Guide To Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026

Last Updated on April 22, 2026

Every spring, many galleries in Berlin throw open their doors to celebrate Gallery Weekend Berlin. It’s one of the most important events on the Berlin art calendar and this year, it returns for its 22nd edition from Friday 1 May to Sunday 3 May 2026.

What Is Gallery Weekend Berlin?

Founded in 2005 by a cooperative of Berlin galleries, Gallery Weekend Berlin is a city-wide contemporary art event that takes place across a sprawling network of galleries rather than in a single venue. That’s what makes it stand out from your typical art fair (or Art Basel) experience. Instead of queuing up at a convention centre, just wander through Berlin itself. You can easily pick your own adventure from Mitte to Charlottenburg, from Kreuzberg to Wedding and from large gallery to small.

This year, 50 galleries will open their doors simultaneously across 65 locations, presenting more than 80 artistic positions and works by artists from over 30 countries. Collectors, museum directors, curators and art journalists descend on Berlin for the weekend, and the atmosphere is always buzzing, not formal and stuffy.

You can find the official Gallery Weekend Berlin site here.

What’s New in 2026: Perspectives

The headline addition to this year’s programme is Perspectives, a brand-new rotating sector designed to shine a light on Berlin’s broader gallery landscape. Seven galleries have been selected for the inaugural edition, each presenting an ambitious, distinctive exhibition project. Here’s what to look out for:

• max goelitz presents a light intervention by James Turrell: always an incredible experience.
• Haverkampf Leistenschneider shows new paintings by Katherine Bradford, whose atmospheric, figure-meets-abstraction canvases have been gaining well-deserved international attention.
• Anton Janizewski hosts a site-specific installation by Jiyoon Chung.
• Mountains presents sculptural work by Shinoh Nam.
• Persons Projects stages a fascinating dialogue between Karl Benjamin’s Hard-Edge painting and the early conceptual photography of Grey Crawford.
• Walter Storms Galerie brings a focused selection by the Italian artist Giorgio Griffa
• Shahin Zarinbal closes out the Perspectives lineup with a cross-media presentation by Mark Barker.

Must-See Shows

With over 80 artistic positions on show, the main programme is rich. A few names and shows worth circling on your map:

• Neue Nationalgalerie welcomes ‘Regular Animals” by Beeple.
• Monty Richthofen presents at Dittrich Schlechtriem
• Göksu Kunak presets ‘Remains’ at Ebensperger.
• Esther Schipper presents Tauba Auerbach and Celeste Rapone: two artists with very different practices, both worth the visit.
• Sprüth Magers brings together Thomas Demand, Robert Elfgen and Martine Syms, a strong trio.
• Konrad Fischer Galerie presents a solo by Daniel Buren.
• neugerriemschneider features Jorge Pardo, Pae White and a group exhibition titled perceptual territories – cut, split, layered across their two locations.
• ChertLüdde has Petrit Halilaj, one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art right now, alongside the late Robert Rehfeldt.
• Bastian focuses on Max Liebermann: a historical counterpoint among a programme that skews boldly contemporary.

Beyond The Galleries

Guide To Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026

what to see this weekend, in a handy kiez by kiez guide

Mitte

Monty Richthofen: ‘Hard 2 4Get’

Dittrich & Schlechtriem present new works by Monty Richthofen. HARD 2 4GET begins at their new space at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, before spreading out through the city over the weekend, with temporary interventions at the Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Victory Column and Strausberger Platz. The project was inspired by the artist’s ongoing research into the unofficial inscriptions applied to military equipment and aircraft, transforming them into new poetic compositions.

