Apr. 21, 2026
For its 22nd edition this year, Gallery Weekend Berlin will see 50 participating galleries open their doors to the public and present more than 80 artistic positions and exhibitions at 65 locations, from May 1st to 3rd, 2026. In addition to the main event, gallery spaces, museums and institutions all across the city will also be opening new exhibitions and hosting performances and events alongside the official program. As a peripheral event, Sellerie Weekend is once again helping to cast visibility on the work of independent artists and project spaces. To help you navigate your way through this year’s selection, we have curated our own top picks for the upcoming weekend.
Société
Wynnie Mynerva: ‘Volveré y seré milliones’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr. 30; 6–8pm
Exhibition: Apr. 30-June 27, 2026
societeberlin.com
Wielandstraße 26, 10707 Berlin, click here for map
Building on from their exhibition at Société in November 2025, Wynnie Mynerva will present new paintings and film in their ongoing inquiry into the characterization of love. Previously exploring love as a system of absence and longing, this Gallery Weekend will see Mynerva expand love from a singular romantic feeling to a collective approach in society, a way to interpersonally connect. Contextualizing colonial histories, experiences of migration and sexual liberation, love will be explored in all of its dimensions, a symbol of connection.
Wynnie Mynerva, studio portrait // Photo by Michi de Pichi & Ana Bálcazar
Galerie Thomas Schulte
Walid Raad: ‘Like a rubber rung on a ladder’
Jonathan Lasker: ‘Double Play’
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1; 6–9pm
Exhibition: May 1–June 6, 2026
galeriethomasschulte.com
Charlottenstraße 24, 10117 Berlin, click here for map
‘Double Play’, Galerie Thomas Schulte’s sixth exhibition by artist Jonathan Lasker, explores the juxtaposing states of structure and abstraction. His large-scale, bold paintings from the mid to late 80s will be on display, as well as recent works that capture smaller formats on white backgrounds. The repetitions of the lines, shadows and silhouettes in his work form their own patterns, amplifying the positive and negative spaces. The work is playful and spontaneous, yet simultaneously carefully structured and formatted. Simultaneously, the gallery’s Corner Space and street-facing window will show two installations by artist Walid Raad, titled ‘Like a rubber rung on a ladder.’ The work—consisting of fragmented wall-based elements—will visually connect the interior and exterior of the building.
Jonathan Lasker: ‘Picket,’ 1984, oil on canvas, 137.2 x 182.9 x 3.18 cm // Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Sprüth Magers
Martine Syms: ‘Dominica Publishing, a temporary boutique’
Exhibition: May 2-3, 2026
Thomas Demand
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1; 6–9pm
Exhibition: May 2-Aug. 1, 2026
spruethmagers.com
Wielandstraße 26, 10707 Berlin, click here for map
Sprüth Magers will bring together works by both Thomas Demand and Martine Syms, a combination of Demand’s paper models as well as Syms’ boutique set up, selling merchandise and artworks. Thomas Demand creates paper models that reconstruct historical and political ideas, and since 2025, he works with copper printing as a new technique in his practice. Printing small scale images onto the copper, Demand explores a range of photography, from detailed views of nature to abstract AI generated imagery. The work—occupying a space between sculpture and photography—questions the ways in which we interpret what we see, and how this perception can be influenced or distorted. The artwork, merchandise and publications of Martine Syms will be available to purchase at the Window, Sprüth Mager’s street-facing exhibition space. ‘Dominica Publishing, a temporary Boutique’, will explore Blackness as “a topic, reference, marker and audience in visual culture”, an ongoing inquiry and topic of her work.
Martine Syms: ‘Dominica Publishing: A Boutique,’ 2026 // © Martine Syms
Hamburger Bahnhof
Lina Lapelytė: ‘We Make Years Out of Hours’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr. 30; 7pm
Exhibition: May 1, 2026–Oct. 1, 2027
smb.museum/lina-lapelyte
Invalidenstraße 50–51, 10557 Berlin, click here for map
For the second edition of the CHANEL Commission, Lina Lapelytė’s ‘We Make Years Out of Hours’ will transform Hamburger Bahnhof’s Historic Hall into a polyphonic stage for a participatory choreography. Visitors are invited to actively participate in this large-scale commission, which places the unique architecture of Hamburger Bahnhof at its center. Lapelyte’s works engage trained and untrained performers, often in an act of singing through a wide range of genres, such as mainstream music and opera, with the aim of giving voice to the unacknowledged or the unseen. Her acclaimed opera-performance ‘Sun & Sea,’ co-conceived with artists Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and Vaiva Grainytė for the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019, won the Golden Lion for best international participation that year and was later performed at E-Werk Luckenwalde in July 2021.
Lina Lapelytė: ‘What Happens with a Dead Fish?,’ 2021, Kunstenfestival des Arts Brussels // © Lina Lapelytė / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2025 / Bea Borgers
Gallery Gudmundsdottir
Simon Mullan: ‘Intermorior’
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 2; 11am–4pm
Exhibition: May 2-June 16, 2026
gallerygudmundsdottir.com
Linienstrasse 230A, 10178 Berlin, click here for map
Simon Mullan’s two-channel film ‘Intermorior’ was filmed in Stockholm in 2011 with knife thrower Jesper Nikolajeff. In this work, Mullan places himself on the “Wheel of Death,” acting as both performer and target. The piece intensifies the sense of Mullan’s mortality through the unequal roles of thrower and subject, one controlling danger while the other endures it. The rhythmic impact of knives against the spinning wheel builds suspense, immersing us in the artist’s vulnerability. The ritualized performance evokes fear, masculinity and drama, culminating in a fortunate ending that brings relief, while reflecting Mullan’s ongoing exploration of risk and irreversible thresholds. Mullan will also show his video installation ‘Chronos’ at Studio IIII during Gallery Weekend.
