Berlin — Archive

Gordon Matta-Clark. On Site

Five works by Gordon Matta-Clark, one of the most influential artists of the 1970s, shown for the first time in the raw shell of berlin modern during Berlin Art Week 2026.

PERFORM! 2026. The 5th Performance Art Festival of the Neue Nationalgalerie

Berlin Art Week hosts the fifth edition of PERFORM!, centred on Trisha Brown's landmark 1971 work "Walking on the Wall" and the legacy of the Judson Dance movement.

Gilbert Baker: Rainbow Flag

The Rainbow Flag (1978) by Gilbert Baker — now a global icon of the LGBTQ+ movement — is on display at MoMA, New York. Originally fabricated in nylon by Lynn Segerblom and James McNamara.

Glenn Ligon: Double America

A striking 2012 neon work by Glenn Ligon in which the word "AMERICA" appears twice — once with every letter turned to face the wall, and once correctly lit — probing identity and visibility.

Dorothy Iannone: The Berlin Beauties. In Dialogue with Alejandra Pombo Su

A cabinet exhibition pairing Dorothy Iannone's drawing-and-text series "The Berlin Beauties" (1977–78), shown complete for the first time, with works by Alejandra Pombo Su.

Inside Archives. Interventions on Leni Riefenstahl's Nuba Work

Critical interventions on Riefenstahl's Nuba photography

Brancusi

Brancusi's studio, permanently reimagined in Berlin.

Giulia Andreani. Sabotage

Paintings that crack open the myths of official history.

Saâdane Afif. Five Preludes

Afif's first institutional solo show in Berlin

Soft Commons. Textile Positions and Performances at the Dahlem Research Campus

An exhibition exploring textiles as social infrastructure — installations, material experiments, archives, interventions, and performances ask how material can forge relationships and build community.

Photography Tells Sculpture

Sculptures today are encountered more often in photographs than in person. This exhibition explores how photography shapes, mediates, and transforms our perception of three-dimensional art.

The Portrait of the Federal Chancellor. First Presentation of the Official Portrait of Former Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel

Painter Jérémie Queyras has created the official portrait of Angela Merkel, who shaped German politics for 16 years. The work is on public view at the Bode-Museum until October.

100 Best Posters 25. Germany Austria Switzerland

The year's finest poster designs from the D-A-CH region are on display at Kulturforum from June 12 to July 5, 2026, showcasing cutting-edge graphic design.

Wonderfully Wild! Fauna and Flora in Japanese Art

A vibrant survey of animals, birds, and plants in Japanese art from the museum's collection, featuring tigers, monkeys, elephants, and mice across paintings, prints, and ceramics.

Cassirer and the Breakthrough of Impressionism

How Paul Cassirer brought Impressionism to Germany

Many Shades of Grès. Fashion Becomes Art

First German-world retrospective of Madame Gres at Kulturforum

Pewter from the Middle Ages to Art Nouveau

Centuries of European pewter craft at Schloss Köpenick.

New Woman, New Vision. The Bauhaus Photographers

Bold visions from the women photographers of the Bauhaus

ErzählStoff. New Perspectives on Literature

Six exhibits redefine what literature can be

Ghostbuster: Zhong Kui, the Demon Queller. Here to Protect the Family

The myth of Zhong Kui, scholar and demon queller

Federal Ecodesign Prize: Thinking Ahead

30 prize-winning sustainable design projects at the KGM Berlin

This Is All Me! The Christoph Muller Donation IV. Works on Paper and a Life's Work

200 works on paper spanning five centuries of art

Built Community. Göbeklitepe, Taş Tepeler and Life 12,000 Years Ago

Ancient monuments that reshaped our view of early civilization.

Possibilities of an Island. Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf

Two collectors, one vision: thinking in images

Making Kin

A group show on kinship across species and borders.

What We Hold On To

Eleven artists on kinship, queerness, and migration

Heimsuchung: 40 Years of KGM at the Kulturforum

40 years of KGM — a critical anniversary show in Berlin

The Pazzi Conspiracy: Power, Violence and Art in Renaissance Florence

Art and intrigue behind Florence's deadliest conspiracy

Fashion from Paris. The Erika Hoffmann Gift

22 Parisian pieces from the Erika Hoffmann gift

Monet and the Impressionist Cityscape

Monet and the Impressionists reimagine the modern city

Museum in Motion. A Collection for the 21st Century

Ten major works ask what a 21st-century museum should be.

The Ziguangge: Hall of Purple Radiance. Venue, Hall of Fame, and Theater of War

Imperial portraits from the Qianlong Emperor's Hall of Purple Radiance.

Embroidered Gardens: Ottoman Textiles from the Borg Collection

Exquisite Ottoman embroidered textiles at the Pergamon Museum.

Poetics of Encryption

Art that encodes, conceals, and deciphers hidden meaning.

Play it again

An exhibition exploring repetition, performance, and the act of revisiting in contemporary art.

Adventures on the Nile. Prussia and Egyptology 1842–45

Prussia's pioneering Nile expedition that founded Egyptology