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“In the year ahead we continue our established threads of working with intergenerational and transnational practitioners, Berlin-based artists, and those influenced by the city and its materiality. We also continue to develop residency formats that lead to local production, collaborations in Berlin and internationally, and liveness as a guiding principle. The year brings together artists whose concerns range from the relationship between place and politics to mapping histories, trance, instability, and meditation.”—Emma Enderby, Director
Abbas Akhavan: if and only if
February 12–May 2, 2027
Akhavan’s work explores the boundaries between private and public, domesticated and wild, hospitable and hostile. The artist's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin departs from KW's site and history, with works held in suspension between appearance and disappearance, within a cycle of growth, decay, and renewal that recurs in their materials, such as flowers and water. More.
Anna Boghiguian: The Day the Earth Shook
February 12–May 2, 2027
Spanning five decades, Boghiguian's practice draws as much on literature, mythology, and philosophy as on economics, psychoanalysis, and sociopolitical history. Conceived during a residency at KW, the artist's paintings and hand-cut paper figures bring together legendary and historical characters, mythical creatures, and dinosaurs. Depicting fragments of evolution on earth and the tales that accompany them, Boghiguian tells a strikingly contemporary story of collapse. More.
Tiffany Sia: Overt Listening: Berlin
February 12–May 2, 2027
Conceived as a score of surtitles and asynchronous video works, Sia's exhibition recomposes the artist's co-commissioned debut feature. Shot on Taiwan's Kinmen Islands, the footage traces how history is memorialized and how psychological battles persist. Bringing Kinmen and Berlin together, Sia probes the narrative that the Cold War ended with the fall of the Wall to consider where, and for whom, it is truly over. More.
14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: Central Europe Eastern Time
June 5–September 12, 2027
The 14th Berlin Biennale, curated by Vasyl Cherepanyn, unfolds across the city, with KW as one of its main venues. It maps Berlin from the East, placing it within a broader Eastern European context and offering a view of Europe shaped by regions long pushed to its margins. Held where present conditions are lived, administered, and contested, the Berlin Biennale addresses class, labour, citizenship, and institutional control. More.
Vlassis Caniaris: Red Carnations
October 15, 2027–January 16, 2028
Having lived through fascist occupation, civil war, and military dictatorship, Caniaris captured the turmoil of twentieth-century Europe through ordinary lives. From passers-by and observers to activists, the artist's figures, made of found materials and objects, embody attitudes that bear witness to their time. Engaging with belonging, labor, migration, and protest, Caniaris's work confronts fascism not as a closed chapter but as a present danger. More.
The Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2026
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos – Cosmos: A Theater of Spirit
October 15, 2027–January 16, 2028
Through documentary and found footage, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos captures struggles from state violence and environmental crisis to inequality while dismantling authorship and the ideology of mainstream media. At KW, a multichannel video installation and soundscape builds on the group's hypnotic concept of Trance Cinema and reads Hegel's Science of Logic as a way of connecting history, politics, and ecologies through image, sound, and sensory experience. More.
Bridget Polk: In der Schwebe
October 15, 2027–January 16, 2028
Balancing rocks into precarious stacks, Polk creates improbable sculptures that seem to defy gravity. Throughout the artist's first institutional solo exhibition, Polk is in residence at KW, spending a few hours each day shaping a landscape that rises and collapses over time. At the heart of her practice lies the search for fragile balance and the acceptance that every work will eventually fall. More.
KW as Kunst-Werke
Building on its longstanding role as a place of collaboration, encounter, and production rooted in Berlin, KW continues its artist residencies and public art commissions. It also pursues partnerships with Berlin institutions, including the annual exhibition of BPA// Berlin program for artists fellows, and the KW x DAAD literature series. During Free Thursdays, KW offers late opening hours and free admission, while Kids' Wednesday invites families with small children to creative sessions. Throughout the year, every child visiting receives a free KW Malbuch, a coloring book by an artist on view, following editions by Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Geta Brătescu, and Susan Hiller.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art is institutionally supported by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin.
The exhibitions and projects within the program of 2027 are in collaboration with and/or supported by:
