Solo exhibition | neugerriemschneider | 01.11.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4847ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse) shows from 1 November 2025 (Opening: 31.10.) a solo exhibition by artist Tomás Saraceno. The artist Tomás Saraceno’s second solo exhibition at neugerriemschneider, tomás saracenoi, focuses on water cycles as material and metaphor, ahead of his 2026 presentation at Haus der Kunst in Munich. The title refers to Heteropoda saracenoi, a spider species named in honor of the artist by arachnologist Peter Jäger. The exhibition builds on Saraceno’s long-term collaboration with indigenous communities from the Salinas Grandes and Laguna de Guayatayoc in northern Argentina. The water of these salt flats is both a spiritual source and a contested resource—shaped by exploitative practices of supposedly green energy corporations that threaten not only the water itself but also ancestral knowledge and living memory. This context deeply informs the works on view. Upon entering the gallery, visitors encounter a freestanding toilet—a familiar object, yet modified to reuse handwashing water for flushing. This intervention embodies Saraceno’s attempt to find new pathways into water cycles—at once sculpture and functional prototype of a system that already operates in his studio and could save up to 14,000 liters of water per year if implemented in the gallery context. Nearby, prints […]
Ann Edholm | Stimmen / Röster | Galerie Nordenhake | 01.11.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4846ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake shows from 01. November 2025 (Opening: 31.10.) the exhibition “Stimmen / Röster” by the artist Ann Edholm. In Voices / Röster, Ann Edholm brings together significant works from the early 1990s and a new body of paintings from this year that mark a new phase in her practice. Together, they reveal the richness and force of her distinctive, physically engaged approach to abstraction, while highlighting her significant position within Swedish and European painting. Image as Act, the title of two large-scale canvases, can be seen as emblematic of the new works. Edholm developed each painting individually through the painterly process itself, correlating them to the human body. They demand an active, bodily engagement – “from navel to navel,” as Edholm explains – to fully grasp their subtle complexity and contrasting painterly effects. In Image as Act, vivid red “zips” run horizontally across the canvases as evenly as lines on a page, while smoky gestures of black color seem to press against the grid from behind. Depending on the viewer’s perspective and the interplay of light, the black shifts in depth and tonality, revealing an intricate web of traces and allusions. Ann Edholm, Image as Act […]
Toby Ursell | Park Bench Paintings | Verena Kerfin Gallery | 07.11.–05.12.2025
until 05.12. | #4845ARTatBerlin | Verena Kerfin Gallery shows from Friday, 7 November 2025 the solo exhibition “Park Bench Paintings” by the artist Toby Ursell. British painter Toby Ursell (b. 1981, Cheltenham) transforms the park bench into a painterly display and a stage for images. A continuous wall drawing shows Olive Oyl at both ends of an endless bench; on its seat rest small oil paintings – spinach cans turned into vases, coffee pots, Popeye & Olivia – motifs oscillating between everyday object, brand image, and cartoon. Ursell weaves together comic and painting, commodity and still life, humor and form. The bench becomes a hierarchy-free frieze: it replaces the pedestal, brings the works closer to the viewer, and situates them within a social topography of picnic, waiting, and conversation. In their serial arrangement, tonal shifts, lettering, and painterly texture come to the fore. Following exhibitions in London and Berlin (Oyl Paintings, Verena Kerfin Gallery, 2021), Ursell once again reveals his “gentle anarchism” – painting as an open system that questions museum conventions while keeping the images precise, sensuous, and utterly present. Opening: Friday, 7 November 2025, 5:00–9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 7 November until Friday, 5 December 2025 […]
Moritz Schleime + Corinne von Lebusa | Nicht an jeder Palme hängt ‘ne Kokosnuss | Jarmuschek + Partner | 01.11.-06.12.2025 – extended until 13.02.2026
until 13.02. | #4844 ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 01. November 2025 (Opening: 31.10.) the exhibition “Nicht an jeder Palme hängt ‘ne Kokosnuss” by the artists Moritz Schleime und Corinne von Lebusa. Moritz Schleime’s oil paintings mix pirate adventures, Caribbean dreams and road trips with the subliminal gloom of cemetery stories and ghost trains. In his intoxicating images full of references to our pop culture and the places of longing of our time, human depths, excess and great fun alternate at the helm. Moritz Schleime + Corinne von Lebusa, Oceania, 2025, fineliner, colored pencil, watercolor, lacquer on fine cardboard, 50 x 40 cm In the supposed idyll of perfect physicality, stylish interiors and sunny oases, Corinne von Lebusa undermines expectations and role models with mischief and a twinkle in her eye. With great lightness of touch and openness, the artist depicts erotically charged encounters in pictorial spaces full of luminous, precisely placed colour drifts, in which the women take centre stage. Moritz Schleime + Corinne von Lebusa, Egypt study, 2014, fineliner, colored pencil, watercolor, lacquer on fine cardboard, 30 x 21 cm When Moritz Schleime and Corinne von Lebusa draw and paint together, it is like listening to an unconventional duet. […]
Wolfgang Laib | that which is beyond the beyond, that to which all things return | Buchmann Galerie | 31.10.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4843ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from the 31st. October 2025 the exhibition “that which is beyond the beyond, that to which all things return” by the artist Wolfgang Laib. Opening: Friday, 31. October 2025, 6 – 8 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 31. October 2025 – Saturday, 17. January 2026 Title image caption: Wolfgang Laib, Schiff, 2024, Indian granite, 41 (h) x 42 x 155 cm, / 16¼ (h) x 16½ x 61 in Exhibition Wolfgang Laib – Buchmann Galerie | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Uwe Kowski | news, Pinsel und eine Lilie | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 30.10.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4842ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from Thursday, 30 October 2025 the exhibition “news, Pinsel und eine Lilie” by the artist Uwe Kowski. Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin is pleased to announce the exhibition news, Pinsel und eine Lilie by Uwe Kowski, opening on Thursday, 30 October 2025, at 5 pm.In his canvases and watercolors, the artist unites object and dissolution, linear structure and surface. His works emerge through a painterly process that powerfully combines intuition and control, emotion and composition, constantly opening up new pictorial spaces. In a reflection on his artistic approach, Kowski describes his relationship to painting as follows: “Something should happen that doesn’t work verbally. I usually enter uncertain territory because, although I have an idea, I don’t actually know where it will take me. It can also fail because I want this pure painting, but I need that little piece of story, a beginning, a theme. (…) That’s also why I often say: the painting is not abstract, it always comes from somewhere. Abstract for me is red, green, yellow. Just like that. I find the term ‘abstract painting’ doesn’t say much. The message is: painting! And the path to […]
Ross Taylor | Divine Cargo | Russi Klenner | 01.11.–13.12.2025
until 13.12. | #4840ARTatBerlin | Russi Klenner shows from Saturday, 1. November (Opening: 31.10.) the exhibition “Divine Cargo” by the artist Ross Taylor.. Ross Taylor’s work operates in a liminal space where creation and consumption merge. Through painting, performance, and bookmaking, the artist explores the ambiguity of the creative process — a terrain shaped by habits and indecision, where conventional methods give way to the instinctual and unidentifiable. The exhibition “Divine Cargo” revolves around the notion of a “divine cargo” — something special and precious that must be delivered safely to a place or person. Driven by a visionary mission and behaviors that linger on the edges of daily life — picking, scratching, waiting, staring — Taylor guides viewers to the outskirts of the city. For him, the “special material” being carried is habit itself. Growing up on the outskirts of Northwest London, Taylor developed the habit of nocturnal wandering. This evolved into formative psychogeographical explorations, imprinted in this body of work where figures and landscapes merge. Drawing on Irish and British folklore, particularly the Púca — a solitary spirit wandering between worlds — Taylor examines how costumes allow beings to become visible and invisible across different realities. Opening: Friday, […]
Auf den Punkt gebracht | 45 years of gallery work | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 25.10.–06.12.2025
