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Featuring international contemporary art and artists rooted in Berlin since 2010. Published by Mona Productions.

The exhibition and public program ‘Archive des Ephemeren’ presented by Kunstverein Tiergarten opens this week, asking how movement, memory and sensory experience can be archived, as well as how we can do justice to the ephemeral. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including, silent green Kulturquartier, and more

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At Künstlerhaus Bethanien this week, attaque[e]r le visible presents the screening ‘Collaborative Assemblages’, an insight into the feminist, collaborative working methods in experimental film of the 1970s and 1980s. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including ngbk, silent green Kulturquartier, Forecast Festival, UdK, and more

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Bahar Behbahani is an Iranian-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose has an ongoing engagement with the Persian garden. Noushin Afzali interviews her, discussing how history remains in the present: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/07/03/i...

An Interview with Bahar Behbahani | Berlin Art Link

Noushin Afzali interviews artist Bahar Behbahani about her engagement with the Persian Garden as a central feature of her practice

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‘A Bird That Cannot Land’ is the 2026 Kyiv Biennial’s chapter at KW. July 8–11, the Biennial presents its live program, foregrounding Berlin’s diasporic communities in dialogue with translocal artistic practices. Performers include Nour Sokhon + Wafaa Saied. www.kw-berlin.de/en/exhibitio...

Kyiv Biennial A Bird That Cannot Land - Exhibitions - KW Institute for Contemporary Art

The Kyiv Biennial is a nomadic, international project that interweaves artistic, political, and social issues. A Bird That Cannot Land, its chapter at KW, takes shape as an extensive live and discursi...

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Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠ ⁠ 𝗥𝘂𝘀𝘂𝗱𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗵𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝘃𝗶𝗹𝗶: ‘𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲’ Exhibition opening @ Kornfeld Galerie July 3; 6–9pm⁠ ⁠ 𝗧𝗲𝗼 𝗔𝗹𝗮-𝗥𝘂𝗼𝗻𝗮, 𝗘𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻 & 𝗟𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 Concert + performance @ Tropez July 5; 2-6pm⁠ www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/29/t...

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including WIRWIR, KW, SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY, Ballhaus Ost, and more

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At Ballhaus Ost this week, the performance piece ‘True Romance’ by Stefan Mießeler engages with pig butchering - a scam where a real and beautiful relationship is sold to you, with a huge financial price. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including WIRWIR, KW, SCHWARZ CONTEMPORARY, Ballhaus Ost, and more

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Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠ ⁠ 𝗞𝗲𝘅𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗼: ‘𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝘀 𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆’⁠ Performance @picklebar.berlin⁠ June 26; 7pm⁠ ⁠ ⁠⁠ 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘃 𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝘇𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗞ü𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗳ö𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗻𝘀⁠ Open House @stadtmuseumberlin⁠ June 27; 12–6pm⁠⁠ ⁠ www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/22/t...

Urgent questions on repatriation form the political backdrop of ‘Tide of Returns,’ an exhibition by Repatriates Collective and Verena Melgarejo Weinandt at Ocean Space in Venice. Alison Hugill writes on the still-unresolved question of financial restitution: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/25/t...

Review of ‘Tide of Returns’ at Ocean Space | Berlin Art Link

Alison Hugill reviews the exhibition ‘Tide of Returns’ at TBA21-Academy’s Ocean Space in Venice

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In ‘Collective Osmosis’ at DAS MINSK, Oscar Murillo extends his interest in circulation, collectivity, visibility + the political implications of artistic work across borders and barriers, engaging with the metaphor of osmosis. Adela Lovric interviews Murillo: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/23/o...

An Interview with Oscar Murillo | Berlin Art Link

Adela Lovric interviews artist Oscar Murillo in the context of his solo exhibition ‘Collective Osmosis’ at Das Minsk and Museum Barberini in Potsdam

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Scale has been our feature topic for May and June, dealing with the minute and the grandiose, especially in this moment of world politics and climate devastation feeling beyond our control. ⁠⁠ Read more in Alison Hugill’s Letter from the Editor: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/05/12/l...