• Opening & Performance: May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until May 3, 2026
• Dittrich & Schlechtriem | Linienstraße 40 10119 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Jiyoon Chung: ‘Dead End’

Anton Janizewski presents Dead End, Jiyoon Chung’s first exhibition in Berlin. Dead End explores the idea of “crisis-ordinariness”: the ordinariness of crises. Through a variety of visual triggers, Chung aims to disrupt the familiar rhythm of everyday life. The exhibition explores the expectation of insecurity and feelings of unease.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Galerie Anton Janizewski | Weydingerstraße 10, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Shinoh Nam: ‘A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds’

With ‘A Guide to the Interior for a House on Ambiguous Grounds’, Shinoh Nam presents a body of work which reflects on the contradictions of progress and identity. Via sculptures, installations, and two-dimensional works, the works straddle the lines between construction and collapse, and the functional and the personal. Nam’s artistic practice challenges architecture’s utopian promises as well as the social ideologies embedded within material form.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026
• Mountains | Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Weydingerstraße 6, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Heimo Zobernig: new works (Hamlet total abstract)

Heimo Zobernig takes a new exploration of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Zobernig’s Hamlet painting are displayed alongside IKEA Billy bookcase sculptures made of solid cast aluminum. Through this work, Zobernig invites the ghosts of Hamlet on stage alongside the art.

• Opening May 1 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Nagel Draxler | Weydingerstraße 2-4, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Huang Rui: 《89》Ink-stained books

Nagel Draxler Kabinett presents Huang Rui ‘1989 – ink-stained books’, a solo show adressing 1989 in Beijing and Berlin. Inspired by the crumbling Berlin wall and the 1989 protests in Beijing, China, ‘Ink-stained books’ explores the concept of a wall, which although large, becomes almost invisible.

• Opening May 1 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Nagel Draxler Kabinett | Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 33, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Robert Elfgen: ‘utopisch’

Sprüth Magers presents a solo exhibition by Robert Elfgen. In ‘utopisch’, Elfgen explores the relationship between humankind and nature through a distinctly poetic lens. His collages, light objects and floor- and wall- pieces are room-filling installations that unfold like immersive paintings.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until August 1, 2026
• Sprüth Magers | Oranienburger Str. 18, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas & Haegue Yang: perceptual territories – cut, split, layered

‘perceptual territories – cut, split, layered’ brings together the works of three artists: Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas and Haegue Yang to deconstruct prevailing narratives of reality using historical, political and subjective precedents. They use various methods like subverting geometry, fragmenting the quotidian and navigating sound through form, to ground the viewer in time and space. Together, these experiments cast the world in a new light.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until August 15, 2026
• neugerriemschneider | Linienstrasse 155, 10115 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Jorge Pardo

For Gallery Weekend, neugerriemschneider presents Jorge Pardo’s twelfth solo exhibition with the gallery. In this presentation, Pardo continues his career experimentation of sculpting, transposing, and filtering a wealth of source material into new paintings. In addition, sculptural loudspeakers play a densely populated soundtrack while a series of suspended light works highlight the collection.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 20, 2026
• neugerriemschneider | Linienstrasse 155, 10115 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Pae White: ‘pushmi-pullyu’

pushmi-pullyu is Pae White’s seventh solo exhibition with neugerriemschneider. The exhibition features an elaborate cosmos of creatures, including crabs, snails, flies, butterflies and other bugs, displayed in resin threads, textile in relief, or ceramic.
The new works represent White’s career of the investigation of traditional materials and crafts as well as her desire to expand their possibilities.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until August 8, 2026
• neugerriemschneider | Christinenstrasse 18 – 19, 10119 Prenzlauer Berg | Map
• More info here.

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Rodney McMillian: ‘In Other Realms’

Capitain Petzel presents Rodney McMillan’s ‘In Other Realms’. Los Angeles-based McMillan is known for his multidisciplinary practice, which includes painting, sculpture, installation, and performance. Addressing themes of race, labor and social inequality, McMillan uses found objects (like blankets and tarps) to create powerful statements about care, survival, and political resistance.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026  
• Capitain Petzel | Karl-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Juan Pablo Echeverri: ‘Works’

For Gallery Weekend 2026, Klemm’s presents ‘Works” a solo exhibition focusing on two decades of the work of Juan Pablo Echeverri (1978-2022). The exhibition focuses on a vast array of both still and moving images, which defined Echeverri’s practice. The show highlights the precision, variety, and consistency of a legacy rooted in the “grid” format.

