Feb. 3, 2026
This winter, Berlin Art Link shines a spotlight on international exhibitions and events with our list of Top Exhibitions. We want to highlight artists, galleries, museums and new projects touching on a variety of topics, employing multiple media and featuring diverse subjects. Below are some of the stand-outs that we’ve selected running through the months of January, February and March.
Museum of West African Art
Group Show: ‘Nigeria Imaginary: Homecoming’
Exhibition: Nov. 11, 2025-Apr. 11, 2026
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1 Benin Sapele Rd, Oka, Benin City 300102, Edo, Nigeria, click here for map
The Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is hosting ‘Nigeria Imaginary: Homecoming,’ a thoughtfully curated exhibition by Aindrea Emelife. Building on the success of Nigeria’s 60th Venice Biennale Pavilion, the show features four distinctive artists—Kelani Abass, Modupeola Fadugba, Ngozi-Omeje Ezema and Isaac Emokpae—whose work explores memory, mythology and social transformation. The exhibition brings together immersive installations, newly commissioned pieces and archival materials to create a rich exploration of Nigeria’s past, present and future. Set in MOWAA’s brand-new research and conservation wing, the exhibition reflects the museum’s broader vision: to preserve and celebrate heritage, innovation and community voices in West African art.
Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) // © Marco Cappelletti / Marco Cappelletti Studio
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Group Show: ‘For All At Last Return’
Exhibition: Nov. 8, 2025-June 7, 2026
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S Shore Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne, Gateshead NE8 3BA, UK, click here for map
‘For All At Last Return’ at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art features sculpture, video, photography and installations by artists working at the intersection of art and ecology, for whom the health of the ocean is an enduring concern. Featuring works by Monira Al Qadiri, Shezad Dawood, Joan Jonas, Otobong Nkanga and Emilija Škarnulytė, among others, this major group exhibition thematically journeys across the globe. In highlighting the impact of human activity on marine biodiversity, from the coral reefs of the South Pacific to the rocky shores of the North Atlantic, the artists—many of whom have collaborated with marine biologists and oceanographers—encourage us to reimagine our relationship with these fragile environments and their non-human inhabitants. Drawing attention to the issues that threaten marine ecosystems, their works reflect on the ocean as a site of colonization, extraction, resistance and regeneration.
Otobong Nkanga: ‘Tied to the Other Side,’ 2021, installation view, ‘For All At Last Return’ at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead // Photo by Colin Davison, © 2025 Baltic
Tramway
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊: ‘•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•’
Exhibition: Nov. 15, 2025-Aug. 16, 2026
tramway.org
25 Albert Dr, Glasgow G41 2PE, UK, click here for map
Rae-Yen Song’s multidisciplinary practice centers on world-building informed by ancestral mythology, Daoism, diasporic futurism, family ritual, more-than-human politics and science fact-fiction. At Tramway, Song transforms the gallery into a sub-aquatic world that functions as a spectacle, a memorial and a refuge. Drawing on fragmented family histories, the exhibition is anchored by the figure of tua mak—the artist#s ancestor who drowned at sea as a child—and imagines life as cyclical, dispersed and continually transforming. Sculptural, textile, sonic and moving-image works are woven into the body of an immense, ethereal creature that fills the space. Its tentacles form walkable passageways that lead to a living pond transported to the gallery from the Song family home. Through performances, ritual objects and communal gatherings, the exhibition becomes a site for imagining alternative ways of being, grounded in care, kinship and transformation.
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊: ‘•~TUA~• 大眼 •~MAK~•,’ exhibition view at Tramway, Glasgow, 2025-26 // Photo by Keith Hunter, courtesy of Tramway
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Julian Charriere: ‘Midnight Zone’
Exhibition: Mar. 14-July 12, 2026
kunstmuseum.de
Hollerpl. 1, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany, click here for map
Bridging the realms of environmental science and cultural history, Julian Charrière’s multidisciplinary practice is marked by immersive projects grounded in fieldwork within ecologically and symbolically charged sites. Through intimate encounters with fragile environments, he explores how human activity inscribes itself into the fabric of the planet. In his largest solo exhibition to date at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, the artist presents an extensive artistic exploration of water. Beyond sensual and metaphorical associations, the show highlights urgent political and ecological issues, including human-made global water pollution, the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps due to climate change, and the growing threat posed by deep-sea mining to the seabed. The title, ‘Midnight Zone,’ refers to a term used by scientists to describe the area of the ocean that, at depths of 1,000 meters or more, is completely devoid of sunlight. This extreme and vast ecosystem is the focus of Charrière’s current artistic work.