Letter from the Editor: Scale | Berlin Art Link

Alison Hugill introduces the new featured topic ‘Scale’ with reference to several articles by contributors

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‘Freiraum Kunst’ is a 2 week exhibition in Schloss Bellevue, the 1785 Prussian palace emptied for renovation. Dagmara Genda writes on toeing the official party line, staging female bodies + asking: where was the real biting political critique? www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/19/f...

Review of ‘Freiraum Kunst’ at Schloss Bellevue | Berlin Art Link

Dagmara Genda reviews the group exhibition ‘Freiraum Kunst’ presented by Akademie der Künste at Schloss Bellevue

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The performance ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ takes place at Sophiensaele this week, using vocabulary from circus, ballet, acrobatics, pop, and TikTok to comment on the 2008 financial crisis and an annual ritual ceremony of the private club Bohemian Grove. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Polish Art Week, ngbk, Schering Stiftung, and more

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Project Space Festival, May 30-June 28, encompasses events across Berlin’s self-organized spaces. Jesse Slater followed the first week across the city, discussing discordant constellations, carefully-constructed exoskeletons + the messy details of life leaking: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/18/p...

Review of Project Space Festival 2026 | Berlin Art Link

Jesse Slater reviews the first half of the month-long Project Space Festival, featuring exhibitions at Errant Sound, Passage, Solaris Space and ACUD

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Radical counter-concepts to state repression and control, particularly through making space for vulnerability and desire, is the thread running through works by German 20th century artist and activist Gabriele Stötzer’s œuvre. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings, including Gropius Bau, C/O Berlin, Sophiensæle, and more

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In collaboration with TBA21, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum presents ‘Pedagogies of War’ by Ukrainian artists Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk, depicting war as beyond physical destruction. Adela Lovric writes on life split into a before and an after war: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/12/p...

Review ‘Pedagogies of War’ at TBA Madrid | Berlin Art Link

Adela Lovric reviews the exhibition ‘Pedagogies of War’ by Roman Khimei and Yarema Malashchuk at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid

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Schwules Museum’s exhibition ‘Cruising the Countryside’ offers a cross-section of queer printed matter + paraphernalia by queer people in remote parts of Germany. Olivia Noss discusses how the elderly + queer youth can tackle their challenges in solidarity: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/12/c...

Review ‘Cruising the Countryside’ Group Show | Berlin Art Link

Olivia Noss reviews the group exhibition ‘Cruising the Countryside’ at Berlin’s Schwules Museum

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Shilpa Gupta’s solo exhibition ‘What Still Holds’ at Hamburger Bahnhof considers what happens when a political force encounters systems designed to suppress it. As part of Scale, Carolin Kralapp writes on the exhibition and how it engages with silencing: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/12/s...

Review of Shilpa Gupta at Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin Art Link

Carolin Kralapp reviews the solo show of Shilpa Gupta at Hamburger Bahnhof as part of the featured topic Scale

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June 22–28, Polish Art Week + the 7th Avant Art Festival return to Berlin, presenting an interdisciplinary program of contemporary experimental practices. The program opens at Panke Gallery with immersive installation ‘The Gospels of Aerial’ by Women-Antennas: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/09/p...

Preview of Polish Art Week Berlin | Berlin Art Link

A preview of the upcoming program of Polish Art Week Berlin and the 7th Avant Art Festival, running from June 22nd to 28th

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In many ways, Oat Montien’s evolving practice draws on his years growing up in a brothel, the work circling themes of sexuality, gender and desire. Adela Lovric visited him in his studio, writing on the ghosts that allow Montien to process unresolved tensions: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/08/o...

Studio Visit with Oat Montien | Berlin Art Link

Adela Lovric visits Thai artist Oat Montien in his Bangkok studio during the Thailand Biennial Phuket

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This week, KW presents a chapter of the 2026 Kyiv Biennial titled ‘A Bird That Cannot Land,’ linking post-Soviet Eastern Europe with Central and Southwest Asia, and the Mediterranean, questioning how we make meaning during times of war. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including KW, Haus am Waldsee, Sophiensæle, Galerie im Turm, Klemm’s, and more

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This weekend, June 5–7, Britzenale returns for its 6th edition, 21 artistic works presented across Zur Windmühle e.V.. The exhibition opens this evening at 6pm and spans across the weekend, with a program of tours, performances, listening sessions, activities, and conversations: www.britzenale6.com

Berlin Britzenale, Kunst, Schrebergarten, Urban Gardening, contemporary art, Art | ortsspezifische kunst | Britz, Berlin, Germany

Ortsspezifische Kunstausstellung im Schrebergarten Neukölln-Britz. Contemporary  Art , Sustainability, environmentally friendly, resource-saving, Nature.Kunst im Dialog mit der Natur vor dem Hintergru...

