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.
Spray decoration turns everyday ceramics into a study of colour and repeatable design. The Bröhan Museum’s collection provides the examples, including objects made for ordinary domestic use.
Michael Wesely layers historical views of Prenzlauer Berg with present-day photographs. The overlaps make urban change visible within a single image rather than through a simple before-and-after pair.
Eavo hosts a pub quiz at Art Stalker for teams with mixed knowledge and a willingness to puzzle things out. Check the event’s language and reservation details before organising a group.
Carrie Mae Weems’s retrospective brings together a practice concerned with power, representation and history. Give the exhibition enough time for the relationships between images to emerge.
Stelios Kallinikou looks at the landscape around Akrotiri in Cyprus through photography and film. Ecology and the presence of military infrastructure occupy the same field of vision.
Susanne Kriemann’s photographs connect landscapes with the traces of uranium extraction. Sites in Saxony, Thuringia and Limousin place the environmental story across national borders.
Amnon David Ar’s paintings are presented in dialogue with the world of Kurt Mühlenhaupt. Everyday subjects provide a point of contact between different artistic perspectives.
The body becomes a meeting point for questions of identity and social expectation. The Georg Kolbe Museum provides a setting where those contemporary questions sit alongside a sculptural legacy.
Dakil Berlin Friends bring an indie, disco and rock blend to Art Stalker. The advertised evening also includes DJs, so consult the running order if you want to catch the live set.
Graduation work recognised through the Mart Stam prize comes together at the Zitadelle. Compare how young designers and artists turn individual research into a public presentation.
The exhibition examines German involvement in Angola through contemporary artistic perspectives. Mussunda Nzombo and Bruno Fonseca are among the voices addressing the colonial history.
Laura Bruce moves between recognisable figures and abstract structures. Pearls and Hooks gives that shifting relationship room to develop across the exhibition.
Ewa Finn and Katharina Poos bring painting into a shared exhibition at the Zitadelle. Look for the conversation between their approaches rather than treating the two positions as separate stops.
Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is screened with live accompaniment by the Babylon Orchester Berlin. The combination makes the score part of the event in the room, rather than a recorded background.
Funda Özgünaydin’s collages use animals to approach questions that also concern people. The title offers a useful starting point for considering who is allowed to speak within an image.
DISTEL turns the strains of coalition politics into a German-language satire programme. Check the current cast and performance date when choosing seats.
Thomas Pigor and Benedikt Eichhorn return with Grundkurs II, combining songs and verbal sparring. The programme is centred on German-language writing and musical cabaret.
Lina Lapelytė brings collective singing and repeated actions into Hamburger Bahnhof’s historic hall. The exhibition develops over time, with a separate performance schedule to check before visiting.
Women’s clothing from Danube Swabian communities carries histories of identity and movement. Heavy Fabric approaches garments as evidence of social life as well as material objects.
Shilpa Gupta explores language, borders and the ways power shapes movement. The presentation places her work in conversation with the museum’s Joseph Beuys and Marx collection context.
Photography records rooms and stages as places of performance. Look at how an image can retain the suggestion of an action even when a space appears empty.
Sofie Dawo’s textile work tests what fabric can do when its construction is questioned. Threads and structures become active elements in the exhibition rather than decorative surfaces.
KERB brings a selection of food traders into the outdoor setting at Humboldt Forum. Entry and food purchases are separate decisions; check the current traders and weather arrangements before making it your meal stop.
The Rieckhallen studio opens for adults to experiment with making art. Participation requires a valid museum admission ticket, so include museum entry in the plan.
