Berlin Art Week brings together over 100 museums, galleries, and project spaces for more than 300 events, including 100+ openings. The city becomes a stage for contemporary art, with painting, installation, video, sound, performance, and site-specific works shown in venues from major institutions to hangars, churches, and studios.
This year’s highlights address pressing social themes. HKW tackles fascism; Savvy Contemporary reflects on migrant life, and nGbK explores belonging and cultural crossings. ifa-galerie considers homeland, while Hamburger Bahnhof stages Petrit Halilaj’s first major Berlin solo show with an opera featuring the Kosovo Philharmonic on collective dreaming, history, and identity.
Among the solo exhibitions are Issy Wood, Charmaine Poh, Christelle Oyiri, kennedy+swan, Jiyoung Yoon, Ruprecht von Kaufmann, and Christian Thoelke. n.b.k. presents a Margarethe von Trotta retrospective and a site-specific work by Nora Turato, and KINDL features Erik Schmidt, Cornelia Parker, Phoebe Collings-James, and Cihad Caner. Performance is central with Perform! at Neue Nationalgalerie (Joan Jonas, Yoko Ono, Isaac Chong Wei), Ivo Dimchev at HAU, and Jefta van Dinther at St. Elisabeth Church.
Other notable exhibitions include Sybille Springer at HOTO Galerie, Laurel Nakadate at Galerie Tanja Wagner, AFAIK Collective in a transformed bed store, Grace Weaver at Galerie Max Hetzler, Lotte Keijzer at Kristin Hjellegjerde, Henni Alftan at Sprüth Magers, Ross Bleckner at Capitain Petzel, Fluid Systems with Bracha L. Ettinger at carlier | gebauer, and Daniel Josefsohn’s posthumous show at Galerie Crone. Group shows at galerie burster and Société & Hauser & Wirth address identity and performance, while Video Art at Midnight presents nightly screenings.
Open House grants public access to private collections like Boros, Miettinen, and Kienzle, with no registration required. Meet the Artist emphasizes artist-collector relationships, and Saturday’s Discovering Collections! offers rare entry into normally closed collections.
Foundations stage major projects: the haubrok foundation’s Another Sunday Afternoon combines performances, concerts, a pop-up radio show, and an exhibition including works by Christopher Williams. The Feuerle Collection launches a four-part cycle by Alexander Graf von Schlieffen, the Julia Stoschek Foundation presents a major Mark Leckey show, and at Fluentum, Jordan Strafer turns the space into a surreal talk-show set for a new commission with actor Jim Fletcher.
Fairs and citywide events include Positions Berlin Art Fair at Tempelhof with 75 galleries, Gallery Night with 50 spaces open simultaneously including Société with Hauser & Wirth, and Hallen 06 at Wilhelm Hallen showcasing 50+ artists across 9,000 sqm. The VBKI-Preis Berliner Galerien highlights emerging programs, with nominees Galerie Molitor, Mountains, and Robert Grunenberg.
The Featured program emphasizes unconventional spaces, culminating in Friday’s Featured Night. Collaborations include Crit Club at St. Elisabeth Church, Polyphonic Views at Funkhaus Berlin, Physical Relics at Alte Feuerwache Tempelhof, and Acts by Spoiler Aktionsraum, exploring sound, technology, and the body-material relationship.
The Berlin Art Week Garten at Hamburger Bahnhof serves as the festival hub, offering performances, workshops, drinks, and outdoor gatherings across five days.
The full program is available at berlinartweek.de.
The featured image shows Anahita Sadighi’s Soft Power (2025) and is courtesy of Anahita Sadighi Gallery.
