How does a machine see the world? Is what it perceives akin to what we feel or what a bat senses through sound waves? British artist Lisa Barnard’s first major project in four years, You Only Look Once . After Nature Prize 25, grapples with these questions. The exhibition probes the complexities of human and

📍 Ronewa Art Projects, Berlin 📅 On view through October 30, 2025 South African artist Pierre le Riche (b. 1986, Gqeberha) uses textile and thread-based sculptures and installations to explore identity, belonging, and the boundaries of the body. My Body Is Not Your Temple, his powerful solo exhibition, centers his queer identity while interrogating norms of

📍 HUA International, Berlin 📅 August 30 – October 18, 2025 HUA International presents Sweating Under Cold Water, an exhibition featuring Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jinbin Chen, Gordon Hall, and Gordon Matta-Clark. The title’s paradox—sweating under cold water—becomes a powerful metaphor for intimacy, resistance, and queer embodiment simmering beneath the surface. Revealing that minimalist or fragmented visual languages are

📍 KOW, Berlin 📅  September 11 – November 1, 2025 Opening: September 11, 6:00 PM KOW presents Whether the Weather, the first solo exhibition in Berlin by Ivorian-American artist Monsieur Zohore. Transforming the gallery into a climatic space, the exhibition immerses visitors in both a physical and cultural atmosphere. Four oscillating fans—named Wirbelsturm Marianne, Susanne,

What does it mean to be an artist? Often romanticized and revered, this role is challenged by Jesse Darling in their new exhibition, The Contractor. Darling describes themselves as “a person with a job,” viewing the exhibition as “producing and displaying a series of objects for retail and exhibition.” Art becomes labor, a profession, a

📍 Spore House, Berlin 📅  September 26, 2025 – March 29, 2026 👩‍🎨  Curators: Antonia Alampi & Francesca Schweiger In the heart of Berlin, Spore Initiative’s “Welto and the Sacred Bush” invites visitors to wander through the imaginary of a Caribbean garden. Rather than replicating a physical garden, the exhibition explores Indigenous and diasporic cosmologies,

Some journeys transcend the boundaries of the body, leading us to the deepest layers of the self. SAVVY Contemporary invites us to such a journey with Po-Nien Wang’s movement workshop, In the Shape of My Ghost. This workshop is not merely a dance class; it’s a philosophical experience exploring gender fluidity and queerness through the

We often think of art as a singular creative process, but Cornelia Sollfrank proves the opposite. Her works are not the product of a single mind but of a network of relationships and collective solidarity built over years. Awarded the HAP Grieshaber Prize, Sollfrank designs her Berlin exhibition with this philosophy in mind. The exhibition