until 06.12. | #4839ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from Saturday, 25. October 2025 the anniversary exhibition “Auf den Punkt gebracht” on the occasion of 45 years of gallery work. With works by Marlies Appel, Eve Aschheim, Curt Asker, James Bockelman, Claudia Busching, Nadine Fecht, Thomas Gosebruch, Hanna Hennenkemper, Alexander Klenz, Astrid Köppe, Bettina Munk, Kazuki Nahkahara, Johannes Regin, Dorothee Rocke, Christian Schiebe, Hanns Schimansky, Carsten Sievers, Christiane Schlosser, Malte Spohr, Sam Szembek, H. Frank Taffelt, Beate Terfloth, Jana Troschke and Konrad Wohlhage. “45 years of gallery work – a long road with countless exhibitions up to today’s drawing gallery in Carmerstraße on Savi-gnyplatz in Berlin. Each one was and is a new challenge. This one too. There are mainly current drawings by 24 artists on display. Some works also come from the depot. Let us surprise you. In the mid-1980s, during the time of the Rotunde Gallery in the Altes Museum, I fell under the spell of the medium of drawing through the art of my generation. This generation reacted to the traditional attitudes of the so-called East Berlin school of painting in an increasingly experimental way with abstract formulations on paper. With works by Joachim Böttcher, Volker Henze, […]
David Yarrow | CAMERA WORK | 22.11.2025-24.01.2026
until 24.01. | #4838ARTatBerlin | CAMERA WORK shows from 22. November 2025 an exhibition by the artist David Yarrow. The exhibition shows works from David Yarrow’s ongoing themes The Natural World and Storytelling, which are characterised by their cinematic composition. The deliberate use of light and shadow creates a tension that echoes the visual compositions of classic Hollywood productions. This visual language gives the works a strong narrative layer and elevates Yarrow’s animal portraits in particular beyond a purely documentary character. References to places of longing, sporting events or cinematic scenes from the collective memory are elements in the artist’s work that create emotional spaces in which nature, culture and aesthetics merge to create iconic visual worlds. David Yarrow realises his photographic projects in various international locations, including the USA, South Africa, China, Great Britain, Scho’land and Italy. About David Yarrow David Yarrow was born in Glasgow in 1966. His passion for photography began early on. At the age of 20, he took the legendary portrait of the jubilant cup winner Diego Maradona in the final of the World Cup in Mexico City for The London Times. Yarrow turned to artistic photography much later, devoting himself to nature and wildlife. […]
Olena Klochko | Inside the Schrödinger Box | Galerie Z22 | 16.10.-25.10.2025
unil 25.10. | #4837ARTatBerlin | Galerie Z22 shows from 16. October 2025 the exhibition “Inside the Schrödinger Box” by the artist Olena Klochko. „Inside the Schrödinger Box“ ist ein Kunstprojekt, das die fragile und paradoxe Natur der menschlichen Existenz in einer zunehmend chaotischen Welt untersucht. Wie Schrödingers Katze, die in einer Kiste gefangen ist und gleichzeitig lebendig und tot ist, befindet sich die Menschheit in einem Zustand existenzieller Ungewissheit. Society is characterised by the vulgarity of politics, endless power struggles and oppressive forces that push people towards consumerism and imposed political doctrines. Faced with the suffering and loss caused by ongoing military conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine, people have distanced themselves from their true consciousness and are sinking into the superficial distractions of modern life. The pursuit of authority and digital dominance aims to undermine collective wisdom. With the decline of consciousness, people are in danger of disappearing into nothingness, trapped in the paradox of existence and non-existence, where the essence of our being could simply vanish. This project engages with real people and their psychology, as a kind of quantum oddity. The artist invites viewers to reflect on the fragility of our presence in the world—alongside its […]
Fahar Al-Salih + Myriam Schahabian | Painting Objects Photography + Ceramic Sculptures | Galerie Tammen | 17.10.–15.11.2025
until 15.11. | #4836ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from Friday, 17. October 2025 an exhibition by the artists Fahar Al-Salih and Myriam Schahabian. The Power of Gentleness – A Hidden Force In a world marked by fragmentation and acceleration, gentleness appears as a radical gesture—an act of quiet resistance and poetic strength. This exhibition understands gentleness not as fragility, but as a form of resilience: a nuanced, often invisible force that resists through care, presence, and intimate attention. In the exhibition, this concept takes shape through the works of Fahar Al-Salih and Myriam Schahabian—artists whose practice reflects fragmented histories, cultural intersections, and emotional terrains. Their works unfold like whispered memories in multi-layered narratives that demand to be viewed slowly and attentively. Fahar Al-Salih’s photographic and sculptural series “Baghdad Blues” and “Mosaics” depict living spaces and urban landscapes, tracing the contours of a city that remains in memory and is imagined. Rather than focusing exclusively on loss, his work suggests that gentle remembrance is also a form of reclaiming. Myriam Schahabian, „o.T.“, 2024, Stoneware, engobe, hand-printed, glazed, 42 x 28 cm Myriam Schahabian’s ceramic sculptures, vases, and installations combine painting, architecture, and writing to create hybrid forms. In her hands, material […]
Manuela Benaim, Makiko Harris & Emily Pope | Body Archive | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin | 16.10.–15.11.2025
until 15.11. | #4835ARTatBerlin | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin shows from Thursday, 16. October 2025 (Vernissage: 15.10.) the exhibition “Body Archive” by the artists Manuela Benaim, Makiko Harris and Emily Pope. Fragmented body parts, twisting torsos, masked and floating faces. Body Archive brings together three artists whose practices variously explore the female body as site, surface and symbol. Drawing on art history, mythology, and contemporary representations of femininity, the works in this exhibition examine the complexities of selfhood, desire, memory and the performance of identity. Emily Pope’s tightly cropped paintings place us in the unsettling role of the voyeur, as if we are peering through a letterbox or observing a peep show, catching glimpses of a body that feels both familiar and strange. This is especially true in the work depicting a voluptuous, milky torso and exposed breasts. The body here is an archetype, derived from a compilation of art historical references and the artist’s personal archives – a form we feel we’ve encountered before, but can’t quite place. Similarly, paintings of a woman’s raised collarbones and tightly corseted body evoke a haunting sense of recognition, even as the context for these figures is deliberately stripped away, leaving us to fill in the […]
Andreas Amrhein und Georg-Friedrich Wolf | True Companions | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN | 18.10.–22.11.2025
until 22.11. | #4834ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN show from 18 October 2025 (Opening: 18.10.) the exhibition “True Companions” featuring works by Andreas Amrhein and Georg-Friedrich Wolf. The exhibition ‘True Companions’ combines the humorous, narrative imagery of Andreas Amrhein with the dynamic steel sculptures of Georg-Friedrich Wolf, opening up exciting perspectives on shared attitudes and artistic expression. GEORG-FRIEDRICH WOLF, Shipwreck VIII, Venus-III, 2003, Starkes Blech, Baustahl, 45 x 65 x 15 cm ANDREAS AMRHEIN, Wide Horizon II, 2021, Acryl auf Radierung, 70 x 100 cm GEORG-FRIEDRICH WOLF, Shipwreck VII, Falte Horizontal, 2003, Starkes Blech, Baustahl, 30 x 50 x 15 cm Opening: Saturday, 18 October 2025, 4:00–8:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 18 October until Saturday, 22 November 2025 Image caption title: ANDREAS AMRHEIN, This is not America, 2019, Acryl und Farbstift auf Radierung, 70 x 100 cm Exhibition Andreas Amrhein und Georg-Friedrich Wolf – Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN – Zeitgenössische Kunst – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien – ART at Berlin
Martin Borowski | Straight Splash | DIEHL | 25.10.2025–09.01.2026
until 09.01. | #4833ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from 25, October 2025 (Opening: 24.10.) the exhibition “Straight Splash” by the artist Martin Borowski. Opening: Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:00 PM Exhibition dates: Saturday, October 25, 2025 – Friday, January 9, 2026 Image caption title: Martin Borowski, Straight Splash, 2025, oil on canvas, 237 x 158 cm, © der Künstler, Courtesy DIEHL, Berlin. Exhibition Martin Borowski – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Sven Johne | Eternal 20th Century | KLEMM’S | 31.10.2025-17.01.2026
until 17.01. | #4831ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 31. October 2025 the exhibition “Eternal 20th Century“ by the artist Sven Johne. In Eternal 20th Century, Johne retraces the landscapes of history through the body, pointing at the threshold of presence and erasure. In times of war, the exhibition speculates on a century of conflict that refuses to end, insisting that history, under the crushing weight of its repetition, remains inscribed in the body and psyche like an after-image—fragile, exposed, yet enduring. In the exhibition, Johne opens up space for associations that are crucial to the realization of its claim: to create metaphors of being and to conceive alternative myths in times when violence and its effects permeate every aspect of public and private life. “The war-torn, gruesome 20th century began on June 28, 1914, at the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, and we thought it had ended on November 9, 1989, at the Böse Bridge in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. We thought the end of history had been reached, but now we see that the 20th century never ended. I spent a summer driving along the Oder and Neisse rivers, through the destroyed inner cities of the last war. These are still traumatized […]
