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Berlin Art Link is a contemporary art online magazine highlighting some of the most intriguing creatives and exhibitions around the globe. Through original articles and video, we feature the latest in art, design, music, film, fashion and architecture from a unique contemporary art perspective. Berlin Art Link online magazine is published by BAL Productions. Discover what else we're creating here: http://www.berlinartlink.com/productions/

Taking place January 28–February 1, transmediale returns to Berlin with its 39th festival edition titled ‘By the Mango B...
13/01/2026

Taking place January 28–February 1, transmediale returns to Berlin with its 39th festival edition titled ‘By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road – Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring.’

The festival maps metaphorical coordinates across the tropical belt, thinking through ideas of communal and collective maneuvering, as well as navigation across shifting tides and winds. Localised Research Netting Groups were formed running up to the festival, inviting IRL and URL gatherings. The groups explored themes such as digital sovereignty, community-based networks, environment and technology, local pocket infrastructuring and collective knowledge-making. The festival presents these findings, examining the re-figuration of systems, cosmologies and technologies.

The festival’s main venue is silent green Kulturquartier in Wedding, complemented this year by a second venue, CANK, in Neukölln. In line with the process-oriented approach of the 2026 festival, the program will continue to unfold in the days leading up to the festival.

Read our preview article written by Carolina Sculti:

transmediale 2026, ‘By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road – Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring,’ will take place from January 28th to February 1st in Berlin

“Physically, they gleam like screens do: the fabric that the works are painted on is so thick that each thread would bes...
13/01/2026

“Physically, they gleam like screens do: the fabric that the works are painted on is so thick that each thread would best be described as a small rope. The rounded surface absorbs light and throws it back at us.”

Presented at Galerie Judin, Alexander Basil’s exhibition ‘Error 404’ scrutinises the relationship between our bodies and the screens we live with. As the paintings’ protagonist morphs in and with his surroundings, he seems to get further away from himself.

As the first article part of our feature topic Wellness, Lars Holdgate writes on ‘Error 404’ discussing how screens can inform understandings of our bodies and sexualities, quantifying wellness through trackers rather than listening to ourselves, and how different spaces change the way we feel.

The exhibition is on view until January 24. Read the full review:

Lars Holdgate reviews the solo exhibition of Alexander Basil, ‘Error 404’ at Galerie Judin as part of our featured topic, Wellness

“In ‘I See Red: Going Forward, Looking Back’ (1996), clippings from various indigenous nations’ newspapers reporting on ...
13/01/2026

“In ‘I See Red: Going Forward, Looking Back’ (1996), clippings from various indigenous nations’ newspapers reporting on community life strain for visibility beneath washes of paint. The artist’s rage at Native erasure and refusal to let historical injustice fade into the background is spelled out in the work’s title.”

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s groundbreaking career as an artist, activist, curator and educator was driven by restless imagination and a pursuit of justice. Her solo exhibition ‘Wilding,’ on view at the Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, presents a cross-section of her practice, from works made in the 1980s to those Quick-to-See Smith was still making in the months before her passing in January 2025.

Adela Lovric writes on ‘Wilding,’ discussing the sardonic phrases scrawled on some of the works, colonial tools of erasure, and the importance of Indigenous approaches to environmental stewardship.

Read the full review:

Adela Lovric reviews Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s first posthumous exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket

The STRABAG ART Award 2026 is open for submissions, welcoming applications by artists from Germany, Austria, and Sloveni...
12/01/2026

The STRABAG ART Award 2026 is open for submissions, welcoming applications by artists from Germany, Austria, and Slovenia up to 40 years old in the fields of painting and drawing.⁠
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The award is juried by art experts from the participating countries: Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Curator Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Alenka Gregorič, Artistic Director Cukrarna, Ljubljana; Johan Holten, Director Kunsthalle Mannheim; Angela Stief, Director Albertina Modern, Vienna; Sebastian Haselsteiner, Director STRABAG ART, Vienna.
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A sum of €16,000 will be awarded to the winning artist, as well as four recognition prizes of €8,000. The winning artists will be included in a collective exhibition at the STRABAG House in Vienna on June 25, 2026.
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The deadline for applications is January 26, 2026. For more information:

Open Call for the STRABAG ART Award , an international art promotion prize supporting artists up to 40 years of age in the fields of painting and drawing.

Introducing our new feature topic for January and February, Wellness. ⁠⁠Entering a new year; the time of resolutions and...
09/01/2026

Introducing our new feature topic for January and February, Wellness. ⁠
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Entering a new year; the time of resolutions and the aggressive marketing campaigns that accompany the quest for a “new you,” we revisit this previously featured topic that remains pertinent for many reasons. Wellness pervades our thinking about not only ourselves and our bodies, but also the environmental and political spheres that we inhabit daily.
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Over the coming months, pieces consider global scale wellness through six decades of soil-based art reviewing the ‘Arts of the Earth’ exhibition at Guggenheim Bilbao, wellness culture’s touting of escapism from the problems of daily life considering the current solo exhibition of Alexander Basil titled ‘Error 404’ at Berlin’s Galerie Judin, and wellness being sought by accepting its finite nature with Capitain Petzel’s exhibition ‘Not I.’
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Read the full Letter from the Editor by Alison Hugill, including links to previous Berlin Art Link articles connects to the so-called “Wellness-Industrial-Complex”:

Editor-in-Chief Alison Hugill previews the new featured topic, ‘Wellness,’ discussing several contributions to the theme

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents Moyra Davey’s first major survey in Germany, comprising over 30 years of the artist’...
09/01/2026

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein presents Moyra Davey’s first major survey in Germany, comprising over 30 years of the artist’s lens-based media works, rooted in repetition and referential modes of creation. Themes of grief, sexuality, and survival run through the works, many of which pay attention to the personal items that characterise a space or Davey’s relationships to the artists she refers to.