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As part of our feature topic Scale, Louise Trueheart writes on Florentina Holzinger’s major exhibition ‘SEAWORLD VENICE’ for the Austrian Pavillion of the 61st Biennale for Art in Venice. Truehart discusses how the artist makes a real thing into a fiction: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/05/f...

Review of Florentina Holzinger in Venice | Berlin Art Link

Louise Trueheart reviews Florentina Holzinger’s ‘SEAWORLD VENICE’ at the 61st Venice Biennale as part of our featured topic Scale

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Richard Hawkins’ ‘Potentialities’ at Kestner Gesellschaft presents the last 20 years of the artist’s oeuvre–paintings, ceramic reliefs, sculptures, collages and video works, as well as sticky note-laden documents on process. Mia Butter writes on the exhibition: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/06/02/r...

Review Richard Hawkins at Kestner Gesellschaft | Berlin Art Link

Mia Butter reviews the solo exhibition ‘Potentialities’ by Richard Hawkins at Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover

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June 12–27, Sophiensæle presents international performance festival ‘Never Work’ engaging with disenchantment with work under capitalism + the connection between labor, survival + constant work on the self. There are 16 events in the program. Buy tickets: sophiensaele.com/en/festival/...

Festival Never Work

International Performance Festival12.–27.06.2026 While the German chancellor urges us all to work harder, and targets the working population with inflammatory terms like “lifestyle part-time” or insin...

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The group exhibition ‘Hyperbleed’ opens in Berlin this week, presenting works by contemporary female artists that investigate the production, circulation, and manipulation of images–where fact and fiction make way for one another. See the full list of events:

This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings this week, including C/O Berlin, ngbk, Britzenale, Project Space Festival, and more

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This April, Vienna’s Klima Biennale opened under the title ‘Unspeakable Worlds’ examining the complexity of the climate crisis. Alison Hugill writes on Kunsthaus Wien's show, discussing the ongoing fragility and persistent struggle of our environments: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/05/29/k...

Review of ‘Seeds’ at Kunsthaus Wien | Berlin Art Link

Alison Hugill reviews the exhibition ‘Seeds. Reclaiming Roots, Sowing Futures’ at Kunsthaus Wien as part of the Klima Biennale Wien

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May 30–June 28, Project Space Festival tours 30 self-organized spaces in Berlin, presenting a shifting program of exhibitions, installations, workshops, concerts + performances. Tomorrow, May 30, exhibition ‘Body Multiple’ at Scherben opens the festival. More: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/05/27/b...

Preview of Project Space Festival 2026 | Berlin Art Link

Berlin Art Link previews some of the exhibitions and events on the Project Space Festival’s program, taking place from May 30-June 28

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‘Timeline’ at Kodl Contemporary presents 14 artists alongside a illustrations by František Kupka, the show dealing with the incomprehensible scale of climate change. As part of feature topic Scale, Jesse Slater writes on apocalypse stories: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/05/26/t...

Review of ‘Timeline’ at KodlContemporary | Berlin Art Link

Jesse Slater reviews the group exhibition ‘Timeline’ at KodlContemporary in Prague as part of the featured topic, Scale

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Marking the 125th anniversary of the Bezirksverband Berlin-Süden der Kleingärtner*innen e.V., the 6th Britzenale looks to the future of allotment gardens. Alison Hugill interviews the exhibition’s curator Christof Zwiener and assistant curator Gianna Ehrke: www.berlinartlink.com/2026/05/26/i...

Interview with Britzenale 6 Curators | Berlin Art Link

Christof Zwiener, curator of the Berlin Britzenale, and assistant curator, Gianna Ehrke, speak to us about this year’s program, taking place from June 5-7th

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