Berlin Art Link

01/07/2025

Each month, we compile a list of must-see international openings and events in our Top Worldwide Exhibitions list.

Over this summer, included on the list are Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera’s exhibition ‘Maringuilla’ at Patricia Conde Galería in Mexico City, ‘Monomania’ at Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam presenting work by Fiona Tan and the Rijksmuseum archive, Ibrahim Mahama’s exhibition ‘Zilijifa’ at Kunsthalle Wien, group show ‘Casa Susanna’ at The Met in New York, and exhibition presenting works by Christine Sun Kim at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo.

See our full list of international openings over the summer months:

International exhibition openings this summer at ICA Boston, HeK Basel, Rijksmuseum, Mori Art Museum and more

01/07/2025

“No matter how you set it down, the critter recuperates its low center of balance, like a cockroach ready to make an escape in the crushed margin of a wall.”

Lygia Clark’s ‘Retrospective’ at Neue Nationalgalerie is a warp speed pace through the artist’s multifarious career, from her fastidious studies of cubism, to her late collective enactments approximating the therapeutic techniques of François Tosquelles.

Fionn Adamian writes on the exhibition, reflecting on Clark’s rejection of people spectating her work, his tactile experiences with her work, and how Clark was at pains to differentiate her later social experiments from parallel art movements of the day.

Read the full article:

Fionn Adamian reviews the retrospective of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark at Neue Nationalgalerie

30/06/2025

Kinderhook & Caracas presents ‘PARADE’ by Adam Fearon, a large-scale painting installation reflecting on Tempelhofer Feld’s connection to historical and contemporary political crises.

‘PARADE’ traces the feld’s existence from a training and parade ground, the site of a concentration camp, and as an American army base, to its current use as a park under threat from private development, all glimpsed through the pattern of a chain-link fence.

Join for the finissage on July 12 from 2-6pm, or before by appointment:
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30/06/2025

This week in Berlin, must-see events, openings, and performances include Elke Foltz’s exhibition ‘Balance in Chaos’ at Circle Culture Gallery, group show ‘SHE CAN KICK IT!’ at f³ – freiraum für fotografie including works by Susan Meiselas, Anja Niedringhaus, and Johanna-Maria Fritz, Ya-Wen Fu’s performance ‘NON-BODY’ at St. Elisabeth-Kirche, María José Arjona’s exhibition ‘SEDIMENTS: Sono-Choreo-Geo-Graphic Attunements’ at Galerie Barbara Thumm, and Navot Miller’s exhibition ‘Paradise’ at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM.

See the full list of events:

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including OFFICE IMPART, f³ – freiraum für fotografie, Hošek Contemporary, and more

27/06/2025

“They propose that remembrance is labor and that aliveness, in the wake of history, is never without cost.”

Group show ‘For Real For Real’ at daadgalerie encompasses over 60 contributors presenting an assemblage of subjectivities doing life in real time. Curated by poet Claudia Rankine and The Racial Imaginary Institute, it seeks to evidence “being” as both method and matter.

Including meditations on works by Kara Walker, John Akomfrah, Martine Syms, and Harmony Holiday, Johanna Siegler writes on speculative technologies, the dull burn of capitalist time, and multiplicity fraying into illegibility in her review.

Read the full review:

Johanna Siegler reviews the group exhibition ‘For Real For Real’ curated by Claudia Rankine and The Racial Imaginary Institute at daadgalerie in Kreuzberg

27/06/2025

✨ TICKET GIVEAWAY ✨⁠
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Exhibition ‘Nothing is Original’ at C/O Berlin presents a comprehensive selection of works by artist and filmmaker Julian Rosefeldt from the past 30 years. Comprising film and video installations, previously unpublished storyboards, sketches, set photographs, and making-of documentation, the exhibition offers a rare glimpse behind the scenes of the artist’s image production.
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We have 1 x 2 tickets to give away to attend the exhibition at anytime before the exhibition closes on September 16. To enter the ticket giveaway, follow Berlin Art Link on Instagram, like this post, and tag a friend in the comments. The winners will be drawn at 10am on Friday, July 4 and contacted via DM.⁠
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To read more about the exhibition:

Exhibition Biography Chats & Tracks Events Julian Rosefeldt Nothing is Original May 24 – Sep 16, 2025 American Night, 2008/2009 © Julian Rosefeldt, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025 The Perfectionist, 2005 © Julian Rosefeldt, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2025 With Nothing is Original, C/O Berlin dedicates a co...

27/06/2025

This weekend in Berlin, must-see events include the opening of Ellen Akimoto’s exhibition ‘Everybody’s in the Room’ tonight at Galerie Judin’s Die Tankstelle space featuring the artists’ most ambitious work to date: a narrative painting spanning twelve meters in width, the opening of Allen-Golder Carpenter’s exhibition ‘SAME THINGS MAKE US LAUGH, MAKE US CRY’ tomorrow evening at 032c Gallery centered around the concept of “drought” including a performance by the artist, and on Sunday afternoon, listening experience of Brian Eno’s ‘Music for Installations’ at Reethaus.

See the full list of events:

Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including TD, transmediale studio, 48 Stunden Neukölln, Galerie Thomas Schulte, and more

25/06/2025

Until July 6, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien presents exhibition ‘No,’ a joint project by an international group of artists and the Meduza newsroom. Taking the word ‘No’ as a symbol of resilience, the exhibition explores having the ability to object and how objection is a basic human right denied to many. It pays homage to journalists, civic and political activists, and to all those who have the courage to disagree.

The exhibition space is designed as separate rooms – including Dictatorship, Resilience, Censorship, and Exile – connected by an interweaving artistic and documentary narrative. Those exhibited include Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Stine Marie Jacobsen, Alisa Yoffe, and SUPERFLEX.

To learn more about the exhibition:

No. The Exhibition by Meduza is a contemporary art show in Berlin. Discover works by independent artists confronting oppression through bold expression.

24/06/2025

“By embracing the creation of myth as a means of breaking down the constraints of the domineering fiction of reality, the over 30 international artists in the show are free to use art as a tool to challenge, subvert and shatter.”

Group show ‘Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/Order’ at WIELS presents works investigating how we imagine living environments in a world facing planetary shifts and ecological challenges.

As part of our feature topic Legality, Chris Erik Thomas writes on the exhibition, reflecting on defanging America’s racist, state-sanctioned carceral policy, extractive systems, and the losing battle between the laws of nature and those of humanity:

Chris Erik Thomas reviews the group exhibition ‘Magical Realism’ at WIELS in Brussels

24/06/2025

At the Museum Giersch of Goethe University (MGGU) in Frankfurt am Main, group exhibition ‘Fixing Futures: Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ gathers clashing, converging, and contesting visions of tomorrow. The exhibition presents 15 contributions from the graduate school Fixing Futures and the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) of the Goethe University Frankfurt.

In her review, Adela Lovric reflects on how the show embraces unruly imaginations and a refusal to settle for dystopian panic, as well as considering environmental resilience in an age of accelerating ecological collapse.

Read the full article:

Adela Lovric reviews the group exhibition ‘Fixing Futures. Planetary Futures between Speculation and Control’ at MGGU, Frankfurt