Olivia Noss writes on the exhibition, discussing human tendencies to nest and collect and the works’ subtle reminders of life and its fleeting pleasures.

Read the full article:

Olivia Noss reviews the survey exhibition of Moyra Davey at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠⁠𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗶: ‘𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱 | 𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱’Exhibition openi...
08/01/2026

Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠
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𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗶: ‘𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱 | 𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱’
Exhibition opening reception
Friday, Jan. 9; 7–9pm
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Presenting his series ‘Jasmund’ and ‘Der Sonne Mond’ side by side, photographer Arno Schidlowski contrasts approaches to landscape, nature, and light. While the former comprises images of the Jasmund coastline, the latter evokes an inner landscape that cannot be pinned to a specific location.

𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸 𝗟𝗲𝗷𝗺𝗮𝗻: ‘𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲’
Exhibition opening reception .matthaeus
Friday, Jan. 9; 7pm

Oscillating between revelation and repulsion, this exhibition of works by Dominik Lejman combines abstract painting and video images, looking at revenants; the phantoms that appear only briefly. In this season of the year, Lejman reflects on human existence with humor, doubt, and despair.
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𝗚𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄: ‘𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀’
Exhibition opening reception
Saturday, Jan. 10; 7–10pm
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As part of a collaboration between the Berlin University of the Arts and KW, a group of students engaged with the work of Kazuko Miyamoto, taking excursions into the forest in Brandenburg. They gathered branches to construct rope-and-wood bridges now installed in the institution’s courtyard.

See the full list of events for this weekend:

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Sophiensæle, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, KW, and more

“They are layers of intimate histories, felted stories imbedded within the stories of the found objects. As I look at ‘C...
06/01/2026

“They are layers of intimate histories, felted stories imbedded within the stories of the found objects. As I look at ‘Conjunto with Joey,’ I think of my own great uncle playing his accordion in the sunshine, weaving my own personal memories into the tableau.”

Marking 15 years of Soy Capitán, the exhibition ‘The Power of Small Things’ presents the work of 17 artists working on a small-scale, speaking to the idea of “concentration over expansion,” as the press release states.

Eva Szwarc writes on the exhibition which is on view until January 17, discussing artwork as a gift or invitation, the intimacy of finding a stranger’s shopping list on the floor, and looking more slowly and deeply in our age of immediacy.

Read the review:

Eva Szwarc reviews the anniversary group exhibition ‘The Power of Small Things’ at Soy Capitán

🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟️⁠From January 8–24, Tanztage Berlin marks its 30th year with a cross-genre program of contemporary ...
06/01/2026

🎟️ TICKET GIVEAWAY 🎟️⁠

From January 8–24, Tanztage Berlin marks its 30th year with a cross-genre program of contemporary dance, choreography, and performance at Sophiensæle.

This year, the festival is investigates the realities of independent artistic work. Included in the program is ‘Bibingka’ by Alvin Collantes, a duet between the artist and their drag persona questioning who is being entertained, and at what cost. Also presented is ‘Did4luv’ by Dominique McDougal & Carro Sharkey, a shared tragicomic dance solo spiraling through a surreal dreamscape of labor, blending mascot work, drag, clowning, magic, and pole dance. Dominique Tegho’s piece ‘the intimacy of collision’ deconstructs “Middle Eastern” folk dances bringing them into conversation with contemporary movement vocabularies, disrupting orientalist imaginings. Each of the nine performances offer perspectives on what the labour of art making is worth today.

We have 1 x 2 tickets to giveaway for the ‘DID4luv’ x ‘Bibingka’ double bill beginning at 8.30pm on Friday, January 9. To enter the giveaway, follow Berlin Art Link on Facebook, like this post, and tag a friend in the comments. The winner will be drawn at 10am on Friday, January 9 and contacted via DM.⁠
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For more information:

TANZTAGE BERLIN 2026

“Rather than dissociating from or erasing these complexities, the artists worked through their layers and within the lit...
06/01/2026

“Rather than dissociating from or erasing these complexities, the artists worked through their layers and within the literal walls that bear their marks, reclaiming and repairing what persists.”

Tirana Art Weekend launched last year as the first public initiative of the Albanian Visual Arts Network. Assembling key actors from the country’s independent art scene under a shared, city-wide program, cultural organizations and artistic initiatives once again synchronized their programs with Albania’s Independence Day on November 28.

Adela Lovric writes on the exhibition, discussing experiments in autonomy, ancestral purification rituals, and how artists engage with the country’s unresolved history.

Read the full review, including writing on works by Tek Bunkeri, Xhanfise Keko, and Anna Ehrenstein:

Adela Lovric reviews the second Tirana Art Weekend, presented by Albanian Visual Arts Network

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