Klaus Steinmann | Freiheit im Malen | Semjon Contemporary | 16.10.2025-20.11.2025
until 20.11. | #4831ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from Thursday, 16. October 2025 the exhibition “Freiheit im Malen” by the artist Klaus Steinmann. Klaus Steinmann, born in Darmstadt in 1939, can look back on a long artistic career. As a young man, he had the opportunity to experience the legendary exhibition The New American Painting 1959, which toured Europe and was also shown at the Berlin University of the Arts on Steinplatz – and it made a deep impression on him. So much so that he never allowed himself to be completely caught up in the disputes and infighting in and around concrete art. Klaus Steinmann went his own way. Constructive art as a tool, yes, but enriched by the (visual) experience of American minimal art and colour field painting. The basic shapes of the rectangle, circle and triangle have accompanied him throughout his artistic life and continue to do so today. Placing these shapes in tension with the multifaceted image background has allowed him to create a very differentiated and rich oeuvre. Klaus Steinmann, O.T. (SC-096), 2024, 30,5 x 33,6 cm, dispersion paint and graphite on fabric on wood, Photo: Eric Tschernow From the late 1980s onwards, he added […]
Amélie von Heydebreck | Something magic | Semjon Contemporary | 16.10.-20.11.2025
until 20.11. | #4830ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from, 16. October 2025 the exhibition “Something magic” by the artist Amélie von Heydebreck. Amélie von Heydebreck’s second solo exhibition at Semjon Contemporary features works from her most recent studio production. There is something buzzing in the exhibition space that is elusive and utterly fascinating: the physical presence of the works on the one hand as materialised, physical artefacts of an artistic idea and attitude that has been transformed into images – for themselves, but also in dialogue with each other – and the radiance of each light painting. And the radiance is something else! In one group of works, there is a centre of light that radiates explosively into the surrounding dark-coloured pictorial space, finding its (radiant) boundary in the other colour space, and eventually extinguishing itself, setting the stage for the surrounding colour darkness (cf. AUTUMN VIBES and DAYDREAM). One might think one is witnessing the birth of a star or a planet. The concentration of light or energy is so high that the next thing one might expect is a cosmic formation, materialised as a solid, to leap out of the picture. At the same time, these works embody […]
Lidó Rico | De Rerum Naturae | Luisa Catucci Gallery | 17.10.–20.12.2025
until 20.12. | #4829ARTatBerlin | Luisa Catucci Gallery shows from Thursday, 16 October 2025, the exhibition “De Rerum Naturae” by the artist Lidó Rico. Luisa Catucci Gallery presents De Rerum Naturae, an exhibition by Spanish artist Lidó Rico exploring the profound relationship between humanity, matter, and the natural world. Inspired by Lucretius’ philosophical poem of the same title, Rico examines the physical and existential roots of human existence, questioning the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, nature and technology, body and consciousness. Working with liquid resins cast into silicone moulds – some taken from his own body, others from brains provided by the University of Murcia – Rico creates sculptures that expose the vulnerability of the human condition in an age of technological dependence and performance culture. Lidó Rico, De Rerum Naturae, Portrait. © Courtesy Luisa Catucci Gallery & the artist In De Rerum Naturae, humanity appears as a being increasingly detached from its biological origins. Rico’s fragmented figures – heads, brains, and distorted faces – embody the fatigue of a society obsessed with productivity and self-optimization, revealing the psychological and ecological toll of constant acceleration. His sculptures act as metaphors for the violence of self-exploitation and the exhaustion […]
Karl Menzen | Stimmen von Stahl. Tellurische Gesichter | Galerie feinart berlin | 12.10.-22.11.2025
until 22.11. | #4828ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin presents from Saturday, 11th October 2025 the exhibition “Stimmen von Stahl. Tellurische Gesichter” by the artist Karl Menzen. The feinart berlin gallery pays tribute to Karl Menzen (11 April 1950 – 19 November 2020), whose poetic sculptures adorn public spaces throughout Berlin. Karl Menzen would have turned 75 this year. Together with prominent institutions such as the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen, the Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin and the Kunsthalle Lehnin, the feinart berlin gallery is honouring the work of the metal sculptor this year, whose poetic steel sculptures can be seen in many public spaces in Berlin and other federal states. Karl Menzen’s work is unmistakably characterised by the principle of reduction to elementary geometric forms. His „Transformations“ arise, for example, from rectangular, square or round base plates, which he liberates for unfolding into space through simple incisions and bends. His guiding motif is to lend the hard, heavy material an essence of movement. The departure of the originally flat basic form into three-dimensionality is a dynamic event: the sculptures stand up, balance, take off, fly. Karl Menzen, O.T., steel, wall sculpture, 68 x 50 x 18 cm © Photo Credits: Axel […]
Wojtek Hoeft | the visitors | Galerie mutare | 09.10.–22.11.2025
until 22.11. | #4827ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from Thursday, 9 October 2025 the exhibition “the visitors” with sculptures by Wojtek Hoeft. Galerie mutare presents the visitors, an exhibition featuring new sculptures by Wojtek Hoeft, whose artistic language blends materiality, precision and a deep sense of emotional resonance. Born in 1967 in Gdynia, Poland, Hoeft moved to Germany in 1990. From 1992 to 2000, he studied sculpture at the University of Applied Sciences for Design in Bielefeld under Richard Heß. In 1994, he won the competition for the monument commemorating the town partnership between Bad Oeynhausen (Germany) and Fismes (France). A DAAD scholarship brought him to Florence in 1996, where he further developed his exploration of space and sculptural form. Since 2000, Hoeft has worked as a freelance artist. In 2002, following the unveiling of his Haller Willem Monument for the city of Halle Westfalen, he moved to Berlin, where he later founded the sculpture group KernForm in 2008. He was nominated for the Saxon Sculpture Prize (2007) and the Gustav Seitz Prize (2014), and his works have been exhibited in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Poland, and are held in both private and public collections. Wojtek Hoeft, the visitors, […]
Treibende Kräfte | Group exhibition | Laura Mars Gallery | 02.10.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4826ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from Thursday, 02. October 2025 the Group exhibition “Treibende Kräfte” by the artists Lada Nakonechna, Mykola Ridnyi, Dana Kavelina, Olha Marusyn, Olga Gaidash and Eugene Shimalsky. The title Treibende Kräfte implies in German both a self-determined, dynamic forward movement as well as being driven by forces beyond one’s control. The conflict between these states characterizes a currently prevailing mood that has also manifested itself in many artistic works in recent years. The exhibition features sculptures, photographs, videos, and paintings from the years 2011-2025, most of which are being shown in Berlin for the first time. Two of the artists live in Ukraine, while all the others have been in exile in Germany since 2022. While some works refer specifically to Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, others focus on longer-term, sometimes international social and political developments. The exhibition accompanies the international conference (Un)Safe Plurality: Ukraine and Beyond, held at the Institute for East European Studies, Free University of Berlin, on September 30–October 1 in cooperation with the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL). Both events conclude the project (Un)Disciplined: Pluralising Ukrainian Studies – Understanding the War in Ukraine (UNDIPUS, 2022–2026), conducted at the Universities […]
Frank Rödel | VOM DENKEN IN ZEITLOSIGKEIT | Galerie Schindler LAB | 11.10.–22.11.2025
until 22.11. | #4825ARTatBerlin | Schindler LAB in Potsdam, presents from Saturday, 11. October 2025 the exhibition VOM DENKEN IN ZEITLOSIGKEIT by the artist Frank Rödel. WHAT A WONDER! What a sensual explosion of the most unusual and subtle colors, shapes, and structures, revealed to the viewer’s eye during hikes and especially when looking down from a bird’s-eye view at Iceland’s landscapes shaped by fire and ice! Frank Rödel, Aus luftiger Höhe gesehen, 100 x 130 cm, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 2025 How to find a language to give form and pictorial expression to what I have seen? Layer by layer, through a lengthy process of adding, removing, and adding again, painted images develop and condense into a unique, independent, sensual world of my remembered dreams and soulscapes. Gletscherland II, 50 x 50 cm, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 2025 In special moments of gratitude, as if in reward for my creative efforts, I feel a sense of reconciliation and the warming intuition that my fragile humanity is preserved in the greater whole. FAZ, February 2023 Frank Rödel, Ein kalter Tag, 125 x 94 cm, Mischtechnik auf Leinwand, 2022 In the end, only eternity itself is made for eternity—who would know this better […]
Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow | Traces of Solitude | Galerie Schindler | 16.10.–29.11.2025
until 29.11. | #4824ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from Thursday, 16. October 2025 the exhibition „Traces of Solitude“ by the artist Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow. In her new works, Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow follows the subtle traces of solitude. Her paintings capture those moments when time slows down and an inner space opens up. Between light and shadow, images of quiet intensity emerge, inviting the viewer to follow the gentle movements of retreat. Each canvas becomes a search for traces—for inner vastness, for tranquility, for the delicate glimmer of a different view of the world. Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow, Focussing, 100 x 100 cm, Mischtechnik auf Rohleinen, 2024 At first glance, B. Yoshiko Pruchnow’s series of works may appear different: earthy, muted still lifes and back portraits, vibrant, neon-colored blue tones in the underwater images, and color-intensive Tokyo motifs in the glowing metropolis. But what all series have in common is a moment of pause and reflection—the common thread in Pruchnow’s work. Brigitte Yoshiko Pruchnow, Burnout Banana, Mischtechnik auf Rohleinen, 30 x 30 cm, 2025 In the still lifes, for example, or in the back portraits of the young protagonists, calm and seclusion merge into concentrated states of being. The underwater scenes take […]
Eilike Schlenkhoff | ROKOKOKOKOTTE | GALERIE STEFAN RASCHE | 05.09.-08.11.2025
until 08.11. | #4822ARTatBerlin | GALERIE STEFAN RASCHE shows from 05. September 2025 the exhibition “ROKOKOKOKOTTE” by the artist Eilike Schlenkhoff. A brushstroke, a splash of colour or a graphic gesture – Eilike Schlenk-hoff deals with such pictorial elements of abstract painting. However, she pursues an artistic camouflage that is based on a surprising re-evaluation of pictorial means: With a palpable desire to experiment, she works on overcoming supposed opposites, because the abstract suddenly becomes a tangible object, gains space, changes its state, its meaning and its meaninglessness. In recent years, this has developed into a complex painterly cosmos that constantly produces new pictorial sensations – and reveals very different ways of dealing with the inherently abstract colour figures. There are, for example, singular brushstrokes that cast a shadow on the picture ground like ominous flying objects. Then again it is a calyx, a thread or a collection of floating particles that the painter traces in a trenchant manner. Or whole bundles of brushstrokes emerge, resembling a fountain, an ambiguous organism. Brummbeere, 2025, Öl auf Leinwand, 60 × 50 cm The basis of her pictorial inventions is almost always a monochrome surface, which becomes the sounding board for such colour […]
Multiverse | Group exhibition | Galerie oqbo | 19.09.-17.10.2025
until 17.10. | #4821ARTatBerlin | Galerie oqbo shows from Friday, 19. September 2025 the group exhibition “Multiverse” with works from Natalie Czech, Katia Sophia Ditzler, Gerhild Ebel, Stefan Heuer, Bettina Hutschek , Thorsten Krämer, Frank Milautzcki, Erec Schumacher and Christine Zureich. The exhibition “Multiverse” brings contemporary positions in visual poetry to Berlin. Artists Natalie Czech, Katia Sophia Ditzler, Gerhild Ebel, Stefan Heuer, Bettina Hutschek, Thorsten Krämer, Frank Milautzcki, Erec Schumacher, and Christine Zureich are showing their works of visual poetry at the oqbo gallery. Visual poetry is booming and is one of the most exciting and diverse forms of expression in contemporary literature. It sees itself as an experimental field of cooperative and collective work that finds its audience primarily on the internet—on social media, in blogs, and on art portals. The artists work in dynamic and changing collaborations, organize themselves into networks, hold pop-up exhibitions, and create their own publication structures, such as indie publishers, art book publications, zines, and chapbooks. This has led to the development of a dynamic, international artistic scene that works in an interdisciplinary and cooperative manner. Vernissage: Friday, 19. September 2025, from 7 pm Reading & Talk: Thursday, 25. September 2025, from 7:30 pm […]
Timm Rautert | die welt und die spiegel | Galerie Nordenhake | 06.09.–25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4820ARTatBerlin | Galerie Nordenhake is currently presenting the exhibition “die welt und die spiegel” by the artist Timm Rautert. For five decades, Timm Rautert has shaped the perception of photography, its possibilities and limitations. His Image-Analytical Photography series, begun in 1968 and long considered groundbreaking, is regarded as a radical exploration of the medium’s basic grammar. Early on, Rautert departed from the idea of photography as a purely reality-reproducing practice, instead making visible the performative and staged aspects of representation. His first solo exhibition at Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin brings together two recent series, a room installation, and several key works from the 1970s. In Weltraum (2014/15), Rautert makes architectural space the protagonist. His photographs guide us through the FAO headquarters in Rome, a building conceived as a colonial administration, halted during WWII, and completed in the 1950s as the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. By documenting the rooms individually designed by member states, Rautert highlights the building’s layered and contradictory history while also reflecting on strategies of self-representation and on photography’s ability to shape reality. With Manhattan Mirror (2012), New York becomes a city of reflections. Skyscrapers appear as collaged fragments, humans are present yet never […]
Bettina Pousttchi | Horizons | Buchmann Galerie | 12.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4819ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 12. September 2025 the exhibition “Horizons” by the artist Bettina Pousttchi. The exhibition brings together new photographic works on canvas from the eponymous series „Horizons”, as well as new polychrome sculptures made of ceramic and steel. The point of departure for all three groups of works is, in different ways, the urban experience of Berlin. Coinciding with the exhibition at the gallery is the inauguration of the six-meter-high sculpture “Vertical Highways V02″ by Bettina Pousttchi in front of the Istanbul Modern as part of the museum collection. With her new series „Horizons” Bettina Pousttchi continues her conceptual approach to an expanded notion of photography, bringing together photographic methods with painterly means. The „Horizons” series alludes to the artist’s highly acclaimed photo installation „Echo”, which covered the entire façade of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin with 970 photographic prints on paper for six months in 2009/2010. The artist photographed sections of these paper prints showing the reflective window surfaces of the Palast. Captured in these motifs are details from the original photographic print now bearing the marks of natural weathering over a period of six months. The works thus form a layered depiction […]
SLUR | Exhibition group | Aurel Scheibler
until 01.11. | #4817ARTatBerlin | Aurel Scheibler presents from 11. September 2025 the group exhibition SLUR by the artists Schutter, Tom Chamberlain, Jack Pierson, Andy Warhol, Alice Neel and Öyvind Fahlström. The English word “slur” is one of those terms that can be interpreted very differently depending on the context.In music,for example, it refers to a curved sign placed over notes and, with it, the indication that they should be played smoothly and seamlessly. Slur also denotes an extremely offensive and socially unacceptable term intended to denigrate and insult. In addition, it refers to inarticulate, unclear, or incorrect pronunciation, where words run into one another. Tom Chamberlain Slur, 2019 Acrylic on canvas 90 x 100 cm © Tom Chamberlain Slur takes its title from the painting by Tom Chamberlain in this exhibition. It is a work of ephemeral form. Our perception is destabilised, for in its appearance Chamberlain’s work operates on the boundary between something and nothing.The canvas reveals no structure, and the countless thin layers of paint show no brush marks. What was just supposedly seen dissolves again,and the eye wanders,searching for support on the smooth surface. David Schutter‘s works,such as the painting AIC G 219 shown here, like […]
Dudu Quintanilha | Sun of Tomorrow | PSM Gallery | 12.09.–25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4818ARTatBerlin | PSM Gallery shows from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Vernissage: 11.09.) the exhibition “Sun of Tomorrow” by the artist Dudu Quintanilha. For Berlin Art Week 2025, PSM presents new works by Berlin-based artist Dudu Quintanilha (São Paulo, 1987). Working between performance, video, photography, and collaborative processes, Quintanilha explores the intersections of intimacy, collectivity, and the political dimension of the body. His practice approaches art as a form of documentation—yet always seeking experimental ways to transform the act of recording into an open field of experience. The exhibition brings together two major recent projects: Erotics in Participation (2024) is a three-channel video installation developed from a workshop conceived for Stadt:Kollektiv at the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, with the support of the Inter Media Art Institute IMAI in Düsseldorf, and with choreographic advice by Katja Cheraneva. Starting from the charged concepts of eroticism and participation, the project asked: Can we still be experimental with the erotic today? How do digital intimacy, polyamory, safe spaces, and rising conservative violence reshape our desires and gestures of connection? Participants explored new physical vocabularies of desire, affection, fear, and rejection, while translating their movements into silhouettes behind a screen. The resulting video, accompanied by a soundtrack by Lille Lake […]
