until 07.11. | #5171ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler presents from Saturday, 26. September 2026 in its new premises in the Villa von Kleist the exhibition AN DIE NACHTIGALL by the artists Kathrin Rank, Uta Reinhardt and Su Weiss. The nightingale in the poem can be heard but not seen. It is there without being depicted. This is where the three painters converge. Each of them works on something that is present in the image without being depicted. Kathrin Rank, Nebelmeer, 2025, Oil on Canvas, 150 × 250 cm For Kathrin Rank, it is the moment. She constructs her landscapes from form and dissolution, from becoming and passing away. Water, fire, snow, and clouds symbolize the transition from one state to another. It is not the external space that carries the image, but the urgency of a moment that is already slipping away as we look at it. Kathrin Rank, Morgen II, 2026, 115 x 145 cm For Uta Reinhardt, it is transformation. For her, an image does not illustrate a narrative; it becomes one itself. Within the image, she creates a space between nature and the man-made. Object, landscape, and abstract plane alternate, and the representation recedes behind the painting. Uta […]

until 06.10. | #5168ARTatBerlin | Galerie Martin Mertens shows from Friday, 18. September 2026 (Opening: 17.09.) the Pop-Up Exhibition “L I G H T N E S S”. Opening: Thursday, 17. September 2026, 6 – 9 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 18. September – Tuesday, 06. October 2026      Title image caption: © Courtesy of Galerie Martin Mertens Exhibition L I G H T N E S S – Galerie Martin Mertens | Contemporary Art in Berlin | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 03.10. | #5165ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition “Sugarshack” by the artist Salim Green. Salim Green describes his interdisciplinary practice as a process of “defining things by their edges.” His practice often adapts speculative models, such as Dark Forest Theory and related ideas, as frameworks to metabolize lived experience. With their resistant assertions of unknowability and interiority, Green’s works refuse the pull of settled meanings or clearly mapped identifications, deploying concealment, opacity, and illegibility as strategies drawn from Black experience. “Sugarshack” draws its title from an expression used by the artist’s father to describe abandoned or deteriorating buildings in his hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. A major Midwestern manufacturing and industrial hub, Waterloo became a destination for Black Americans leaving the segregated South during the Great Migration, many of them recruited by the railroad to break labor strikes. New arrivals were given train boxcars as temporary housing neighboring the train tracks on the east side of town before building their homes in the same area—the only part of the city open to them at the time under Waterloo’s restrictive housing covenants—many of which have now been abandoned. About Salim Green Salim Green (b. 1996, Middletown, […]

until 24.10. | #5162ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach shows from Friday,11. September 2026 (Vernissage: 10.09.) the exhibition SECOND ECHO by the artist Andy Hope 1930. A large matte-black oval – a sequel to the two Roswell Saucers (1997) – shines like an icon from the upper corner along the diagonal axis of the room (Time Machine, 2017). In the third and final room of the gallery – just one step up from the second room, yet light-years away – the works coalesce into a gravitational field. Patterns like particles, quantum formations, distortions, clumps, and black holes form a cohesive structure. SECOND ECHO, named after a series of paintings that has appeared intermittently since 2010, brings together works spanning roughly 30 years. Although some were created independently of one another, they are underpinned by shared ideas – such as Suprematism and science fiction. As early as my first exhibition at Galerie Guido W. Baudach – then still located in the Maschenmode space (4. – 22. September 2001) – black sails appeared in some works, evoking the language of Constructivism. This practice continues to this day – for example, in Myth of the Near Future I and II (2017) or in the sculpture Area of Approximate Time (2017). The […]

until 20.09. | #5159ARTatBerlin | Galerie Creative Game shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 the Group exhibition KUNSTSALON. With works by Alvine Bonjer, Joseph Crachiola, Pia Engelbrecht-Affeld, David Gunderlach, Albert Heiser, AH, Karin Hirsch, Bruno Jod, Norbert Kluge, Diether Münchgesang, Bodo Niggemann, Renate Pfrommer, Peter Scholz and Visuman. The artists will be showcasing their ‘Changes of Direction 2026’. Norbert Kluge, Letzte Ruhestätte Mar-a-Lago, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game David Gunderlach, I spy with my Little eye something you can’t see, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game Alwine Bonjer, Muschel, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game Pia Engelbrecht-Affeld, After The Tide, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game Renate Pfrommer, Lada und der Schwan 2, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game Vernissage: Friday, 11. September 2026, from 7 pm Exhibition period: Saturday/Sunday: 12. – 13. September 2026, 1 – 5 pm Wednesday – Sunday: 16. – 20. September 2026,  1 – 5 pm Finissage: Friday, 18. September 2026, from 7 pm (Live Music with Myles Kooper)     Title image caption: Joseph Crachiola, Paris Love, Courtesy Galerie Creative Game Exhibition KUNSTSALON – Galerie Creative Game | Zeitgenössische Kunst Berlin | Contemporary Art Berlin | Exhibitions Berliner Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 24.10. | #5155ARTatBerlin | Robert Morat Galerie presents from Friday, 11. September 2026 (Vernissage: 10.09.) the exhibition „Meanwhile“ by the artist Roger Eberhard. The starting point for Roger Eberhard’s new body of work is the idea that history is not a chronological line of events, but rather a multitude of events happening simultaneously. Roger Eberhard explains: ‘To create this series, I reached out to 20 friends and colleagues living across 20 different countries and six continents. I asked them what they believed were the 12 most important historical events of the past 300 years. The events that were mentioned most frequently became the starting point for “Meanwhile”. For each of these pivotal dates, for example July 14 1789, the French Revolution, or September 11 2001, I researched a lesser-known story that occurred on the same day. The accounts I chose in this process varied widely – some were monumental in their own right, others were fleetingly known before being forgotten, and one might have held significance for just a single individual.’ Roger Eberhard, “Ahe II”, 2024, from the series “Meanwhile”, ongoing © Roger Eberhard, courtesy Robert Morat Galerie Works by Roger Eberhard (*1984, CH) are exhibited internationally and held […]

until 13.09. | #5153ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from Wednesday, 9. September 2026 the exhibition NEUE WERKE by artists Annette Selle and Wilfried Habrich. For Berlin Art Week 2026, aquabitArt Galerie in Auguststraße 35 presents new works by Annette Selle and Wilfried Habrich under the title “Neue Werke / New Works”. The exhibition brings together two distinct painterly positions whose pictorial worlds emerge through repetition and accumulation. Wilfried Habrich, Abgestuftes Freitagsgefühl, 59 x 42 cm, 2025 Annette Selle – Clouds of Dots, Star Fields In her works in oil, pigment, and mixed media, Annette Selle condenses thousands of individual dots of colour into floating formations. Against luminous, scraped-back grounds, fields emerge that recall star fields, clouds, or flocks of birds without ever becoming figurative. Her painting unfolds through rhythm and movement: layers of colour are exposed, overlaid, and opened up again. The result is a pictorial space suspended between abstraction and memory, between stillness and inner dynamism. Annette Selle, Zwischen den Zeiten, 60 x 70cm Annette Selle, Interstellar, 60 x 70 cm Wilfried Habrich – Markets, Squares, Passers-by Wilfried Habrich approaches the picture with an open, fluid gesture. His works on paper evoke impressions of markets, squares, and street scenes. Planes of […]

until 05.11. | #5150ARTatBerlin | Galerie Dittmar shows from Wednesday, 09. September 2026 the exhibition “Ein anderes Venedig” by the artist Mona Breede. The exhibition features a new, extensive body of work by Mona Breede on Venice. Working under these unique conditions, she further developed her innovative approach—including the choreographic method she had pioneered earlier and the subsequent portrait series—and explored new forms of expression. Mona Breede, Fondamenta Arsenale, 2025, 40 x 55 cm To this end, the artist had been awarded a three-month research and work fellowship by the German Study Center in Venice in 2025. She presented her findings at the Study Center in September 2025. She presented them again in early December 2025 at the Study Center’s conference “Venice as a Laboratory: Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Venice Research between Science and Art” in her lecture “Venice as a Resonance Space – Yesterday and Today,” incorporating her most recently developed material. Opening: Wednesday, 09. September 2026, 12 – 6 pm. Exhibition dates: Wednesday, 09. September – Thursday, 05. November 2026     Title image caption: Mona Breede, Ponte di San Paternan, 2026, 40 x 55 cm Exhibition Mona Breede – Galerie Dittmar | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary […]

