Top exhibitions in Berlin 2025
Must see: Highlights of Berlin’s museums and exhibition venues
Berlin's museums and exhibition centres are world-famous. Here is our selection of current and upcoming exhibition highlights in Berlin:
CURRENT
Art highlight 2025: two Kandinsky exhibitions in Berlin and Potsdam
until 18 May 2025. May 2025: Kosmos Kandinsky. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century at the Museum Barberini
1 March to 15 June 2025. June 2025: Kosmos Blauer Reiter. From Kandinsky to Campendonk in the Kupferstichkabinett
Two first-class exhibitions at the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin and the Museum Barberini in Potsdam will present important works by Wassily Kandinsky and the world's most famous artists almost simultaneously from February 2025:Inside Expressionism. In the Potsdam exhibition, you can follow the development of abstract painting in the 20th century over six decades and see around 100 works by the most renowned artists, including numerous international loans. In the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, watercolours, drawings and prints by the Blauer Reiter network of artists will inspire you. In addition to Kandinsky, you will see art by Klee, Marc, Heckel, Kirchner, Nolde, Pechstein, Delauny, von Jawlensky and many more.
When: Kosmos Kandinsky, until 18 May 2025
Where: Museum Barberini, Humboldtstraße 5-6, 14467 Potsdam
When: Kosmos Blauer Reiter, 1. March to 15. June 2025
Where: Kupferstichkabinett, Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz
10785 Berlin
Berlin meets the African Continent: See three important exhibitions in Berlin
Planet Africa. An archaeological journey through time
Planet Africa is a free, small but excellent exhibition for the whole family, which is being shown in several cities in Germany and in various African countries. It gives a good overview: Africa is the continent where the history of mankind began. You will learn, audiovisually prepared, basic facts about Africa's natural wealth through diversity, about raw materials and trade, about African archaeology and see a selection of archaeological finds and models. An overview of two million years of human history awaits you and your children.
When: until 27 April 2025
Where: James-Simon-Galerie, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
History(ies) of Tanzania
Did you know? During German colonial rule, Tanzania belonged to the colony of "German East Africa" and that was just over 100 years ago. The consequences of exploitation and oppression have left their mark even today. The Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum preserves around 10,000 cultural belongings from Tanzania. In the current special exhibition, the curators from Dar es Salaam, Songea and Berlin as well as representatives of the Tanzanian communities will also show you artistic positions of contemporary art.
When: until 24 November 2025
Where: Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz, 10178 Berlin
A World in Common
See 100 works of photographic art from Africa and the African diaspora. Artists from different generations and geographical contexts look at the world from an African perspective and question the Western-influenced view of the world. Africa is so rich: in culture, spirituality, landscapes, philosophies and knowledge systems. The photo artists boldly take a look into the future of Africa. Perhaps you will redefine this continent's place in the world after the exhibition.
When: until 7 May 2025
Where: C/O Berlin, Amerika-Haus, Hardenbergstraße 22-24, 10623 Berlin
Other exhibitions in Berlin
Reinhard Heydrich. Career and violence
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. This great special exhibition offers you a deep insight into the time of National Socialist terror, focusing on one of the most corrupt men of power of the Hitler era: Reinhard Heydrich not only committed numerous crimes against humanity as head of the "Reich Main Security Office", but was also one of the main organisers of the Holocaust. Interesting: The exhibition also looks at the view of Heydrich right up to today's far-right scene.
When: until 10 June 2025
Where: Topography of Terror, Documentation Centre, Niederkirchnerstraße 8, 10963 Berlin
Evil flowers
The poems "Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)" by Charles Baudelaire made scandalous waves in Paris in 1857 and are world-famous today. The Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection has come up with a great exhibition idea to bring together paintings and drawings, graphics, film and photography by renowned artists who were inspired by the Flowers of Evil, by the themes of eroticism, excess, intoxication and decay. Around 120 works will be presented, including 13 gigantic black silk flowers by light artist Otto Piene from 1969, which will bloom every hour in the darkened exhibition hall with thunder and lightning.
When: until 4 May 2025
Where: Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Schloßstraße 70, 14059 Berlin
From Odesa to Berlin
The first-class Museum of Western and Eastern Art in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa is currently under serious threat from the war in Ukraine. Of the countless works of art, 60 masterpieces of European art from the 16th to 19th centuries are now being brought out of the country and to Berlin to protect them from the destruction of war, where they will enter into dialogue with paintings from the Berlin collections in a major special exhibition. Visit this exciting, magnificent project!
When: 24 January to 22 June 2025
Where: Gemäldegalerie, Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz 4, 10785 Berlin
Dinosaurs! Age of the giant lizards
At eye level with predatory dinosaurs: right at the beginning you will see three spectacular original predatory dinosaur skulls, including the rare find of a young T-Rex. Experience the public's favourite Tristan, the pitch-black original skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
When: Special exhibition until further notice
Where: Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin
Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
The Neue Nationalgalerie's new collection presentation on art after 1945 documents a time of turmoil: the post-war years, the Cold War, social upheaval and the fall of the Berlin Wall. See masterful artistic positions from the Federal Republic and the GDR, from Western Europe and the USA as well as from the former socialist states.
When: until 28 September 2025
Where: Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin
Stadtbad RELOADED: AMBILIGHT
Lost Place meets Digital Art - explore a 96-year-old swimming pool with over 150 digital works of art and a 63,000 LED light installation. An unforgettable adventure for young and old. Average length of stay: 90 minutes.
Pergamon Museum. The panorama
The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island is closed. But the 360° staging by Yadegar Asisi in a unique collaboration with the Collection of Classical Antiquities allows visitors to experience the Pergamon Altar in its original form on the Acropolis: with around 80 of the most important works from Pergamon - including the largest part of the Telephos frieze from the Pergamon Altar and the "Beautiful Head", the colossal head of Heracles.
When: Permanent exhibition
Where: Temporary exhibition building, Am Kupfergraben 2, 10117 Berlin
IKONO Berlin: endless fun and creativity
Explore the city’s newest immersive experience in Alexanderplatz. At IKONO, art, play and the unexpected combine to offer visitors an unforgettable adventure filled with self-discovery, interactivity, and joy throughout its 14 immersive rooms.
ON VIEW
EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography
March 2025 is all about the largest biennial festival of photographic images in Germany. Museums and exhibition venues, memorials, cultural institutes and art academies will present the works of young and established photo artists and offer an extensive accompanying programme. In view of the dangerous and threatening political situation in the world, the leitmotif for 2025 is "what stands between us".
When:1 to 31 March 2025
Where: various art and culture venues in Berlin
YOKO ONO - Music of the Mind
The world-famous Japanese artist and activist Yoko Ono is coming to Berlin: The Gropius Bau is dedicating a large solo exhibition to her with more than 200 exhibits, such as films, photographs, music, scores and installations. Organised by Tate Modern in London, the exhibition gives you a great impression of the radicality of Ono's work in terms of language, participation and art, which continues to have an impact today.
When: 11 April to 31 August 2025
Where: Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
Raoul Hausmann. 1886 - 1971
Raoul Hausmann stands for the courageous avant-garde of classical modernism, his groundbreaking innovations had a considerable influence on subsequent generations of artists. As one of the first artists to work in multimedia, co-founder of Dada, photographer, author and poet, Hausmann is being given a comprehensive retrospective with around 200 works from national and international collections.
When: 7 November 2025 to 16 March 2026
Where: Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstraße 124-128, 10969 Berlin
In Berlin 2025 you will find the most important highlights of the year.
