Sept. 3, 2026
The 15th edition of Berlin Art Week takes place next week from September 9th to 13th. Annually, Berlin Art Week becomes a platform for Berlin’s most important art institutions to present the latest of the city’s contemporary art scene. This year, the Berlin Art Week Garten will be hosted at the Kulturforum, alongside Neue Nationalgalerie and Gemäldegalerie, where the festival’s hub will offer a variety of workshops and events for locals and visitors alike. On Thursday, the 13th edition of Positions Berlin Art Fair opens at Berlin-Tempelhof Airport, bringing together a mix of national and international galleries, presenting both emerging artists and established names. In the evening, around 50 galleries across the city will host exhibition openings as part of Gallery Night.
To serve as a guide during these intense, art-filled days, we’ve compiled a list to highlight some of the most anticipated and exciting exhibitions and events. To help you fill in the moments between shows, check out our art-themed Hotel, Bar and Restaurant Guide.
Meyer Riegger
Lin May Saeed: ‘Séance’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10; 6–10pm
Exhibition: Sept. 10–Oct. 31, 2026
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Schaperstraße 14, 10719 Berlin, click here for map
For Berlin Art Week 2026, Meyer Riegger presents ‘Séance,’ its first exhibition dedicated to German-Iraqi artist Lin May Saeed. Spanning her entire career, the exhibition features styrofoam reliefs, silhouettes, drawings, metal gates and bronze sculptures, including previously unexhibited works. Organized with the artist’s estate, the show marks Saeed’s first presentation in Berlin since her 2023 exhibition at the Georg Kolbe Museum. Until her death in 2023, Saeed’s practice advocated for a more equitable relationship between humans and animals. Drawing on mythology, Greco-Roman and Egyptian sculpture and natural history displays, she portrayed animals as dignified subjects rather than objects. Through humor, hope and radical compassion, ‘Séance’ challenges human-centered views of the natural world and imagines alternative futures.
Lin May Saeed: ‘Seven Sleepers,’ 2008/2014, cardboard, transparent paper, wood, fluorescent lights, 176 x 252 x 35 cm // Courtesy the Estate of Lin May Saeed / Jacky Strenz and Meyer Riegger, photo by Eric Tschernow
Kunst im Westend – Kochhaus
Lu Yang: ‘DOKU: TRIAGE’
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 11; 6–10pm
Exhibition: Sept. 12–20, 2026; 11am-6pm
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DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend, Historisches Kochhaus, Spandauer Damm 130, 14050 Berlin, click here for map
Partnering with Berlin Art Week this year, Kunst im Westend e.V. presents Lu Yang‘s ‘DOKU: TRIAGE,’ a site-specific installation at the historic Kochhaus of DRK Kliniken Berlin Westend. The exhibition brings together medicine, technology and Buddhist ideas of reincarnation, expanding Lu Yang’s acclaimed DOKU universe into an intimate hospital setting. Inspired by the artist’s personal experiences with illness, emergency rooms and mortality, the installation features hospital beds, large-scale banners, films and lightboxes. Visitors can choose to lie on a bed, wear headphones and privately experience ‘DOKU The Self’ (2022) and ‘DOKU The Flow’ (2024), which follow Lu Yang’s genderless avatar through shifting states of consciousness and transformation. Six digital incarnations of DOKU appear throughout the space, reflecting Buddhist and Hindu cosmologies. The installation creates a contemplative encounter between the visitor’s body and DOKU’s digital form, exploring life, death, identity and impermanence.
Lu Yang: ‘DOKU the Flow,’ film still // Courtesy of the artist and Société Berlin
C/O Berlin
Stelios Kallinikou: ‘Cliffs Among Dreams. After Nature Prize 26’
Opening Reception: Friday, Sept. 11; 8pm–midnight
Exhibition: Sept. 12, 2026-Feb. 3, 2027
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Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin, click here for map
For more than a decade, Stelios Kallinikou has photographed and filmed the Akrotiri peninsula in southern Cyprus. A British Sovereign Base Area that continues to host a Royal Air Force base, Akrotiri is also home to the Akrotiri Salt Lake, the island’s largest natural inland lake and a major wetland and stopover for migratory birds. Kallinikou’s project conveys the tensions between military exploitation, ecological fragility and cultural heritage, while drawing attention to the colonial legacies that persist at Europe’s southern edge. Bringing together photographs, films and sculptural assemblages, the exhibition at C/O Berlin approaches Akrotiri as both landscape and territory, connecting contemporary geopolitical questions with themes of migration, belonging and extinction. Kallinikou is one of two recipients of the After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 26, alongside Susanne Kriemann, whose exhibition is likewise on view at C/O Berlin’s Amerika Haus from September 12, 2026, through February 3, 2027.