Simon Mullan: ‘Intermorior,’ 2011, 2-channel video, video still // Courtesy of the artist
alexander levy
Anne Duk Hee Jordan: ‘Riders on the Storm’
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1; 6-9pm
Exhibition: May 1-July 18, 2026
alexanderlevy.de
Alt-Moabit 110, 10559 Berlin, click here for map
Alexander Levy will present ‘Riders on the Storm,’ an exhibition by Anne Duk Hee Jordan that explores ecosystems as interconnected operations. Kinetic, machine-like sculptures that contrast robotic imagery with ecological forms of growth and decay are immersed within a multi-sensory environment for the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. Anne Duk Hee Jordan’s work is colorful and playful, while conceptually exploring how natural events unfold synonymously as opposed to in isolation, emphasizing the strong intertwined forces of nature. Her works highlight climate change and the conditions that enable these events to occur.
ChertLüdde
Petrit Halilaj: ‘Who does the earth belong to while painting the wind?!’
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1; 6–9pm
Exhibition: May 2-July 25, 2026
chertluedde.com
Hauptstraße 18, 10827 Berlin, click here for map
This exhibition at ChertLüdde runs alongside Petrit Halilaj’s major presentation at Hamburger Bahnhof. While the museum focuses on his open-air opera staged in Kosovo in June 2025, the gallery centers on its aftermath. Shortly before the opera’s premiere, two of the artist’s storage containers were broken into, defaced with hate speech and Serbian nationalist symbols, and set ablaze. Transported to ChertLüdde, these damaged containers are shown publicly for the first time, reflecting both the memories of Halilaj’s childhood in Kosovo shaped by armed conflict and the unresolved tensions that continue to reverberate across the Balkan region. Additionally, the gallery presents artworks spanning more than a decade of Halilaj’s practice, from pieces originally shown in the eponymous 2012 exhibition at Kunsthalle St. Gallen to newly created works.
Petrit Halilaj: Charred and graffitied steel shipping containers housing ‘Syrigana’ props, Syrigana, 2025 // Photo by Esad Duraki, courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Petrit Halilaj
Galerie Max Hetzler
Vivien Zhang: ‘Field Conditions’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Apr. 30; 6–8pm
Exhibition: Apr. 30-June 27, 2026
maxhetzler.com
Goethestraße 2-3, 10623 Berlin, click here for map
For her inaugural exhibition with Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin, Vivien Zhang presents a new body of paintings and works on paper. Interweaving personal and collective experiences, her practice explores themes of migration, technology and the natural world. Drawing on varied references, from world map projections and mathematical forms to systems of classifying plants and butterflies, she challenges established modes of perception and interpretation within contemporary narratives and visual culture. Informed by her upbringing in China, Kenya and Thailand, as well as her evolving relationship to London where she lives and works, her work reflects on identity, linguistics and the complexities of visual translation in the context of an increasingly globalised digital world. ‘Field Conditions’ probes the boundaries between reality and illusion, original and fake, analog and digital, flatness and depth.
Vivien Zhang: ‘to slip between (Ithomia) I,’ 2026 // © Vivien Zhang, courtesy the artist and Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London | Marfa; photo: Jack Hems
EBENSPERGER
Göksu Kunak: ‘REMAINS’
Opening Reception: Friday, May 1; 6–10pm
Exhibition: May 1-June 28, 2026
ebensperger.net
Fichtebunker, Fichtestraße 6, 10967 Berlin, click here for map
Drawing inspiration from the temporal exhibition format explored by Felix Gonzalez-Torres in his 1991 project ‘Every Week There Is Something Different,’ Göksu Kunak’s exhibition approaches time as a primary material. Rather than presenting a fixed arrangement of works, a temporal structure holding actions, gestures, smells and bodies gradually transforms EBENSPERGER’s bunker space. Using the ephemerality of performance as its primary engine, ‘REMAINS’ explores how immaterial forces condense into matter. Bodybuilders, karate and grappling practitioners, a pole dancer, a suspended performer and a growler activate the space through prolonged physical actions, accompanied by text fragments. These bodies function as kinetic instruments that generate the exhibition’s paintings and drawings: pigment transferred through contact, movement traced through repetition and surfaces marked by strain and gravity.
Göksu Kunak: ‘REMAINS,’ 2026 // © Göksu Kunak, courtesy of EBENSPERGER
Ruinart Champagne & Art Bar
Tadashi Kawamata
Exhibition: Apr. 30–May 3, 2026; 1–9pm
Champagne Tastings: € 40; every day 2pm, 4:30pm & 6pm, book here
ruinart.com/galleryweberlin2026
PalaisPopulaire, Unter den Linden 5, 10117 Berlin, click here for map
From April 30th to May 3rd, the champagne house Ruinart will open their Champagne & Art Bar at PalaisPopulaire during Gallery Weekend Berlin. For this occasion, Ruinart will showcase its collaboration with the Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, who has been given the opportunity to visualize his own interpretation of the Maison with his site-specific installation, as part of the ongoing series ‘Conversations with Nature,’ which invites artists to restore a conscious connection to the natural world. Kawamata’s site-specific installations respond closely to their surroundings, whether natural, urban or architectural. Using wood and recycled materials, he builds delicate, immersive structures that encourage new perspectives on space and landscape. Kawamata’s installation, created exclusively for Ruinart, will form the centerpiece of the Ruinart Art Gallery, where visitors can also experience sustainability-inspired food pairings with the house’s premium champagnes. Guests can also book exclusive tastings with sommelier Pierre Girard.
Tadashi Kawamata // © Ruinart
