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Top Event Photography © DZT, Foto: Dagmar Schwelle Top Event Photography To 20/09/2026 ANTON CORBIJN – ‘CORBIJN, ANTON’ Top Event Photography To 20/09/2026 To mark his fiftieth anniversary as a photographer, Corbijn is exhibiting nearly 200 works that have had a lasting impact on modern visual culture. His intimate and expressive portraits explore celebrities, artistic authorship, and the enduring power of the… Read more Location Fotografiska Berlin – Das zeitgenössische Museum für Fotografie, Kunst und Kultur Oranienburger Str. 60 10117 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 23:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/fotografiska-berlin-ticket-fuer-alle-ausstellungen#/ Buy tickets
Photography © Bruce Gilden Photography To 23/08/2026 BRUCE GILDEN ꟾ WHY THESE? Photography To 23/08/2026 A selection of 45 works showcases Gilden's radical and provocative style – from raw black and white to vibrant digital colors. His images, characterized by intimate proximity, reflect the intensity and fragility of urban life. Read more Contemporary Art Location Fotografiska Berlin – Das zeitgenössische Museum für Fotografie, Kunst und Kultur Oranienburger Str. 60 10117 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 23:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/fotografiska-berlin-ticket-fuer-alle-ausstellungen#/ Buy tickets
Top Event Art © Lina Lapelytė / Martynas Norvaisas Top Event Art To 08/01/2027 CHANEL Commission: Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours Top Event Art To 08/01/2027 With her performance “We Make Years Out of Hours,” Lina Lapelytė transforms the historic hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof into a place of collective action and singing as part of the second CHANEL Commission. Lapelytė is known for her meditative works, in which… Read more Contemporary Art Location Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Invalidenstraße 50-51 10557 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 18:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/tageskarte-hamburger-bahnhof-berlin-museum-fuer-gegenwartskunst#/ Buy tickets
Excursions © Barnett Newman Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 / Foto: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders Excursions 09/06/2026 + 4 additional dates From a curatorial perspective: Zerreißprobe Excursions 09/06/2026 + 4 additional dates Maike Steinkamp, Marta Smolińska and Joachim Jäger report from a curatorial perspective on the presentation, the themes and the background of the exhibition. Read more Guided tours of the museum Location Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Straße 50 10785 Berlin Time 16:30 pm – 17:30 pm https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=156261 Buy tickets
Photography © Margot Schmidt Photography To 04/10/2026 New Woman, New Vision - Women Photographers of the Bauhaus Photography To 04/10/2026 The female photographers at the Bauhaus experimented with photographic and design techniques, exploring the boundaries of their medium. They observed their surroundings through the camera lens, capturing numerous subjects from sometimes novel and unusual… Read more History Bauhaus & Modernism Location Museum für Fotografie - Helmut Newton Stiftung Jebensstraße 2 10623 Berlin Time 11:00 am – 19:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/museum-fuer-fotografie-tageskarte-fuer-alle-ausstellungen#/ Buy tickets
Top Event Art © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 / Foto: Frank Kleinbach, Stuttgart Top Event Art To 03/01/2027 Ruin and Rush. Berlin 1910–1930 Top Event Art To 03/01/2027 With the exhibition “Ruin and Rush,” the Neue Nationalgalerie focuses on selected works from its outstanding collection of classical modern art that address the themes of Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s. Marked by World War I and the Weimar Republic, these… Read more History The roaring twenties in Berlin Location Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Straße 50 10785 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 18:00 pm https://www.smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/neue-nationalgalerie/home/ Buy tickets