Stelios Kallinikou: ‘Gate,’ 2026 // © Stelios Kallinikou
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
Wu Tsang
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10; 6–9pm
Exhibition: Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 2026
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Schöneberger Ufer 61, 10785 Berlin, click here for map
Wu Tsang’s two moving-image and multichannel sound installations—‘On our way to the general strike’ (2026) and ‘La gran mentira de la muerte [The big lie of death]’ (2024)—culminate years of research into Carmen, the complex figure popularized by Georges Bizet’s 1875 opera and reinvented across music, theater and cinema. In collaboration with Fred Moten and the interdisciplinary collective Moved by the Motion, Wu Tsang treats Carmen’s myth, musicality and shifting subjectivity as an unresolved question, prompting a desire for new narratives and mythologies for our own lives. In ‘On our way to the general strike,’ Carmen becomes a vessel through which storytelling, filmmaking, politics and art can be brought in and out of focus. ‘La gran mentira de la muerte’ turns to the performative worlds of flamenco and bullfighting, examining how death is staged as spectacle and ritual. Together, the works ask how inherited narratives might be undone and new forms of collective life imagined.
Wu Tsang: ‘On our way to the general strike,’ 2026, installation view. ‘If the word we,’ 59th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh // Photo: Zachary Riggleman. © Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin.
ChertLüdde
Stephanie Comilang: ‘Search for Life’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10; 6–10pm
Exhibition: Sept. 11–Oct. 31, 2026
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Hauptstraße 18, 10827 Berlin, click here for map
Stephanie Comilang’s solo exhibition at ChertLüdde is centered around the immersive, two-channel video installation ‘Search For Life II.’ Exploring migration, labor, diaspora and technology through the intertwined histories of the pearl, the work connects global cultures and collapses past and future through ideas of desire, exchange, glamour and evolving technology. Stories span diverse geographies and communities, from Badjao (Sama-Bajau) pearl divers in the Philippine Archipelago to pearl farmers in China, alongside a second-generation Emirati-Filipina member of Dubai-based K-pop group The Pixies.
Projected onto a four-meter-wide beaded curtain of artificial pearls, the film casts shadows across the gallery, while the layered, shimmering installation transforms it into an immersive underwater landscape. Blending documentary and speculative fiction, the work uses the pearl as a spectral narrator to examine the interconnected forces shaping migration and labor.
Stephanie Comilang: ‘Coordinates at Dawn,’ installation view at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, 2025–2026 // Photo by Alwin Lay, Copyright Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Courtesy of ChertLüdde, Berlin and Stephanie Comilang, Berlin and Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Fluentum
Arash Nassiri: ‘A Bug’s Life’
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sept. 9; 6–10pm
Exhibition: Sept. 10-Dec. 12, 2026
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Clayallee 174, 14195 Berlin, click here for map
‘A Bug’s Life’ is the first institutional solo exhibition in Germany by Berlin-based artist Arash Nassiri. Opening at Fluentum during Berlin Art Week, the exhibition centers on Nassiri’s 2025 film of the same name, alongside two new sculptural series. Drawing on cinematic and television aesthetics, Nassiri’s film follows an insect puppet through an extravagant Beverly Hills mansion designed by Iranian architect Hamid Omrani, whose ornate homes for Iranian diaspora families became known as “Persian Palaces.” At Fluentum, the film is projected within an installation responding to the building’s monumental and historically-charged architecture. New sculptures exhibited in the show include architectural models inspired by Omrani’s designs and insect motifs inlaid into renovation marble.
Arash Nassiri: ‘A Bug’s Life,’ 2026, film still // Co-commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery, London; Fluentum, Berlin; and Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, produced by Chisenhale Gallery, courtesy of the artist
Soy Capitán / Galerie Max Hetzler
Grace Weaver: ‘Parataxis’
Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sept. 4; 6–8pm
Exhibition: Sept. 4-Oct. 24, 2026
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maxhetzler.com
Lindenstraße 34, 10969 Berlin, click here for map
Bleibtreustraße 45, 10623 Berlin, click here for map
Jointly presented by Soy Capitán and Galerie Max Hetzler, ‘Parataxis’ brings together a new series of paintings by Grace Weaver across the two galleries. Set within domestic interiors, Weaver’s tall, sloping protagonists perform small ceremonies of everyday life: sitting in high-backed chairs, gathering around tables, holding amphorae or raising a glass. The familiarity of these scenes is disrupted by the artist’s dry formal humor. Bodies are compressed or elongated, heads become near-perfect circles and torsos mirror the shapes of the vessels they carry. The exhibition title derives from the Greek verb “paratassō,” meaning to place side by side or arrange in battle order. Weaver applies a similar logic to her compositions, positioning bodies, furniture and architectural elements across shallow pictorial fields. Painted within a single wet plane, vivid colors, stains and erasures allow figure and ground to emerge simultaneously.
