There are 7 exhibitions on in Berlin worth the trip. I checked the dates, the venues and the opening hours one by one, on the museums’ own pages.
Last checked: 28 July 2026
20 March to 9 August 2026
The first comprehensive Brancusi retrospective in Germany in over fifty years, organised with the Centre Pompidou: over 150 sculptures and photographs, including a reconstruction of his Paris studio shown outside France for the first time since 1957. Closes 9 August.
11 July 2025 to 17 August 2026
The oil tanker recurs as a motif, not as transport but as symbol: Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri, who grew up amid the burning oil wells of the Gulf War, builds an installation of sculpture, video and painting on oil dependency. Small show, sharp point of view.
15 April to 23 August 2026
Marina Abramović's first major Berlin solo show since the 1990s, not a reassuring one: it revisits her 2005 'Balkan Erotic Epic' project, reworking Balkan rituals around the body and sexuality. Expect explicit content and a tone more political than decorative.
20 June to 2 September 2026
A retrospective for photographer Walter Schels' ninetieth birthday, known mainly for his portraits, including a project on dying patients: here the focus shifts to experimental material built up over almost seven decades. Over three hundred images, many unseen before.
16 June to 13 September 2026
Seventy ink drawings Dorothy Iannone made right after moving to West Berlin in 1976, paired with lyrical texts on desire and sexuality: an explicit, self-directed female voice, unusual for its time. Staged in dialogue with a new sound piece in the Cranach Hall.
22 May to 27 September 2026
A show about the dealer, not just the painters: in 1901 Paul Cassirer opened his Berlin gallery and for two decades was the main channel for Monet, Cézanne and van Gogh in Germany. More than a hundred works, timed to the Nationalgalerie's 150th anniversary.
27 March 2026 to 3 January 2027
The centrepiece is 'Truth', a monumental installation by India-born, Berlin-based artist Shilpa Gupta that repeats and manipulates the word itself, a direct way to address censorship without turning preachy. Staged in dialogue with the museum's Beuys collection.
Dates and prices change, and this page may not reflect the latest updates: before you travel, always check the museum’s own page, linked under each exhibition, which is the most reliable source.