Discover Berlin’s vibrant art scene with our guide to the city’s must-see exhibitions. From the world-class Museum Island to private galleries on the cutting edge and unique underground art spaces, Berlin has it all. Make sure you read on for exhibition opening dates, gallery locations and admission prices for a diverse range of shows.
We order our listings with what’s closing soonest at the top. That way, you’ll never miss out.
Meret Oppenheim 1913-1985
Works by one of the most significant surrealist artists Meret Oppenheim are on view at Levy Galerie in Moabit and exhibited in conversation with a selection of works by other artists. The exhibition focuses on Oppenheim’s editions such as the comical albeit disturbing ‘Eichhörnchen’ – a beer-filled stein with a handle seemingly made of a squirrel’s tail.
- Levy Gallery, Alt-Moabit 110, 10559 Berlin, details.
- 16 January 2026 – 14 February 2026
- Price: Free
Rico Puhlmann: Fashion Photography 50s-90s
The Museum für Fotografie celebrates Rico Puhlmann, a giant of 20th-century fashion photography. From his early days shaping “Berliner Chic” to his pivotal role in New York’s “American Look”, Puhlmann captured iconic supermodels for Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. His lens redefined style, embracing spontaneity and a new freedom, leaving an indelible mark on how we view fashion and identity across four decades.
- Museum für Fotografie, Jebensstr. 2, Charlottenburg, details.
- 27 June 2025 – 15 February 2026
- Price: €12 (€6 reduced)
The Scharf Collection, Goya – Monet – Cézanne – Bonnard – Grosse
The wide ranging Scharf Collection, one of the most significant private art collections in Germany, is on view at the Alte Nationalgalerie. A chance to see art history’s greats with key works by the impressionists, surrealists, a selection of prints by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as works by canonical contemporary artists such as Katharina Grosse and Sean Scully.
- Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestraße 1-3, 10178 Berlin, details.
- 24 October 2025 – 15 February 2026
- Price: €16 (€8 reduced)
Charmaine Poh, Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take
Charmaine Poh’s exhibition ‘Make a travel deep of your inside, and don’t forget me to take’ at PalaisPopulaire is a poignant reflection on life’s fluidity. Through works centred on water, she spotlights forgotten stories, from Singaporean migrant workers to queer families navigating legal hurdles. The exhibition also uses AI and deepfakes to confront personal trauma and advocate for self-empowerment, revealing a timely discourse on solidarity and tech.
- PalaisPopulaire, Unter den Linden 5, Mitte, details.
- 11 September 2025 – 23 February 2026
- Price: €5 (€3 reduced)
Unsettled Earth
At Spore Initiative, the timely exhibition ‘Unsettled Earth’ delves into the crucial relationship between land and life amidst ongoing settler-colonial violence, particularly focusing on Palestine. Through transnational partnerships and artistic propositions, the project highlights grassroots agrarian initiatives as acts of resistance and ecological recovery. Exploring the concept of “war biospheres,” the exhibition also examines how land becomes both a target and a site for cultivating alternative futures rooted in cooperation and self-determination.
- Spore Initiative, Hermannstr. 86, Neukölln, details.
- 25 April 2025 – 28 Feb 2026
- Price: Free admission
Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism Provenances from the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection
A century after the first Surrealist Manifesto, the Neue Nationalgalerie unveils a new exhibition providing new insights into Surrealism’s vast networks of artists, dealers, and collectors. Based on two years of research into the Pietzsch Collection, this exhibition traces the eventful journeys of paintings and sculptures from Paris through WWII, exile, and new beginnings, illuminating the movement’s multifaceted connections and the era’s political challenges.
- Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Str. 50, Tiergarten, details.
- 17 October 2025 – 01 March 2026
- Price: TBA
A Thousand Brushes With a Single Style! The House of Kano and Painting as Family Business
For nearly four centuries, the Kano name functioned as a powerful visual brand in Japan. This tightly organised family network produced monumental paintings for castles and elites, defined by a unified style and collective labour. This temporary display showcases examples of Kano paintings from the collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst.
- Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin details.
- 10 December 2025 – 02 March 2026
- Price: Day ticket €14 / €7
Pierre Huyghe : Liminals
Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Hartwig Art Foundation, the interdisciplinary artist Pierre Huyghe presents a new iteration of his series ‘Liminals’. Working with researchers from the fields of quantum physics and philosophy, Huyghe strives to translate the in-between states of the quantum sphere into an experiential environment. The immersive installation of film, sound, vibration and light transports the viewer to a liminal realm that exists between reality and fiction.
- Halle am Berghain, Am Wriezener Bahnhof 10243 Berlin, details.
- 23 January – 8 March 2026
- Price: €10 (€8 reduced)
Liaisons.
The exhibition Liaisons at Georg Kolbe Museum places works by Georg Kolbe and Herbert List in conversation with works by contemporary artists Harry Hachmeister and Jens Pecho. Central themes of the exhibition are male friendship as well as the depiction of the male body. The friends Hachmeister’s and Pecho’s artistic response to Kolbe’s heroic male sculptures take on a playful and humorously critical tone.
- Georg Kolbe Museum, Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin, details.
- 11 October 2025 – 08 March 2026
- Price: €10 (€6 reduced)
Raoul Hausmann
Raoul Hausmann never separated art from life. A key figure of Dada, he helped invent collage while constantly pushing into new terrain — sound, performance, experimental writing, photography and synaesthetic devices. This major retrospective at Berlinische Galerie brings together around 200 works, tracing his radical, genre-defying practice and its lasting influence, with special focus on his late work made in exile.
- Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstraße 124 – 128, 10969 Berlin, details.