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Klemm’s | Leipziger Str. 57/58, 10117 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Philipp Gufler: ‘Imitations of Paul’

In ‘Imitations of Paul’, Philipp Guflter explores the biography of long-marginalized painter Paul Hoecker. After a controversy over a Madonna painting in 1898, Hoecker’s work remains a bit forgotten. In this exhibition, Guffler approaches Hoecker’s biography through artistic identification. In this show, textile and ceramic works explore how new forms and narratives can emerge from archival fragments.

• Opening May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until July 4, 2026
• BQ | Weydingerstraße 10, 10178 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Simon Mullan: ‘Intermorior’

Gallery Gudmundsdottir opens their private bunker location for Gallery Weekend, showing a two-channel video work by Simon Mullan. The film focuses on the “Wheel of Death”: a ritualistic fairground act involving knife throwers. The artwork is available to watch by appointment only.

• Opening Saturday, May 2, 11-17
• Exhibition until 16 June 16, 2026
• Gallery Gudmundsdottir Bunker | 10178 Mitte
• More info & bookings here.

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Marieta Chirulescu

Galeria PLAN B presents the second solo exhibition of Marieta Chirulescu. In these works, Chirulescu deepens her exploration of image instability, reproduction, and erasure. Through a mix of painting, collage, and printmaking, she explores idea imagery as the inspiration for paint.

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until May 30, 2026
• Galeria PLAN B | Strausberger Pl. 1, 10243 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Daniel Buren: Trois en Un, hauts-reliefs, travaux situés / Drei in Einem, Hochreliefs, Arbeiten in Situ

Konrad Fischer Galerie presents new works by renowned French artist Daniel Buren. Buren has created a distinctive visual language based on his characteristic 8.7 cm-wide vertical stripes. This site specific work explores the relationship between art, the viewer and the gallery.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until August 1, 2026
• Konrad Fischer Galerie | Neue Grünstraße 12, 10179 Mitte | Map
• More info here.

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Lina Lapelytė: ‘We Make Years Out of Hours’

For Gallery Weekend, Hamburger Bahnhof presents the second annual CHANEL Commission in the Historic Hall. Lithuanian Artist Lina Lapelytė has transformed the space into a dynamic and collective installation consisting of sound and shared action. Constructed with over 400,000 timber cubes, the exhibition invites visitors to become active participants, by building and dismantling the ever-evolving landscape.

• Opening Thursday, April 30, 19:00
• Exhibition until January 10, 2027
• Hamburger Bahnhof | Invalidenstraße 50, 10557 Moabit | Map
• More info here.

Schöneberg

Beeple: ‘Regular Animals’

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the interactive installation “Regular Animals” by famed NFT -digital artist Beeple. The installation features autonomous robotic dogs with hyper-realistic heads of globally recognizable figures, which roam freely and transform AI-processed data into printed images, released directly into your hands.

• Opening Tuesday, April 28, 18:00, artist talk 18-19:00
• Exhibition April 29-May 10
• Neue Nationalgalerie | Potsdamer Str. 50, 10785 Tiergarten | Map
• Free admission.

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Giorgio Griffa: ‘Retrospettiva’

Walter Storms Galerie has represented Giorgio Griffa since 1980. Griffa is considered one of the most significant painters of our time and in ‘Retrospettiva’ showcases Griffa’s signature use of lines, places dots, and writes numbers and texts on unprimed fabric, linen, or cotton, fixing the canvases directly to the wall with fine needles, without stretcher frames.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Walter Storms Galerie | Potsdamer Str. 81A, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Petrit Halilaj: Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!’

ChertLüdde presents Petrit Halilaj’s ‘Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!’ — an exhibition that focuses on Halilaj’s open-air opera, staged in June 2025 in Kosovo. Shortly before the opera’s premiere, some of the artist’s storage containers were broken into and defaced with hate speech. This exhibition shares the vandalized containers with the public for the first time and tells the journey of the artists to replace what was lost in only a few days time.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00, Live musical concert at 19:00
• Exhibition until July 25, 2026
• Chertludde | Hauptstraße 18, 10827 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Simon Fujiwara: ‘Who’s Spiritual Journey?’
Thomias Radin: ‘Echoes of Ka’

• Esther Schipper | via lift or stairs, Potsdamer Str. 81e/Top floor / Obergeschoss, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Lukas Quietzsch: ‘the appeal of individualism’

