November 3, 2025By Gate
Is art about fixing an idea, or keeping it in constant flux? Japanese-born artist Kazuko Miyamoto, who has lived in New York since 1964, answers this question with her string constructions series made of cotton threads, nails, and drawn lines. The exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art lays bare the artist’s hermetic yet humane
November 3, 2025By Gate
How is our sense of self transforming in the age of artificial intelligence and technological acceleration? Painter Aaron Scheer’s third solo exhibition at OFFICE IMPART gallery, “Aeonesis,” pursues this existential question. By turning algorithm-generated sketches into hand-finished bronze reliefs, Scheer aims to pry open AI’s infamous “black box” through an artistic process. The resulting works
November 3, 2025By Gate
Sophiensæle, Berlin’s most daring independent theatre venue, is hosting “MIRA FUCHS (a reprise),” one of its boldest works. This piece by Melanie Jame Wolf—who takes on concept, choreography, video, and text—centers on the artist’s eight years working as a private dancer in one of Melbourne’s largest clubs. Staged again a decade after its 2015 premiere,
November 2, 2025By Gate
Who determines the artistic potential of Artificial Intelligence? Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst answer this question using the audience’s voice in the “Starmirror” exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin. This event is not just a performance; it transforms into a recording studio where viewers actively participate in AI’s training process. These creative sessions
November 1, 2025By Gate
How does an artist’s practice transform over four decades? Erik Schmidt’s exhibition “The Rise and Fall of Erik Schmidt” at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst provides the answer to this very question. The show brings together not only the artist’s acclaimed paintings but also significant works in various media such as video, performance, photography,
November 1, 2025By Gate
In a world where the feeling of “certainty” has become fragile, what can we believe in—alone or together? Monologfestival, a key event on Berlin’s bold theater scene, pursues this existential question in its eighth edition under the theme “I Want to Believe.” Taking place at TD Berlin from November 6–16, the festival brings together theater,
October 30, 2025By Gate
The exhibition Chaos and Order, opening at KOW gallery in Berlin, is a comprehensive show by artist Monsieur Zohore that brings together humor, history, cultural memory, and identity politics on the same ground. Zohore’s works combine everyday objects (particularly paper towels, fans, and rotisserie machines) with political symbols, offering a critical perspective on contemporary Germany’s
October 21, 2025By Gate
Sometimes, a single frame from a song can thrust a century-old artwork back into the global spotlight. Germany’s Museum Wiesbaden is experiencing an unexpected wave of visitors following the release of Taylor Swift’s latest music video. A museum spokesperson reported that 500 people visited over the weekend to see just one painting, directly attributing the
October 20, 2025By Gate
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg invites us to an experience beyond the ordinary. The STRANGE! exhibition upends expectations of surrealism, liberating this art movement from constraints of space, time, and direction. Featuring 60 works by 40 artists, displayed in a “tomb chamber” atmosphere entered through an ancient Egyptian gate, the exhibition emerges from the tense, divided spirit of
October 18, 2025By Gate
Sprüth Magers, Berlin On view through October 25, 2025 At Sprüth Magers Berlin, Finnish artist Henni Alftan’s new exhibition, By the Skin of My Teeth, invites viewers on a journey to the edges of the everyday. The title, drawn from the English idiom meaning “to narrowly escape,” reflects the delicate threshold that permeates Alftan’s work—the
October 17, 2025By Gate
The body is a living archive, constantly evolving and recording every experience. The Body Archive exhibition at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery brings together the practices of Manuela Benaim, Makiko Harris, and Emily Pope, exploring the female body as a surface, a space, and a symbol. Emily Pope’s meticulously cropped paintings place viewers in the role of
October 16, 2025By Gate
Esther Schipper, Berlin On view through October 18, 2025 A water clock. Time flows. Each drop a measure, each rhythm an echo. Like a polyphonic chorus of broken streams. As part of Berlin Art Week, Esther Schipper Gallery presents Clepsydra, Tauba Auerbach’s first exhibition with the gallery. Named after the ancient water clock, the exhibition
October 15, 2025By Gate
Esther Schipper, Berlin On view through October 18, 2025 Berlin’s Esther Schipper Gallery hosts Korean artist Lee Bae’s first solo exhibition, Syzygy, which revisits his profound relationship with charcoal on both material and spiritual levels. For Lee Bae, charcoal is more than a medium—it’s a tangible form of time, transformation, and life’s cycles. When he
October 15, 2025By Gate
Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin is delighted to present artist Gretchen Bender’s Top Ten Grossing Films of 1988 series, displayed for the first time since its debut in 1989. The exhibition opens on November 14, 2025, and runs through April 4, 2026. Bender’s critical art practice stems from a desire to keep pace with popular
October 14, 2025By Gate
On view through November 1, 2025 As part of Berlin Art Week, States of Being, presented at Société’s Charlottenburg gallery, is a collaborative curatorial project between two leading contemporary art galleries, Société and Hauser & Wirth. The exhibition explores the multifaceted nature of human existence, featuring works by thirty artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Glenn Ligon,
