From 10–14 September 2025, Berlin Art Week kicks off the new art season. Over 100 museums, collections, galleries, project spaces, and the art fair Positions will shape a diverse festival program—making the German capital a hotspot for contemporary art for five full days.
Visitors can look forward to numerous solo exhibitions by national and international artists: Petrit Halilaj at Hamburger Bahnhof, Erik Schmidt, Cornelia Parker, Phoebe Collings-James, and Cihad Caner at Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art, Mark Leckey at the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Issy Wood at Schinkel Pavillon, Jordan Strafer at Fluentum, Charmaine Poh at PalaisPopulaire, or Jiyoung Yoon at daadgalerie.
In addition to solo presentations, the festival week will also feature exciting group exhibitions. To mark its 15th anniversary, Savvy Contemporary presents various artistic positions reflecting on migrant everyday realities and invites visitors to rethink the concept of home. At Haus der Kulturen der Welt, aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism are examined.
Performance series draw visitors to the Neue Nationalgalerie or HAU Hebbel am Ufer. As part of the Open Houses program, renowned private collections will open their doors—no registration required. With Discovering Collections! visitors can take part in guided tours through private spaces of Berlin-based collectors that have never before been accessible to the public.
The art market also presents itself in all its diversity during Berlin Art Week: the Positions Berlin Art Fair features 75 galleries from 18 countries at the former Tempelhof Airport, while around 50 Berlin galleries invite visitors to a Gallery Night on Thursday evening. Emerging gallerists will also be honored with the VBKI Prize for Berlin Galleries as part of Berlin Art Week.
25 selected special projects, independent project spaces, and initiatives will shape this year’s Featured selection with program highlights at unusual and lesser-known locations across Berlin.
Detailed information about all participating partners is now available at berlinartweek.de.
Main Image: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gropius Bau ∏ Kristin Krause for Berlin Art Week