This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. For the first time since the 1990s, Berlin is hosting a major exhibition by Marina Abramović, an artist who needs no introduction. Through her performance art, she has earned her place in the art world’s pantheon, helped establish the genre itself and brought it to institutions worldwide. Entitled ‘Balkan Erotic Epic…
Fields of Relation: An Interview with Adam Pendleton
Adam Pendleton’s exhibition ‘Can I Be?,’ currently on view at the Langen Foundation, brings together painting, drawing, sculpture and video in a spatially driven exploration of abstraction, language and history. Central to Pendleton’s practice is his concept of “Black Dada,” first articulated in his 2008 manifesto, which proposes a framework for thinking through the relationship between Blackness…
Collective Experience: An Interview with Simon Mullan
During Gallery Weekend, Berlin Art Link, alongside Studio 1111 and Flipping the Coin, will present artist Simon Mullan’s ‘Chronos,’ a spatial, multi-channel video installation staged inside the club setting of Studio 1111 on Potsdamer Straße. What unfolds across the venue’s walls is not just a projection, but a dense flow of images, sounds and memories, driven by techno culture and its…
The Week Apr. 27–May 3, 2026: Gallery Weekend
Roman Lipski: ‘Unusual Phase’ Opening Reception: Tuesday, Apr. 28; 6–9pm Exhibition: Apr. 28–May 22, 2026 romanlipski.com/exhibitionunusualphase Wiener Straße 10, 10999 Berlin, click here for map Tina Keane, Hilary Lloyd, James Richards: ‘Demolition/Escape’ Opening Reception: Tuesday, Apr. 28; 6–10pm Exhibition: Apr. 29–July 25, 2026 fluentum.org Clayallee 174, 14195 Berlin…
Diriyah Art Futures 2026/27 Residency for Emerging New Media Artists
Diriyah Art Futures (DAF) is a center for interdisciplinary creative practice at the intersection of art, science and technology. Set in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Diriyah, it is the region’s first institution dedicated to new media art, bringing practitioners from across the globe to focus on research, documentation and the production of new work. DAF’s Emerging New Media Artists Program…
61st Venice Biennale Tunes in to the Minor Keys
Minor keys “come alive in the quiet tones, the lower frequencies, the hums, the consolations of poetry.” This year’s 61st Venice Biennale preserves the curation of Koyo Kouoh after her sudden passing in May 2025. In a world that is loud, frenzied and unstable, Kouoh’s curatorial vision looked for pockets of intimacy within the noise, shedding light on artists in unrecognized spaces…
Gallery Weekend Berlin: Top Exhibitions
For its 22nd edition this year, Gallery Weekend Berlin will see 50 participating galleries open their doors to the public and present more than 80 artistic positions and exhibitions at 65 locations, from May 1st to 3rd, 2026. In addition to the main event, gallery spaces, museums and institutions all across the city will also be opening new exhibitions and hosting performances and events alongside…
The Week Apr. 20–26, 2026
Barbara Loftus: ‘Eine Enterbung’ Artist Talk & Book Launch: Wednesday, Apr. 22; 7pm Exhibition: Mar. 27–May 25, 2026 hal-berlin.de/eine-enterbung Lützowplatz 9, 10785 Berlin, click here for map Andreas Fux: ‘Out in Ost-Berlin’ Film Screening & Artist Talk: Wednesday, Apr. 22; 7pm Part of ‘QUEERE KUNST IN DER DDR?’ Exhibition: Mar. 28–June 28, 2026 ngbk.de/queere-kunst-in-der-ddr Karl…
Leaking Gestures: An Interview with Dafna Maimon
This article is part of our feature topic Abjection. Sun pours into Dafna Maimon’s Kreuzberg studio on a spring day in March, as we greet each other and prepare for our conversation about the role of the abject in her practice, which encompasses a wide range of media, including painting, video, installation and performance. Just as I’m about to sit down on a wooden chair at her desk, she asks…
Lively and Impermanent: Peter Hujar / Liz Deschenes at Gropius Bau
The skeletons of collapsing buildings; shifting licks of light on water; insubmissive deathbed portraiture. Wandering through ‘Persistence of Vision’ at Gropius Bau, I feel fizzy. Peter Hujar’s photography, mostly taken in 1970s and 80s New York, is occupied with the intensity of impermanence. It seeks out a startling kind of liveliness, the sort that comes when subjects are at their most mutable.