Julian Charrière: ‘The Blue Fossil Entropic Stories III,’ 2013, archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper, 160 × 240cm // Courtesy of Dittrich & Schlechtriem, © the artist / VG Bild-Kunst 2026
Barbican Centre
Lynda Benglis: ‘Encounters: Giacometti’
Exhibition: Feb. 12-May 31, 2026
barbican.org.uk
Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS, UK, click here for map
This exhibition brings together works by contemporary artist Lynda Benglis and 20th-century sculptor Alberto Giacometti for the first time, as part of the third ‘Encounters: Giacometti.’ Benglis presents previously unseen works alongside a selection of Giacometti’s sculptures, creating a dialogue across generations. The pairing highlights contrasts and connections between Benglis’ playful, visceral and abstract forms and Giacometti’s iconic elongated figures that explore the human form. This show is the final iteration in the ‘Encounters: Giacometti’ series, which pairs the work of three contemporary artists known for their originality and ingenuity with historic sculptures by the Swiss artist. The previous artists presented in the series were Huma Bhabha and Mona Hatoum.
Lynda Benglis: ‘Young Prince,’ 2020, cast sparkles on handmade paper over chicken wire, handmade paper, 95.9 cm × 39.1 cm × 31.1 cm // © 2025 Lynda Benglis, VAGA at ARS, NY and DACS, London
Museo de Arte de Zapopan
Tino Sehgal
Exhibition: Nov. 30, 2025-Mar. 1, 2026
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Prol. 20 De Noviembre 166, centro historico, 45100 Zapopan, Jal., Mexico, click here for map
The MAZ presents a new work conceived specifically for the Andador 20 de Noviembre, the pedestrian passage linking MAZ and EstaciónMAZ, as part of Tino Sehgal’s ongoing exhibition at EstaciónMAZ and based on ‘These associations,’ originally commissioned by Tate Modern in 2012. In November 2025, MAZ inaugurated Sehgal’s first solo exhibition in Mexico at EstaciónMAZ, featuring ‘Kiss, Kiss (clean version)’ and ‘yet untitled.’ Sehgal, a Berlin-based artist of German and Indian descent, is internationally recognized for his radical practice of “constructed situations,” which replaces object-based art with live, ephemeral encounters between participants and visitors, emphasizing human interaction, active participation and lived experience while remaining deeply informed by classical ideas of form, composition, space and the histories of dance, painting and sculpture.
Courtesy of MAZ Museum
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Group Show: ‘For The Time Being’
Exhibition: Dec. 12, 2025-Mar. 31, 2026
kochimuzirisbiennale.org
Various Venues, Kochi & Muziris, India
The sixth edition of the Kochi Biennale, India’s first and largest exhibition of contemporary art, is now underway. Beginning with Kochi as a historic port city connecting once-distant worlds, the exhibition opens a dialogue with new global perspectives, grounded in the understanding that the world is constantly shifting and that we shape its history in the process. Titled ‘For the Time Being,’ this year’s edition moves away from the idea of a biennale as a singular event, and instead envisions it as a living ecosystem, placing the friendship economies that have nurtured artist-led initiatives as the scaffolding of the exhibition. Curated by Nikhil Chopra with HH Art Spaces, the Biennale spans a diverse set of mediums and disciplines, with talks, film programs, workshops and residencies alongside the main exhibition.
Sandra Mujinga: ‘Remember Me,’ 2025, sculptural installation, KMB 2025-26 // Courtesy of the Kochi Biennale Foundation
Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale
Group Show: ‘In Interludes and Transitions’
Exhibition: Jan.30-May 2, 2026
biennale.org.sa
2598 Muhammad Ibn Rashid Al Uraini, Al Diriyah Al Jadidah, 7120, Riyadh 13732, Saudi Arabia, click here for map
The third edition of the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale titled ‘In Interludes and Transitions,’ explores the movements, migrations and transformations connecting the Arab region with the world. This year’s Biennale proposes to rethink the world through a series of processions that entangle humans with planetary, multi-species, spiritual and technological currents. Its title draws from a colloquial Arabic phrase invoking the cycles of encampments and journeys in nomadic communities in the Arabian Peninsula. Led by Artistic Directors Nora Razian and Sabih Ahmed, the biennale presents works by artists, musicians, filmmakers, architects and writers to evoke connection and continuity and resilience in times of uncertainty. Over 70 artists from across the world will take part in the biennale, their practices spanning sound, performance, moving image, architecture and research—converging to explore how stories, sounds and movements travel across time and place.
