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Maurizio Cattelan: NIGHT
Cattelan meets the glass hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie. A major exhibition that gives the building itself a role in the encounter.
Berlin / From gallery hours to the early hours
Thursday 24 September
The local editBerlin
Give the day a second life
A gallery that changes the afternoon. Dinner in an old pharmacy. One more record in a former power station. Find your own Berlin frequency.
Less searching. More going.
Your day, your way.
Choose a mood. We’ll connect the good places.
The after-dark edit
Berlin, follow the next record.
A vast industrial room. An intimate floor next door. Choose the sound, check the programme and leave time for the night.
Explore after dark
01Berlin / Friedrichshain
Berghain
An industrial-scale destination for a night chosen around the music. Read the programme, leave room for uncertainty at the door.
Find your night
02Berlin / Mitte
Tresor / Globus
Techno below, another musical conversation in Globus. Choose the lineup and give the former power station a night of its own.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
03Berlin / Mitte
OHM
A smaller room with a wide musical range, beside Tresor. Follow the selectors into bass, left turns and nights with their own identity.
Find your nightEditorial artwork
04Berlin / Rummelsburg
Sisyphos
Give a Rummelsburg club outing room to unfold. Sisyphos belongs in a plan built around the music, with the return journey already considered.
Find your night
Choose a dated event on the venue’s official programme. Admission and opening times vary.
Follow your curiosity
A few ways to do Berlin.
014 stops, at your pace
Kreuzberg, from the gallery to the dance floor
Berlin art, dinner in an old pharmacy and a choice of two clubs. Let one proper night bring the day together.
Open the itinerary
024 stops, at your pace
A hill, the river, then Rummelsburg
Viktoriapark daylight, a proper meal, Holzmarkt by the Spree and an optional Sisyphos finish. Give the transitions time.
Open the itinerary
034 stops, at your pace
Open sky, a food hall and the eastern river
Room to breathe at Tempelhof, lunch in Kreuzberg and art along the Wall. Leave the last stop open for a music-led night.
Open the itineraryOn our radar
Something is stirring in Berlin.
Mitte
House of Small Wonder
Berlin
More than beauty
Mitte
Tresor meets Non Series
Out there, right now
Where the day takes you.
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Jeewi Lee: Residual Memories
Sand becomes a way of thinking about time and what remains. Jeewi Lee’s GASAG Art Prize exhibition is an invitation to look more closely.
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Ryuichi Sakamoto: seeing sound, hearing time
An exhibition to leave room for listening. Sakamoto’s work gives a Hamburger Bahnhof visit a different sense of time.
EventFood & drink
Street Food Spezial: Peru
Peruvian cooking takes the Thursday evening spotlight at Markthalle Neun. Come hungry and decide what to eat as you go.
Close the tabs. Open the weekend.
No two Berlin weekends alike.
A long exhibition visit, food in Kreuzberg and a room chosen for the music. Keep tomorrow morning free.
Make a weekend of itOn the house
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A Sunday rummage at Mauerpark
Browse the flea market before a walk through Prenzlauer Berg, with no need to turn the day into a checklist.
EventConcerts
Tresor meets Non Series
Neel, Psyk, CONCEPTUAL and Toxido Mask in Tresor, with a separate Globus lineup. A Friday plan that runs into Saturday morning.
The food edit
Pull up a chair. Stay a while.
RestaurantJapanese
House of Small Wonder
A Japanese-inflected brunch in an Auguststraße courtyard. An easy opening chapter before a day of art in Mitte.
RestaurantKreuzberg
ORA
Dinner in a former pharmacy on Oranienplatz. A room with enough character to make the table your evening’s main appointment.
RestaurantGerman
Konnopke’s Imbiß
Currywurst below the elevated railway. A quick, distinctly Berlin lunch before you head into Prenzlauer Berg.
RestaurantGerman
Clärchens Ballhaus: Luna D’Oro
German cooking in a ballroom address with a life of its own. Pair a restaurant table with the actual dance programme upstairs.
Art & culture
Big ideas. Room to look.
On the house
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More than beauty
The female body is the subject, with women’s own perspectives shaping the view. Look for the differences between depicting a body and speaking through it.
On the house
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After Memory
Photography becomes a way to question who constructs public memory. This exhibition makes space for contested histories rather than treating remembrance as settled ground.
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Cassirer and the breakthrough of Impressionism
Paul Cassirer helped bring Impressionism into Berlin’s cultural life. The exhibition follows the dealer’s influence through artworks and the relationships that brought them to an audience.
On the house
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Exhibition - LANDSCAPE
Tom Lehn’s landscapes occupy the foyer of Kulturhaus Karlshorst. It is a manageable art stop to combine with another reason to visit the neighbourhood.
Big on discovery. Easy on the wallet.
More city. Less ticket.
A former runway, the river beside the Wall and a market to wander. Pay for what you choose, not for the whole afternoon.
Discover it for yourselfA city of little worlds
Find your corner of the city.
Editor’s picks
A few good stops. Your kind of Berlin.
GuideCulture
Mitte, art rooms and courtyard tables
Start at Hamburger Bahnhof, then move into Auguststraße for brunch, another art stop and dinner with a ballroom story.
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Open sky, a food hall and the eastern river
Room to breathe at Tempelhof, lunch in Kreuzberg and art along the Wall. Leave the last stop open for a music-led night.
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Future ideas, art rooms, an apothecary table
Futurium, Gropius Bau and dinner at ORA. Three very different interiors give Berlin a considered cultural day.
A closer look