Gallery Weekend Berlin 2025: The exhibitions you can't miss

Diane Severin Nguyen, not yet titled “Spring Snow” and not yet titles “Spring Clothes”, 2025. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin

With Gallery Weekend overlapping May Day Weekend, the city is braced for a collision of agitprop and glossy gallery spectacle. Gallerists just hope the streets are cleared…

Anne Imhof, *Romeo*, 2025, oil on canvas, Courtesy Galerie Buchholz.

In Charlottenburg, everyone is curious to see what Anne Imhof has got up to at Galerie Buchholz after her divisive theatrical exploits in New York. Berlin’s dark angel presents a new series of blurry, digitally enhanced paintings based on film stills. Not far away, in the rarified galleries of Galerie Michael Werner, you can see the thick, impasto portraits of the virtuoso portraitist Frank Auerbach. Before his death last year, he was delighted to know his work would be shown in the city he’d fled in 1939.

Galerie Buchholz, Fasanenstr. 30, Charlottenburg details.
Galerie Michael Werner, Hardenbergstr. 9A, 10623 Berlin details.

Cyprien Gaillard, *Retinal Rivalry* (still), 2024. 3D motion picture © Cyprien Gaillard. Courtesy of the artist, Sprüth Magers and Gladstone Gallery

In Mitte, Sprüth Magers is screening Retinal Rivalry, the latest film by French favourite Cyprien Gaillard. Billed as “an entrancing journey through Germany’s urban landscape”, let’s hope it’s as good as his 3D masterpiece, Nightlife (2015).

Sprüth Magers, Oranienburger Str. 18, Mitte, details.

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, *I AM NOT SURE I CAN TRUST YOU*, 2025. Archival Inkjet Print, 100 x 70 cm Courtesy the artist and NOME, Berlin

Around Potsdamer Straße in Tiergarten, don’t miss a posthumous exhibition of the controversial Jimmy Durham at Barbara Wien, or the cartoony, vividly coloured drawings of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley down the street at NOME. In Schöneberg, it will be well worth visiting Sebastian Jefford’s new exhibition of drawings and absurd plasticky faces at Galerie Noah Klink.

Barbara Wien, Schöneberger Ufer 65, Tiergarten, details.
NOME, Potsdamer Str. 72, Tiergarten, details.
Galerie Noah Klink, Kulmer Str. 17, Schöneberg, details.

Hudinilson Jr.,*Narcisse,* *Exercício de Me Ver II*, 1982, documentation of the performance, detail, courtesy of the Estate of Hudinilson Jr. and KOW, Berlin

On Kurfürstenstraße, check out Galerie Molitor, KOW and Heidi – who’s showing the varied and really quite odd Benjamin Lallier.

Galerie Molitor, Kurfürstenstr. 143, Tiergarten, details.
KOW, Kurfürstenstr. 145 (entrance Frobenstr.), Tiergarten, details.
Heidi, Kurfürstenstr. 145, Tiergarten, details.

On May 2-4, the independent art space initiative, Sellerie Weekend is also taking place. With the majority clustered around Neukölln, expect to see hofs transform into inviting galleries stuffed with less commercial work. Organised by Spoiler, they will be presenting Look at Me, a live performance by the excellent Niklas Apfel and the collectif blitzbereit in their space in Moabit.