Berlin Art Week 2026 is here, and with a fifteenth anniversary programme that includes more than three hundred events and one hundred exhibition openings you’d be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed at the thought of choosing just a handful to experience.
From the closing-week of the Julia Stoschek Foundation’s Berlin outpost, (featuring an evening of film with 10DE favourite Matt Lambert titled If You Can Reach My Heart You Can Keep It), and the launch of photographer Vincent Wechselberger’s second photobook Dreams and How to Keep Them, to the unveiling of Deoron’s temporary home for beautiful objects at Monopol Berlin, and four-day listening experience The Ear is the Eye of the Soul at Reethaus, there’s plenty to keep you busy this week.
Luckily, many of the exhibitions opening throughout the next few days (including nine of the ten listed below) will stay open for the weeks and months to come, so you’ve got more than enough time to work your way through our guide in full.
Image credit: Jakub Jansa, ‘Subterraneans’. Installation view.
Location: Rudi-Dutschke-Straße 26
Dates: 8 September – 4 October 2026
Subterraneans is Czech artist Jakub Jansa’s first solo showing in Berlin. Recognisable for his politically and culturally articulate but surrealist approach to film, sculpture, installation and live performance elements, Jansa’s video work The Silence of the Mole is currently on display as part of the The Czech and Slovak Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale. Presented by Prague-based gallery KodlContemporary, and curated by Anya Harrison, Subterraneans brings together three films from Jansa’s ongoing Club of Opportunities series — Shame to Pride (2021), Opening Ceremony (2022) and Pumpkinville (2024) — that examine the societal mechanisms of belonging within a fictional “Vegesociety”.
Location: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Chausseestraße 128-129
Dates: 10 September 2026 – 29 August 2027
Having recently found themselves back in the headlines as feminist artist and sculptor Joyce Kozloff officially unmasked herself as a founding member of the famously anonymous activist collective, Guerrilla Girls have been challenging the art world’s conscience for four decades. On the evening of 9 September, during art week, Guerrilla Girl Frida Kahlo will make an appearance at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), marking the opening of a new site-specific work, created especially for the n.b.k. facade.
Image credit: Carrie Mae Weems, ‘Welcome_Home’. 1978.
Carrie Mae Weems, The Heart of the Matter
Location: C/O Berlin Amerika Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22-2
Dates: 12 September 2026 – 3 February 2027
Carrie Mae Weems is one of the art world’s most influential names. Using her own personal history as a foundation, she uses her work as tool for exploration, examining how images shape memory and visibility. Opening during Berlin Art Week 2026, The Heart of the Matter is a new exhibition of Weems’ work at C/O Berlin, featuring more than one hundred photographs and videos spanning key early works to recent pieces.
Location: Schinkel Pavillon, Oberwallstraße 32
Dates: 10 September – 20 December 2026
At Schinkel Pavillon in Mitte, Projections onto the East examines how the idea of the “East” is constructed as a cultural, aesthetic and political projection surface, questioning the persistent binary between East and West. Bringing together international artists, scholars and writers, the multipart exhibition explores both historical and contemporary tensions.
Image credit: Katharina Sieverding, ‘Life—Death’, (Still) 1969.
Katharina Sieverding, Life—Death
Locations: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Charlottenstraße 24
Dates: 11 September – 7 November
Showcased at documenta 5 in Kassel back in 1972, German photographer Katharina Sieverding’s 1969 film Life–Death was created in what was then known as West Berlin. It encapsulates the early years of her creative practice while representing a key moment in history, when concentrated political, social and aesthetic shifts took place. The film lends its name to a new exhibition Galerie Thomas Schulte, where it is presented as the heat of the show, complemented by large-format film stills.
Achraf Touloub, Pleiades
Location: Galeria Plan B, Strausberger Pl. 1, 10243 Berlin
Dates: 10 September – 14 November 2026
Achraf Touloub’s solo exhibition at Galeria Plan B explores painting as a space where thought, perception and materiality converge. His works move between bodies, landscapes, cities and cosmic realms, using luminous colour, layered forms and fluid compositions to evoke the circulation of people, information and capital across increasingly porous territories.
Image credit: Heinz Mack at St. Matthäus Church. Installation view. Photography: Leo Seidel.
Heinz Mack, Spectrum Mundi
Location: St. Matthäus Church, Matthäikirchplatz
Dates: 3–13 September 2026
Developed in collaboration between the non-profit Mack Foundation and PArt Foundation/Spiegelberger Stiftung, Heinz Mack’s new exhibition Spectrum Mundi brings together 24 new paintings from Mack’s Chromatic Constellation series, made over the past year and conceived around the 24-hour cycle of the day. Presented in the year the artist turns 95, the works embrace the tonal architecture of everyday life, from the luminosity of morning to the deeper tones of night, investigating colour and its immaterial qualities.
Location: Pace Gallery, Die Tankstelle, Bülowstraße 18
Dates: 10 September – 11 November 2026
Curated by American painter Loie Hollowell, Pace will present Exquisite Corpse at the serene Tankstelle gallery space it shares with Galerie Judin. The exhibition is an ode to the influential Austro-American artist Kiki Kogelnik, whose artistic influence Hollowell uncovered while in conversation with her own contemporaries Sascha Braunig and Veronika Pausova. This show will bring together works by all four artists, traversing continents and generations.
Image credit: Tuan Andrew Nguyen, ‘Parrot‘s Beak / Mỏ Két’, 2026 (detail). © Tuan Andrew Nguyen. Photo © Chuong Pham.
Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Fire Sermon
Location: Esther Schipper, Potsdamer Str. 81e
Dates: 10 September – 24 October 2026
Marking his debut outing with the gallery, Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen will unveil new exhibition Fire Sermon at Esther Schipper, featuring five new sculptures from the artist’s series of mobiles. The mobiles have been produced using artillery shells salvaged in Vietnam and the essence of the work is a distillation of sentiment borrowed from Nguyen’s 2022 film The Unburied Sounds of a Troubled Horizon.
Location: Wilhelm Hallen, Kopenhagener Str. 60-72
Dates: 5 – 13 September 2026
Produced by Wilhelm Studios, Hallen 07 returns for its seventh edition from 5–13 September at Wilhelm Hallen, welcoming more than 30 galleries, art institutions, corporate collections, artists and designers. New participants include SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg and Villa Merkel, presenting works by Bárbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca, Julian Charrière and Ivana de Vivanco, while Berlinische Galerie will spotlight Jeewi Lee, this year’s GASAG Art Prize recipient. .
