The Berlin edit
Real exhibition runs, a food-market evening and promoter-announced music. Choose a date, then check the venue, admission conditions and booking link before making it the centre of your day.
Fujiko Nakaya brings a changing fog sculpture into the Neue Nationalgalerie’s garden. Outdoor conditions are part of the experience, so the work may look different from one visit to the next.
An album assembled for collector Gert Elfering offers a particular route into Helmut Newton’s photography. The selection is the point of interest: an individual grouping rather than a general career survey.
Women photographers connected with the Bauhaus take the foreground. The exhibition offers a way to reconsider the school’s visual legacy through practitioners who are often less visible in its popular history.
Linde Burkhardt’s work crosses the boundaries suggested by the label ceramicist. The exhibition follows a designer who treats ceramics as part of a wider practice.
Jumping He links paper-based work with the systems of digital communication. The Blackbox presentation offers a compact encounter with that tension between physical surfaces and information.
Haus am Waldsee looks back across eight decades of exhibition-making. The institution’s own history becomes a lens for thinking about how a place for art changes over time.
Daniel Chodowiecki’s art is considered alongside his relationship with the Huguenot congregation. The setting in the French Cathedral gives the religious and civic connections a physical context.
Photographs by Fide Struck return through the story of a Berlin suitcase. The exhibition brings a recovered body of work into view, inviting attention to the people and streets within it.
The BFF Award selection introduces emerging photographic positions from the 2025/26 edition. Treat it as a chance to compare distinct approaches within one visit.
Design education and the city meet in a display about making things for Berlin. The museum’s focus on everyday objects helps connect the designers’ work to ordinary urban life.
Human relationships with animals become the subject at Schloss Britz. The exhibition invites comparisons between familiar animal images and the human assumptions carried by them.
Iris Ulbricht works with graphic media including charcoal, graphite and ink. Her images move between recognisable subjects and unsettling imagined situations.
Machine de Cirque brings Kintsugi to the intimate stage at Chamäleon. Contemporary circus and ensemble performance make this a choice for an evening built around physical theatre.
The audience supplies the voices at this Frannz sing-along. Come expecting shared participation rather than a conventional concert watched from a distance.
Epic Comedy Club presents a curated stand-up showcase in English. Check the announced line-up for the chosen date, since the performers can change between editions.
Zhong Kui, the demon-quelling figure of Chinese tradition, appears through painted images. The presentation offers a focused introduction to his visual role and associations.
Berlin’s airport fire brigades provide a specialist route into the city’s aviation history. The display draws on the different airport sites and the work carried out behind the scenes.
Berlin between 1910 and 1930 is approached through art made amid major social change. The exhibition connects the city’s modernist experimentation with its tensions and upheavals.
Eavo’s music quiz turns listening knowledge into a team evening. Gather people with different musical memories and check the booking arrangements before heading to Art Stalker.
Margot Schlönzke combines cooking, conversation and performance on the BKA stage. It is a talk-show format with food in the mix, rather than a restaurant reservation.
Street art and public space meet in an exhibition about how artists address the city. Look for the relationship between a work’s message and the urban setting it imagines.
Daniel Libeskind’s museum building is revisited through its architectural ideas. The exhibition adds context to the spaces visitors move through during a visit to the Jewish Museum.
Volker Kreidler’s photographs examine Chornobyl and its aftermath. The series asks visitors to consider the long duration of a disaster through the landscapes that remain.
Amer Al Akel, Pfelder and Simone Zaugg approach contested monuments through contemporary art. Their interventions move beyond simply displaying historical objects to question how remembrance is experienced.