until 14.11. | #5147ARTatBerlin | Galerie Brockstedt shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 the exhibition “Paintings and Drawings, 1935–1970” by the artist Richard Oelze. Richard Oelze died in 1980 at the age of 80, living a secluded life in Posteholz in the Weserbergland region, yet his paintings continue to captivate us to this day. The Brockstedt Gallery has been working closely with him since the 1970s and is now presenting a museum-quality retrospective of his oil paintings and drawings. Born in 1900, this painter is considered one of the most original German artists of the 20th century. His enigmatic visual worlds oscillate between Surrealism, New Objectivity, and a deeply personal way of observing reality. In atmospherically dense landscapes and mysterious constellations of figures, he creates scenes that seem familiar yet elude any unambiguous interpretation. After training at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Oelze came into contact with the international Surrealist movement—the group of artists centered around André Breton—in Paris in the 1930s. There he also met established artists such as Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, who became one of the greatest admirers of Oelze’s work. Ernst greatly appreciated Oelze’s detail-rich, nightmarish paintings and reportedly praised them as “the most […]

until (follows) | #5145ARTatBerlin | Dorothée Nilsson Gallery shows from Thursday, 10. September 2026 the exhibition „THE NOW AND THEN“ by the artist Henrik Strömberg. Henrik Strömberg (SE, 1970) lives and works in Berlin. He holds an M.A. in Fine Art Photography and History of Photography from FAMU, Academy of Performing Arts Prague, Czech Republic and a BA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Art, London, UK. Strömberg works across media investigating his topics of interest by de-constructing and re-constructing the image and narratives in all of its declinations – from analog, to digital, from sculptural to pictorial- and with overarching, large scale spatial installations where photography, sculpture and painting develop around topics such as metamorphic changes, transformation, otherness and societal paradigms while comprising the interaction between sculptural volumes, architectural vocabulary and the use of object trouvée and repurposed materials. Strömberg – consecutively – exhibited institutionally in Sweden, the U.K., the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Poland, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Scotland, Japan, USA, South Korea and Martinique. Vernissage: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6 pm – 10 pm Exhibition period: Thursday, 10. September 2026 – (follows) Special opening hours for Berlin Art Week: Thursday, 10 September: 6 – […]

until 24.12. | #5141ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Wien shows from Friday 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition Horizontal Fold by the artist Andreas Eriksson. Barbara Wien is pleased to present Horizontal Fold, Andreas Eriksson’s first exhibition with the gallery, realized in cooperation with neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Opening concurrently at neugerriemschneider is painting the path, a dialogue between the Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson and the Korean artist Kim Chong Hak. Horizontal Fold is a substantial presentation of Eriksson’s practice, bringing together recent and newly produced works in painting, photography, weaving and sculpture, alongside more than two decades of the artist’s publications. Opening: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6–10 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 11. September until Thursday, 24. December 2026     Titel image captio: Andreas Eriksson, Halla, 2026. © Andreas Eriksson / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Mixed Media auf Leinwand. 5 Gemälde. Gesamt: 50×208 cm. Photo: Studio Andreas Eriksson Exhibition Andreas Eriksson – Galerie Barbara Wien | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin  

until 10.10. | #5139ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from Saturday, 05. September 2026 (Vernissage: 04.09.) the exhibition “re:kommunikation” by the artist Ronald de Bloeme. re:kommunikation  ̶  Ronald de Bloeme breaks the dictatorship of perpetual images. From corporate branding to political glitches—the artist’s new works deconstruct the visual infrastructure of our present and reclaim autonomous vision. Our present is a constant visual noise. Whether it’s trademarked corporate colors, algorithmic data streams, or politically charged campaign imagery: the human eye is exposed to an uninterrupted flood of signals that serve economic and ideological control. Under the title “re:kommunikation,” Berlin-based Dutch artist Ronald de Bloeme presents a new, radical series of works that isolate and deconstruct these sign systems, transforming them into precisely calculated paintings and serial graphics. In his new works, de Bloeme delves deep into the visual capital of globalized late capitalism. His source material includes, among other things, advertising posters and logos from major corporations such as KLM, Heineken, and Deutsche Telekom. In doing so, he focuses on the absurdity of modernity: the patent protection of color. De Bloeme strips these legally protected hues of their advertising messages, fragments the logos beyond recognition, and liberates magenta, cyan, and green […]

until 31.10. | #5134ARTatBerlin | Meyer Riegger Berlin shows from Thursday, 10. September 2026 the exhibition Séance by the artist Lin May Saeed. For Berlin Art Week 2026, Meyer Riegger is pleased to announce the gallery’s inaugural exhibition of work by the German-Iraqi artist Lin May Saeed. Throughout a career that was sadly cut short in 2023, Saeed campaigned, with delicate steadfastness, for a more equitable and just relationship between the animal world and humankind. Séance brings together pieces spanning the entire career of the artist, including her earliest Styrofoam reliefs, backlit silhouettes, drawings, metal gates and later bronze-cast sculptures. The show, which is organised in close collaboration with The Estate of Lin May Saeed / Jacky Strenz, will also include a number of works that have never previously been exhibited. Séance also marks the first presentation of Saeed’s work in Berlin since The Snow Falls Slowly in Paradise, curated by Kathleen Reinhardt at the Georg-Kolbe-Museum in 2023. Opening: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6–10 pm Exhibition dates: Thursday, 10. September – Saturday, 31. October 2026 Opening hours during Berlin Art Week Thursday, 10 September: Gallery Night, 6–10 pm Friday to Sunday, 11–13 September: 12–6 pm     Title image caption: […]

until 06.03. | #5131ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Christinenstrasse) shows from Friday 11. September 2026 the exhibition “painting the path” by the artists Andreas Eriksson and Kim Chong Hak. ‘painting the path’, a dialogue between Kim Chong Hak and Andreas Eriksson, brings together new works and pieces created in recent years by the artists at neugerriemschneider. Both artists base their artistic approaches on the rhythms of nature and, drawing on their diverse generational, political, geographical and cultural backgrounds, translate these into compositions that oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Through paintings that are emotionally and formally balanced, they have become chroniclers of the mountains of their homelands – Kinnekulle in Sweden, where Eriksson set up his studio in 2002, and Seoraksan in South Korea, where Kim has lived and worked since 1979. In this exhibition, the artists – who find themselves at different, yet pivotal, points in their careers – depict the remote landscapes of their regions in a state of constant flux – ranging from vibrant colours to quiet, introspective moments. At the foundation of Eriksson’s practice stands the countryside that envelops his home and studio in rural Sweden, and his avid, ever- evolving exploration of it. Integral to this process is […]

