Modern & Contemporary Art Exhibitions in Berlin
Discover contemporary and modern art exhibitions in Berlin. Our exhibition guide helps you explore museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces showcasing modern and contemporary art. Whether you're an art enthusiast or a curious visitor, stay informed about what's happening in the art scene in Berlin.
Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt
⇾ 14-09-2025
Martin-Gropius-Bau
Roads not Taken. Oder: Es hätte auch anders kommen können
⇾ 11-01-2026
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Gewalt ausstellen: Erste Ausstellungen zur NS-Besatzung in Europa, 1945-1948
⇾ 23-11-2025
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Natur und deutsche Geschichte. Glaube – Biologie – Macht (AT)
14-11-2025 – 07-06-2026
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Natur und deutsche Geschichte. Glaube – Biologie – Macht
14-11-2025 – 07-06-2026
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Pläne und Träume – Gezeichnet in der DDR
⇾ 07-09-2025
Tchoban Foundation Museum für Architekturzeichnung
Mode aus Paris
⇾ 14-12-2025
Neues Museum
CHANEL Commission: Klára Hosnedlová. embrace
⇾ 26-10-2025
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart
Auf unbetretenen Wegen. Georg Schweinfurth und die Ägyptologie
⇾ 08-02-2026
Neues Museum
Dioskuren – Der geschenkte Tag
⇾ 23-11-2025
Neues Museum
Die Krone von Kertsch. Schätze aus Europas Frühzeit
⇾ 22-09-2027
Neues Museum
STRANGE! Surrealismen 1950–1990 aus den Sammlungen der Nationalgalerie
⇾ 16-11-2025
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg
Rico Puhlmann. Fashion Photography 50s–90s
⇾ 15-02-2026
Museum für Fotografie
Im Visier! Lovis Corinth, die Nationalgalerie und die Aktion „Entartete Kunst“
⇾ 02-11-2025
Alte Nationalgalerie
Camille Claudel und Bernhard Hoetger. Emanzipation von Rodin
⇾ 28-09-2025
Alte Nationalgalerie
Die Bronzen von San Casciano dei Bagni. Eine Sensation aus dem Schlamm
⇾ 12-10-2025
James-Simon-Galerie/ Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Fäden des Lebens am Nil. Bildteppiche des Ramses Wissa Wassef Art Center aus Kairo
⇾ 02-11-2025
James-Simon-Galerie/ Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Provenienzen Kunstwerke wandern
13-10-2025 – 13-10-2025
Berlinische Galerie
Aufbruch in die Moderne Prominenz aus dem Stadtmuseum Berlin
01-09-2026 – 01-09-2026
Berlinische Galerie
Provenienzen
⇾ 13-10-2025
Berlinische Galerie
Bilderkeller
⇾ 17-12-2025
Akademie der Künste – Pariser Platz
Pariser Platz 4
⇾ 07-09-2025
Akademie der Künste – Pariser Platz
- Die Expressionistin Irma Stern (1894–1966) gilt in Südafrika als eine der wichtigsten Vertreter*innen der Moderne. In Deutschland ist ihre Kunst hingegen kaum bekannt. Dies war einmal anders: Aufgewachsen zwischen beiden …Description
Irma Stern. Eine Künstlerin der Moderne zwischen Berlin und Kapstadt
⇾ 02-11-2025
Brücke Museum
- KÖNIG BERGSON is pleased to present RAW PARADISE, a solo exhibition by Arne Quinze. This new body of work continues his more than twenty-year exploration of the fractured relationship between humanity and nature. It brings together oil paintings, sculptural compositions in raw bronze and aluminum, ceramics, Murano glass, and video to create an immersive environment exploring nature’s raw power and fragile harmony. Quinze addresses one of today’s most urgent issues: the lost connection between modern society and nature’s essential rhythms and values. Working across multiple disciplines, he employs diverse media—paint, ceramics, metal, glass, and video—to reveal what has been forgotten in nature’s relentless transformation toward harmony. His sculptures merge phosphor bronze, aluminum, ceramics, and delicate Murano glass, embodying the tensions within nature itself—raw strength alongside fragile delicacy. Each piece, suspended or grounded, becomes a biotope, a self-contained ecosystem where material and meaning converge.Description
ARNE QUINZE RAW PARADISE
⇾ 07-09-2025
König Berlin (St. Agnes)
- A glamorous journey from Transformer to the Galaxy. The exhibition evokes an era of vibrant beginnings: In the 1970s, West Berlin became a city of longing for an entire generation. While curfews were being reinstated in other cities, Berlin remained the city that never slept. The show features works by Elvira Bach, Luciano Castelli, Rainer Fetting, Anne Jud, Helmut Middendorf, Salomé, and Bernd Zimmer.Description
GUTEN MORGEN, DU SCHÖNE
⇾ 14-09-2025
König Berlin (St. Agnes)
Anna Witt – Spielräume
⇾ 29-03-2026
Galerie Tanja Wagner
Kapwani Kiwanga – Pollen
⇾ 01-01-2027
Galerie Tanja Wagner
Šejla Kamerić – Echo
⇾ 08-02-2026
Galerie Tanja Wagner
Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always
⇾ 21-12-2025
Tanya Leighton
Lucas Reiner Czernowitz and Los Angeles Trees
⇾ 07-09-2025
Galerie Born