October 14, 2025By Gate
Is dance merely an art form seen with the eyes? What if it’s also felt through the ears and experienced with the body? DANCÆ, in collaboration with MONOM, answers this question with the performance Bodies in Sound in Berlin. This unique event redefines dance and music within the historic walls of Dannerhalle, a factory from
October 14, 2025By Gate
Pace Gallery Berlin | September 11 – November 2, 2025 Opening as part of Berlin Art Week at Pace Gallery’s new Die Tankstelle space, Adam Pendleton’s spray light layer emerge exhibition redefines the language of abstraction. Featuring selected canvas and paper works from his Black Dada and Untitled (Days) series, the show explores the material
October 11, 2025By Gate
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin – Goethestraße 2/3 🗓️ On view through November 29, 2025 Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin hosts Mothers, a new exhibition by American painter Grace Weaver. This series, focusing on themes of motherhood, the body, and care, reminds us that the figure is not just a subject but also a “stage.” In
October 11, 2025By Gate
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin – Potsdamer Straße 77–87 🗓️ On view through October 25, 2025 Galerie Max Hetzler brings together two artists from different generations in a shared space: Hans Josephsohn’s textured sculptures and Günther Förg’s grid paintings from the 1990s converge in A Dialogue. This encounter is a conversation between form and material, weight
October 11, 2025By Gate
Is soil merely the ground beneath our feet, or an arena where power, labor, and resistance are inscribed? Renowned Egyptian painter Ibrahim El Dessouki poses this question in his solo exhibition Testimony of the Soil at Hafez Gallery. Curated by Dr. Sara Raza, the exhibition brings together the artist’s allegorical paintings, drawing inspiration from Egypt’s
October 9, 2025By Gate
Presented as part of Berlin Art Week, every water has the right place to be in by Vietnam-born artist Anh Trần brings together the nature of water and the human state of aimlessness in abstract paintings. The exhibition is a visual journey shaped by the artist’s lyrical, exuberant, and at times tempestuous brushstrokes—a fluid space
October 8, 2025By Gate
ChertLüdde, Berlin 🗓️ On view through November 8, 2025 Norwegian artist Tyra Tingleff invites viewers into an almost bodily intensity with her new exhibition Pulse / Pause at ChertLüdde in Berlin. The exhibition pushes the boundaries of abstract painting, merging the ambiguity of forms with the unspoken realms of the female experience. In Tingleff’s canvases,
October 8, 2025By Gate
ChertLüdde, Berlin 🗓️ On view through November 8, 2025 Making her solo debut in Berlin, Sandra Poulson transforms the invisibility of dust into a narrative tool in her installation Dust as an Accidental Gift. First presented at the 2023 Sharjah Architecture Triennial, this work reimagines Luanda—Angola’s capital, where the artist was born and raised—through the
October 7, 2025By Gate
The Zansèt Yo exhibition at Bode is a deeply personal and cultural act of remembrance by artist M. Florine Démosthène. Taking its title from the Haitian Creole word for “ancestors,” the exhibition weaves Caribbean and West African spiritual traditions into the language of contemporary art. Démosthène’s figures, crafted on paper with ink, pigment, and glitter,
October 7, 2025By Gate
📍 68projects by KORNFELD 📅 On view through October 25, 2025 As part of Berlin Art Week 2025, 68projects hosts the first solo exhibition in Germany by American artist Edgar Arceneaux (b. 1972, Los Angeles). SHARDS emerged from the artist’s residency in Berlin during the summer, in collaboration with Villa Aurora & Thomas Mann House. Known for
October 6, 2025By Gate
📍 KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Maschinenhaus M2 📅 On view through February 1, 2026 Berlin-based artist Erik Schmidt (b. 1968, Herford) presents a multifaceted exhibition at KINDL, spanning four decades of work across painting, drawing, photography, video, and performance. The Rise and Fall of Erik Schmidt constructs a personal portrait of the artist’s queer identity,
October 6, 2025By Gate
📍 Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin 📅 September 11 – November 8, 2025 ⏰ Opening: September 11, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM Presented as part of Berlin Art Week 2025, this exhibition marks Yamila Miglioranza’s first solo show outside Spain, bringing her to Berlin. Titled Mit Haut und Haar (“with skin and hair,” meaning to give oneself entirely), the
October 5, 2025By Gate
Can a gallery hold both an ancient symbol and the synthetic aesthetic of the digital age at once? Natacha Donzé’s valeurs refuge exhibition at Max Goelitz tackles this very question. It transforms the gallery space into an unstable pictorial landscape, stretching from intimacy to abstraction, from emotional weight to pristine surfaces. Like a digital ghost
October 5, 2025By Gate
The power of art sometimes lies not in grand gestures but in the quietest moments. The group exhibition This is the place you told me about at AXEL OBIGER gallery invites us to listen to that silence. Curated by Cassandra Mehlhorn, the exhibition features eight artists exploring fragility as both a material and spiritual phenomenon.
October 4, 2025By Gate
Can an architectural space have its own sound, its own story? Berlin’s iconic Mies van der Rohe Haus answers this question through art. Reopening its doors to celebrate architectural genius, the venue invites us into a unique dialogue with Sergei Sviatchenko’s collages and Konstantin Schimanowski’s sound installation. The exhibition, LISTENING TO THE SOUND OF THE