until (to follow) | #5128ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi shows from 04. September 2026 the exhibition “Lichte Dynamik” by the artist Darko Lesjak. Darko Lesjak was born in 1966 in Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and was awarded the title of ‘Meisterschüler’. He subsequently worked as a lecturer at the Academy for several years. Today, he lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich. He has exhibited his works in numerous galleries and museums both at home and abroad and is regularly represented at international art fairs. Darko Lesjak’s abstract paintings are characterised by a combination of spontaneous gestures, multi-layered areas of colour and a clear structural order. His magnificent works oscillate between emotional expression and analytical composition, opening up pictorial spaces reminiscent of organic structures or architectural forms. Opening: Friday, 4. September 2026, 7 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 4. September 2026 until (to follow)     Title image caption: Darko Lesjak, courtesy of Galerie Sievi Exhibition Darko Lesjak – Galerie Sievi | Contemporary Art Berlin – Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 07.11. | #5125ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstrasse) shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition “Die Sein: Para Psychics (excerpt)” by the artist Kerstin Brätsch. Opening: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6 – 10 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday, 11. September until Saturday, 07. November 2026     Title image caption: Kerstin Brätsch, Installation view (detail) MEMORY MEMORY, LUMA Arles, 2021, Photo: Andrea Rosetti Exhibition Kerstin Brätsch – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 02.10. | #5137ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from Saturday, 29. August 2026 (Opening: 28.08.) the exhibition Materie unter Materie by the artist Malwine Stauss. With Materie unter Materie (matter among matter), Jarmuschek + Partner presents the latest works by Malwine Stauss. The beings the artist creates in her watercolours and as glazed ceramics are angels, people, snails, shells, plants or fantasy figures. Some of them seem to come from a mysterious shared world full of water and beaches. Through their abstraction, fragility and delicacy, each of the figures and visual worlds captivates the viewer and, with its friendliness and approachability, encourages them to empathise with the figures and engage with the surroundings. With a keen sense of experimentation and freedom in her use of materials, Malwine Stauss creates utopian visions that are both accessible and substantial; they do not exclude or marginalise, nor are they religious or dogmatic, but are simply human in the best sense of the word. Opening: Friday, 28. August 2026, 7 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. August until Friday, 2. October 2026      Titel image caption: Courtesy of Jarmuschek + Partner Exhibition Malwine Stauss – Jarmuschek + Partner | Zeitgenössische Kunst […]

until 03.10. | #5120ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from Saturday, 29. August 2026 (Opening: 28.08.) the solo exhibition Spiegel.Bilder by the artist Gil Shachar. Gil Shachar, O.T., 2026, epoxy resin, paint, 42 x 60 cm, photo Eric Tschernow Opening: Friday, 28. August 2026, 7:00–9:30 pm Exhibition dates: Saturday, 29. August until Saturday, 3. October 2026 Artist Talk: Saturday, 3. October 2026, 3 pm     Image caption Title: Gil Shachar, exhibition view, photo: Eric Tschernow Preview Semjon Contemporary Mixed Double Ute Essig & Henrik U. Müller 10.10. – 14.11.2026 Opening: Friday, 9. October AuctioHibition – First Come First Served Standort . Zukunft . Support 01.12. – 06.12. Opening: 29.11., 3-6 pm Closing: 6.12.: 2-4 pm Discovery: Fritz André Kracht. Polaroids 15.12. – 16.01.2027 Opening: 15.12., 2-5 pm Exhibition Gil Shachar – Semjon Contemporary | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Contemporary Art | Exhibition Berlin Galleries – ART at Berlin

until 07.11. | #5116ARTatBerlin | Galerie Thomas Schulte (Charlottenstrasse) shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition “Life–Death” by the artist Katharina Sieverding. Opening: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6 – 10 pm. Exhibion dates: Friday, 11. September until Saturday, 07. November 2026     Title image caption: Katharina Sieverding, “Life–Death”, 1969, (film still), Photo: Klaus Mettig Exhibition Katharina Sieverding – Galerie Thomas Schulte | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Ausstellungen Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 07.11. | #5113ARTatBerlin | BQ Berlin shows from Friday, 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09.) the exhibition “Hauntings” by the artist Carina Brandes. Carina Brandes (born 1982, Braunschweig) lives and works in Leipzig. In her work, she combines photography, performance and collage to create cinematic visual narratives. She uses her own body as an artistic instrument: with the aid of a self-timer, she documents performative actions that explore the body’s boundaries—both physically and symbolically—in order to re-appropriate the objectifying gaze that rests upon her skin. In her most recent works, however, her own skin is increasingly moving out of focus. Instead, Brandes turns her attention to the photographic surface itself, cutting it up and reassembling it into new visual constellations. The artist’s body remains present – in the empty spaces and lines of fracture that emerge between the fragments. In her exhibition at BQ, Brandes explores those singular yet recurring moments in which, in the presence of the Other, something comes to light that makes even the most familiar seem alien. Through photographic sequences that intertwine the real and the surreal, she opens up dreamlike visual spaces. Dreams haunt us, just as the spirit does, in order to inscribe once […]

until 19.09. | #5110ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin shows from Thursday, 13. August 2026 (Vernissage: 12.08.) the exhibition Tired Horses by the artists Robert McNally and Charlie Roberts. Ancient artifacts, wilting flowers, and faces sketched with thick strokes of toothpaste. An artist who is downright obsessed with painting self-portraits. “Tired Horses,” a two-artist exhibition by Robert McNally and Charlie Roberts at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery in Berlin, delves deep into the artists’ psyches and explores what it takes to lead a creative life. The exhibition title refers to Bob Dylan’s “All the Tired Horses” and the German short film of the same name by Sebastian Mayr. With the repeated line “All the tired horses in the sun / How am I supposed to get any riding done?”, the song reflects a sense of creative frustration and exhaustion that Dylan felt at the time. The film, on the other hand, is a reflection on intimacy—on what we reveal and what we hold back. Taken together, these references frame the exhibition as a reflection not only on artistic exhaustion but also on the persistent act of creation in spite of that exhaustion—an idea that lies at the heart of the […]

until 17.10. | #5106ARTatBerlin | Galerie alexander levy shows from 11. September 2026 (Opening: 10.09) the exhibition “Modul im Modell” by the artist Sinta Werner. Sinta Werner untersucht in ihren fotografischen und skulpturalen Arbeiten, wie Raum durch Material, Licht und Bewegung fortwährend neu entsteht. Ausgangspunkt sind häufig architektonische Strukturen und modernistische Ordnungssysteme, deren geometrische Klarheit sie aufgreift, verschiebt und in neue räumliche Zusammenhänge überführt. Gerüst und Gewand III, 2026, Archival pigment prints with laser cutting, 102,4 cm x 75,1 cm. Courtesy Sinta Werner and alexander levy, Berlin Glass plays a particular role here: as material, tool, and optical filter, it generates transparency, reflection, and overlay, dissolving seemingly unambiguous perspectives. Where the modernist grid of the mid-twentieth century promised rationality and unshakeable stability, Werner’s works reclaim the embodied, situational perspective. Only through walking in the space, through shifts in eye level, do the rigid systems dissolve, and space becomes a processual experience for the viewer. Opening: Thursday, 10. September 2026, 6 – 10 pm. Exhibition dates: Friday,11. September – Saturday, 17. October 2026     Title image caption: Gerüst und Gewand I,2024, Archival pigment prints with laser cutting, 102,4 cm x 86 cm. Courtesy Sinta Werner and alexander levy, Berlin Exhibition Sinta […]

until 24.07. | #5103ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from Monday, 13. July 2026 the exhibition Aperçu by the artists from nine and a half years of feinart berlin. With this exhibition, the gallery would like to express its heartfelt thanks to the artists whose first-class works have underpinned the programme over the years, as well as to the public who have supported us with such keen interest. ‘Aperçu’ is feinart berlin’s final exhibition at Niebuhrstraße 71 in Charlottenburg, where it all began in early 2017 with a small but ambitious idea — to found a gallery. We look back on a wonderful time filled with marvellous encounters and inspiring art. ‘Aperçu’ marks our farewell to a space whose aesthetic has brought artistic practices to life in all their individuality, just as these have constantly transformed and reinterpreted it. Every exhibition was an experience! Mathias Roloff, Traum vom gelben Haus, 2025, Oil on canvas,100 x 70cm ©feinartberlin Nine and a half years, 52 exhibitions. ‘Aperçu’ builds a bridge to the future, with a sense of curious anticipation for what lies ahead and for our continued development. With this exhibition, we would like to celebrate with you what has been achieved […]