Schiefe Zähne presents Lukas Quietzsch’s third solo-presentation. Quietzsch explores dualistic tension in his works: affirmation and negation, uniqueness and uniformity, authenticity and performativity. In ‘the appeal of individualism’, these tensions dissolve through multi-perspectival, spectral compositions.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 12, 2026
• Schiefe Zähne | Potsdamer Str. 103/2. Floor, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Jorinde Voigt: ‘Non-Fiction’

Galerie Judin presents Jorinde Voigt’s ‘Non-Fiction’. Voigt works primarily on paper, using numbers, symbols, diagrams, and texts to map the underlying structures of experience. These works offer us a look at the rhythmic way we perceive and move through the world.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Galerie Judin | Mercator Höfe I Potsdamer Str. 83, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Adam Lupton: ‘Too Sure of the Sun’

Working with a restrained palette of just red and blue, Adam Lupton creates quiet scenes that pulse with intensity. HIs cinematic paintings evoke solitude and longing, capturing the inner world of a generation in constant self-reflection.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 14, 2026
• Galerie Judin | Die Tankstelle | Bülowstraße 18, 10783 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Adam Gordon: ‘Months Turn to Years’

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until July 4, 2026
• Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi | Schöneberger Ufer 61, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Antonio Ballester Moreno: ‘SUN’

Antonio Ballester Moreno is known for his distinctive visuals which are rooted in the symbolism of nature. In ‘SUN’, stars, suns, vegetation and water appear in vivid reds, blues, greens and yellows, forming a universe of elemental shapes and primary color. The works balance abstraction with references to craft and folklore, and reimagine landscape as both image and contemplative space.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 20, 2026
• Tanya Leighton | Kurfürstenstraße 25, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Elisa Giardina Papa: ‘A Naked-Eye Blue’

Elisa Giardina Papa’s ‘A Naked-Eye Blue’ explores the tale of a Mediterranean island that emerged and disappeared from the sea. In 1831 underwater volcanic eruption between Tunisia and Sicily gave birth to an island, and in turn sparked a violent sovereignty dispute among European powers. But the island vanished only six months later. These works explore both history and speculation, and meditate on the temporary potential of an island that refused to be annexed.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until May 30, 2026
• Galerie Tanja Wagner | Pohlstraße 64, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Miriam Umiń & Josefine Reisch: By Proxy

‘By Proxy’, an exhibition by Miriam Umiń and Josefine Reisch, addresses the dynamics within projections of femininity and standardization. Both artists playfully analyze infrastructural and representative mechanisms within visual culture.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Galerie Noah Klink | Kulmer Str. 17, 10783 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: ‘Georgia’

Galerie Molitor presents the second solo exhibition by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili. In ‘Georgia’, Alexi-Meskhishvili uses photography as an expanded, process-oriented medium. She moves between analogue and digital techniques, creatingemporary arrangements that resist fixed readings.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Molitor | Kurfürstenstraße 143, 10785 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

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Candice Breitz: ‘Hot Potato’

‘Hot Potato’ is a new performance work from Candice Breitz. Breitz reflects on the city’s history with bears. Bears once roamed free here, before being trapped or trained to dance on command. Breitz uses this history to reflect on the state of politics in Germany and beyond, particularly the fraught relationship between artists and the authorities.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Saturday May 2 11-18:00
• Sunday May 3 11-18:00
• KOW | Frobenstraße 1, 10783 Schöneberg | Map
• More info here.

Charlottenburg

Katherine Bradford: ‘Alltag’

Haverkampf Leistenschneider presents Katherine Bradford’s “Alltag’. Skillfully combining the traditions of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting with contemporary questions of identity and gender, Bradford depicts her figures in dreamlike and otherworldly settings devoid of spatial perspective, like outer space or the sea. Her works balance atmospheric, metaphorical power with playful engagement with emotion and humor.

• Opening Friday May 1 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Haverkampf Leistenschneider | Mommsenstraße 67, 10629 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.
• The artist will be present at the opening.