Grace Weaver: ‘Parataxis,’ 2026, installation view // Photo by Roman Maerz
Ebensperger
Chicks on Speed: ‘the Mobilisation / Poprade’
Bonnie Camplin: ‘Bonnie Camplin Archive (BCA)’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10; 6–10pm
BCA Opening: Sunday, Sept. 13; 12–6pm
Exhibition: Sept. 11, 2026–May 30, 2027
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Arminiusmarkthalle, Arminiusstraße 2-4, 10551 Berlin, click here for map
For Berlin Art Week, Ebensperger inaugurates its new venues at the historic Arminiusmarkthalle with projects by Chicks on Speed and Bonnie Camplin. Together with Kathi Glas and Watermelon Studios, Chicks on Speed will transform the market hall into a living broadcast studio for ‘the Mobilisation / Poprade,’ a residency running through May 2027. Vendors, visitors and workshop participants will co-create costumes, wearable sculptures and sound objects that become instruments, props and broadcasting tools. The resulting mobile performance will evolve while being filmed as a music video, positioning everyone involved as both performer and producer. On Sunday, the gallery will also open the Bonnie Camplin Archive in a former dance school within the market hall. Bringing together artworks, publications, research materials and archival documents, the permanent presentation offers an extensive encounter with the 2015 Turner Prize nominee’s multidisciplinary practice.
Ebensperger x Chicks on Speed at Arminiusmarkthalle // Copyright Ebensperger
Galerie Molitor
Nika Kutateladze: ‘Acacia Bloom’
Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 10; 6–10pm
Exhibition: Sept. 11-Nov. 7, 2026
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Kurfürstenstraße 143, 10785 Berlin, click here for map
For his first solo exhibition in Germany, Georgian artist Nika Kutateladze turns his attention to a depopulated village in the Guria mountains, where a handful of men remain amid abandoned houses and an ongoing landslide. Kutateladze spent five years living alongside these inhabitants, observing how their isolation and preoccupation with fences gradually exposed more instinctive forms of human behavior. The resulting paintings begin as portraits before their subjects’ surfaces start to dissolve: contours fracture, facial features become porous and ghostly forms emerge through layers of oil applied to and removed from wooden panels. Jackals recur throughout, further emphasizing the exhibition’s atmosphere of exposure and latent threat. In the gallery’s basement, two fences face one another, echoing the portraits installed above. Through this combination of painting and architectural elements, ‘Acacia Bloom’ connects the village’s eroding landscape with broader questions of migration, borderization and territorial attachment.
Nika Kutateladze: ‘Untitled,’ 2026, oil on ground wood, 29 x 29 x 3.5 cm // Photo By Tako Robakidze, Courtesy the artist and Galerie Molitor, Berlin
Georg Kolbe Museum
Group show: ‘everybody’
Performance Festival: Sunday, Sept. 13; 2-5pm
Exhibition: Aug. 8–Nov. 29, 2026
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Sensburger Allee 25, 14055 Berlin, click here for map
During Berlin Art Week, the Georg Kolbe Museum expands its current group exhibition ‘everybody’ with a performance festival featuring Janne Kummer, Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju and Lauryn Youden. Inspired by Olivia Laing’s book ‘Everybody: A Book about Freedom,’ the exhibition considers how bodies are shaped by social structures, historical narratives and emotional experience. For the festival, the three artists present consecutive performances that engage with the body’s possibilities and perceptions, interweaving individual and collective body politics. Their works introduce direct physical experiences into an exhibition otherwise developed through objects and installations. This dialogue takes on particular significance within Georg Kolbe’s former studio, where the resistant, vulnerable and diverse bodies presented by the contemporary artists confront the normative and frequently idealized figures of Kolbe’s modernist sculptures. The performances begin with Janne Kummer at 2pm, followed by Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju at 3pm and Lauryn Youden at 4pm.
Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju: ‘Mourning Routine’ // Photo by Robert Rieger