until 08.08. | #5102ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin shows from Thursday, 9. July 2026 (Opening: 08.07.) the exhibition Mood Lighting by the artists Adrian Kay Wong, Juan de La Rica and Nicolas Bono Kennedy. Let’s set the scene: it’s early evening, the sun casting a warm, orange glow. There are flowers on the table, fruit and wine, or maybe a cup of tea. This is a space filled with sensuous potential, yet somehow detached, aesthetically pleasing to the point of being almost too perfect. Something darker lingers beneath. Mood Lighting, an exhibition of works by Adrian Kay Wong, Juan de la Rica and Nicholas Bono Kennedy, explores the fatigue of social performance, where seemingly idyllic compositions give way to a sense of longing and otherness. Paintings by Adrian Kay Wong capture everyday domestic moments in which figures appear at the fringes of the canvas, at home but not quite fully in the scene. In one work, a woman stands at the edge of a table looking towards an absent male figure whom we glimpse only through his shadow on the door. We cannot see their faces, but a tension is felt through the objects – a vase of […]

until 26.08. | #5097ARTatBerlin | Galerie Esther Schipper shows from Friday, 3. July 2026 the Group-exhibition “Forking Paths” by the artists Chiu Chien-Jen, Chia-Wei Hsu, Tsai Yi-Ting and Tseng Chien-Ying. The exhibition takes its title from Jorge Luis Borges’ 1941 short story The Garden of Forking Paths. In Borges’ text, time does not unfold according to a single linear trajectory but branches into multiple, simultaneous possibilities. The story proposes a universe in which every choice generates new paths rather than replacing previous ones. Forking Paths adopts this image as a point of departure for an exhibition that explores the multiple ways in which images, histories, and identities are constructed and perceived. This literary premise finds a physical counterpart in the exhibition’s spatial structure. Rather than presenting artworks along a fixed sequence, “Forking Paths” unfolds as a field of relations shaped by shifting sight-lines. Earth-toned curtains divide and articulate the space, creating porous thresholds that reveal and conceal views while guiding visitors through the gallery space. Drawing in part from both East Asian and Italian garden and spatial traditions, in which winding routes and framed views transform walking into a mode of perception, the exhibition invites viewers to continually reorganize the relationships between works as they […]

until 15.08. | #5094ARTatBerlin | Galerie Crone shows from Saturday, 27. June 2026 (Vernissage: 26.06.) the group exhibition Empty Places, Crowded Hearts by the artists Hanne Darboven, Carola Dertnig, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Judith Fegerl, Sylvie Fleury, Channa Horwitz, Sophie-Luise Passow, Charlotte Posenenske, Rosemarie Trockel and Ruscha Voormann Gironcoli. Galerie Cronen cordially invites visitors to the opening of the exhibition “Empty Places, Crowded Hearts” at its Berlin gallery, which presents a cross-generational panorama of female artistic strategies with abstract or abstracting references. The exhibition brings influential works from the 1970s and 1980s into dialogue with contemporary trends. The works on display by Channa Horwitz, Hanne Darboven, Charlotte Posenenske, Sylvie Fleury and Rosemarie Trockel exemplify a conceptual exploration of structure through serial systems, time-based orders and the critical reflection on cultural and material codes. Their practice has had a lasting impact on the understanding of structure as an intellectual and social principle. Courtesy of Galerie Crone Younger artists such as Ruscha Voormann, Hannah Sophie Dunkelberg, Sophie-Luise Passow, Judith Fegerl and Carola Dertnig are taking these approaches further and exploring surfaces, materials and narrative structures as open, fragile systems in which the body, space and image enter into dynamic relationships. The exhibition thus […]

until 15.08. | #5092ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse) shows from 4. July 2026 (Opening: 03.07.) the exhibition Stairway to somewhere: a soundtrack by the artist Thaddeus Strode. In stairway to somewhere: a soundtrack, Thaddeus Strode’s 13th solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, references from mass media, philosophy, art history, film, illustration and surf culture converge in a painted mixtape. New human-scale canvases combine figurative and textual elements, exploring themes such as life, death, rebirth, transformation and transcendence. These motifs extend into sculptural works and a sound installation that together create an immersive environment. Rooted in the visual and cultural landscape of his Californian upbringing, Strode draws on the omnipresent musical backdrop of beaches, car radios and street performers. Influenced by Dadaist cut-up techniques, musique concrète and experimental sound practices, the works bring together expansive fields of colour, handwritten text and comic-like imagery. Familiar motifs are transformed into scenes that oscillate between memory, imagination and uncertainty. The exhibition functions as a non-hierarchical dialogue between painting, sculpture and sound. Installed at eye level, the paintings invite direct encounters with the figures they depict, while presenting visions of alternative timelines, parallel realities and speculative futures. The apparent lightness of the imagery contrasts with the existential questions […]

until 25.07. | #5089ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 20. June 2026 (Opening: 19.06) the exhibition “Difficult Times” by the artist Martin Eberle. Martin Eberle is known for his photo series on the club scene in the 1990s as well as subcultural structures in Berlin. In his new series Difficult Times (2022–2026), he follows the rapid and increasingly visible social and spatial transformation of the city and portrays people from Berlin’s cultural landscape. His work documents a continuous transformation and progressive change of niches and open spaces within Berlin. Through his photography, Eberle brings visibility to indoor and outdoor spaces, which often exist in a moment of transition. He is also interested in places that develop their own dynamics in public space through spontaneous and unregulated forms of use. According to Martin Eberle, Berlin’s urban space can be understood as a communication system consisting „of many surprising, unexpected, interconnected and disconnected messages.  The photographs of these appropriations reveal the metropolis as personal, dirty, vulnerable, emotional – a city of countless niches and lost corners, of sheer madness in all its forms“. About Martin Eberle Martin Eberle (born 1966 in Augsburg) studied photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences as well as […]

until 01.08. | #5086ARTatBerlin | Galerie Tanja Wagner shows from Friday, 13. June 2026 (Opening: 12.06) the exhibition “The First Two Letters of the Alphabet Are Unconditional Love” by the artist Ayumi Paul. Ayumi Paul’s works draw attention to the interplay of forces, relationships, and timescales that exceed the awareness of individual actors, yet underlie every breath, every gust of wind, and every encounter. They are anchored in the understanding that life does not consist of separate entities, but of processes that continuously give rise to and transform one another. Perception is understood not as observation from the outside, but as participation. The title of the exhibition refers to the first two characters of the Japanese hiragana syllabary, “A” and “I”. Combined, they form the Japanese word for love. Hiragana is a sound-based writing system. Beginning with the two vowels A and I, Ayumi Paul reduces language to one of its simplest sonic origins. About Ayumi Paul Ayumi Paul lives and works between Athens and Kyoto. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sound, performance, objects, and social engagement. Recent presentations of her work include the Sharjah Biennial (2025), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (2025), Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2024), Gropius Bau, Berlin (2023), Auditorium Parco […]

until 04.07. | #5084ARTatBerlin | Galerie Kristin Hjellegjerde in Berlin currently shows the exhibition Passion Flower by the artist Kimathi Mafafo. A woman wrapped in golden embroidered cloth and beads, her hair whipped across her face, sits beneath an arch of verdant leaves and blooming flowers. The night sky behind her twinkles with stars, her skin glistens in the moonlight. “Passion Flower”, South African artist Kimathi Mafafo’s solo exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, explores nature not just as a physical space, but as an embodied experience, shaped by sensation, connection and care. The show’s title references a specific species of tropical flower which is depicted in the works and which was first introduced to the artist by her late grandmother for its calming and restorative properties. The flower’s name and form are also symbolic to Mafafo of a heightened bodily and emotional awareness. Across her works, the vivid colour of the flower’s petals and tendrils evokes an otherworldly, almost cosmic presence, which is also reminiscent of antennas or satellite dishes – transmitters or receivers of messages. In the non-figurative works, in particular, they become stand-ins for the body emerging from lush, tangled foliage. This shift away from portraiture to abstract still-lifes and […]

