Berlin Art: What Exhibitions Are on Now?

Discover Berlin’s vibrant art scene with our guide to the city’s must-see exhibitions. From the world-class Museum Island to private galleries on the cutting edge and unique underground art spaces, Berlin has it all. Make sure you read on for exhibition opening dates, gallery locations and admission prices for a diverse range of shows.

We order our listings with what’s closing soonest at the top. That way, you’ll never miss out.

THROUGH APR 4

Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A—and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories

The solo-exhibition at Sprüth Magers by Kara Walker shows collages and pastels on paper in an imposing scale that reference history, art history, fiction, as well as current events. The artist known for works that engage critically with societal norms and developments, race, gender and violence presents a thematically dark but aesthetically delightful exhibition.

Through Apr 4, Sprüth Magers, details

THROUGH APR 11

Yalda Afsah: PAN

Yalda Afsah,PAN, Exhibition views, CCA Berlin, 2026. Photos: DianaPfammatter/CCA Berlin

Located in the foyer building of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Charlottenburg, CCA Berlin is one of Berlin’s newest non-profit institutions, founded by the curator Fabian Schöneich. The current exhibition “PAN” is a solo presentation of the Berlin-based artist Yalda Afsah’s latest film. Interested in folk traditions, specifically the rituals and choreographies thereof, Afsah’s camera work leads the viewer into the Bulgarian spiritual practice of Paneurhythmy, allowing an up-close but physically removed insight.

Through April 11, CCA Berlin, details

THROUGH APR 18

Jim Lambie: High Voltage

Image courtesy of the artist and Konrad Fischer Galerie, Photography: Roman März

Technicoloured and glossy–the Turner Prize winner Jim Lambie’s site-specific installations activate the spaces they inhabit with meticulously laid-out patterns created with vinyl tape. On view at Konrad Fischer Galerie are both a new iteration of his “Zobop” floor pieces as well as wall works that are inspired by layers of posters peeling from public walls, rendered purely in chrome and his signature bold colours. The rhythmic feel and psychedelic aesthetics of Lambie’s works nod to his early years as a musician.

Through April 18, Konrad Fischer Galerie, details

THROUGH APR 19

Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2026

The 10th Neukölln Art Prize was awarded to four Neukölln-based artists to celebrate the diverse and forward-thinking art scene the area has to offer. The first prize was awarded to Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, whose wall-mounted installation addresses both her deeply personal experience as well as the public discourse surrounding non-binary gender identities. Works by the prize winners and nominees that range from installation and painting to sculpture and video work, are on view at Galerie im Saalbau until mid-April.

Through April 19, Galerie im Saalbau, details

THROUGH MAY 3

Annika Kahrs: OFF SCORE

Makar Temev

The exhibition OFF SCORE is a solo presentation of the Berlin-based artist Annika Kahrs’ works that bridge art and music through video, sound installations, and live performances. In Kahrs’ works, music becomes a site of social engagement as well as artistic experimentation. As a communication tool, music is presented as a means of relating to each other, to animals, and to the world in which we live.

Through May 3, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

Giulia Andreani: Sabotage

Giulia Andreani and ADAGP, Paris 2026 ; courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa, VG-Bildkunst, Bonn 2026 / photo: Lorenzo Palmieri

Painted in monochromatic blueish grey, Giulia Andreani’s paintings on canvas depict scenes drawn from archival photographs, whereby the artist pieces together fragments of forgotten or omitted histories. These painted collages reveal stories that have been historically overlooked and allow for new associations to be made. The paintings are exhibited together with works from a number of state museums, such as, the Collection of Antiquities and the Museum of Decorative Arts to encourage further significance to be drawn from history in relation to the present day.

Through May 3, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

Mark Leckey, Enter Thru Medieval Wounds

Julia Stoschek, Mark Leckey, courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, BrusselsNew York and Galerie Buchholz, Berlin-Cologne-New York

Mark Leckey’s extensive solo exhibition, ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ features works like the iconic Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore and his Turner Prize-winning Cinema-in-the-Round. Leckey examines how media shapes perception, memory and desire by tracing the intersections of pop culture and evolving technology.

Through May 3, Julia Stoschek Foundation, details

Possibilities of an Island – Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

Kavata Mbiti / Foto: Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg/Simon Vogel

In uncertain times, art can feel like an island. Possibilities of an Island explores the intensely personal world of the Scharf family collection, spanning Surrealism and fantastical art. From Goya to Hannah Höch, the exhibition traces art as refuge, escape and quiet resistance — an archipelago of imagined worlds shaped by private passion rather than public rules.