- Barajas explores the relationship between the Mexican painting tradition and contemporary practices such as installation, video, sculpture, and site-specific work. He uses painting as a tool to re-signify the world beyond rational thought, transforming subjective experience into a collective vehicle for knowledge.Description
José Eduardo Barajas »Bleeding Boundaries«
⇾ 06-09-2025
Galerie Nordenhake
- Solo show by Tincuta Marin during Berlin Art Week. Opening on 11 September, 6 – 10 pm. Open Friday – Sunday, 12 – 6 pm.Description
Tincuta Marin: Gloaming
11-09-2025 – 01-11-2025
Galeria Plan B
- Food chain incl. prehistoric animals, Neven-DuMont-Straße 17, KölnDescription
Henrik Olesen
⇾ 04-10-2025
Galerie Buchholz
- The exhibition is open by appointment only: [email protected]Description
Antonin Artaud Balthus
⇾ 31-10-2025
Galerie Buchholz
- Opening Thursday, 4 September, 6-8 pmDescription
Alix Cléo Roubaud
⇾ 25-10-2025
Galerie Buchholz
- Opening Thursday, 11 September, 6-9 pmDescription
Robert Colescott
⇾ 18-10-2025
Galerie Buchholz
- “Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”, Fasanenstraße 31, BerlinDescription
Christelle Oyiri
⇾ 18-10-2025
Galerie Buchholz
Andreas Schulze
⇾ 02-11-2025
Sprüth Magers
Kaari Upson
⇾ 26-10-2025
Sprüth Magers
Thea Djordjadze / Edi Hila
⇾ 05-10-2025
Sprüth Magers
Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft
⇾ 28-09-2025
Galerie Mathias Güntner
The Story of Public Art
⇾ 31-03-2029
Galerie Mathias Güntner
Alchimia. Die Revolution des italienischen Designs
⇾ 07-09-2025
Bröhan Museum
- Jesse Darling 12 September — 8 November 2025 Opening 11 September 2025, 6—9 pmDescription
Jesse Darling
12-09-2025 – 08-11-2025
Galerie Molitor
Global Fascisms
13-09-2025 – 07-12-2025
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Heimatisierung
⇾ 30-11-2025
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
- Dorothée Nilsson Gallery is proud to present Mehr Licht a solo exhibition with Sascha Weidner. Marking ten years since his passing, "Mehr Licht" revisits Weidner’s poetic and emotionally charged images, which create a radical and subjective visual world shaped by perception, longing, and coded symbolism. Through his photographs, Weidner celebrates and captures the beauty of the perfect moment, turning unconditionally towards himself and his environment. His radically subjective cosmos of images is a poetic film of life, in which every shot is an exuberant affirmation of life or a quiet melancholy. Weidner often used a mix of formats and sized photographs, covering entire exhibition walls with images that invited viewers to form their own associations and discover unexpected connections.Description
SASCHA WEIDNER | MEHR LICHT
07-09-2025 – 08-11-2025
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery
Corpo de cor
12-09-2025 – 01-11-2025
Contemporary Fine Arts
- Cornelia Parker views destruction and physical forces as central to sculptural practice. In her sculptures and installations, she combines deconstruction with transformation, subjecting everyday objects to processes that alter their form and create new meanings. For the monumental Kesselhaus, she creates an immersive, site-specific piece – a phenomenal fictional event with immediate physical presence.Description
Cornelia Parker Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering)
14-09-2025 – 24-05-2026
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
- Phoebe Collings-James (*1987 in London, lives in London) combines ceramics, drawing, text and sound into multilayered works that address violence, desire, eroticism, and anti-colonial practices. The KINDL presents Collings-James's first institutional solo exhibition in Germany, featuring ceramic sculptures and a sound work that continue her exploration of these themes.Description
Phoebe Collings-James The subtle rules the dense
14-09-2025 – 15-02-2026
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
- Cihad Caner (* 1990 in Istanbul, lives in Rotterdam) questions social mechanisms of representation and power in his artistic practice. His video work focuses on the figure of the monstrous and its layered meanings. Caner's animated monsters sing, hum, and speak of exclusion, self-assertion, and hospitality.Description
Cihad Caner Demonst(e)rating the Untamable Monster
14-09-2025 – 15-02-2026
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
- Erik Schmidt (* 1968 in Herford, lives in Berlin) works across painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance. The KINDL presents his extensive body of work in multiple chapters, creating a multifaceted self-portrait that probes questions of (queer) identity, community, and individuality. Through richly layered compositions, Schmidt offers a perspective that is at times brutal and often humorous, exposing underlying social norms and structures.Description
The Rise and Fall of Erik Schmidt
14-09-2025 – 01-02-2026
KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art
