Exhibitions in Berlin
Berlin What's on
Berlin’s 2020 Best Exhibitions
In 2020, a wide variety of new exhibitions will open in Berlin, providing visitors with new experiences and the opportunity to reexamine old ones.
The breadth of new exhibitions is staggering. From...
Berlin What's on
Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum
From 27 Oct. This exhibition introduces African art works from the Ethnological Museum into the collection of western sculpture in the Bode-Museum. Key to the exhibition is the comparison in how works...
Berlin What's on
Wenzel Hablik: Expressionist Utopias
2 Sept-14 Jan. The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Wenzel Hablik (1881-1934).
Considered one of the most important representatives of G...
Berlin What's on
29 Sept-7 Jan. The Martin-Gropius-Bau presents the latest disturbing works of cutting-edge British artist Ed Atkins.
The exhibition features unnerving imagery such as babies and old men weeping, al...
Berlin What's on
13 Oct-13 Jan. This exhibition highlights the social and political commitment of American visual artist Alice Neel (1900-1984), focusing in particular on her output from 1933 to 1965.
Neel's work...
Berlin What's on
Fabio Barilari: Architecture and atmosphere
8 Sept-4 Nov. Under the subheading Reading the city: a dialogue between library architecture and urban context in Germany, the Humboldt Library presents Architecture and atmosphere, an exhibition by I...
Berlin What's on
Lucian Freud: Closer: Etchings from the UBS Art Collection
22 July-22 Oct. The Martin-Gropius-Bau shows 51 etchings by the important 20th-century British realist painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011) who was born in Berlin and is best known for his intimate, visce...
Berlin What's on
30 June-28 Aug. The Martin-Gropius-Bau displays the entire manuscript of Franz Kafka’s celebrated novel The Trial, more than a century after it was written.
The exhibition displays the novel, page...
Berlin What's on
Syria Antiqua: Coins and Monuments on the Museuminsel
16 June-5 Nov. The Bode Museum presents an exhibition of coins from ancient Syria, which was a key cultural, religious and commercial hub of the ancient world due to its geographical location.
Thi...
Berlin What's on
The Luther Effect: Protestantism – 500 Years in the World
12 April-5 Nov. The Deutsches Historisches Museum marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation with an exhibition leading the visitor through "five centuries and four continents."
Comprising pai...
Berlin What's on
Hieronymus Bosch and His Pictorial World in the 16th and 17th century
11 Nov-19 March. The Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett stage an exhibition displaying their holdings of work by Hieronymus Bosch to mark the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.
In ad...
Berlin What's on
Eve Parnell: Let me sing dreams as words of truth
30 Jan-26 Feb. This exhibition of work by Irish artist Eve Parnell is inspired by the poem Vernehmt und lasst mich traum so wahrheit singen (Let me sing dreams as words of truth) by German Resistance...
Berlin What's on
Tehran Collection: Tehran Museum for Contemporary Art in Berlin
4 Dec-26 Feb. The Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin shows works from the collection of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA), at the Gemäldegalerie building.
The works on displ...
Berlin What's on
Surreal Objectivity. Works from the 1920s and 1930s from the Nationalgalerie
13 Oct-23 April. Drawings from its collection of paintings from the period between the two world wars, the Nationalgalerie juxtaposes New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) and Surrealist works.
Both...
Berlin What's on
Voices of Dissent: Art in the GDR 1976-1989
16 July-26 Oct. This exhibition uses creative art works to explores the links between dissident art and power in the former German Democratic Republic or GDR. The exhibition highlights how a prodigiou...
Berlin What's on
El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez
1 July-30 Oct. This major exhibition showcases Spanish painting and sculpture from the 17th century, a golden era or siglo de oro in European cultural history.
The Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche...
Berlin What's on
1 July-3 Oct. The Martin-Gropius-Bau dedicates an exhibition to the important 20th-century American photographer, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991). The roughly 80 images on display include Abbott's Changin...
Berlin What's on
12 May-21 Aug. The Berliner Festspiele presents the complete interdisciplinary oeuvre of the renowned visual artist, filmmaker and director William Kentridge.
The exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-...
Berlin What's on
12 April-7 Aug. Exhibition of around 300 sculptures and ceramics relating to the Maya people, a Mesoamerican civilisation and one of the oldest cultures in the world.
Central to the exhibition is...
Berlin What's on
Günter Brus – Zones of Disruption
12 March-6 June. Exhibition dedicated to the controversial work of Günter Brus, the contemporary Austrian painter, performance artist, experimental filmmaker and writer.
Born in 1938, Brus was the...