Nordatlantens Brygge
Egill Sæbjörnsson: ‘My Friend The Art’
Exhibition: Feb. 7-June 7, 2026
nordatlantens.dk
Strandgade 91, 1401 Copenhagen, Denmark, click here for map
Reimagining the relationship between humans and art as a form of friendship, Egill Sæbjörnsson’s exhibition ‘My Friend the Art,’ explores a dimension in which the boundaries between living and non-living objects are dissolved. He imagines art as a form of evolutionary life—an Object Species developing alongside humanity—where care, sensory experience and participation are central. Featuring monumental colored pencils, seemingly classical white sculptures with animated surfaces and floral reliefs activated and colored by luminous projections, the exhibition communicates how art is capable of generating joy and new ways of relating to the world in the same way humans do, emerging as a force in co-creation rather than a medium for consumption.
Egill Sæbjörnsson: ‘My Friend The Art,’ exhibition poster // Courtesy of the artist
Bundeskunsthalle
Peter Hujar: ‘Eyes Open in the Dark’
Exhibition: Feb. 27-Aug. 23, 2026
bundeskunsthalle.de
Helmut-Kohl-Allee 4, 53113 Bonn, Germany, click here for map
Gropius Bau
Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes: ‘Persistence of Vision’
Exhibition: Mar. 19-June 28, 2026
gropiusbau.de
Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin, Germany, click here for map
‘Persistence of Vision,’ at Gropius Bau opens an intergenerational dialogue on photography, bringing together the works of Peter Hujar and contemporary photographer Liz Deschenes. Hujar focused primarily on black and white portrait photography, capturing rawness and depth in a time of unique vulnerability and transformation. A central figure in New York throughout the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Hujar’s photographs offer an intimate look inside the social and sexual changes that defined the decades. Hujar died in 1987 of AIDS-related complications, underscoring the urgency and sensitivity present throughout his work. Complemented by Liz Deschenes’ contemporary work creating sculptures and non-representational photographic works, the exhibition proposes a broadened concept of photography and highlights the clarity of vision that shapes both artists’ practices. Overlapping with the show at Gropius Bau, works by Hujar’s will also be shown at Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, in an exhibition titled ‘Eyes Open in the Dark.’ The show focuses on Hujar’s work since the 1970s and reflects his exploration of the possibilities of relationships within rigid frameworks. It was curated by Hujar’s biographer John Douglas Millar and his friend Gary Schneider, in close collaboration with the photographer’s estate.
Peter Hujar: ‘Beauregard and his Dog Pilar (I),’ 1983 // © The Peter Hujar Archive / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026
MAMbo | Villa Delle Rose
Flavio De Marco: ‘Screen Life’
Exhibition: Feb. 1-Mar. 29, 2026
museibologna.it
Via Saragozza, 228/230, 40135 Bologna, Italy, click here for map
Berlin-based artist Flavio de Marco presents his solo exhibition ‘Screen Life,’ curated by Lorenzo Balbi and organized in collaboration with Galleria Studio G7 (Bologna). De Marco’s practice investigates the screen as a new contemporary landscape, moving between various genres of painting: the works traverse figuration and abstraction to represent the experience of space reconfigured by contemporary digital society. The exhibition project, designed specifically for the spaces of Villa delle Rose, spans 26 years of the artist’s career, offering an extensive interpretation of his pictorial research that marks the transition from analog to digital life. In his early canvases dedicated to computer screens, De Marco recognizes the experience of the new contemporary landscape, redefining the perception of reality. Over the years, this space has continued to represent a privileged field of reflection through which to investigate different subjects, ranging from still life to portraiture, pictorial genres in which the experience of reality becomes a projection into an immaterial space. De Marco’s production, including around 70 works, is divided into nine thematic sections: Self-Portrait, Landscape, Horizon, Souvenir, Views, Fiction, Xenia, Virtual Reality, and Avatar.
Flavio de Marco: ‘Paesaggio con veduta (Bologna I),’ 2009, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 298 cm // Courtesy of Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, photo by Ornella de Carlo
