Alicja Kwade: In Absence
The hottest name in Berlin contemporary art presents her abstract sculpture in a show bringing together what can only loosely be described as self-portraits.
View ArticleTime Without End
Displaying artworks chosen from its own collection, a new show at Fluentum focuses on time and the challenges faced when trying to exhibit absences and pasts that have long been lost. With works by The...
View ArticleImpressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-Garde
The revolutionary time when French Impressionism changed Russian art forever is the focus of the Barberini’s latest exhibition.
View ArticleIt seems like that
The young artist is known for his elaborately-staged scenarios, blending paintings with architectural interventions, floor coverings and lighting.
View ArticleHR Giger & Mire Lee
Prepare to see the dome of the Pavillon morph into an atmospheric womblike space for an unsettling and outlandish take on eroticism, birth and death.
View ArticleBasir Mahmood "Good ended happily"
Set in the compound Abbottabad, Pakistan, the video work ‘Good ended happily’ focuses on the bloody aftermath of the U.S. assassination of Osama bin Laden.
View ArticleAfter Ruby Ridge
First exhibition in Berlin since 2007 American video artist Matthew Barney, made up of drawings and two new sculptures, including the monumentally-scaled sculpture of a burnt tree titled ‘Bore’.
View ArticleIlliberal Arts & Kosmocopies
In the exhibition Kosmokopien, visitors are invited to participate in experiments about societal composition and ritual, filtered through the compositions and performances of musician Nicholas...
View Article‘Divinely Gifted’. Artists of National Socialism in the Federal Republic
After the fall of the Nazi regime many high up in its establishment continued to flourish in the art world. These figures and their progress is charted in this new exhibition at the German Historical...
View ArticleCreativity: Furniture Reversal
Featuring paintings, sculptures and multiples by high profile artists like Rosemarie Trockel and Franz West among others, the exhibition explores how objects exert (in)visible influence over our daily...
View ArticleThe Cool and the Cold. Painting in the USA and the USSR 1960-1990
This extensive exhibition at the Gropius Bau seeks to change that by bringing together art from both sides of the Cold War and presents numerous representatives of Socialist Art such as Ilya Kabakov...
View ArticleFive things to see at Berlin Art Week 2021
The city-wide show brings together the finest in contemporary art for its big birthday bash from September 15-19. To help you celebrate, we bring you our top five tips.
View ArticleWeimar Berlin's unsung female photographer
The portraits of little-known photographer Gerty Simon shed a twinkling light on the stars of Weimar Berlin and 1930s London.
View ArticleBerlin daily news blog: coronavirus, politics, culture, business and more
The latest about the coronavirus, politics, culture, business and more from Berlin and beyond.
View ArticleRosa Barba: “Moving between the layers of time”
The video artist and star of the revamped Neue Nationalgalerie discusses Mies van der Rohe, filming in the desert and why analogue is best.
View ArticleFashion to BDSM: Nine exhibitions to see this month
Berlin's cultural calendar is back in full swing. We round up the must-see art shows this October.
View ArticleICC transformed: The Sun Machine is Coming Down
We spend a few hours at the long-dormant Internationales Congress Centrum, where a slew of big-name artists have taken over its dusty halls for a ten-day exhibition.
View ArticleArt of destruction: Two must-see shows at KINDL
Two exhibitions at KINDL turn the spotlight on destruction, whether it’s the ravaged compound where Osama bin Laden was killed, or the cathartic chaos of new beginnings.
View ArticleArt in the first person: Understudies at KW
When was the last time you challenged your perspective? A new group show at the KW aims to do just that.
View ArticleJulie Mehretu: “A potent space for the radical imagination”
As her solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer enters its final weeks, we catch up with acclaimed artist Julie Mehretu to discuss how her multi-layered canvases reflect societal violence and inequality.
View ArticleWhat happened to Hitler's favourite artists?
They could have been tried for war crimes, but instead they enjoyed long careers as painters and sculptors.
View ArticleGabriele Knapstein on saving the Rieckhallen
The Hamburger Bahnhof director on saving art spaces and her last exhibition as the Berlin institution’s boss.
View ArticleIran. Five Millennia of Art and Culture
For the first time in the James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural history of Iran – from the early civilisations through to the modern era – is the focus of a major art-historical...
View ArticleFluentum: From Nazi base to art space
A former Nazi military building with cinematic credentials has become a contemporary art space
View ArticleThree hot exhibitions to catch before they close
Don't miss out on seeing these hyped art shows while you can
View ArticleBerlin's best (and worst) exhibitions of 2021
We look beyond the blockbusting Kusama retrospective to Berlin's art highlights
View ArticleNeue Nationalgalerie: The flawed temple returns
The Neue Nationalgalerie finally reopened in 2021. In the seven years it took to renovate, a lot changed. Did the curators noticed?
View ArticleHoward Greenberg on Vivian Maier: “I’ve never seen anything like it”
Internationally renowned art dealer Howard Greenberg on Vivian Maier, on what makes a great street photographer and an iconic shot.
View ArticleVaginal Davis: “I refer to myself as a sexual pariah”
We talk to the queercore drag legend about LA, Berlin and the 15 million boys who read her blog.
View ArticleNancy Holt: Her time in the sun
Marginalised for much of her career, land artist Nancy Holt is finally getting the attention she deserves.
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