Returning for its 22nd edition, from May 1–3, 2026, Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026 is bringing the work of artists from around the world to the German capital once more, with 50 galleries presenting more than 80 artistic positions across 63 locations in the main programme alone. Additional off-programme offerings include the fourth edition of Sellerie Weekend, where non-profit and unconventional art voices make themselves visible to culture-seekers and art-lovers exploring the city’s creative landscape.
Berlin’s wealth of arts institutions are also putting their best foot forward this week. At Hamburger Bahnhof, the second edition of the CHANEL Commission, created by artist Lina Lapelytė, will be unveiled. We Make Years Out of Hours will emerge as an evolving performance and collective construction staged in the Historic Hall, recasting the space as a setting for shared action and song.
With so much to see, and many galleries showcasing more than one exhibition, 10DE’s Arts Editor Milly Burroughs shares the art spaces featured in the official Gallery Weekend Berlin programme she is most looking forward to seeing this year.
Location: Weydingerstraße 10
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- Jiyoon Chung, Dead End
From 2 May until 6 June 2026, Anton Janizewski will unveil Dead End, South Korea-born artist Jiyoon Chung’s first exhibition in Berlin. Based between Frankfurt am Main and Seoul, Chung’s work — which aims to disrupt and question daily mundanity — will be presented “in the context of the current intensification of security politics, which continues to suppress the search for social solutions”.
Image credit: Jiyoon Chung, ‘Hyperreal’, 1.0, 2026, 79 x 101 x 10 cm. Epoxy resin, graffiti extracted with solvent. Courtesy of the artist and Anton Janizewski. Copyright Brian Kure.
Location: Fasanenstraße 29
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- Franz West and Bruno Gironcoli, Logical Disorder
Presented by Galerie Crone in collaboration with Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Logical Disorder is a new exhibition that combines the work of influential Austrian artists Franz West and Bruno Gironcoli, who died in 2012 and 2010 respectively. Starring provocative sculptures and art objects, the show’s title refers to the “converging divergence” of the pair’s practices, as well as their mutual urge “to give form to existence in all its absurdity”.
Image credit: Franz West, ‘Madley I’ 1996-2003. Courtesy Galerie Crone, Berlin Wien, and Galerie Thoman, Innsbruck Wien.
Location: Potsdamer Str. 81e
- Tauba Auerbach, Easy Assembly
- Celeste Rapone, Hyperarousal
Esther Schipper Berlin will present two new exhibitions during Gallery Weekend 2026, on view until 20 June 2026. Easy Assembly is New York-based artist Tauba Auerbach’s second exhibition with the gallery and consists of thirteen pointillist paintings that detail microscopic images of soap-made foams. On view alongside Auerbach’s work, Hyperarousal is American artist Celeste Rapone’s first outing with the internationally recognised gallery, debuting three paintings that explore “the heated juncture of sensuous stimulation and nervous irritation in narratively dense compositions”.
Image credit: Tauba Auerbach, ‘Foam’, 2026. Acrylic on Dibond panel, 122 x 183 cm. Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/Paris/Seoul. © the artist / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026. Photo: Steven Probert.
Location: Linienstraße 119
IG: @galerie_neu
- Group exhibition, Counter City
Curated by Juliette Desorgues, Counter City considers the Western city as a political and physical space shaped by patriarchal capitalism, in which authority and violence are embedded and doomed to repeat. The exhibition brings together works by Cosima von Bonin, Jana Euler, Pippa Garner, Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, G.B. Jones, Klara Lidén, Reba Maybury, Sophy Rickett, Anita Steckel and Lena Tutunjian.
Image credit: Sophy Rickett,’ Vauxhall Bridge’, ‘Pissing Women’ series, 1995. Courtesy the artist.
Location: Wielandstraße 26
IG: @societeberlin
- Wynnie Mynerva, Volveré y seré millones
- Edi Rama, Chrysalizing
At Société, a new exhibition of works by Berlin and Barcelona-based Peruvian artist Wynnie Mynerva references the final words of revolutionary Andean leader Túpac Katari and emerges from the artist’s concerns surrounding violence in the Middle East, the global construction of Berlin as an icon of “sexual liberation” and her personal experience of migration in Europe.
