From 14 June to 14 September 2025, the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art will present its programme at four exhibition venues: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Sophiensælen, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, and in a former courthouse on Lehrter Straße in Berlin-Moabit. With the former Lehrter Straße courthouse, the Berlin Biennale is opening a new venue for the presentation of contemporary art in Berlin.
The themes of the 13th Berlin Biennale form a specific lineage of contemporary artistic expressions, composed of different practices and art histories from non-neighbouring regions. The focus is on the potential of art in politically challenging times.
All four exhibition venues look back on ambivalent, sometimes violent, sometimes resistant histories that range from the present to the post-reunification period, the division of Germany, National Socialism and the Weimar Republic all the way back to the German Empire. Traces can still be recognised in their spatial structures that bear witness to changing histories of protest and oppression and ultimately tell …
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Image above: Former courthouse on Lehrter Straße, 2025, image: Raisa Galofre