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Paperwork - Jumping He. Blackbox #18
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.
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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.
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Chodowiecki300: Between Art and Congregation
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.
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A Berlin suitcase
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.
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BFF Award 2025/26
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.
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Design for Berlin
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.
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Von Tieren und anderen Menschen
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.
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Graphics by Iris Ulbricht
Iris Ulbricht works with graphic media including charcoal, graphite and ink. Her images move between recognisable subjects and unsettling imagined situations.
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Kintsugi
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.
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Ghostbuster: Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller
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.
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The Berlin airport fire brigades
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.
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Ruin and Rush: Berlin 1910–1930
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.
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Love Letters to the City
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.
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Between the Lines
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.
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Volker Kreidler | Half Life Chornobyl
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.
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Zeitfelder – Time Fields
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.
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THE URBAN SKIN
Pietro Ruffo and Jan Bauer enter into a conversation with Piranesi and the layered city. Rome supplies a starting point for thinking about architecture as an accumulation of surfaces and histories.
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Jazz at the MIM
Live jazz brings a different sound to the Musical Instrument Museum. The series pairs an evening performance with a venue devoted to the tools and history of music-making.
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Forms of Alignment
Contemporary works explore how people and institutions align with one another. The setting at Centrum Judaicum brings the question into a place with its own complex civic history.
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Josef Kaiser ꟾ Building for the GDR
Josef Kaiser’s architecture helped shape the built environment of the GDR. Projects such as Kino International and Café Moskau provide recognisable points of connection with Berlin today.
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The Mountains of Tyrol
Tyrol’s mountains appear as a cultural landscape as well as a geographical one. The exhibition looks at the meanings attached to a region often reduced to a scenic view.
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Lili Yuan: The Ethereal Beauty of Nature
Lili Yuan’s works focus attention on the natural world. The exhibition at Kulturhaus Karlshorst offers a quieter stop away from the central museum circuit.
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Jetztzeit - Layers of the present
Gülnur Mukazhanova brings layers of the present into the historic setting of Kunsthaus Dahlem. Consider the work in relation to the space and the histories carried by the building.
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STADT LAND SockenSCHUSS
DISTEL turns tensions between city and country into a German-language satire programme. Language is central to the jokes, so this is best suited to an audience comfortable following German on stage.