Berlin
Haus am Kleistpark
On now
- The exhibition "Silberstreif" by artist Daniela Friebel is based on the estate of an East German particle physicist from the early days of a divided Germany. The letters and photographs trace the coming-of-age of a young man who is finding his intellectual and existential footing during a time of historic upheaval. The physical qualities of the documents—creases, handwriting, and perforations—become image carriers, symbols, and metaphors. The personal correspondence gives rise to visual condensations that transcend the biographical and raise fundamental questions about freedom, arbitrariness, and responsibility during that era of political polarization.Description
Silberstreif: Daniela Friebel
Until 6 Dec 2026
- This year’s overarching theme is ‘FRACTURE’. The term refers to breaks and fissures that may manifest themselves in terms of subject matter as well as in materials, execution and technical processes. The fracture appears here as both an experience and an artistic device: as fragmentation, interruption or displacement that alters perception. On display are works from the fields of painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, textiles and video. The nominees for the Haus am Kleistpark Art Prize 2026 are: Paula Doepfner, Lotte Meret Effinger, Andrea Freiberg, Sabine Groß, Cornelia Herfurtner, Dina Khouri, Benjamin Kunath, Kaarina-Sirkku Kurz, Marei Loellmann, Uta Neumann, Lisa Peters, Sophie Constanze Polheim, Wagehe Raufi, Katharina Reinsbach, Maxi Thom and Emma Zimmermann. The jury comprises Franciska Zólyom, director and curator of the Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) in Leipzig; Wanda Stolle, artist; Daniel Milnes, curator at DAS MINSK, Kunsthaus in Potsdam; Marta Djourina, artist; and Franziska Schmidt, gallery director of the Kommunale Galerien Tempelhof-Schöneberg.Description
Fracture: The nominees for the 22nd Haus am Kleistpark Art Prize 2026 are exhibiting their work
Until 13 Dec 2026
Recent past exhibitions
- As part of the »Fifteenth Tempelhofer Art Exhibition«, local creatives who do not work full-time as independent visual artists are showcasing their work across various disciplines. This year’s exhibition is titled »ZWISCHEN | LAUT«, a theme that participants have interpreted freely. The term stands for the in-between: for subtle shifts, loud as well as quiet nuances, transitions, or resonances that can arise where different forms of expression or perceptions meet. Exhibiting artists: Ferenc Burian, Barbara Eismann, Ellen Ernst, Christian Gröschel, Yüksel Hayirli, Frauke Langguth, Maximilian Ludwig, Chiemi Miura, Lisa Palm, Johannes Rigal, Iman Scheiko, Konstantinia Skreka, Barbara Stark, Thomas Staudenherz, Leona Tobien and Conny Weber.Description
ZWISCHEN LAUT Fifteenth Templhof Art Exhibition
Ended 27 Sept 2026
- Berlin-based artist Peter Klare takes a free, visually sensuous approach to painting, applying colors and shapes in broad painterly gestures to oversized formats, detaching them from the canvas, transferring them into space, transforming canvases into sculptural forms, or covering photographic images with pigments. Recurring elements appear as fragments, contours, or volumes and shift between surface and object. This creates connections that restructure perception and become experiencable as open states.Description
Schwaananien Peter Klare
Ended 13 Sept 2026
- Judith Brunner and Beate Spitzmüller present works that engage with the construction and deconstruction of urban sights in tension with humankind and nature in an exhibition that reads as an intimate chamber play. Brunner’s architecturally inspired paintings visualize dense urban forms and structures. In conjunction with Spitzmüller’s works, the exhibition brings to life the relationships between city and landscape, human bodies in urban space, and processes of movement and transformation. Through a multifaceted interplay, the exhibition reflects on external and internal spaces.Description
sight·seeing Beate Spitzmüller und Judith Brunner
Ended 5 Jul 2026
- The exhibition "Men don’t cry" presents works created between 2017 and 2024 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In his artistic exploration, Jung focuses on a subject that has long been taboo: sexualized violence against men during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. Hannes Jung examines how individual and social traumas continue to affect people. Among other things, he is interested in the corporeal and emotional traces that violence can leave behind and how such experiences inscribe themselves into individual and collective self-understandings. For many years, he has been driven by the question of the effects of war on society. In subtle black-and-white photographs, Jung combines documentary research with a poetically dense visual language that relates what is visible to what can barely be spoken of. "Men don’t cry" explores conventional notions of masculinity, questioning them without codifying the experiences he was told. The images allow masculinity, vulnerability, irritation, and hope to coexist in order to draw attention to what remains.Description
Men don't cry Hannes Jung
Ended 28 Jun 2026
- The master class at the Ostkreuz School of Photography presents its latest work from the past two years. Under the direction of Linn Schröder and Ingo Taubhorn, the exhibition focuses on cracks in systems, on the no longer and the not yet, and on the in-between. The series tell stories of ruptures, tensions and transitions, as well as violence, flight and borderline experiences. Family biographies are reflected upon in terms of their contemporary and individual context, the relationship between humans and nature is questioned, and gender assignment and role models are examined.Description
Mind the Gap Master Class Ostkreuz School of Photography Linn Schröder und Ingo Taubhorn
Ended 21 Jun 2026
- Artist and filmmaker Sabrina Labis (born 1990 in Zurich, Switzerland) explores concepts and processes of digital images and the power structures behind them. In this exhibition, she addresses historically conditioned sexism in science and technology and its manifestation in the transfer of knowledge. At the centre of the exhibition is a newly produced video work in which a performer translates O B A F G K M into body movements. The letters stand for a classification scheme for stars. To this day, the sexist mnemonic ‘Oh, be a fine girl! Kiss Me!’ is used to remember the sequence. In an interplay of body, architecture and language, Labis experiments with alternative mnemonics that reverse power relations and create new associative connections.Description
Miss Universe Sabrina Labis
Ended 19 Apr 2026
- In her work, artist and photographer Cihan Çakmak (born 1993) explores various aspects of origin and identity, particularly in the context of her own Kurdish-German biography, which navigates a critical tension between tradition and self-discovery. With performative photographic self-portraits, gestural representations of female protagonists, a video installation, drawings and texts, Çakmak explores moments of distance and closeness, emancipation and external control. Her works refer to individual spheres of action and reflect the emotional traces of family traumas and collective memories – always caught between belonging and separation.Description
Leaving was the only option left Cihan Çakmak
Ended 12 Apr 2026
- The exhibition presents work spanning more than 40 years. The photographs and videos focus on portraits and landscapes. Christa Mayer became known for her unusually moving portraits from long-term psychiatric care. One of only a few women, she has been developing her artistic signature since 1980 at the legendary Berlin Workshop for Photography; in 1987, she received the P.S.1 scholarship in New York. She soon broadened her focus to include healers from different cultural backgrounds. Creative people and children inspire her as much as portraits of her own family and symbolically charged landscapes.Description
Fotografie - Das Werk Christa Mayer
Ended 6 Apr 2026