Anh Trần | Every water has the right place to be in | Galerie Société | 11.09.-11.10.2025
until 11.10. | #4816ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from Thursday, 11. September 2025 the exhibition “Every water has the right place to be in” by the artist Anh Trần. “What have you done to my water?” the Lord asked in a 2013 short story by Joy Williams. “My living water…” “Oh,” the engineers said, “we thought that was just a metaphor,” their pipes defiling the fluid the Lord sipped from his glass. Literal talk is seldom wise. Don’t figures of speech press with some other kind of weight, double as vessels, a reality lodged within the word? Symbols, it turns out, are not mere abstractions, but structurally, if not sacredly, material bodies that call for concern. In keeping with a certain legacy of her painting genre, that is what does not happen in Anh Trần’s abstractions. Mercurial, graphic, nervous, generous, her signs do point to something beyond themselves and yet wallow in a physicality hard to translate into a tongue we know. Grounded and ungrounded at once. We are left to conjure a subterranean dragon ghost on the canvas (Are the clouds in the Oculo like oblivion?), a very cloudy metropolis (It isn’t cold if you have a dream), a diaphanous […]
Arhun Aksakal | Land Before Time | EBENSPERGER KAPELLE | 11.09.–04.10.2025
until 04.10. | #4815ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER in the chapel at Luxoom Lab presents from Thursday, 11 September 2025, the first solo exhibition ‘Land Before Time’ by the young artist Arhun Aksakal. At the heart of the exhibition is Aksakal’s new video work Land Before Time. The 19-minute film weaves together documentary and poetic imagery into a visual essay on past and present civilizations and their impact on landscapes, architecture, and memory. The film traces a path from the gleaming white potash mountains—once industrial waste, now elevated into tourist monuments—to the submerged ruins of the ancient city of Hasankeyf in Turkey, a cradle of civilization erased by massive dam projects. Other sites include Ferropolis, the “city of iron” where monumental excavators now serve as a festival backdrop, Mount Nemrut, the Ilısu Dam, the gardens of Diyarbakır, and the Zollverein Coal Mine in Essen, where young parkour athletes transform Ulrich Rückriem’s sculptures into an obstacle course. Expanding on the film, the exhibition also presents a selection of new installations, forming a dense, immersive environment that allows visitors to experience and engage with Aksakal’s artistic language as a whole. Arhun Aksakal (*1995, Offenbach am Main) works across video, film, photography, sculpture, and performance. He studied […]
Why We Do What We Do | Group exhibition | Galerie Tanja Wagner | 11.09.-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4814ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner presents from Thursday, 11. September 2025 the group exhibition Why We Do What We Do with works by Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Elisa Giardina Papa, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Anna Steinert, Angelika J. Trojnarski and Anna Witt. The Tanja Wagner Gallery presents earlier and new works by its artists Ulf Aminde, Annabel Daou, Elisa Giardina Papa, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Laurel Nakadate, Grit Richter, Anna Steinert, Angelika J. Trojnarski & Anna Witt, each accompanied by a statement in their own words—about what drives them, why they create, and what keeps them returning to their studios. “Why We Do What We Do” is both a love letter and a wink. A love letter to the artists whose vision, rigor, and tireless curiosity inspire me every day—and a wink to all of you who have cheered us on, challenged us, collected with passion, and made this journey richer than I could ever have imagined. During the opening of “Why We Do What We Do,” artist Annabel Daou from New York will appear for a special signing of her new monograph “Possibilities of Repair,” published by DISTANZ. “Possibilities of Repair” offers […]
Marc Kokopeli | Now we are on Easy Street | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | 11.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4809 ARTatBerlin | Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi shows from 11. September 2025 the exhibition “Now we are on Easy Street” by the artist Marc Kokopeli. Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6 – 10 pm. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11. September until Saturday, 25. October 2025 Title image caption: Marc Kokopeli © courtesy of Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi Exhibition Marc Kokopeli – Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Elizabeth Jaeger + Phillip Gabriel | Resent the Sky + Chroma Trigger | KLEMM’S | 10.09.-18.10.2025
until 18.10. | #4813ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from 10. September 2025 the exhibition “Resent the Sky“ by the artist Elizabeth Jaeger and the exhibition “Chroma Trigger” by the artist Phillip Gabriel. Elizabeth Jaeger – Resent the Sky Resent the Sky, Elizabeth Jaeger’s third solo exhibition at Klemm’s, presents a visual choreography navigating grief and power. A chorus of coffin-sized steel frames is rigorously ordered throughout the gallery, each bearing gunmetal-blackened tubes that reach skyward. Planted inside these upright barrels are hand-formed ceramic flowers—fragile, fire-hardened, and laboriously made. They present as offering, protest, and aftermath. Together, they rise in a strict yet undulating gradient behind a reclining sculpture of two species. The two figures lie in intentionally nightmarish ambiguity: tenderness laced with violence, protection entangled with control. As an installation, Resent the Sky wrestles with Weltschmerz, heartbreak, and scale shock—how grief is painfully suspended between the intense intimacy of personal loss and the overwhelming abstraction of mass tragedy. Phillip Gabriel – Chroma Trigger Phillip Gabriel, Hand of Regret, 2022, detail Chroma Trigger presents a group of paintings centered on the motif of hands, including a selection from the series Spoleto. Gabriel’s works steal and layer fleeting images into congealed surfaces of finessed oil, each canvas a cluster […]
Nikola Röthemeyer | flower:trail | Kuckei + Kuckei | 11.09.-24.10.2025
until 24.10. | #4812ARTatBerlin | Kuckei + Kuckei shows from Thursday, 11. September 2025 the exhibition flower:trail by the artist Nikola Röthemeyer. Nikola Röthemeyer’s drawings spin worlds of their own, which narrate the precise delicacy, the beauty of the organic and an imaginative, passionate observation of nature. The exhibition flower:trail brings together large-format drawings that can be read like a wall frieze, marking a continuous path through Röthemeyer’s cosmos of humans and animals, flora and fauna. She combines her highly precise brush drawings with areas of coloured ink, whose delicate gradients masterfully connect the deliberately placed with the randomly occurring. In the exhibition, they are complemented by a wall narrative that extends the drawing into the gallery space. The artist’s works are continuous, each of the motifs is connected to the following. Taken as a whole, they suggest a path through the unknown: a scene that appears both magical and adventurous, in which nature – simply in its choice of proportions – is far superior to humans. What could be interpreted in many ways as a “dreamlike landscape” embodies a concept of nature that symbolises a protective and harmonious force. Röthemeyer finds examples of this concept in the songlines of […]
Magnus Plessen | Dein Gesicht in meinen Händen | WENTRUP | 12.09.-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4811ARTatBerlin | WENTRUP shows from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Vernissage: 11.09.) the exhibition „Dein Gesicht in meinen Händen“ by the artist Magnus Plessen. Wentrup is pleased to present Dein Gesicht in meinen Händen (Your face in my hands), Magnus Plessen’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Magnus Plessen’s latest body of work was shaped by a moment of personal reckoning: the death of his father and a return to childhood memories of ancestral portraits. Paintings emerge from this intimate landscape, turning memory and perception into tactile, layered images that oscillate between abstraction and figuration. Vernissage: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6 – 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 12. September – Saturday, 01. November 2025 Image caption: Magnus Plessen, Untitled, 2025, Oil and charcoal on canvas, 60 x 50 cm | 23 1/2 x 19 3/4 in, WENTRUP Berlin Exhibition Magnus Plessen – WENTRUP | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Julian Irlinger | Sleepwalkers | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 12.09.-08.11.2025