Art © Magda Voerster Art To 20/06/2026 The Sleep of Reason Art To 20/06/2026 “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos,” as Goya put it: “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” Monsters—that is, terrifying, eerie, ghostly, and gruesome creatures—accompany the artistic journey through the inner and outer worlds of the exhibiting artists. Read more International Contemporary Art Location Neurotitan Galerie von Schwarzenberg e.V. Rosenthaler Straße 39 10178 Berlin Time 12:00 pm – 20:00 pm https://neurotitan.de/Galerie/Archiv/2026/20263005_Schlaf-der-Vernunft.html
Workshop © shtetlberlin Workshop 09/06/2026 – 14/06/2026 Yiddish Culture Festival Workshop 09/06/2026 – 14/06/2026 Most Berliners know that the city was once home to a vibrant Jewish community. Less well known is that for much of the 20th century, it was also one of the world’s most important centers of Yiddish culture—a city where Yiddish writers published novels and… Read more History International Jewish Berlin Children City of music Politics & Society Location verschiedene Veranstaltungsorte Berlin Time 19:00 pm – 20:00 pm https://www.shtetlberlin.com/concerts?utm_source=visitberlin&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=standard_tickets Buy tickets
Puppet & Object Theatre © Mim Schneider Puppet & Object Theatre 10/06/2026 DIE KATZE VON KAMPEN Puppet & Object Theatre 10/06/2026 This year’s HEIMAT_KUNST festival week at the Theater im Palais Berlin, running from June 10, will also revolve around the annual theme “The Power of Women.” The festival kicks off with a gala evening featuring the puppet theater production *Die Katze von… Read more Location Theater im Palais Am Festungsgraben 1 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/die-katze-von-kampen/ Buy tickets
Art © Foto: Lutz Bertram, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova Art To 14/09/2026 Emilio Vedova ꟾ Absurd Berlin Diary ’64 Art To 14/09/2026 The room installation Absurdes Berliner Tagebuch ’64 (Absurd Berlin Diary ’64) by Italian painter Emilio Vedova (1919–2006) was created in 1964 as part of a scholarship from the American Ford Foundation. It enabled the artist to live and work in West Berlin… Read more Contemporary Art Location Berlinische Galerie - Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur Alte Jakobstraße 124-128 10969 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 18:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/tageskarte-berlinische-galerie-museum-fuer-moderne-kunst#/ Buy tickets
Architecture & Design © Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum (DZM) / Foto: Oleg Kuchar Architecture & Design To 28/03/2027 Heavy Fabric Architecture & Design To 28/03/2027 Vibrant colors on a golden background next to jet-black bridal attire: Danube Swabian traditional costumes provide surprising insights into the former lives of women and girls. This world was narrow, governed by village and church rules, but also expansive… Read more History Fashion and Design Sustainability Location Museum Europäischer Kulturen Arnimallee 25 14195 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 17:00 pm http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=87811 Buy tickets
Top Event Art © Raquel van Haver / Aliwaa Collective, 2025 Top Event Art To 03/08/2026 Living Room Top Event Art To 03/08/2026 Welcome to the Living Room. A gathering place of generations. This room invites you to read, relax, weave, knit, watch and listen. As part of the Family Matters programme, it offers the opportunity to unwind, become curious and actively explore. Read more Contemporary Art Location Humboldt Forum Schloßplatz 10178 Berlin Time 10:30 am – 18:30 pm https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/laufzeitangebot/ausstellung/wohnzimmer-157126/
Top Event Art © Marina Abramović, Courtesy der Marina Abramović Archives / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 Top Event Art To 23/08/2026 Marina Abramović: Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition Top Event Art To 23/08/2026 One of the most influential performance artists of all time, Marina Abramović presents Balkan Erotic Epic. The Exhibition at Gropius Bau in spring 2026. The show traces her ongoing engagement with ritual, eroticism, death and the body as a site of political… Read more Contemporary Art Location Various venues Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10117 Berlin Time 12:00 pm – 20:00 pm https://www.eventim.de/eventseries/gropius-bau-ein-ticket-fuer-alle-ausstellungen-3986155/?affiliate=VB1 Buy tickets
