There are 4 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: 21 September 2026
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.
10 September 2026 to 17 January 2027
In the sixties and seventies, labour agreements with Italy, Greece and Turkey changed Kreuzberg before the rest of West Germany. This group show reconstructs the art that grew there around labour migration, until now barely recognised.
12 September 2026 to 3 February 2027
C/O Berlin devotes an exhibition to Carrie Mae Weems, the American photographer who since the eighties has worked on Black identity, gender and power. It includes the Kitchen Table Series of 1990, shot entirely around a single kitchen table.
11 September 2026 to 20 June 2027
The first major European retrospective of Ryuichi Sakamoto, the composer who kept moving the border between sound, film and visual art. At its heart are the installations made with Shiro Takatani and one with Apichatpong Weerasethakul, to be listened to more than looked at.
One exhibition that has not opened yet, but whose dates are already announced.
9 October 2026 to 17 January 2027
The Gropius Bau devotes an exhibition to Christoph Schlingensief, the German director and artist who died in 2010 and who mixed sensational political actions, radical stagings and performance until theatre and visual art could no longer be told apart.
It is always these 5, and I check them one by one. When a venue has nothing on I say so, with the date I checked: it is something you would otherwise have to look up museum by museum.
| Venue | Status |
|---|---|
| Alte Nationalgalerie | nothing on, checked on 21 September 2026 |
| C/O Berlin (Amerika Haus) | exhibition on |
| Gemäldegalerie (Kupferstichkabinett, Kulturforum) | programme not yet checked |
| Gropius Bau | exhibition on |
| Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart | exhibition on |
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.