until 08.11. | #4810ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Potsdamer Straße) shows from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Vernissage: 11.09.) the exhibition “Sleepwalkers” by the artist Julian Irlinger. For his third solo exhibition at Galerie Thomas Schulte, Julian Irlinger is showing drawings, objects, and a video work—titled The Curtain of Time and commissioned by Portikus, Frankfurt/Main—collectively exploring the history and technique of hand-drawn cel animation and reflecting on the mediation of historical narratives. In his artistic practice, Irlinger approaches past events in sight of future conflicts. Through the excavation and recontextualization of historical fragments, his practice questions the mechanisms of memory and the transmission of history. Drawing on archives and historical aesthetics, his body of work—spanning drawing, film, photography, and sculpture—challenges dominant historical narratives and their cultural representations, as well as the ideological currents that shape them. Vernissage: Thursday, 11. September 2025, from 6 to 10 pm Exhibition period: Friday, 12. September until Saturday, 08. November 2025 Special opening hours for Berlin Art Week 2025: Sunday, 14. September, noon to 6 pm Image caption: Julian Irlinger, “The Curtain of Time” (Film Still), 2025, 16 mm film transfer to digital, color, sound, 10’50”, loop Exhibition Julian Irlinger – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin […]
Winston Branch | All rivers flow too, the sea, you must not look back | DIEHL | 11.09.-21.10.2025
until 21.10. | #4806ARTatBerlin | DIEHL shows from 11. September 2025 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition “All rivers flow too, the sea, you must not look back” by the artist Winston Branch. Opening: Wednesday, 10. September 2025, 7 pm. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11. September until Tuesday, 21. October 2024 Title image caption: Winston Branch, Madame George, 1973, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, photo by Marcus Schneider Exhibition Winston Branch – DIEHL | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Márcia Falcão | Corpo de Cor | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA Berlin) | 12.09.-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4807ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts shows from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Vernissage: 11.09.), the exhibition “Corpo de Cor” by the artist Márcia Falcão. Corpo de Cor—translated as Body of Colour—serves as both the title and conceptual framework of the exhibition. In her work, Márcia Falcão interweaves a sustained reflection on painting as a medium with an exploration of the body, which emerges not merely as a physical entity but as a vessel of history, identity, and political significance. Using thick, impasto layers of oil paint and a dynamic brushstroke, Falcão creates strikingly voluminous nudes. Her paintings possess a visceral and painterly urgency that recalls the fleshy materiality of Lucian Freud and the monumental representations of Jenny Saville. Yet Falcão distinctly positions the body as that of a Black woman—often her own, shaped by personal experience. Her approach to painting is deeply metalinguistic: through an interrogation of the medium’s formal qualities, she develops works that weave complex narratives and connections to femininity, motherhood, art history, marginalization, and violence. This exhibition, in the artist’s words, “condenses over twenty years of research into painting through the body, articulated across five continually evolving series”: Ioga Psicológica, Monumentais, Capoeira em Paleta Alta, […]
Dörte Eißfeldt | Solo-exhibition | Galerie Thomas Fischer | 11.09.-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4805ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Fischer zeigt ab Thursday, 11. September eine Einzelausstellung der Künstlerin Dörte Eißfeldt. Dörte Eißfeldt has been exploring the creative and conceptual potential of photography as art since the late 1970s. Eißfeldt presents extracts of the visible world as we may have never considered them before: be it the human face or body or the effects of light, shadow and time on the physical conditions of things. At the same time, the materiality of different papers, textures, and printing techniques as well as the display of the prints on the wall or in a space play a decisive role. Opening: Wednesday, 10. September 2025, 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Thursday, 11. September – Saturday, 01. November 2025 Title image caption: Dörte Eißfeldt, courtesy of Galerie Thomas Fischer. Exhibition Dörte Eißfeldt – Galerie Thomas Fischer | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellung Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
I sing the body electric | Group exhibition | Contemporary Fine Arts (CFA) | 10.09.-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4804ARTatBerlin | Contemporary Fine Arts Shows from Wednesday, 10. September 2025, the Group exhibition “I sing the body electric” by the artist Cecily Brown, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Sarah Lucas, Maja Ruznic and Tobias Spichtig. I Sing the Body Electric presents works by contemporary painters that deal with the human body. Walt Whitman’s poem, an ode to the human physique from which the exhibition title is borrowed, may sound unusually emphatic from today’s perspective. When it appeared in Leaves of Grass in 1855, however, it polarised the public. Its language was perceived as sexualised, and its veiled criticism of slavery was understood by some as just that. At that time, not even the trams were electric; they were still pulled by horses. In the mid-19th century, when electromagnetism had only just been discovered, the term had not yet found its way into everyday language and was familiar only to an intellectual and scientific avant-garde. The human body has preoccupied artists for millennia. Its representation in writing, language and visual art reflects social and cultural discourses. This exhibition also shows how different artistic approaches to this ancient topos can be. It can be suggested in a cryptic way, as in Cecily Brown’s The Call […]
Dan Walsh | Assembly | Galerie Thomas Schulte | 11.09.-08.11.2025 – extended until 22.11.2025
until 22.11. | #4808ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstraße) shows from Thursday, 11. September 2025 (Vernissage: 10.09.) the exhibition “Assembly ” by the artist Dan Walsh. Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present Assembly, a solo exhibition featuring recent paintings by Dan Walsh. Here, Walsh continues his process-oriented approach to generating images that are reduced in vocabulary yet layered in intricate systems. Initially appearing as smooth, minimalist patterns of discrete units, they gradually reveal disruptions, irregularities, and gentle traces. These compositions are structured around geometric, grid-like rows and columns, where the images’ cells soften at the edges, becoming fluid and, at times, taking the form of pods or capsules. Accumulations of time, paint, and form produce continuous shifts: from vibrant juxtapositions of color and alternations of black and white that recall classical optical illusions, to faint changes in contrast and nuanced gradients. In the square, medium-scale canvases, seriality and its subtle variations playfully unfold, as the images envelop us in their visual world—seemingly constructing their own internal logic only to subvert it. Vernissage: Wednesday, 10. September 2025, from 6 to 9 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 11. September until Saturday, 08. November 2025 – ATTENTION: extended until Saturday, 22. November 2025 Special […]
Katharina Stadler | Thinking about feeling | Jarmuschek + Partner | 13.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4803 ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from 13. September 2025 (Opening: 12.09.) the exhibition “Thinking about feeling” by the artist Katharina Stadler. Katharina Stadler finds her means of expression in colors, silhouettes, and gestural strokes on sewn-together fields of color, using them to visualize her experiences, memories, and reflections. In these works, the transitions from the subconsciously created to the intentionally directed seem to blur. Feelings and thoughts, it seems, manifest themselves and form a common, dynamic whole. Colored areas and brushstrokes intertwine, interpenetrate, and overlap, ending in one part of the picture only to begin again in a different way in the next or the one after that. With their symbolic potential, Katharina Stadler’s object-like works invite reflection on boundaries and finiteness. Again and again, one can start anew without having to discard what has already been recognized. Opening: Friday, 12. September 2025, 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Saturday, 13. September until Saturday, 25. October 2025 Title image caption: Katharina Stadler, GLOOM, 2024, acrylic on cotton (stitched), 150 x 150 cm (detail) Exhibition Katharina Stadler – Jarmuschek + Partner | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | […]
Philipp Modersohn | Unclosure | Galerie Guido W. Baudach | 12.09.2025-01.11.2025