Through May 3, Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, details

THROUGH MAY 6

DISSOLUTIONS Sequence I: Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer

Johannes Büttner, How to get through, 1995_2025. Foto (c) Jannis Uffrecht

The join presentation of works from Johannes Büttner and Catherina Cramer marks the first iteration of the DISSOLUTIONS exhibition series curated by Natalie Keppler and Agnieszka Roguski. Catherina Cramer’s installations consider the body as a site of ailment and injury, calling into question the demand for high performance in a capitalist system. Johannes Büttner’s video installations are concerned with statehood in regard to belonging and exclusion, as well as the unravelling utopia of possible counterworlds.

Through May 6, Kunstraum Mitte, details

THROUGH MAY 10

Klara Lidén: Kunstwerke

Klara Lidén, Self Portrait with Keys to the City, 2005, Courtesy the artist

Marking the first institutional survey of Klara Lidén’s work in Berlin, where the Swedish artist has lived and worked for over 20 years, the exhibition titled Kunstwerke shows works spanning sculpture, installation, video works, slide projections, and more. By placing found objects, such as fences, bins or billboards, extracted from the city’s architecture into the confines of the exhibition space, Lidén interrogates the politics of public versus private space and property. Further, the exhibition shows a selection of video works that largely show the artist herself in performances that likewise explore the very intimate sphere of the home, as well as the social norms and boundaries of public space.

Through May 10, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, details

Ahu Dural: Malplaquetstraße 33 – Jugend einer Monteurin

In her solo exhibition at Galerie Wedding, the Berlin-born and -based artist Ahu Dural presents sculptures made of common industrial materials such as wood and aluminium, that are placed in conversation with photographs and found objects from daily life. The exhibition draws from personal stories of female solidarity among migrant women employed in Berlin’s electrical industry. Her works are charged with associations between art, design, and the politics of gender, migration, work, and appropriation.

Through May 10, Galerie Wedding, details

MAR 14-MAY 17

Memory Is a Strange Bell

Shaun Motsi, Untitled (White Mask), 2025, © Photo: Shaun Motsi

The n.b.k and Künstlerhaus Bethanien are presenting the works of the 14 artists who won Berlin Senate’s 2025 visual arts working stipend. Taking place simultaneously, the exhibitions bring together a wide range of artists, with the sole requirement of the award being that they live and work in Berlin. Each receives around €12,000, offering much-needed financial breathing room to develop new work without the immediate pressure of sales. Mediums and formats of the works vary, as do the topics each artist tackles, but the exhibition promises to give a platform to many important players in Berlin’s current art scene.

Mar 14- May 3: n.b.k.

Mar 20-May 17: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, details

THROUGH MAY 24

Cornelia Parker – Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)

Jens Ziehe

A lightbulb at the centre of the otherwise bare exhibition space is initially the sole visual element in Cornelia Parker’s ‘Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)’ at Kindl’s Kesselhaus. As the title suggests, the space is soon filled with a growing storm that reaches a crescendo of thunder and lightning. Parker pieced together the sound for this work using archival recordings of thunder, wind and rain covering a range of both time and geography.

Through May 24, KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, details

THROUGH MAY 25

Gianna Surangkanjanajai & Rey Akdogan

Pared-down and conceptual, Gianna Surangkanjanajai’s sculptures in the exhibition “Open” hold the potential of motion within them. While a wall installed in the exhibition space can be literally moved by visitors along a ceiling track, the sculpture series titled “Push” consists of plexiglass cubes containing paint that show evidence of having been pushed into the exhibition space by residual paint streaking their walls.

Simultaneously on view at Haus am Waldsee is Rey Akdogan’s exhibition “Carousels”, displaying the eponymous works series, made up of slide carousels. Instead of photographic images, Akdogan’s slides contain miniature assemblages composed of industrial and scenographic materials projected onto the walls of the exhibition space. Further installations by Akdogan, such as a low hanging light fixture as well as a shimmering copper curtain, engage directly with the space, drawing the visitors’ attention to the material realities of the house itself.

