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Give the art some time

Current exhibitions with shared venue details and actual visiting hours. Start with the work that interests you, then check the current session and any separate museum admission or reservation requirements.

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The Opposite of Now

Twelve artistic projects mark the Jewish Museum’s anniversary through contemporary questions. Allow time for different voices and media rather than expecting a single historical narrative.

Until 10 JanCheck price
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Club Culture Inventory Record

Objects from Berlin’s club culture become museum evidence. The exhibition asks what can be preserved from a scene whose meaning often depends on a particular room, crowd and night.

Until 9 NovCheck price
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Michael Wesely. Doubleday in Prenzlauer Berg 1887–2026

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.

Until 28 MarFree
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CARRIE MAE WEEMS | The Heart of the Matter

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.

Until 3 FebCheck price
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Stelios Kallinikou . Cliffs Among Dreams

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.

Until 20 JanCheck price
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Amnon David Ar

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.

Until 10 JanCheck price
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everybody

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.

Until 29 NovCheck price
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Experiment and Stubbornness

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.

Until 3 JanCheck price
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PEACEFUL PENETRATION – Germans in Angola

The exhibition examines German involvement in Angola through contemporary artistic perspectives. Mussunda Nzombo and Bruno Fonseca are among the voices addressing the colonial history.

Until 3 JanCheck price
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Pearls and Hooks

Laura Bruce moves between recognisable figures and abstract structures. Pearls and Hooks gives that shifting relationship room to develop across the exhibition.

Until 3 JanCheck price
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A Still, Windless Night

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.

Until 3 JanCheck price
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If Animals Could Talk

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.

Until 3 JanCheck price
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Heavy Fabric

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.

Until 29 MarCheck price
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Shilpa Gupta: What Still Holds

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.

Until 3 Jan€16
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Rooms / Stages

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.

Until 15 NovCheck price
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Sofie Dawo. Textile Experiments

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.

Until 17 JanCheck price