until 01.11. | #4801ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach presents from 12th September 2025 (Opening 11.09.) the exhibition „Unclosure“ by the artist Philipp Modersohn. “Truly good and, indeed, divine things are alive and active outside you and should be let in to work their changes. Such incursions formally instruct and enrich our lives in society (…).” –Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet In his fifth solo exhibition with Galerie Guido W. Baudach, entitled Unclosure, Philipp Modersohn presents a new multifaceted installation in situ. Starting point is the examination of structures of demarcation and division that can lead to isolation. Possibilities for emancipation from these structures are explored using various everyday objects: a stone that cannot be categorised, a monitor that no longer displays anything and instead reveals its materiality made visible by heating, a room that opens up to an undefined weather event, … Parallel to the exhibition, the first comprehensive publication on Modersohn’s artistic practice, entitled Attitudes of Stone, is being released by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite publishers, Berlin, edited by Wilma Lukatsch and the Kunstverein Oldenburg. The book contains short poetic and theoretical contributions by authors from various professions, pseudo-scientific diagrams, and an overview of the artist’s previous site-specific installations and other […]
Carrie Mae Weems | Painting the Town | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 12.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4802ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the exhibition “Painting the Town”by the artist Carrie Mae Weems. Weems created this series in 2021, in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the Black Lives Matter protests across the United States. The resulting photographs transform the scars of civic unrest into powerful visual and political statements. When the protests began, store owners from Weems’ hometown of Portland, Oregon, put up chipboard panels on their windows to protect their stores. These makeshift barriers became canvases for protesters to write slogans and graffiti. Authorities soon attempted to erase the messages by covering them with broad swathes of dark paint. What began as gestures of protection by local businesses, evolved into platforms of expression, only to be suppressed by local authorities who muted the cries for justice. During a consequent visit shortly after the events, Weems strolled through the streets and encountered these painted-over surfaces. What remained were fields of black, gray, and muted tones that unexpectedly reminisced mid-20th century Abstract Expressionist paintings. Recognizing their aesthetic force and political charge, Weems photographed them with the precise light, framing, and perspective that distinguish her practice. The […]
Thomas Zipp | Profondeville | Galerie Barbara Thumm | 12.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4800ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm show from Friday, 12. September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the exhibition “Profondeville” by the artist Thomas Zipp. This exhibition marks a milestone in our ongoing collaboration with the artist and follows his participation in the group exhibition “Anti-Pop II,” which we co-curated and through which we first introduced Zipp’s work to our program. Thomas Zipp, widely known for his intellectually demanding, multidisciplinary approach, has been a central figure in contemporary art in Germany and beyond since the late 1990s. His oeuvre encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and performance, consistently engaging with complex historical narratives, speculative knowledge systems, and psychological architectures. In “Profondeville,” Zipp unveils an impressive ensemble of works that deepens his engagement with the intertwined fields of memory, identity, and perception. The house—both as architectural structure and as metaphor—runs as a leitmotif throughout the exhibition: not only as psychological interior, but as a permeable space in which the boundaries of self, history, and consciousness become fluid. Echoing Freud’s observation that one is no longer master in one’s own house, Zipp’s spatial installations operate like cognitive maps: fragmented, unstable, and permeated by hidden forces. The exhibition title “Profondeville” refers to a small Belgian […]
Lucas Foglia | Constant Bloom | Robert Morat Galerie | 12.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4799ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from Friday, 12th September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the exhibition „Constant Bloom“ by the artist Lucas Foglia. Photographer Lucas Foglia’s latest body of work is titled ‘Constant Bloom’. It traces the world’s longest butterfly migration. Each year, Painted Lady butterflies travel between Africa, the Middle East, and Europe in search of blooming flowers. They have followed this route for millions of years. Lucas Foglia, Wings from Two Painted Lady Butterflies, One Young and One Old, Institut Botànic de Barcelona, Spain, 2021 Today, with climate change altering when and where wildflowers bloom, Painted Ladies rely on flowers in our parks, farms, and gardens. As Foglia followed the butterflies from Kenya to Norway, he also met people experiencing unseasonal droughts, floods, or freezes. Many were refugees travelling to Europe along the same route as the Painted Ladies. In ‘Constant Bloom’, the longest butterfly migration becomes a metaphor for human connections across international borders. Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025 at 6:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 12. September to Saturday, 25. October 2025 Image caption: Lucas Foglia, Painted Lady Butterfly Wing with a Caterpillar, Morocco, 2022 Exhibition Lucas Foglia – Robert Morat Galerie | […]
Matti Braun | Rion | BQ Berlin | 12.09.-15.11.2025
until 15.11. | #4798ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin prensents from Friday, 12th September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the exhibition “Rion” by the artist Matti Braun. Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6-9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 12. September to Saturday, 15. November 2025 Special opening hours during Berlin Art Week: Sunday, 14. September from noon to 6 pm Image caption: Matti Braun (detail), courtesy of BQ Galerie Exhibition Matti Braun – BQ Berlin | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
Meg Stuart | What Holds Us | Ebensperger at Fichtebunker | 08.09.–25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4797ARTatBerlin | EBENSPERGER BERLIN show from Sunday, 7 September 2025 the exhibition “What Holds Us” by the artist Meg Stuart. In What Holds Us the Ebensperger Gallery welcomes artist Meg Stuart with a series of videos in which her choreographic practice and knowledge come into light. The exhibition unfolds as a “journey of presences,” reverberating like an evolving landscape. In the videos, Meg Stuart directs her poetic and imaginative sensibility toward the body, situated within desolate landscapes of undefined spaces, brutalist architectures in decay or strangely familiar environments. Through an ongoing dialogue between body and space, these performed presences reveal the worldly conditions – and the quietly overlooked potentials – of embodiment. Her work seeks out uncanny spaces – not as a subject but as an anchor. The person is shown intersecting and internally negotiating with a world that carries and has shaped them and is, in turn, continuously being shaped by them. The setting – the Ebensperger building, a bunker imbued with political history – invites us to take part in a collective activation of a labyrinthine space, where its visual conditions hold the secrets for us to be perceived and discovered. Choreographies echo the space, […]
Ulrike Theusner | Passagiere der Nacht | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin | 11.09.-25.10.2025
until 25.10. | #4796ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from Thursday, 11. September 2025 the exhibition “Passagiere der Nacht” by the artist Ulrike Theusner. It felt kind of warm, eternal. There shall be what we were for others. Smatterings, fragments of us that perhaps they thought they glimpsed. There shall be dreams of us that they nurtured. And we were never the same. Each time, we were magnificent strangers, passengers of the night that they invented, like fragile shadows in old, long-forgotten bedroom mirrors. From The Passengers of the Night, a film by Mikhaël Hers (France, 2022) I was inspired by Mikhaël Hers’ film The Passengers of the Night, set in 1980s Paris – a film about the power and importance of relationships. It was not so much the film’s topic – the story of 50-year-old Elisabeth, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who finds her way back from her state of desperate instability to optimism and courage – but more its melancholy, its fragmented narrative style, the unspoken words in between dialogues, hovering over the images, rendering everything in a sensitive, delicate lightness, as expressed so poetically in the short final monologue. Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6 – 10 pm. Exhibition dates: […]
Sascha Weidner | MEHR LICHT | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | 06.09.–14.09.2025
until 14.09. | #4795ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery shows from Saturday, 6 September 2025 the solo exhibition “MEHR LICHT” by the artist Sascha Weidner, marking the tenth anniversary of his passing. “MEHR LICHT” presents Sascha Weidner’s poetic and emotionally charged visual worlds. His works create a subjective, radical reality shaped by perception, longing, and coded symbolism. Faces under hoods, androgynous bodies, and energetic hands appear in images bridging sky, water, earth, forest, and stone. Weidner combined works from different series and formats in non-linear, asymmetric arrangements that covered entire walls. Sascha Weidner, Mehr Licht II, 2009, 120 x 120 cm Individual, seemingly unrelated images merged into a larger narrative, inviting viewers to form their own associations. The exhibition coincides with the release of “Estate und Künstlernachlass” by Ole Truderung, the Sascha Weidner Estate, and Inka Schube, curator of photography at Sprengel Museum Hanover. Opening: Saturday, 6 September 2025, 6:00–9:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 6 September – Sunday, 14 September 2025 Image Caption Title: Sascha Weidner, Hand II, 2009, 30 x 30 cm Exhibition Sascha Weidner – Dorothée Nilsson Gallery | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin
