Five-day contemporary art festival
September 10–14, 2025
Berlin Art Week celebrates its 14th edition with a diverse festival programme of contemporary art at more than 100 locations across the city.
From September 10–14, 2025, Berlin Art Week ushers in the new art season with a dynamic programme spanning over 100 museums, collections, galleries, project spaces, and an art fair. For five days, the city becomes a hub for contemporary art, bringing together local and international perspectives.
Established artists and emerging voices present new work on view for the first time. Leading institutions launch major exhibitions, while private collectors open their doors to offer rare insights into their holdings. Project spaces and off-site initiatives activate lesser-known locations citywide. Galleries from Berlin, across Germany, and beyond debut exhibitions created specifically for this moment—highlighting some of their most compelling work.
A central gathering place throughout the week is the Berlin Art Week Garten, hosted this year at Hamburger Bahnhof. With its free open-air programme, the festival hub invites visitors to pause, connect, and get inspired, making it a welcoming starting point or a spot to return to while charting your own path through the festival.
2025 programme highlights: a first look
This year’s Berlin Art Week offers an expansive programme of solo and group exhibitions, performances, and interventions that activate spaces across the city, from major institutions to former airport hangars, monumental churches, warehouses, artist studios, and independent project spaces.
A compelling lineup of solo exhibitions includes Issy Wood at Schinkel Pavillon, Petrit Halilaj at Hamburger Bahnhof, Jiyoung Yoon at daadgalerie, Christelle Oyiri at LAS Art Foundation, kennedy+swan at Schering Stiftung, Christopher Williams at Haubrok Foundation, Ruprecht von Kaufmann at Haus am Lützowplatz, and Via Lewandowsky at Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank.
Video art features prominently with works by Mark Leckey at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Jordan Strafer at Fluentum, and Charmaine Poh at PalaisPopulaire. Other highlights include Nora Turato’s site-specific work at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), which also presents a retrospective on Margarethe von Trotta. Meanwhile, Erik Schmidt, Cornelia Parker, Phoebe Collings-James, and Cihad Caner each present solo exhibitions at Kindl—Centre for Contemporary Art.
At Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), a large-scale group exhibition examines the aesthetic, political, and emotional dynamics of fascism, offering a critical lens through which to engage with global histories and pressing contemporary urgencies.
A varied performance programme is set to draw audiences to Neue Nationalgalerie, featuring Perform! with Joan Jonas among others. Ivo Dimchev premieres at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, where Berlin-based choreographer Jefta van Dinther explores the human desire to relive and revive the past.
Berlin’s dynamic gallery scene takes center stage, with Positions Berlin Art Fair drawing national and international galleries to the spacious hangars of the former Tempelhof Airport. Meanwhile, around fifty Berlin galleries are slated to participate in Gallery Night across the city. As part of Open Houses, some of the capital’s most renowned private collections will open their doors without requiring prior registration, including several collections never before accessible to the public.
A selection of special projects will be featured, including independent artist-run spaces and initiatives activating unusual and often lesser-known locations across the city. The programme unfolds in some of Berlin’s most unexpected venues. At St. Elisabeth Church, the performative boxing debate format Crit Club by artist Cem A. invites participants and audiences to challenge fixed roles and think beyond conventional positions. Meanwhile, Passage will curate an exhibition alongside the Spatial Sound festival by Monom at Funkhaus Berlin, spanning 45,000 square meters and bringing together artworks, performances, and sound installations at the intersection of spatial art and technology.
This year’s programme highlights artistic and curatorial practices that often operate without dedicated spaces or engage directly with existing structures. In a city shaped by constant transformation, major institutions are increasingly collaborating with smaller, mobile initiatives, forging new connections rooted in contemporary cultural and political realities. Themes of nomadism and resistance emerge as central threads.
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