Ever the city of forward-thinking delights, Berlin is gearing up for its 2025 Art Week, promising a cavalcade of artistic wonders. Of course, all cities promise to tease out their most sensational qualities for an international audience, so what will Berlin bring this year? So far, the story has thematic beats of migration and fascism, topics that have growing relevance in Germany and the world at large.
Press Release Berlin Art Week:
Berlin Art Week 2025: Locations and Partners of the Festival Week announced
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. The complete program for Berlin Art Week 2025 will be published in early August in the full program calendar—with weekly updates already available via the Berlin Art Week Newsletter.
BERLIN ART WEEK | PARTNER 2025
INSTITUTIONS Berlinische Galerie, C/O Berlin, daadgalerie, Georg Kolbe Museum, Gropius Bau, Hamburger Bahnhof-Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Haus am Lützowplatz, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, ifa-Galerie Berlin, Kindl-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, LAS Art Foundation, Neue Nationalgalerie, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, PalaisPopulaire, Savvy Contemporary, Schering Stiftung, Schinkel Pavillon, Sophiensæle, Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Boros Collection, Fluentum, haubrok foundation, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Kienzle Art Foundation, Kunsthaus Berlin | Achim Freyer Stiftung, Miettinen Collection, Sammlung Ivo Wessel, The Feuerle Collection
ART FAIR Positions Berlin Art Fair
GALLERIES Gallery Award: Robert Grunenberg, Galerie Molitor, Mountains, Gallery Night: Galerie Bastian, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, BQ, Galerie Buchholz, Buchmann Galerie, Capitain Petzel, carlier | gebauer, Contemporary Fine Arts, Crone, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Ebensperger, Galerie Eigen+Art, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Galerie Friese, Galerie Michael Haas, Heidi, Galerie Max Hetzler, HUA International, Galerie Judin, Klemm’s, Galerie Noah Klink, KOW, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Tanya Leighton, alexander levy, Levy Galerie, Meyer Riegger, Galerie Molitor, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Galerie Neu, neugerriemschneider, Nome, Pace, Galerie Plan B, PSM, Schiefe Zähne, Esther Schipper, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Société, Soy Capitán, Sprüth Magers, Sweetwater, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Trautwein Herleth, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Wentrup, Hallen #6: Wilhelm Hallen
FEATURED 2025 Between Bridges, CCA Berlin-Center for Contemporary Arts, Flutgraben | Fortuna, Galerie Wedding-Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Grotto, Haus der Visionäre, Anahita Sadighi, Haus des Papiers | A Trans, Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße, Kvost-Kunstverein Ost, Neun Kelche, Number 1 Main Road, Paint Shop, Passage Art | Funkhaus, Pickle Bar | soft power, Refuge Worldwide, Remise im Wrangelkiez, Ryan Mendoza Studio, S27-Falscher Fisch, Scherben, Sinema Transtopia, Spoiler Aktionsraum, Stiftung St. Matthäus, Studio DB, Trauma
Berlin Art Week is a project by Kulturprojekte Berlin. It is funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, the Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises, and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The festival is realised with support from Berliner Volksbank eG.
Berlin Art Week
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