until 21.06. | #5078ARTatBerlin | Galerie Creative Game shows from Friday, 5. June 2026 the exhibition Stille und Übermaß by the artist Ina Münch. With “Silence and Excess”, the Creative Game Gallery presents recent works by the abstract painter Ina Münch, offering a focused insight into her practice. The exhibition highlights key pieces from her body of work as well as new works from the “Cloud Dancer” series. The works range from intimate small-scale pieces to monumental canvases.  Der erste Flieger, Lilienthalpark, 140 x 120 cm, Courtesy of Galerie Creative Game Ina Münch’s painting navigates the tension between minimalism and intensity. Stillness emerges in condensed, minimalist colour fields of subtle presence, whilst excess finds expression in expressive colour and gestural dynamism. The exhibition presents a body of work that balances concentration and excess, tranquillity and movement, condensation and dissolution. Cloud Dancer 9, 70 x 50 cm, Courtesy of Galerie Creative Game Using acrylic, marble dust, chalk and graphite, Münch creates multi-layered pictorial spaces, some of which feature a relief-like texture. Her works emerge through complex processes of layering, densification and shifting the orientation of the support – a continuous balancing act between materiality, movement and equilibrium. Cloud Dancer 11, 20 […]

until 27.06. | #4963ARTatBerlin | Galerie Sievi show at CSR.ART from 04th June 2026 the solo exhibition ENERGIE by the artist Olivier Messas. For Olivier Messas, art is a boundless field of experimentation in which an unrestrained pursuit of freedom takes centre stage. His works create a deeply liberated, intuitive, and luminous universe defined by independence and a celebration of life. In a world increasingly shaped by norms, acceleration, and anxiety, his artistic practice serves as a direct invitation to shed rigid social conventions, take a deep breath, and reconnect with a sense of inner freedom. His art seeks to offer emotional release, dissolve barriers, and convey universal values such as joy, hope, and light. This unwavering commitment to freedom also defines both his creative process and his artistic identity. Drawing inspiration from his former career as a stylist in the fashion industry, Olivier Messas now works in thematic series and collections. Each body of work possesses its own distinct visual language, energy, and technique. This deliberate diversity prevents him from being confined to a single style or categorised within fixed artistic frameworks. Some collections are more graphic and contemplative in nature, while others are driven by dynamic, spontaneous gestures […]

until 25.07. | #5099ARTatBerlin | Galerie SCHMALFUSS BERLIN presents from Saturday, 6 June 2026 the exhibition on behalf of the 75. birthday of the artist Elvira Bach. Elvira Bach is one of the defining voices of contemporary German art. She made her name as one of the few female artists of the ‘Neue Wilde’ movement. As a participant in documenta 7 in 1982, she developed an unmistakable visual language characterised by vibrant colours, an expressive formal language and a compelling exploration of female identity. Elvira Bach, 1994, Acrylic on Paper, 79,5 x 105 cm In her work, particularly in her figures and self-portraits, she combines personal experience with universal themes such as physicality, role models and self-assertion. Elvira Bach, Lithography, E.A., 59 x 41,5 cm Gallery owner Michael Schmalfuss has been working very successfully with the internationally renowned artist for more than 25 years. To mark Elvira Bach’s 75th birthday, he is delighted to present a special selection of prints and rare original works spanning her creative career of more than 50 years. Elvira Bach, 1994, Lithography, E.A., 55,5 x 38 cm  Opening: Saturday, 6 June 2026, 4.00 pm – 8.00 pm, in the presence of the artist Exhibition dates: […]

until 27.06. | #5074ARTatBerlin | Galerie feinart berlin shows from Thursday, 21. May 2026 the exhibition L’orto dei sogni by the artist Mariella Ridda. L’orto dei sogni. It is truly a “Garden of Dreams” into which Mariella Ridda invites us. The artist explores contemporary themes such as the fragility of the world, the experience of disorientation, unrest, and violence, and through her paintings creates positive, energetic alternative worlds that call for empathy, transformation, and a new beginning. Typical of Mariella Ridda, who earned her diploma in painting from the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples in 1991, are solitary figures in an introspective pose, often with their eyes closed as they listen inward, silent and contemplative. The object of their attention lies beyond the visible world, to which they nevertheless maintain a connection through arms and hands that cradle, hold, and protect animals, fruits, and flowers. In works such as “Maternitá” (2026), in which a mother protectively holds a fish in her lap, or in “Tra fiori e molograni” (2026), in which a child whispers its doubts and fears to the flowers, a recurring theme of the painter’s work is expressed: the spiritual dimension of physical gestures and her sense […]

until 13.06. | #5071ARTatBerlin | Laura Mars Gallery shows from 15. May 2026 the exhibition belongings by the artist INA BIERSTEDT. The title of Ina Bierstedt’s solo exhibition at the Laura Mars Gallery is ambiguous and refers to forms of connection—or, as the artist herself describes it, to things we preserve and have become “attached” to over time. There are many forms of belonging, especially in the context of cultural, national, and social identity. Using painted, often glass objects and other items, Bierstedt establishes connections between humans and the material world while simultaneously exploring the pictorial boundaries of traditional still lifes. In her paintings, however, these do not appear static. Rather It is the individual and collective memory of the material that is reflected on the colored glass surfaces and, depending on the interplay of light and perspective, from within. Bierstedt extends this interest to landscapes and architecture as carriers of (ambivalent) memory. Through her painting, the artist raises questions about the origin, cultural value, and personal significance of these objects. Some elements remain deliberately distorted, appear fragile, and bear gaps as well as traces of actions. The past is only temporarily a time set aside. Through memory, we construct […]

until 20.06. | #5067ARTatBerlin | Buchmann Galerie shows from 01. Mai 2026 the exhibition Rooted In Time Rooted In The Sky, Paintings 1994-2026 by the artist Bernd Koberling. Buchmann Galerie is delighted to present an exhibition featuring Bernd Koberling as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026. The painter Bernd Koberling (born in Berlin in 1938) is one of the most important and influential figures in post-war German art. Through regular stays in Iceland, some lasting several months, his current works are deeply influenced by his perception of the landscape. Since 1977, he has spent time on the island every year, and its natural environment has had a decisive influence on his painting. This is also reflected in the colour palette of his works, a style of painting that embraces its medium to create impressions of visual intensity. In addition to large-format canvas works from 1992 to 2026, the exhibition also features an extensive series of watercolours characterised by intense colour, broad gestural strokes and consistent abstraction. “The more intimate the image, the coarser the medium,” says Koberling. The watercolours form large collections of works and reveal the artist’s mystical-romantic side. Opening: Friday, 01. May 2026, 6 until 9 pm Exhibition […]

until 06.06. | #5064ARTatBerlin | KLEMM’S shows from Friday, 1. May 2026 the exhibition w-o-r-k/s by the artist Juan Pablo Echeverri. Juan Pablo Echeverri’s work is deeply rooted in the visual culture of the second half of the 20th century. In a prescient manner, however, Echeverri raises questions that mark some of the most pressing anxieties of the present: What constitutes a being? How do we allow ourselves to be affected by others and by the images that surround us? How is an existence sustained through multiple, contradictory, and constantly shifting identities? His photographic and video series serve as visual evidence that the self is not an essence but an accumulation: a layering of cultural references, emotions, disguises, and masks that consumer society—a ceaseless flood of products largely inspired by Anglophone popular culture—has disseminated to even the most remote corners of the planet. Echeverri does not denounce this process from the outside. He inhabits it from within, with a lucidity that can only come from someone who has experienced it as both a contradiction and a resource simultaneously. Opening: Friday, 1. May 2026, 6 until 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 1. May until Saturday, 6. June 2026     Title […]

until 27.06. | #5060ARTatBerlin | Barbara Thumm shows from Saturday, 02. May 2026 the exhibition by the artist  Gülbin Ünlü. As Uranus completes its transit to Gemini this April, marking the end of an eight-year cycle of upheaval and the birth of new beginnings, Munich-based artist Gülbin Ünlü prepares for her Berlin debut at Galerie Barbara Thumm. Currently a fellow at Villa Romana in Florence, the artist of Turkish roots arrives in the German cultural capital to present a highly curated conversation between her institutional exhibition history and her most recent experimental frontiers. Her title proposes a cognitive space for self-recognition; it is almost an ice-breaker motto for self-introduction, a clever play on words where one considers the meaning of her surname in Turkish: “celebrity, famous, well-known.” Ünlü’s complex and unique practice is defined by a signature “mash-up” philosophy: a seamless dialogue between painting, drawing, photography, and sound. Rather than adhering to a single medium, she employs a multi-layered hybrid technique that blends printmaking and painting into fragmented dimensions and structures. This open approach functions as a form of autonomy, utilizing “sampling” and “remixing” to challenge standard regimes of visibility and explore hidden, affective, and deeper narratives. Her ability to […]