Cabaret & Comedy © ©PascalBuenning_MarkWaschke Cabaret & Comedy 10/06/2026 + 1 additional date Mark Waschke Cabaret & Comedy 10/06/2026 + 1 additional date Mark Waschke live. With questions and answers, insights and outlooks, thoughts and feelings. Read more Location Tor218 Art Lab Torstraße 218 10115 Berlin Time 20:00 pm Buy tickets
Panel discussion © Gundula Krause Panel discussion 10/06/2026 Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle with Ulli Zelle and Désirée Nick Panel discussion 10/06/2026 In “Rendez-vous au Centre Bagatelle,” Ulli Zelle regularly invites guests who surprise audiences with their poise, humor, and life experience. In this episode, he welcomes Désirée Nick—one of the most dazzling, intelligent, and yet most underrated voices in… Read more Location Kulturhaus Centre Bagatelle Zeltinger Str. 6 13465 Berlin-Frohnau Time 19:30 pm https://www.centre-bagatelle.de/events/rendez-vous-au-centre-bagatelle-3/
Musical © Festspielhaus Neuschwanstein gGmbH Musical 10/06/2026 + 3 additional dates The White Rose - A Musical by Alex Melcher & Vera Bolten Musical 10/06/2026 + 3 additional dates The White Rose is a musical about rethinking, responsibility, and courage. Awarded the German Musical Theatre Prize for Best Musical 2025. Read more City of music History of National Socialism On Tour Teenager Location Admiralspalast Friedrichstraße 101 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.eventim.de/eventseries/die-weisse-rose-musical-von-alex-melcher-vera-bolten-4053944/?affiliate=VB1 Buy tickets
Exhibitions © Visual: Yukiko / HKW Exhibitions 10/06/2026 + 4 additional dates Tirailleurs: Trials and Tribulations Exhibitions 10/06/2026 + 4 additional dates On 15 August 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron invited the world to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Allied landing in Provence that followed the Normandy invasion and was pivotal to liberating France and Europe from Nazi Germany. Read more History science Location Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin Time 12:00 pm – 19:00 pm https://www.hkw.de/programme/tirailleurs
Panel discussion © © Phil Dera Panel discussion 10/06/2026 ZEIT Forum Wissenschaft: America first, Europe alone? scenarios of a new world order Panel discussion 10/06/2026 Hardly any other country has shaped Germany and Europe as profoundly as the USA over the last 80 years – politically, economically, culturally and in terms of security policy. Yet it is precisely this relationship that is increasingly being called into… Read more Politics & Society Location Humboldt Forum Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin Time 18:00 pm – 20:00 pm https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/gespraech/america-first-europa-allein-163581/ Buy tickets
Photography © Anna Ehrenstein Photography 09/06/2026 + 3 additional dates ANNA EHRENSTEIN ꟾ THE LANGUAGE OF SOIL Photography 09/06/2026 + 3 additional dates Who keeps AI running – and what impact does this labor have on those who perform it? In The Language of the Soil, on view from 13 March to 12 June 2026, Anna Ehrenstein takes up this very question. Read more Location Fotografiska Berlin – Das zeitgenössische Museum für Fotografie, Kunst und Kultur Oranienburger Str. 60 10117 Berlin Time 10:00 am – 23:00 pm https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/fotografiska-berlin-ticket-fuer-alle-ausstellungen Buy tickets
Top Event Festival © cyan Top Event Festival To 25/07/2026 Anniversary Festival at HALLE Tanzbühne Berlin Top Event Festival To 25/07/2026 To mark the 30th anniversary of cie. toula limnaios, the Berlin-based dance ensemble will celebrate an anniversary festival from June 3 June through July 25, 2026, an anniversary festival that brings selected works from various creative phases to the stage… Read more Summer of Culture Location HALLE Tanzbühne Berlin Eberswalder Str. 10-11 10437 Berlin Time 20:30 pm
Photography © Archiv Robert Lebeck Photography To 21/06/2026 Berlin Originals VOL. I: Robert Lebeck Photography To 21/06/2026 No one is better suited to kick off this series than Robert Lebeck, a native Berliner. He is one of the defining figures of postwar German photojournalism. Read more International Politics & Society Location f3 – freiraum für fotografie Waldemarstraße 17 10179 Berlin Time 13:00 pm – 19:00 pm