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Yuji Agematsu

Galerie Buchholz presents the first exhibition by Yuji Agematsu in Germany. The exhibitions premieres a new work: a series of projected 35mm photographs Agematsu shot on the streets of Marseille in 1994. It will also feature a year of “zips”: tiny devotional sculptures Agematsu creates out the detritus of New York city streets. Agematsu has created one zip every day since 1996, and this collection features 366 of them.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until July 25, 2026
• Galerie Buchholz | Fasanenstraße 30, 10719 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Willi Baumeister: ‘Rudolf Belling’

Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner is celebrating 35 years of presence in Berlin. To mark the occasion, they present a new exhibition of paintings by Willi Baumeister and sculpture by Rudolf Belling, including his three iconic works “Dreiklang”, “Organische Formen” and “Skulptur 23”.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 20, 2026
• Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner | Fasanenstraße 72, 10719 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili: ‘Georgia’

• Opening Friday May 1 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Molitor | Kurfürstenstraße 143, 10785 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Caroline Bachmann: ‘Der See und die Sonne’

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026
• Meyer Riegger | Schaperstraße 14, 10719 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Slawomir Elsner: ‘What No Longer Carries Us’

For Gallery Weekend 2026, Galerie Friese presents Slawomir Elsner’s first solo exhibition “What No Longer Carries Us”. Elsner’s work is centered on abstract watercolours and figurative coloured pencil drawings that transform images from art history and collective memory. The exhibition focuses on the horse as a symbol of historical and symbolic meaning, referencing historical works from Manet to Raphael to Franz Marc.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Klaus Gerrit Friese | Meierottostraße 1, 10719 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Markus Lüpertz: Markus Lüpertz oder die Überwindung der Moderne

To celebrate, Markus Lüpertz’s 85th birthday Galerie Michael Werner presents a jubilee exhibition. “Die Überwindung der Moderne” (The Overcoming of Modernism) showcases his recent works, depicting mythological motifs and figural gesture, with his signature interrogation of painting itself.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Michael Werner | Hardenbergstraße 9A, 10623 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Sophie von Hellermann: Letters to a young painter

In ‘Letters to a young painter’, Sophie von Hellermann combines her interests in history, mythology, literature and film. These diverse narrative threads are woven together in a spontaneous painting style, without sketches or preliminary drawings. Explore her works as “fleeting dream images.”

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Wentrup | Knesebeckstraße 95, 10623 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Vivien Zhang: ‘Field Conditions’

Galerie Max Hetzler presents Vivien Zhang’s inaugural exhibition their gallery in Berlin. ‘Field Conditions’ is a collection of new paintings and works on paper. Drawing on personal and collective experience, Zhang tackles the topics of migration, technology, and the natural world in her distinctive visual practice. Using diverse source material—from world map projections to mathematical forms to the classifications of plants and butterflies—Zhang challenges established modes of perception and understanding.

• Opening Thursday April 30, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Max Hetzler | Goethestraße 2-3, 10623 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

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Sam Pulitzer: ‘For Sure’

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 14, 2026
• Galerie Lars Friedrich | Meierottostraße 1, 10719 Charlottenburg | Map
• More info here.

Kreuzberg

James Turrell: ‘sensing fields’

To celebrate Gallery Weekend 2026, max goelitz presents a solo exhibition by James Turrell that will unfold over several monoths. Since the 1960s, Turrell’s has explored the relationship between light, space, and perception. For the first time in Berlin, ‘sensing fields’ will display a work from Turrell’s glass series.

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until May 30, 2026
• max goelitz | Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 26, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Mark Barker: ‘Whole Property’

Shahin Zarinbal presents Mark Barker’s ‘Whole Property’. In this exhibition, Barker explores how bodily needs are controlled and delineated. Using motifs of fenced enclosures, houses, and toilets, these works take a look at private situations where the body tries and fails to contain itself: where need become unavoidable.

