There are 10 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: 17 October 2026
19 June to 6 December 2026
Gabriele Stötzer’s largest solo show to date, with about a hundred and fifty works across photography, performance, Super 8, ceramics and textiles. In 1976 she was jailed in East Germany over a petition, and afterwards co-founded a women artists’ group in Erfurt.
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.
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.
18 June 2026 to 17 January 2027
The first in a series in which the Alte Nationalgalerie hosts the collection of another national gallery. This time it is the National Museum in Warsaw, with Jacek Malczewski’s Polish Hamlet and Jan Matejko’s portrait of three of his children.
10 October 2026 to 31 January 2027
More than a hundred drawings by twenty-eight Flemish artists made between 1570 and 1650, from quick sketches to figure studies for paintings, prints and tapestries. It is the Kupferstichkabinett’s first show of this kind in fifty years.
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.
16 October 2026 to 14 March 2027
Some ninety masterpieces from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, mostly from the Gemäldegalerie, paired across eras and cultures: Botticelli beside Lempicka, Dürer, Holbein, Titian and Rembrandt. The final section carries the theme into the selfie age.
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.
9 October 2026 to 27 June 2027
From 2002 to 2013 Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Olafur Eliasson, Henrik Håkansson and Tomás Saraceno had studios in the Rieckhallen next to the museum. For Hamburger Bahnhof’s thirtieth year they are reunited, with Saraceno’s 14 Billions shown again after fifteen years.
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.
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.