Andrew Moncrief | Bardo | DUVE BERLIN | 10.09.-31.10.2025
until 31.10. | #4794 ARTatBerlin | DUVE BERLIN presents from 10. September 2025 the exhibition „Bardo“ by the artist Andrew Moncrief. Andrew Moncrief’s recent body of work represents a distinct evolution in his artistic journey, marked by a shift toward a deeper exploration of formal abstraction and the limits of perception and embodiment. Anchored in his studies of quantum physics, non-western modes of spirituality and the experiential, his paintings reflect a dynamic sense of bodily unrest, a gesturing outside of the two-dimensional plane and the canvas itself. These works engage with key compositional techniques such as sacred geometry and rabatment which helps to guide the viewer’s perception and understanding of the space within the frame. In his most recent iteration of this body of work and new painting made for this exhibition, Moncrief turned his attention on the body itself. While elements of abstraction play an important part of the pictorial plane, it is the body that carries the weight of transformation. His paintings push physical and metaphysical boundaries, urging us to look beyond the surface of representation and to reconsider what lies unseen or outside of our known modes of looking. There is a compelling tension between two-dimensionality and […]
Heike Jeschonnek + Lothar Seruset | Zeichnungen in Wachs / Holzskulpturen + Keramiken | Galerie Tammen | 06.09.–11.10.2025
until 11.10. | #4792ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tammen shows from Saturday, 6 September 2025 the exhibition “Zeichnungen in Wachs / Holzskulpturen + Keramiken” with the artists Heike Jeschonnek and Lothar Seruset. In this exhibition, artists Heike Jeschonnek and Lothar Seruset present different approaches to their work in a joint dialogue. Jeschonnek works with paraffin drawings on cardboard, which, with their fine lines and colour accents, transform floral motifs such as bees on hydrangeas 3 or peonies into a fragile, almost translucent visual language. Lothar Seruset „ es ist alles“, 2023,Keramik, Metall, 105 x 44 x 70 cm (Foto: Leo Seidel) Lothar Seruset, on the other hand, develops his formal language in wood, ceramics and metal. Works such as Im Eis III (In Ice III, 2025, wood, painted for bronze) or es ist alles (it is everything, 2023, ceramics, metal) reveal a sculptural exploration of materiality, volume and balance. Die Eröffnung wird durch eine Einführung des Kurators Christoph Tannert begleitet. Opening: Saturday, 6 September 2025, 7:00–10:00 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 6 September – Saturday, 11 October 2025 Image Caption Title: Heike Jeschonnek „Bienen auf Hortensie 3“, 2025, Paraffinund Acryl auf Pappe, 61,5 x 52 cm, gerahmt Exhibition Heike Jeschonnek + […]
Elvira Bach | So rot, so rot | Galerie Friese | 12.09.–08.11.2025 – extended until 15.11.2025
until 15.11. | #4793ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from 12. September 2025 (Opening: 11.09.) the exhibition So rot, so rot by the artist Elvira Bach. Elvira Bach became world famous at the latest with her participation in documenta 7 in 1982. With unmistakable expressiveness, striking colours and subtle humour, she placed the diverse identities of women at the centre of her art in her self-portraits and portraits of women. The artist has lived and worked in Berlin since 1972. She studied at the Berlin University of the Arts under Hann Trier, worked part-time as a prop master at the Schaubühne theatre and consistently pursued her work as a maverick. The Friese Gallery is showing Elvira Bach’s work for the first time, focusing on her early works from the 1970s and 1980s, supplemented by a group of new ceramics created especially for this exhibition in the summer of 2025. They testify to Elvira Bach’s inexhaustible creativity, her ability to lend her own signature to the things around her and to find an expression for the joy of existence. Opening: Thursday, 11. September 2025, 6:00–10:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 12. September to Saturday, 8. November 2025 – ATTENTION: extended until Saturday, 15. […]
Nina Maron | La Divina – die Wienerin | Raab Galerie and JR Gallery | 13.09.-11.10.2025
until 11.10. | #4791ARTatBerlin | Raab and JR Galleries present from 13. September 2025 (Opening: 12.09.) the exhibition La Divina – die Wienerin by the artist Nina Maron. The image of the emancipated Viennese woman is vividly in our minds from the Secession and the 1920s. At that time, Gustav Klimt painted young, beautiful women from his circle; many of his paintings are than, for a short time, in the homes of modern Viennese families whose fates were soon dramatically to change existentially for the worse. Unlike painting his model, Klimt is interested in the self-confidence of the Viennese women, their sure taste in clothing, jewelry, accessories, and in their dealings with intellectuals who adorn themselves with their quick wit and beauty. Through Gustav Klimt’s unusual painting, which combines modern with classical – just take the golden background, which stands for eternity in medieval painting – his works have found their way into the realm of high art, thanks in part to his eccentric models. One hundred years later, the Viennese artist Nina Marons role model was a Viennese artist, Maria Lassnig. With this example and after a strenuous apprenticeship with Adolf Frohner, the young Viennese artist became a respected […]
Christian Schiebe | leichtes Abweichen | Galerie Inga Kondeyne | 05.09.–18.10.2025
until 18.10. | #4790ARTatBerlin | Galerie Inga Kondeyne shows from Friday, 5 September 2025 in the backstage of the gallery the exhibition “leichtes Abweichen” by the artist Christian Schiebe. The exhibition “leichtes Abweichen” presents small-scale ink drawings by Christian Schiebe, mounted on primed papers, films, or common stationery materials. The works function as loose components for spatial arrangements and are positioned in relation to surfaces, inventory, structural conditions, light, and shadow. By hanging, laying, or sticking them, the drawings interact playfully with elements such as skirting boards, light switches, or ventilation grilles, while remaining autonomous and emitting their own drawing light. Schiebe works in a process-oriented manner: repetition, variation, and correction result in a few peculiar exceptions from hundreds of attempts, which are assembled into groups over months and prepared for their optimal placement in the space. Thematically, the drawings address becoming, the not-yet, or no-longer, creating a suspension between appearance and disappearance. The presentation explores the relationship between space, material, and line in an improvised rhythm of slight deviations. Christian Schiebe, born 1985 in Neubrandenburg, lives and works in Berlin; master student with Prof. Nanne Meyer at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin; numerous exhibitions and scholarships including Kunstfonds Bonn, […]
Jeanne Fredac | Farben des Angeborenen und Nuancen des Gelernten | Galerie Sievi | 06.09.-25.10.2025
bis 25.10. | #4789ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi presents from 6. September 2025 the exhibition Farben des Angeborenen und Nuancen des Gelernten (> Colours of the innate and nuances of the learned) with works by the artist Jeanne Fredac (1970-2025). Jeanne Fredac was a French multidisciplinary artist who lived in Berlin since the mid-2000s. Her explorations of architecture, urbanism and the passage of time led her to a comprehensive reflection on our environment. Jeanne Fredac’s art actively addressed contemporary issues and emphasised the urgency of redefining our perception of ourselves and nature. She explored a representation of humans and nature that expressed both their deep connection and their inherent opposition. She wanted to rethink the dynamics between the innate and the learned. It was the constant search for balance and universality that guided her work and imbued her art with an emancipatory social function. These works built a bridge between art and science, between reality and perception, between figuration and abstraction, between nature and culture. In recent years, Jeanne Fredac had participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the European Month of Photography 2014 and 2018 (Berlin, DE), the Biennale de Cachan 2021 (FR), in Prague (CZ) with the NSPU […]
Robert Colescott | Imagine! Going to Egypt | Galerie Buchholz | 11.09.-18.10.2025
bis 18.10. | #4788ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from 11. September 2025 the exhibition “Imagine! Going to Egypt” by the artist Robert Colescott. Vernissage: Thursday, 11. September, 2025, 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm Exhibition Dates: Thursday, 11. September to Saturday, 18. October 2025 Extended Opening Hours during Berlin Art Week: Saturday, 13. September 2025, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Sunday, 14. September 2025, 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm Image caption: Robert Colescott, Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz Exhibition Robert Colescott – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin
