May 1–3, galleries across Berlin present the best of contemporary art as part of Gallery Weekend’s 22nd edition.
To help you navigate through this year’s program, we have curated our top picks for the upcoming weekend:
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This week, Constanza Macras presents ‘Goodbye Berlin’ at Volksbühne, exploring an amoral universe of intoxicating spectacle in the form of a cabaret.
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Dafna Maimon is known for her dark and lurid sense of humor, where hints of the abject course through. Following her recent survey show ‘Symptoms’ presented at Kiasma in Helsinki last year, Alison Hugill interviews Maimon as part of our feature topic Abjection:
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Thailand Biennale Phuket presents its latest edition across the island, focusing on the notion of tropical temporality. Adela Lovric writes on Phuket’s transformation from extractive activities + departing from reductive clichés:
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‘Persistence of Vision’ at Gropius Bau presents Peter Hujar’s photography, mostly taken in 1970s and 80s New York, alongside contemporary works by Liz Deschenes. Jesse Slater writes on reflections drained of color and making use of the privacy of the ruin:
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The Bulgarian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale is framed as the headquarters of a speculative research lab where care is centered. Alison Hugill interviews the curator Martina Yordanova, discussing being confronted by your own reflection:
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Our Feature Topic Abjection continues for the rest of the month, presenting pieces depicting degradation and filth; considering what we are forced to exclude to maintain a sense of identity and social order:
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June 5–7, Britzenale returns for its 6th ed. presenting an exhibition at Kleingartenanlage Zur Windmühle e.V.
Alongside an existing work by Eckhart Haisch—a 1985 sculpture titled ‘Ramificazioni’—20 artists have been invited to develop site-specific works:
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The exhibition ‘New Woman, New Vision,’ presented by the BAUHAUS archive at Museum für Fotografie comprises outstanding photographic works by women artists of the Bauhaus.
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At Hua International, works by Marianna Uutinen are presented in ‘Who’s Afraid of Red Stains and Yellow Snow?’
As part of feature topic Abjection, Lars Holdgate discusses how Uutinen's skins exhibit signs of life as well as reminding him of the vacuum of death:
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Premiering this week at Sophiensæle, Olympia Bukkakis and Maria F. Scaroni present ‘Unsex Me Here,’ a dance and drag performance exploring the figures of the Queen and the Witch, both in the Western historical imagination and in the queer and now.
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‘Let Us Believe in the Dawn of Spring’ is a group show curated by Anahita Sadighi and presented in her eponymous gallery. The multi-sensory immersive experience celebrates renewal and new beginnings through the eyes of six artists. Olivia Noss reviews the exhibition:
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Presented at National Portrait Gallery in London, Catherine Opie’s ‘To Be Seen’ is her first major UK museum exhibition, incl 30 years of image-making.
This exhibition, on view until May 31, is included in our Top International Exhibitions April to June list:
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“No Strings Attached” was the slogan for the 2026 MaerzMusik festival, understanding sound as haptic, spatial and architectural experience, taking place last week, March 20–29.
Dagmara Genda discusses technological indifference in her review:
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At Haus der Visionäre, Leonis Works presents immersive performance piece ‘Urgency,’ exploring borders, conflict, and pressure.
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Jagoda Bednarsky is known for painting other-worldly landscapes where body parts merge with nature.
As part of our feature topic Abjection, Gillian N. Osborne interviews Bednarsky ahead of her exhibition ‘Self as Solvent’ at ARTEFACT:
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Kyiv-born artist Lesia Vasylchenko works across video, photography and installation, examining how technological infrastructures reshape perception. On the occasion of her first solo exhibition in Germany at Schinkel Pavillon, Maria Isserlis interviews:
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Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:
𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄: ‘𝗤𝗨𝗘𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗞𝗨𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗥 𝗗𝗗𝗥?’
Exhibition opening @ nGbk
Friday, Mar. 27; 6–9pm
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲: ‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗹𝗲’𝘀 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴’
Listening Experience @ Reethaus
Sunday, Mar. 29; 2–8pm
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The group exhibition ‘QUEER ART IN THE GDR? Biographies between Underground and Propaganda’ presents works by queer artists living in the GDR at Kvost, Museum der Dinge, Mitte Museum and nGbK.
Lars Holdgate interviews the exhibition's curator Stephan Koal:
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Berlin Art Week is accepting applications for its Featured section for the upcoming festival, September 9-13, 2026. This open call invites Berlin-based art initiatives, project spaces, municipal institutions and special projects.
Apply by May 27:
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Melanie Jame Wolf’s ‘Finite Jest’ premiered at Sophiensaele over the weekend, analyzing the performances of comedy and morality often adopted when confronted with life’s closest, ever-looming companion: death.
Alice Heyward writes on the performance:
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At KVOST, the group exhibition ‘QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?’ sheds light on the work of nine artists living in East Germany. Also interested in the effect of queering, the collaborative project band 33 performs their album ‘Tripolar’ at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz.
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MASI Lugano presents ‘K-NOW! Korean Video Art Today,’ an immersive exploration of South Korea’s contemporary art scene through eight Korean artists. Carolina Sculti discusses a future defined by increasing isolation, cultural blending and bodily transformation:
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Mudam Luxembourg presents ‘Between Then and Now,' an exhibition of works by South African artist Igshaan Adams. Akin Oladimeji interviews Adams, discussing remembrance, producing a sense of self, and pieces he names his “archive of failures":
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William Joys is an artist whose works explore the implicit power relations performers experience and create through the characters they portray.
As part of Abjection, William Kherbek interviews Joys, discussing the degradation of initiation ceremonies:
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Across Berlin this week, exhibitions reflect on how images hold and reshape history.
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Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:
𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗱𝘇𝗲
Artist talk @ Sankt Studio
Fri, Mar. 13; 8pm
𝗝𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮, 𝗔𝗻𝗷𝗮 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝗸𝗲: ‘𝗝𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗹ü𝘁𝗲𝗻’
Opening @ Schloss Biesdorf
Sun, Mar. 15; 6pm
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In her review of the group exhibition ‘The Double’ at Prague’s GHMP Zvon, Carolina Sculti reflects on the artworks that “touch this sensitive, almost defensive part of ourselves, provoking reactions of fear, repulsion and discomfort even when the works do not contain explicitly vulgar imagery.”
Julian Charrière’s exhibition ‘Midnight Zone’ opens this Friday, March 13 at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
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This week in Berlin, exhibitions turn to landscapes as sites of transformation and reflection.
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