GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN 2025

Gallery Weekend Berlin returns for its 21st Edition

From May 2–4, 2025 will once again showcase the quality and diversity of the city’s art scene. With 52 participating galleries presenting over 80 artistic positions across 61 locations, this year’s program will feature artists from more than 20 countries.

In Charlottenburg,

Galerie Bucholz presents Anne Imhof’s exhibition Cold Hope, featuring a group of new large format paintings. The works are based on coming-of-age film stills that undergo multiple instances of translation, shifting towards abstraction. Meanwhile, at Société, Marianna Simnett transforms ancient myth into a surreal dreamscape — her video work Leda Was a Swan and a new series of oil paintings immerse viewers in a world of suspense and melancholy.

In Mitte,

Nagel Draxler’s upcoming exhibition will be centred around Nadya Tolokonnikova’s installation Isolation Cell — a reconstruction of the artist’s own prison cell. The whole installation is based on her earlier work Prison Letters, which reflects on her experience in a Russian penal colony, and will be shown alongside her performance work Putin’s Ashes and her PUNK’S NOT DEAD series. At Sprüth Magers, Cyprien Gaillard’s video work Retinal Rivalry bends time and vision, using stereoscopic visuals to turn the act of looking into a sculptural, almost psychedelic experience.

Over in Kreuzberg,

Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) at Trautwein Herleth sparks dialogue between minimalism, Pop Art and the social networking app Grindr. At Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Klaudia Schifferle presents her visual score in Play the Red Line, where figuration responds to feeling and painted rhythms emerge as both playful and unruly.

In Schöneberg,

Diane Severin Nguyen weaves together photography, video and material transformation, crafting an alchemy of light, texture and meaning in her debut at Molitor. For their first participation at Gallery Weekend Berlin, NOME will present the work of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley whose solo show confronts identity, misrepresentation and shared discomfort through an immersive mix of animation, painting, sound and performance, featuring new canvases, folding screens, clothing and video works.

For the first time NOME, located on Potsdamer Straße, will join Gallery Weekend Berlin. Pace and Galerie Judin will present a group exhibition in a new exhibition space housed in a mid-century gas station. Meanwhile, Nagel Draxler will feature an exhibition with activist and artist Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot.

KaDeWe WINDOW EXHIBITION

For Gallery Weekend Berlin, KaDeWe will transform its ten Tauentzienstrasse-facing windows into a curated exhibition, each window featuring one artist. While diverse in approach, each window will highlight the understanding of the vitrine not just as a display space but as a medium in its own right. Curated by Sebastian Hoffmann, this project draws on the rich art historical tradition of window displays of 1960s New York and will explore the medium’s potential beyond its commercial beginnings.

DEEPENING THE DISCOURSE: PODCAST AND TALK SERIES

Gallery Weekend Berlin – The Art Podcast is a new interview podcast launching on April 10. Hosted by art critics Enuma Okoro and Silke Hohmann, the first episodes will feature the artists Monica Bonvicini, Marianna Simnett, Zuzanna Czerbatul and Melissa Joseph. An episode will be released weekly until May. The podcast will be available on all major podcast platforms.

Furthermore, this year’s edition introduces a talks series at the Neue Nationalgalerie, offering a programme of discussions from Friday, May 2 to Sunday, May 4. All talks are open to the public. Detailed program on the Gallery Weekend Berlin homepage

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES AND ARTISTS

Galerie BASTIAN, Wim Wenders / Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Hinako Miyabayashi / BQ, “The Brotherhood of New Blockheads (1996-2002)”, curated by Daniel Baumann / Galerie Buchholz, Anne Imhof / Buchmann Galerie, Tony Cragg / Capitain Petzel, Monica Bonvicini / carlier I gebauer, Leonor Serrano Rivas; group show / ChertLüdde, Álvaro Urbano; Patrizio di Massimo / Mehdi Chouakri Berlin, Sylvie Fleury; Charlotte Posenenske / Contemporary Fine Arts, Tobias Spichtig / CRONE, Anthony Goicolea / DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM, Zuzanna Czebatul / EBENSPERGER, Bonnie Camplin & Beatrice Brown; Julius Deutschbauer; Ludwig Schönherr / Galerie EIGEN + ART, Nicola Samorì; Cihan Çakmak / Konrad Fischer Galerie, Bernd & Hilla Becher / Galerie Lars Friedrich, Sydney Schrader / Galerie Friese, Dieter Krieg / Galerie Michael Haas, Arnulf Rainer / Heidi, Benjamin Lallier / Galerie Max Hetzler, Thomas Struth; Leilah Babirye; Sergey Kononov / Hua International, Tirdad Hashemi, Soufia Erfanian, Mahsa Saloor / Galerie Judin, Bombois, curated by Tom Anholt / KLEMM’S, Leelee Chan / Galerie Noah Klink, Sebastian Jefford / KOW, Hudinilson Jr. / Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Klaudia Schifferle / alexander levy, Noémie Goudal / LEVY Galerie, Daniel Spoerri / Meyer Riegger, Horst Antes / Galerie Molitor, Diane Severin Nguyen / Nagel Draxler, Nadya Tolokonnikova; Martha Rosler / Galerie Neu, SoiL Thornton / neugerriemschneider, Thomas Bayrle; Olafur Eliasson; group show / NOME, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley / Galerie Nordenhake, Spencer Finch / Pace | Galerie Judin, group show / Galeria Plan B, Serban Savu / PSM, Almut Linde / Schiefe Zähne, Phung-Tien Phan / Esther Schipper, Sun Yitian; Merikokeb Berhanu / Galerie Thomas Schulte, Jonas Weichsel; Lena Henke; Marina Adams / Société, Marianna Simnett; group show / Soy Capitán, Melissa Joseph / Sprüth Magers, Cyprien Gaillard; Michail Pirgelis / Sweetwater, Megan Plunkett / Galerie Barbara Thumm, Roméo Mivekannin / Galerie Tanja Wagner, Šejla Kamerić / Trautwein Herleth, Puppies Puppies (Jade Guanaro Kuriki-Olivo) / WENTRUP, Jenny Brosinski / Galerie Michael Werner, Frank Auerbach / Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Figuration, group show / Barbara Wien, Jimmie Durham

GALLERY WEEKEND BERLIN 2025

Opening Hours 2025:2 May: 6-9pm, 3 May: 11am-7pm, 4 May: 11am-6pm

www.gallery-weekend-berlin.de

Berlin, Germany.