• Opening Friday May 1 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026
• Shahin Zarinbal | Muskauer Str. 24/2. HH, 3 OG, 10997 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Karl Benjamin & Grey Crawford: ‘Geometry of Light’

Karl Benjamin and Grey Crawford are both artists rooted in Southern California. Sharing a common visual language of geometry and abstraction, ‘Geometry of Light’ showcases Benjamin’s paintings alongside Crawford’s colorful photography. The exhibition explores a dialogue between two generations of California artists, tracing how Benjamin’s legacy extended beyond painting to shape new forms of conceptual image-making.

• Opening Friday May 1 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Persons Projects | Lindenstraße 35, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Göksu Kunak: ‘Remains’

Performance artist Göksu Kunak takes over Ebensperger, starting on Gallery Weeekend. ‘REMAINS’ transforms the space through bodies, gestures, and time, with performers marking the space via movement, exhaustion, presence, and disappearance.

• Opening Friday, May 1 16-21:00, THE VOID Performance at 20:00
• Performances: May 2, 14:00 THE VOID, May 23 DRAWINGS, June 13 CIRCLES, June 14 screening & talk, June 20 20:00 DELERIUM
• Exhibition until June 28, 2006
• Ebensperger | Fichtestraße 6, 10967 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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John Zurier: ‘along — between‘

For Gallery Weekend, Galerie Nordenhake presents John Zurier’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. In ‘along-between’, Zurier continues his exploration of nature through abstraction with a series of new paintings. These often-monochromatic canvases unfold as dreamlike visions of landscapes and stillness, summoning the qualities of the natural world through mark-making and materiality and inviting a quiet contemplation of how perception, memory and emotion intertwine.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Nordenhake | Lindenstraße 34, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Camilla Steinum: ‘Perception Spot’  

Soy Capitán presents Camilla Steinum’s ‘Perception Spot’. In this exhibition, Steinum combines installations, sculptures and mirror works that reframe our relationship to uncertainty as bodily experience: the moment in which meaning arises and slips away again. The audience is invited to contemplate: what do people do when people are absent?

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026
• Soy Capitán | Lindenstraße 34, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Bernd Koberling: Rooted In Time Rooted In The Sky, Paintings 1992–2026

Buchmann Galerie presents an exhibition of works by Bernd Koberling, one of the most important and influential figures of German postwar art. ‘Rooted In Time Rooted In The Sky’ focusees on large scale canvases from 1992 to the present: an extensive series of watercolors characterized by intense color, broad gestural sweeps, and a consistent commitment to abstraction.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 20, 2026
• Buchmann Galerie | Charlottenstraße 13, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.
• The artist will be present for the opening.

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Farkhondeh Shahroundi: ‘Gülbin Ünlü Almost Ünlü’

Galerie Barbara Thumm presents an exploration of the works of Farkhondeh Shahroudi, an Iranian visual artist and poet who has lived in exile in Germany since 1990, mostly in Berlin. The exhibition displays interdisciplinary works of painting, drawing, installation, photography, and performance, focusing on themes of self-location, language, memory, migration, and cultural translation.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 27, 2026
• Galerie Barbara Thumm | Markgrafenstraße 68, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Nida Sinnokrot: ‘Above Ground Below’

For Berlin Gallery Weekend, carlier | gebauer presents a solo exhibition by conceptual Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot consisting of two works. ‘Above Ground Below’ focuses on ‘Rubber-Coated Rocks’: sculptures made from stones, discarded footballs, and materials gathered near Palestinian checkpoints. In contrast, ‘Water Witness’ focuses on infrastructure by combining ceramic vessels, steel pipes, and irrigation valves in order to evoke systems of flow, storage, and control.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until August 29, 2026
• carlier | gebauer | Markgrafenstraße 67, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Luis in friendly company

carlier | gebauer is also showing the group show: ‘Luis in friendly company’, which originally exhibited at their location in Madrid for Apertura 2025. The exhibition takes a playful journey through the distinct stages of life and forms of expression. The works are filled with entertaining encounters with fictional travel companions and creative accomplices, all through drawing.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 20, 2026
• carlier | gebauer | Markgrafenstraße 67, 10969 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Brook Hsu: ‘The Barcelona Pavilion’ (Including work by Georg Kolbe)

Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler presents ‘The Barcelona Pavilion’ by Brook Hsu. Hsu showcases a new collection of paintings, drawings and photographs centered on the story of a building that was conceived to be destroyed and a woman living through the loss of a child. The exhibition also features Georg Kolbe’s bronze sculpture, Nacht from 1930.