until 30.05. | #5058ARTatBerlin | Galerie Max Hetzler (Potsdamer Straße 77–87) shows from 30. April 2026 the group exhibition THE SELF ASSESSED by the artists Rita Ackermann, Lorenzo Amos, Oliver Bak, Georg Baselitz, Giorgio de Chirico, Michaela Eichwald, Tracey Emin, Grant Falardeau, Eric Fischl, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Victor Man, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, curated by Cornelius Tittel. Galerie Max Hetzler is pleased to present The Self Assessed, an exhibition of self-portraits curated by Cornelius Tittel, at Potsdamer Straße 77-87 in Berlin. ‚The most fascinating surface on earth is that of the human face‘1 Art has never ceased to be captivated by this observation, which Georg Christoph Lichtenberg recorded in his notebooks with the elegance of an aphorism. For this surface is never neutral. It is a screen for projection, a setting, a stage – a field of tension where art and society come into closest contact. This is precisely where the exhibition The Self Assessed unfolds – curated by Cornelius Tittel, who unites an impressive list of artists that reflects his ten years as editor-in-chief at Blau International. The history of the self-portrait can be read as […]

until 27.06. | #5053ARTatBerlin | Galerie Friese shows from Friday, 01. May 2026 the exhibition What no longer sustains us by the artist Slawomir Elsner. Slawomir Elsner’s (*1976) work is characterised by a duality of techniques: abstract watercolours and representational drawings composed of intricate networks of coloured pencil lines. The latter transform images from art history and collective memory, familiar to us all, into a visualised image imbued with Slawomir Elsner’s artistic spirit. The starting point for the exhibition “What No Longer Carries Us” is the figure of the horse – as a bearer of historical and symbolic meanings. In Elsner’s characteristic coloured pencil technique, in which he approaches the image stroke by stroke, working from light to dark, works such as Manet’s “Horsewoman, Full-Face (L’Amazone)”, Cranach’s “Saint George” and Franz Marc’s “Blue Horse” appear. Traces of horses and riders can also be found in the second focal point of the exhibition – the almost abstract “Nachtstücke” (Night Pieces), a series of constellation watercolours – echoing a bygone order. Elsner’s works oscillate between memory and transformation, between quotation and dissolution, thereby creating a uniquely suspended, thoroughly contemporary visual world. Slawomir Elsner was born in Poland in 1976 and studied Fine […]

until 25.06. | #5052ARTatBerlin | Galerie kajetan Berlin shows from Saturday, 2. May 2026 (Opening: 01.05.) the exhibition Malereien III by the artist Claude Viallat. Galerie kajetan is pleased to present the third solo exhibition by artist Claude Viallat (born in 1936 in Nîmes, where he lives and works). Viallat is considered one of the most influential innovators in painting, particularly within the context of the French Supports/Surfaces movement, of which he was a co-founder. The exhibition brings together works from 2024 and 2025, in which the radical redefinition of painting for which Viallat has stood since the late 1960s is exemplarily condensed: the separation of the picture surface from the stretcher frame, the turn toward found, used, or discarded industrially manufactured materials, and the consistent use of a serial form—neither clearly organic nor geometric—that has become his trademark. Claude Viallat | Malereien III | Ausstellungsansicht / Exhibition View 2026 | Courtesy Claude Viallat & Galerie kajetan | Photo: Gunter Lepkowski Viallat’s creative process begins with the material he works with. The artist collects these materials—often donations, discarded everyday textiles, or industrial surplus—and stores them unsorted in his studio. Their respective texture, density, structure, and patterns, as well as physical […]

until 20.06. | #5050ARTatBerlin | Galerie Buchholz shows from Friday, 01. May 2026 the exhibition Zip: 01-01-2024 – 12-31-2024 by the artist Yuji Agematsu. Opening: Friday, 01. May 2026, 6 – 9 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 01. May until Saturday, 20. June 2026     Title image caption: Yuji Agematsu, Courtesy of Galerie Buchholz Exhibition Yuji Agematsu – Galerie Buchholz | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 27.06. | #5047ARTatBerlin | Galerie Société shows from Friday, 01. May 2026 (Opening: 30.04.) the exhibition Volveré y seré millones by the artist Wynnie Mynerva. Translated as “I will return and I will be millions,” the title references the final words of revolutionary Andean leader Túpac Katari, whose legacy of collective struggle against Spanish colonial rule informs the exhibition’s exploration of relationality, communal memory, and resistance. Volveré y seré millones emerges from three concerns: the violence in the Middle East, the global construction of Berlin as an icon of “sexual liberation,” and the artist’s own process of migration and legalization in Europe. Faced with the coldness of war, the persecution of migrants, and the ongoing erasure of alterity, an urgent question emerges: what forces resist? Through new paintings, video works, and an installation, Mynerva examines broader forms of collective, social, and cosmological relationality. Drawing upon colonial histories, the experience of migration, and legacies of sexual liberation, the exhibition traces their search for new ways of loving, being loved, and resisting—signaling a “return home” to Andean thought. In the territories that indigenous communities call Abya Yala, the concept of love as Europeans understand it did not exist before 1492. And yet deep emotions […]

until 13.06. | #5042ARTatBerlin | Galerie Guido W. Baudach shows from Saturday, 2. May 2026 (Opening: 01.05.) the exhibition Auto-Paragone by the artists Tamina Amadyar, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Hinako Miyabayashi and Markus Selg. Galerie Guido W. Baudach is pleased to present a thematic group exhibition featuring five artists from the gallery’s roster at this year’s Gallery Weekend Berlin. Under the title Auto-Paragone, Tamina Amadyar, Thomas Helbig, Andy Hope 1930, Hinako Miyabayashi, and Markus Selg each showcase one painterly and one sculptural work in correlation. The term Paragone, as it appears in the exhibition title, comes from Italian and refers to the so-called competition of the arts, the struggle between painting and sculpture for supposed primacy among the disciplines, which was carried out with verve primarily during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Today, now that the former issue of conviction has long since disappeared from the agenda of art discourse, it is remarkable to observe that the majority of trained painters at some point in the course of their artistic development also become involved in sculpture and, as a result, usually work in both media in parallel, which were once so fiercely competitive — something that, incidentally, rarely occurs in reverse […]

until 03.05. | #5040ARTatBerlin | aquabitArt Galerie shows from Friday, 1. May 2026 (Opening: 30.04.) the exhibition BABYLONIAN BLISS by the artist Janine Mackenroth. Step into the world of Art by Janine Mackenroth and treat your nails to stunning, artistic colour from the THE EURO COLLECTION (2022–2025) – a series of plant‑based nail polishes that merge sustainability, equality, and a questioning of traditional gender roles. The colors playfully translate the chromatic codes of EURO banknotes – transforming money into a medium historically associated with femininity and beauty norms. However, nail polish 5,000 years ago was used to determine status of men within society. The darker the color, the higher the status. Janine Mackenroth, disrupted, 150x120cm, 2025 While the complete collection of 7 shades is now finalized and will no longer be produced, Mackenroth has created 49 unique nail polish-on-canvas paintings (each 15 × 12 cm) to accompany this exclusive Collector’s Edition of 49. Babylonian Bliss, Janine Mackenroth, aquabitArt, Collection7colors, 2026 Galerie aquabitArt presents the full collection – featuring all available works – during Gallery Weekend Berlin. Opening: Thursday, 30. April 2026, 7:00–10:00 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 1. May – Sunday, 3. May 2026 Special opening hours (Gallery Weekend Berlin):  Friday, […]

until 01.08. | #5038ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin shows from Saturday, 2. May 2026 (Opening 01.05) the exhibition utópico 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. Opening: Friday, 1. May 2026, 6-9 pm  Exhibition dates: Saturday, […]