In his debut solo exhibition at Société, artist and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama — who trained as a painter at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana and worked as an artist in Paris before moving into politics — will present a new series of bronze sculptures created by translating original drawings into 3D-printed forms, which are then modeled by hand before being cast.
Image credit: Wynnie Mynerva, ‘La persistencia, 2026’. Oil on canvas, 191 x 255 x 5 cm. Courtesy the artist, Société, Berlin and Gathering London / Ibiza. Photo: Trevor Good.
Location: Oranienburger Straße 18
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- Thomas Demand
- Robert Elfgen, utopisch
- Martine Syms, Dominica Publishing, a temporary boutique
With a bumper offering of three projects displayed throughout its cavernous Berlin gallery space, blue chip giant Sprüth Magers will present an exhibition of new works by German photography and sculpture artist Thomas Demand alongside an exhibition by mytho-poetic artistic Robert Elfgen — known for his explorations of the relationship between humankind and nature as multifaceted assemblages and installations. Presented a street-facing exhibition space, Martine Syms’ Dominica Publishing sees artwork, merchandise and a selection of Syms’ publications converge as a conceptual boutique.
Image credit: Robert Elfgen, ‘Al Na Jr, 2026’. Concrete, fabric, photo collage, brass, metallic spray paint 42 × 64 cm | 16 1/2 × 25 1/8 inches.
Location: Potsdamer Straße 77-87
- Group exhibition, The Self Assessed
On view from 30 April until 30 May 2026, Galerie Max Hetzler presents The Self Assessed; an exhibition of reflective self-portraits curated by Cornelius Tittel, featuring works by Rita Ackermann, Lorenzo Amos, Oliver Bak, Georg Baselitz, Giorgio de Chirico, Michaela Eichwald, Tracey Emin, Grant Falardeau, Eric Fischl, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Maria Lassnig, Victor Man, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Rudolf Stingel, Thomas Struth and Rebecca Warren.
Image credit: Tracey Emin, ‘We Sit Together’, 2025. Acrylic on canvas. 182 x 152 cm.; 71 5/8 x 59 7/8 in. © Tracey Emin. All rights reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy the artist and Xavier Hufkens. Photo: def image.
Location: Die Tankstelle, Bülowstraße 18
IG: @galeriejudin
- Adam Lupton, Too Sure of the Sun
Since arriving in Berlin, Canadian painter Adam Lupton has redefined his practice with a focus on just two colors: blue and red, finding creative liberation within this self-imposed limitation. In a new exhibition at Galerie Judin’s Die Tankstelle location — opened in Spring 2025 in collaboration with Pace — Lupton will present a new body of paintings, within which he is the eternal protagonist, exploring the domestic, aesthetic decisions we make in our daily lives, and the societal and cultural influences that drive our subconscious.
Image credit: Adam Lupton, ‘What Now/Now What’, 2026. Photo: © the artist. Courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin.
Location: Strausberger Platz 1
IG: @galeriaplanb
On view 1–30 May 2026, Galeria Plan B will unveil its second exhibition with Romanian artist Marieta Chirulescu during Gallery Weekend Berlin 2026. Recognised for her abstract practice, Chirulescu probes the mechanics of reproduction, erasure and the image’s inherent instability, working continuously across painting, digital manipulation, collage and printmaking.
Image credit: Marieta Chirulescu, ‘Untitled’, 2024. Glue pigments and canvas on canvas, 50 x 40 cm. Courtesy the artist and Plan B Cluj, Berlin. Photo: Trevor Good.
Location: Linienstraße 40
- Monty Richthofen, HARD 2 4GET
Throughout the weekend, Dittrich & Schlechtreim will present HARD 2 4GET: a new project by Berlin-based artist Monty Richthofen. A series of interventions will begin at Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and unfold across the city, embracing the German capital’s urban landscape as a collaborator and a canvas. As a choreography of Richthofen’s core practices of performance and textual experimentation, HARD 2 4GET will see a convoy of spray-painted vehicles bearing text-based compositions thread through Berlin’s traffic, briefly disrupting the flow before it slips back into mundane rhythm without question. Interventions will also take place at Ernst-Reuter-Platz, the Victory Column and Strausberger Platz.
Image credit: © Monty Richthofen, ‘HARD 2 4GET’, 2026. Photo: Lukas Städler. Courtesy Dittrich & Schlechtreim, Berlin.
