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A weekend with another side

A long exhibition visit, food in Kreuzberg and a room chosen for the music. Keep tomorrow morning free. The weekend runs from Friday evening through Sunday. Find dated events first, then places to visit, tables to book and rooms to explore after dark.

On the calendar

EventExhibitions

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.

Sat 26 Sept€16
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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.

Sat 26 Sept€12
On the house
EventCulture

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.

Sun 27 SeptFree
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.

Fri 25 SeptCheck price
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.

Until 5 OctFree
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.

Until 12 OctFree
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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.

Until 28 SeptCheck price
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.

Until 3 OctFree
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[ materialistin ]. Matter of Care, Care of Matter

Eight women sculptors associated with Leipzig bring questions of material and care into the museum. Compare the physical properties of the works with the kinds of attention they demand.

Until 15 MarCheck price
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Multiples Weiß

Paper takes centre stage as an artistic material. The anniversary exhibition includes the 2026 Paper Art Award winners Dirk Krecker, Hideaki Yamanobe and Inka Bell.

Until 7 DecCheck price
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Renaming?!

Berlin’s street names reveal how public memory changes with political power. This district-museum exhibition uses renaming as a starting point for looking again at familiar addresses.

Until 20 DecCheck price
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Veronika Witte – Nothingness Is Full of Bodies

Veronika Witte brings her exhibition Nothingness Is Full of Bodies to Spandau’s Gotisches Haus. Pair the contemporary work with time to look at the historic building around it.

Until 12 OctCheck price
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Being related: shared language, shared knowledge?

Language and knowledge provide two routes into the question of kinship. The display asks how relationships are maintained and understood across different cultural settings.

Until 10 NovCheck price
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Conservation in Dialogue

Conservation decisions shape what a museum visitor gets to see. This presentation brings those choices into view and asks whose knowledge should guide the care of objects.

Until 9 MarCheck price
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Family and Religion

Chinese silk paintings offer a close look at the relationship between family life and religious practice. Buddhist and Manichaean traditions are among the subjects represented.

Until 1 JanCheck price
EventActivities

Der Traumzauberbaum: a planetarium music show

Reinhard Lakomy’s Der Traumzauberbaum becomes a dome-screen experience. This is a planetarium presentation based on the music, with projected imagery around the audience.

Sat 26 SeptCheck price
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If I Were King or Queen... Young Visions from Neukölln

Eleven young people from Neukölln imagine what they would change if power were in their hands. Their proposals shift the museum’s attention towards the priorities of a younger generation.

Until 8 FebCheck price
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almost in between

Melanie Ender’s almost in between is presented at Kunsthaus Dahlem. Give the works space to register before continuing through the building and its grounds.

Until 5 OctCheck price
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Brücke / Natur Natur / Brücke

The Brücke artists’ relationship with nature provides the exhibition’s organising thread. Look at how the landscape functions as both a setting and a subject in its own right.

Until 26 OctCheck price
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Helmut Newton’s One-off Album

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.

Until 16 NovCheck price
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