until 30.05. | #5034ARTatBerlin | Gallery Inga Kondeyne shows from Saturday, 25. April 2026 (Opening 24.04)the exhibition „DIVERTIMENTO“ by the artist H. FRANK TAFFELT. In this exhibition, H. Frank Taffelt presents new works that reflect on form, rhythm, geometry, symbolism, and material. They mark a clear shift in his artistic practice, which is moving away from strict geometric precision and increasingly opening up to process-oriented creation and intuitive form-finding. With the M. B. series, begun in 2023, whose initials allude to the Montblanc ink Mystery Black, the expansion of his formal vocabulary seems to have been finalized. Structure and chance are intricately interwoven; the intuition of form merges with the regularity of the lines. Characteristic of these ballpoint pen works are the blurred edges and the relief-like texture of the surfaces, which, in their opacity, create a sense of depth and pulsate with the metallic sheen of the ink. Taffelt usually uses industrially produced papers as a support, whose high strength and smoothness withstand the ballpoint pen interventions, or found objects, whose irregular nature introduces a novel, simultaneously improvised and carefully calculated choreography into this body of work. The most recent KB. S. works, a series Taffelt has been working […]

until 13.06. | #5032ARTatBerlin | AOA;87 contemporary shows from Friday, 24. April 2026 (Opening: 23.03.) the exhibition THE KILLER by the artist Holger Schmidhuber. With THE KILLER, Holger Schmidhuber transforms the exhibition space into an energy-charged field between the twin poles of a sober-determinist AI system, on the one hand, and gestural-expressive materiality, on the other. Holger Schmidhuber, INTERGHOST (Palermo, IT), 2026, UV-cured print, varnish, pigment and glass beads on aluminium composite, framed in a 4/40 aluminium stretcher frame, varnished, 75,6 x 104,6 cm | Photo: Studio Holger Schmidhuber To this end, he covers the neutral white-cube walls with his 3 x 24-meter-large piece THE KILLER on the wall, a digitally generated “wallpaper”. With a shimmering pattern consisting of 49,104 permutations of a graphic symbol, THE KILLER on the wall defines an overarching pictorial space in which Schmidhuber stages selected works from his Black & White Inversions and INTERGHOSTS cycles. Holger Schmidhuber, White Inversion XXII, 2025, Mixed media on canvas, 75 x 60 cm | Photo: Studio Holger Schmidhuber These paintings with what is an in part shadowy but manifest, in part amorphous and dissolving visuality, their abstractly applied iridescent streaks and layers of pigments and lacquers, and their vibrant […]

until 20.06. | #5028ARTatBerlin | neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse) shows from 2. May 2026 the exhibition by the artist Jorge Pardo. In his 12th solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider, Jorge Pardo continues his ongoing experimentation with modes of sculpting, combining, transposing and filtering, channeling a wealth of source material to new paintings, sculptural loudspeakers playing a densely populated soundtrack and a series of suspended light works. With these paintings, Pardo curates and distills the history of postminimalist practice, digitally layering its yield, fashioning new compositional tools in the process. Deployed like paint, ink, clay or steel, the photographic is here cast as a medium in and of itself, becoming a means of extracting depth from fused imagery. Manipulated views of works by John Chamberlain, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Judd, Brice Marden and Joel Shapiro are transformed to texturally rich composites of motif and technique, first printed, then painted over and laser-engraved until nearly unrecognizable. At the center of Pardo’s approach lies the pursuit of eccentric formal structures – a concentration that suffuses his sculpture, installations, works on paper, ceramics and architecture, and questions the very act of looking, complicating and reconfiguring it. How a work is apprehended and the ways in which it can […]

until 20.06. | #5026ARTatBerlin | Gallery Esther Schipper shows from Friday, 1. May 2026 the exhibition Easy Assembly by the artist Tauba Auerbach. Esther Schipper Berlin is pleased to present Tauba Auerbach’s Easy Assembly, the artist’s second exhibition with the gallery. In 13 pointillist paintings, Tauba renders close-up images of soap foams, captured through a microscope. On panels ranging widely in size and floating slightly off the wall, millions of hand-painted dots gather into effervescent images over sprayed, multi-color fields. Tauba’s work forages for information about the universe embedded in form and movement. So-called “laws of nature” are deployed and exploited to coax out various types of order and their dissolution. Opening: Friday,1. May 2026 Exhibitions dates: Friday, 1. May – Saturday, 20. June 2026     Image caption: Tauba Auerbach Foam, 2025 Acrylic on Dibond 152,4 x 228,6 cm Photo © Andrea Rossetti Exhibition Tauba Auerbach – Esther Schipper | Contemporary art in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 23.05. | #5021ARTatBerlin | Gallery SCHMALFUSS BERLIN shows from Saturday, 11. April 2026 the exhibition “in the flow” by the artists Susanne Ackermann and Klaus Hack. With this exhibition, Galerie Schmalfuss Berlin presents two artists who could not be more different. Are there any commonalities, or does the exhibition thrive on the dynamic juxtaposition of painting and sculpture? In Susanne Ackermann’s works, we encounter a rhythmic lightness, sometimes bold colors applied with broad brushstrokes, sometimes precisely drawn, delicate lines. Using both techniques, the established Karlsruhe artist Susanne Ackermann creates captivating pictorial spaces in her paintings and drawings. Klaus Hack, Türme, 2017/2018, Ahorn, weiß gefasst, 155 x 34 x 33 cm (Foto: Florian Selig) In Susanne Ackermann’s works, we encounter a rhythmic lightness, sometimes bold colors applied with broad brushstrokes, sometimes precisely drawn, delicate lines. Using both techniques, the established Karlsruhe artist Susanne Ackermann creates captivating pictorial spaces in her paintings and drawings.   Susane Ackermann, Polychromos auf Zeichenfolie, 2022, 90 x 70 cm The experienced, expressive sculptor Klaus Hack is already known to many from exhibitions at Knesebeck 96. Klaus Hack’s sculptures follow the concept of verticality. He creates imaginative architectural structures, exploring the human body as a spatial, […]

until 10.05. | #5020ARTatBerlin | Galerie mutare shows from Friday, 10. April 2026 (Opening: 09.04.) the exhibition à rebours by the artist Léo Faulhaber. Opening: Thursday, 9. April 2026, 5 pm Exhibition dates: Friday, 10. April until Sunday, 10. May 2026     Titel image caption: Courtesy of Galerie mutare, Léo Faulhaber Exhibition Léo Faulhaber – Galerie Mutare | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

until 13.06. | #5017ARTatBerlin | REITER | Berlin prospect shows from 30. April 2026 an exhibition by the artist Hans Aichinger. Opening: Thursday, 30. April 2026, 5-10 pm Exhibitions dates: Thursday, 30. April 2026 – Saturday, 13. June 2026     Bildunterschrift: Hans Aichinger, Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, 2026, Öl auf Leinwand. Ausstellungsbild: Michael Lüder; Courtesy Kunstraum Potsdam Exhibition Hans Aichinger – Reiter | Berlin prospect | Contemporary Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 27.06. | #5014ARTatBerlin | Galerie EIGEN + ART Berlin shows from 1. May 2026 the exhibition “Occasional lovers” by the artist Brett Charles Seiler. Opening: Friday, 1. May 2026, 17:00 – 20:00 Uhr Exhibition dates: Friday, 1. May until Saturday, 27. June 2026     Image caption title: Bradley Smoking A Cigarette, Bitumen, waterproofing and wallpaint on canvas, 202 x 182 cm, 2026. Foto: Nina Lieska Exhibition Brett Charles Seiler – Gallery EIGEN + ART | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galerien | ART at Berlin