- 8 November 2025 – 16 March 2026
- Price: €12 (€7 reduced)
Ho Tzu Nyen — 2 Stories: Voids & Times
Ho Tzu Nyen’s debut at neugerriemschneider delves into East and Southeast Asian histories. Fusing scripted narratives with machine learning, his work explores the region’s complex legacies and political impulses. The exhibition extends philosophical inquiries from his current solo shows in Arles and Luxembourg and anticipates his mid-career survey at Hamburger Kunsthalle.
- Neugerriemschneider, Christinenstr. 18-19, Mitte, details.
- 12 September 2025 – 21 March 2026
- Price: Free entrance
David Lynch
Located at Die Tankstelle, Pace’s Berlin Gallery presents an exhibition of works by the late artist and filmmaker David Lynch. Lynch who had studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia had a wide ranging practice that spanned painting, sculpture, watercolor, film, and photography.
- PACE Gallery, Bülowstraße 18, 10783 Berlin, details.
- 29 January – 29 March 2026
- Price: Free admission
Welto and the Sacred Bush: Learning from Caribbean Gardens
Amidst ecological crisis, this show explores plant intelligence, ancestral memory and regenerative practices through diverse art forms. Featuring works by Caribbean artists, ‘Welto and the Sacred Bush’ offers a vital framework for rethinking our relationship with the land and fostering communal care, inviting visitors to slow down and listen to what grows beneath the surface.
- SPORE Initiative, Hermannstr. 86, Neukölln, details.
- 6 June 2025 – 29 March 2026
- Price: Free admission
Kara Elizabeth Walker presents Dispatches from A—and the Museum of Half-remembered Histories
The solo-exhibition at Sprüth Magers by Kara Walker shows collages and pastels on paper in an imposing scale that reference history, art history, fiction, as well as current events. The artist known for works that engage critically with societal norms and developments, race, gender and violence presents a thematically dark but aesthetically delightful exhibition.
- Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Str. 18, 10178 Berlin, details.
- 14 November 2025 – 4 April 2026
- Price: Free
Mark Leckey, Enter Thru Medieval Wounds
Mark Leckey’s extensive solo exhibition, ‘Enter Thru Medieval Wounds’ features works like the iconic Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore and his Turner Prize-winning Cinema-in-the-Round. Leckey examines how media shapes perception, memory and desire by tracing the intersections of pop culture and evolving technology.
- Julia Stoschek Foundation, Leipziger Str. 60, Mitte, details.
- 11 September 2025 – 3 May 2026
- Price: €5
Possibilities of an Island – Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf
In uncertain times, art can feel like an island. Possibilities of an Island explores the intensely personal world of the Scharf family collection, spanning Surrealism and fantastical art. From Goya to Hannah Höch, the exhibition traces art as refuge, escape and quiet resistance — an archipelago of imagined worlds shaped by private passion rather than public rules.
- Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, Schloßstraße 70, 14059 Berlin details.
- 19 December 2025 – 03 May 2026
- Price: €12 (€6 reduced)
Cornelia Parker – Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
A lightbulb at the centre of the otherwise bare exhibition space is initially the sole visual element in Cornelia Parker’s ‘Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)’ at Kindl’s Kesselhaus. As the title suggests, the space is soon filled with a growing storm that reaches a crescendo of thunder and lightning. Parker pieced together the sound for this work using archival recordings of thunder, wind and rain covering a range of both time and geography.
- KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Am Sudhaus 3, Neukölln, details.
- 14 September 2025 – 24 May 2026
- Price: €10/7 (€4 reduced)
Gallery Looks: Fashion Staging at the Gemäldegalerie
Beginning during Berlin fashion week at the end of January, the Gemäldegalerie hosts the exhibition ‘Gallery Looks’ dedicated to the symbiotic relationship between art and fashion. Comprising film, photographs and garments by selected designers, the exhibition is staged amidst the collection of the national painting gallery to allow for new connections to be made between fashion and art, fabric and canvas, history and the present.
- Gemäldegalerie, Johanna und Eduard Arnhold Platz,10785 Berlin details.
- 30 January 2026 – 31 May 2026
- Price: €14 (€7 reduced)
An Opera Out of Time
Petrit Halilaj presents his first major Berlin solo exhibition at Hamburger Bahnhof. Spanning sculpture, video, and large-scale installations, it centres on the artist’s first opera, created with the Kosovo Philharmonic. Rooted in collective dreaming and the ancient site of Syrigana, the exhibition unfolds as a site-specific installation in the reopened Rieckhallen.
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr. 50, Mitte, details.
- 11 September 2025 – 31 May 2026
- Price: €16 (€8 reduced)
Museum in Motion
Hamburger Bahnhof re-opens its Rieckhallen with ‘Museum in Motion’, a dynamic showcase of contemporary art reflecting the evolving role of museums. Featuring large-scale installations by renowned artists like Cevdet Erek and Elmgreen & Dragset, the exhibition explores how museums must adapt to a rapidly changing world. Alongside ‘Nationalgalerie: A Collection for the 21st Century’, the exhibition offers a fresh perspective on Hamburger Bahnhof’s extensive holdings.
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr. 50, Mitte, details.
- 6 Sep 2024 – Until further notice
- Price: €16 (€8 reduced)
Joseph Beuys
One of the most influential figures in Modern art, Joseph Beuyes is being celebrated with a large-scale new exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof. Made up of around 15 works, including important installations like Tram Stop: A monument to the future (1976) and Das Kapital Raum, 1970-1977 (1980), the exhibition showcases the complex life and work of Beuys.
- Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr. 50-51, Mitte, details
- 22 March 2024 — Until further notice
- Price: €16 (€8 reduced) for entrance to all exhibitions
