Berlin

Despite uncertain support, a fresh generation of artists is determined to create initiatives where experimentation and community thrive

The artistic director reflects on the festival’s expansion and her highlights ahead of its September opening 

At Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, the artist’s participatory practice invites a radical, bodily mode of knowing

Unable to respond to months of political turmoil in the city, the 2025 edition feels strangely muted

At The Wig, Berlin, the artist’s insect photographs playfully subvert the rules of wildlife photography

At Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, the artist’s unsettling works examine voicelessness as both sanctuary and sentence

Senior Director Laura Attanasio discusses the mega gallery’s newest location

At Gropius Bau, Berlin, the artist’s performance, loosely based on a 1939 Christopher Isherwood novel, interrogates the city's shifting political landscape

At Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, the artist’s works toy with the interplay of vulnerability, exploitation and scrutiny that exists within systems of safe-guarding

Berlin-based curator Emma Enderby on her inaugural programme, budget cuts and tarot card readings

The city’s cultural scene has long branded itself as radical but, for too long, politics has been confined to exhibition walls

From Larry Stanton’s exploration of virility, tenderness, and the AIDS crisis, to Lucy McKenzie’s immersive murals and installations blending mass cultural imagery and objects

In a new series of paintings at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, the artist reimagines rest as resistance

In her latest solo exhibition at Plan B, Berlin, the artist’s work pushes the boundaries between actuality and abstraction

At Tanya Leighton, Berlin, the painter’s geometric abstractions suggest a dispersed staging of the natural

From Lee Scratch Perry’s posthumous exhibition at Cabaret Voltaire to Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s reflections on capitalism, explore this month’s top cultural events

From the all-women programme at The National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens to Marianna Simnett’s UEFA-inspired film

At Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, the artist’s UEFA-inspired film mixes balletic beauty with uncomfortable stereotypes

At carlier | gebauer, Berlin, the artist’s solo exhibition requires viewer’s attentive engagement

From Helen Chadwick’s feminist photography at Société to Rachel Harrison’s outright absurdism at Konrad Fischer Galerie