Through May 25, Haus am Waldsee, details

THROUGH MAY 31

An Opera Out of Time

Petrit Halilaj, Berlin

Petrit Halilaj presents his first major Berlin solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof. Spanning sculpture, video, and large-scale installations, it centres on the artist’s first opera, created with the Kosovo Philharmonic. Rooted in collective dreaming and the ancient site of Syrigana, the exhibition unfolds as a site-specific installation in the reopened Rieckhallen.

Through May 31, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

Gallery Looks: Fashion Staging at the Gemäldegalerie

Ralph Mecke

Beginning during Berlin fashion week at the end of January, the Gemäldegalerie hosts the exhibition ‘Gallery Looks’ dedicated to the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion. Comprising film, photographs and garments by selected designers, the exhibition is staged amidst the collection of the national painting gallery to allow for new connections to be made between fashion and art, fabric and canvas, history and the present.

Through May 31, Gemäldegalerie, details

MAR 19-JUN 26

Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: Persistence of Vision

Featuring the works of Peter Hujar and Liz Deschenes, this exhibition at Gropius Bau puts intergenerational artists in dialogue with one another. The photographer Peter Hujar never became widely known in his lifetime, cut short by complications from HIV, though he never seemed especially troubled by this lack of recognition. He primarily captured important moments in 1908s New York with poignant black-and-white photographs. Deschenes and Hujar never knew one another, but despite being separated by generations and approaches, they share an understanding of photography as a tactile process. Deschenes’ sculptural and non-representational photographic works call attention to the process of photography and the mechanics of the medium itself. Taken together, the works of Hujar and Deschenes interrogate and stretch the conception of what photography can and should be.

Mar 19-Jun 26, Gropius Bau, details

THROUGH JUN 28

Queere Kunst in der DDR? Biografien zwischen Underground und Propaganda

What did queer art mean in the GDR? Through the biographies of nine artists, including Jürgen Wittdorf and Rita “Tommy” Thomas, this exhibition presents paintings, sculptures, ceramics and photographs that reveal the many ways artists sidestepped, defied or quietly endured the political and social pressures of their time.

Mar 28-Jun 28, 19:00, KVOST, details

MAR 14-AUG 9

Collective Osmosis

Contemporary artist Oscar Murillo explores interaction and exchange between his paintings, installation works and the work of Claude Monet. Using the concept as a metaphor, the exhibition presents new abstract works from the artist’s ‘Surge, Scarred Spirits and Disrupted Frequencies’ series, while also inviting visitors to take part in creating collaborative artwork throughout the summer months.

MAR 27-JAN 3

Shilpa Gupta’s What Still Holds

Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta interrogates the conditions under which speech is permitted, constrained or silenced. Working across sculpture, drawing, installation, video, public interventions and books, she addresses political persecution, border violence, religious nationalism and the lived consequences of military occupation. Language in Gupta’s work is never neutral or abstract; it appears as something embodied, fractured and precarious, shaped by power rather than freely available to all. In her new exhibition What Still Holds at the Hamburger Bahnhof, selected works are placed in dialogue with those of Joseph Beuys, whose ideas of voice, participation and social responsibility are reframed through Gupta’s uncompromising attention to censorship and the material risks of speaking in the present.

Mar 27-Jan 3, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

ONGOING

Museum in Motion

Jeremy Shaw, Phase Shifting Index, 2020, Installation view: Centre Pompidou, Paris. Photo credit: Timo Ohler

Hamburger Bahnhof re-opens its Rieckhallen with ‘Museum in Motion’, a dynamic showcase of contemporary art reflecting the evolving role of museums. Featuring large-scale installations by renowned artists like Cevdet Erek and Elmgreen & Dragset, the exhibition explores how museums must adapt to a rapidly changing world. Alongside ‘Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century’, the exhibition offers a fresh perspective on Hamburger Bahnhof’s extensive holdings.

Ongoing since Sept 6, 2024, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys, Das Kapital Raum 1970–1977, detail, 1980, State Museums in Berlin, National Gallery, Marx Collection © State Museums in Berlin, National Gallery / Thomas Bruns © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

One of the most influential figures in Modern art, Joseph Beuyes is being celebrated with a large-scale new exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Made up of around 15 works, including important installations like Tram Stop: A monument to the future (1976) and Das Kapital Raum, 1970-1977 (1980), the exhibition showcases the complex life and work of Beuys.

Since Mar 22, 2024, Hamburger Bahnhof, details

Temporarily closed until Mar 26, 2026

Berlin Art: What Exhibitions Are on Now?

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