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler | Regina-Jonas-Str. 41/43, 10999 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

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Stella Zhong

For Gallery Weekend 2026, Trautwein Herleth presents a solo exhibition by Stella Zhong. The exhibition is the first at the gallery and her first solo exhibition in Germany. Through installation, sculpture, video and painting, Zhong crafts environments that oscillate vastly in scale and approachability, inviting viewers to feel those changes in perception and comprehension.

• Opening May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until June 13, 2026
• Trautwein Herleth | Regina-Jonas-Str. 41/43, 10999 Kreuzberg | Map
• More info here.

Moabit

Anne Duk Hee Jordan: ‘Riders on the Storm’

alexander levy presents Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. ‘Riders on the Storm” offers a multisensory environment which considers ecosystems as dynamic yet interwoven processes. Shifting the focus away from the human perspective, Duk Hee Jordan creates a broder ecological continuum which juxtaposes robotic agency with organic cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-22:00
• Exhibition until June 6, 2026
• alexander levy | Alt-Moabit 110, 10559 Moabit | Map
• More info here.

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Christiane Löhr: ‘Soffuso;=’

Levy presents the first solo exhibition of Christiane Lohr at the gallery. In ‘Soffuso;=’, Löhr creates a distinctive sculptural and installation-based universe using materials sourced from nature. Using winged seeds, plant stems, burs, tree blossoms, and animal hair, the works evoke architectures, landscapes, or vessels.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until July 17. 2026
• Levy Galerie | Alt-Moabit 110, 10559 Moabit | Map
• More info here.

Dahlem

Max Liebermann: ‘A Key to the Garden’

At age 62, Max Liebermann built a summer house on the shores of Lake Wannsee with a garden designed with Alfred Lichtwark. Later on, its garden became a central motif of his works. In ‘A Key to the Garden’, Liebermann showcases subtle, luminous nature compositions, which explore light and color.

• Opening Friday May 1, 18-21:00
• Exhibition until August 1, 2026
• Bastian | Taylorstraße 1, 14195 Dahlem | Map
• More info here.

How to Make the Most of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026

Three days sounds like plenty. It goes fast. A few tips to help you get the most out of it:

Use the full three days. Many galleries extend their opening hours, especially on Friday evening, when the opening night energy is at its peak. Saturday tends to be the busiest day. Sunday is quieter, and often a better time to have an actual conversation at smaller spaces.

Plan by neighbourhood, not by name. The galleries are spread across the city, and if you try to bounce between Charlottenburg and Kreuzberg and back again, you’ll spend half your weekend on the U-Bahn.

Don’t skip the smaller spaces. The big-name galleries are unmissable, but some of the most memorable experiences at Gallery Weekend tend to happen in the quieter rooms: a single artist, a smaller gallery, a show that hasn’t been hyped on Instagram. Leave room to explore.

Book an Art Walk for one of 11 guided tours led by art historians and experts through the gallery landscape. There’s even a bike tour! Tours are about 1–2.5 hours long, €18 per person, and they’re available in both German and English.

Tips for Making the Most of Your Gallery Weekend

• Check Opening Hours. While most galleries participate throughout the weekend, their specific opening hours might vary. It’s always a good idea to double-check the times on the Gallery Weekend website or the individual gallery’s page.
• Wear Comfortable Shoes. You’ll be walking a lot, even if you take Ubers from kiez to kiez.
• Don’t be afraid to engage and ask questions. The atmosphere is a lot less stuffy than in traditional art fairs, so take advantage.
• Take Breaks. Berlin is huge and it can all get overwhelming. Remember to factor in some time for coffee or a bite to eat.

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Berlin Gallery Weekend | Final Thoughts

Berlin Gallery Weekend 2025 is set to be an unmissable event for anyone interested in contemporary art. It’s a fantastic opportunity to experience the city’s creative energy, discover new artistic talents, and connect with the vibrant art community. Start planning your visit now, and get ready for an inspiring weekend in Berlin!

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