until 30.05. | #5011ARTatBerlin | Galerie Schindler shows from Thursday, 16. April 2026 the exhibition „Sonnenflecken und Schattengewächse“ by the artists Hannah Becher and Susanne Roewer. The exhibition *Sunspots and Shade Plants* brings together the works of sculptor Susanne Roewer and painter Hannah Becher in a dynamic dialogue between material, surface, time, and perception. Susanne Roewer develops her sculptures from the encounter between contrasting materials such as metal, stone, or glass. Fragile connections give rise to new entities in which figurative echoes and abstract formal language intertwine. Her artistic process is characterized by a keen attentiveness to the material and its unique qualities. From this emerging works that narrate poetic moments of human life—navigating the realms of absurdity, romance, politics, and quiet irony. Hannah Becher, Reconqiesta II 2025 Acryl auf Leinwand 100 x 100 cm Hannah Becher, on the other hand, explores the dimension of time on the canvas. Starting from the idea that time can be read in space, she makes it tangible on the surface. Her painting conceives of the canvas as a projection space for transience, humanity, and nature. In this process, contrasts and painterly processes come to the fore: the visible emerges not solely from the […]

until 25.04. | #5007ARTatBerlin | Semjon Contemporary shows from Friday, 27. March 2026 (Opening: 26.03.) the exhibition Colour Studies by the artist Angela Dwyer. Angela Dwyer is no stranger to Semjon Contemporary as an artist. She has already participated twice by invitation in thematic group exhibitions: in 2014 in the first part of the two-part exhibition series Dear Artist, Draw Me! on abstraction, concretion, notation, and structure, and in 2017 in Penetrating Paper. The works now on display are from the Colour Studies series, which she has been consistently creating for years and regularly posting on Instagram and Facebook, where I also discovered them. The color studies emerged from a project in 2019, when Angela Dwyer realized she was having difficulty constructing an icosidodecahedron without a template. Despite her artistic training in the “elements of design,” she knew she had to start from scratch. She began exploring geometric forms and used color to understand their mechanics and abstraction. She writes: “The daily color studies are a ritual, a discipline, and at the same time a kind of grounding. It’s not about perfection or a final result, but about an experiment, about allowing myself to make mistakes, to discover the unknown, […]

until 04.04. | #5004ARTatBerlin | Sprüth Magers Berlin currently shows the exhibition Political Entertainment by the artist Gretchen Bender. “Are we content with the aestheticization of the political that is leading us to a fascism of and through entertainment?”[1] Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Gretchen Bender’s series Top Ten Grossing Films of 1988, shown for the first time since their 1989 debut. Ten sculptures, made of black crumpled heat-set vinyl, backlit by neon, feature the titles of 1988’s highestgrossing films, such as Die Hard, Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee II. Compiled by Bender during her constant scrutinising of Hollywood production dailies and magazines, these titles represent that year’s cultural identity as defined by box office success. When researching the film industry, Bender discovered that what was portrayed as an “entertainment” industry was in fact driven by political and financial interests. In this context, the ten titles are revealed not as cultural success stories but as the most consumed products of those influences—reflecting both corporate control over production and audiences’ uncritical consumption. As Bender once explained in a discussion with Cindy Sherman, “We recognize the film industry as a very importantpart of our culture economically and aesthetically and I […]

until 18.04. | #4997ARTatBerlin | Gallery Esther Schipper shows from 13. March the exhibition Echoes of KA by the artist Thomias Radin. Esther Schipper Berlin is delighted to announce “Echoes of KA”, an exhibition by Thomias Radin featuring brand-new paintings and several sculptural works. This marks Radin’s fourth project with the gallery, following his exhibitions in Paris and Seoul, as well as a presentation in Berlin between 2025 and 2024, the year he was accepted into the programme. Deeply influenced by his birthplace, Guadeloupe, and his childhood in France, Radin draws upon multifaceted cultural traditions spanning the Caribbean and Europe in his work. Dance, painting and sculpture intertwine in his works. His paintings, often set in hand-carved wooden frames, feature motifs – including angels, architectural forms, marble and water – that reflect an engagement with the European visual heritage as well as with ancient Egyptian, Greek and Christian mythologies. Inspired by the ancient Egyptian concept of the Ka – an invisible life force that transcends time and space – Radin’s exhibition traces its journey from Africa via the Caribbean to Europe as an allegorical motif that resonates in music, dance, language and sculpture. In Creole – a language formed from French, […]

until 18.04. | #5001ARTatBerlin | carlier gebauer currently shows the exhibition The Weight of Light by the artist Jessica Rankin. Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, is pleased to announce the solo exhibition The Weight of Light by New York-based painter Jessica Rankin, featuring seven new works. Rankin is known for her distinctive use of thread and paint on canvas. In her work, she deliberately forgoes the mastery of a single medium in favor of an intuitive, playful approach in which paint behaves like thread and thread like paint. Moving between disciplines, Rankin creates a visual interplay between color and line, as well as between painting and writing. Having received neither formal training as a painter nor as a textile artist, and thus rejecting mastery as a form of control, she gains a particular freedom within her creative process. Reflection on the work is either embedded in its making or occurs retrospectively. Rankin herself describes her process as “making in a state of apprehension.” Her compositions extend beyond the edges of the canvas, onto which she sews fragments of text. These references fold over the sides, inviting viewers to step closer and move around the work, positioning themselves in relation to it. […]

until 18.04. | #5002ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from Saturday, 21. March 2026 (Opening: 20.03.) the exhibition “serpent serpent Snake” by the artist Fernanda Galvãos. How do we represent nature? The question calls for a critical reassessment of the Western history of vision. With the invention of perspective during the Renaissance, painting established a visual regime centered on the human subject: the world became organized around a stable viewpoint, structured by depth and ordered according to harmonious rules. Natural elements -trees, plants, rivers, mountains- were distributed within a rational and anthropocentric framework. As Anne Cauquelin (1) has shown, landscape does not coincide with nature itself; it is a cultural construction. The frame does not merely delimit an image, it produces a way of seeing and therefore a way of symbolically inhabiting space. Fernanda Galvão’s painting works against this tradition. It offers neither a stabilized horizon nor a dominant point of view, neither contemplative distance nor consoling refuge. Forms overflow, contaminate one another, and proliferate, generating spaces without origin or end. What emerges is no longer a nature designed to be seen, but an autonomous milieu, indifferent to our presence. In the exhibition presented at Barbara Thumm Gallery, this inquiry reaches […]

until 18.04. | #4994ARTatBerlin | Galerie Barbara Thumm shows from Saturday, 21. March 2026 (Opening: 20.03.) the exhibition “Save The Date” by the artist El Hadji Sy. The Barbara Thumm Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of the Senegalese artist El Hadji Sy (*1954, Dakar). At the center of the exhibition is a multifaceted dialogue between recent works and a collection of historical pieces dating back to 1981. This juxtaposition offers a precise reading of Sy’s ongoing engagement with materiality, corporeality, and performative strategies, which have shaped his oeuvre since its early years. At the same time, the radical independence of his artistic practice becomes visible, having developed consistently outside Western-dominated canons and remaining influential to this day. Some of the works on display were previously shown at the Weltkulturen Museum. At the same time, El Hadji Sy is represented in the exhibition Tirailleurs – From Cannon Fodder to Avant-Garde at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (March 21 – June 14, 2026). This group exhibition brings together international artistic positions and examines the history of colonial troops as well as their ongoing cultural and political resonances. Sy’s contribution situates his work within contemporary decolonial discourses and underscores its lasting […]

until 25.06. | #4988ARTatBerlin | ChertLüdde shows from Saturday, 02. 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.” 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. Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 2026, 6:00–9:00 p.m. Exhibition Dates: Saturday, May 2 through Thursday, July 25, 2026 Preview: Wednesday, 29 April + Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.     Bildunterschrift Titel: Portrait of Petrit Halilaj, Syrigana, Kosovo, 2025, Courtesy of the Artist Exhibition Petrit Halilaj | ChertLüdde | Zeitgenössische Kunst […]

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 […]

until 13.05. | #4981ARTatBerlin | Jarmuschek + Partner shows from Friday, 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. April –  Monday 6. April 2026 Special opening times: Friday 1. May– Saturday 3. May 2026     Image caption: Courtesy of Jarmuschek + Partner Exhibition Helena Hafemann – Jarmuschek + Partner | Zeitgenössische Kunst in Berlin | Contemporary Art | Exhibitions Berlin Galleries | ART at Berlin

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]