Anne Imhof. "Romeo", 2025, oil on canvas. Image courtesy of Galerie Buchholz.
It’s Gallery Weekend season! To save you some time by being overwhelmed of this year’s Gallery Weekend program, we hand picked our favourites. Explore our exclusive guide of what to visit during a weekend full of art instead.
Anne Imhof’s fourth solo exhibition at Galerie Buchholz, Cold Hope, features new large-format oil paintings based on film stills she photographed from a screen, creating moiré effects that blur and distort the original images. These images undergo a multi-stage transformation—digitally manipulated in the studio before being painted—resulting in a shift toward abstraction and altered modes of viewing. Developed alongside her recent performance Doom – House of Hope, which premiered at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, the paintings serve as a visual counterpart to that epic production, which draws on fragmented narratives, original music, and classical ballet. The ghostly figures and poses in Cold Hope evoke cinematic and art historical references, creating timeless yet emotionally charged tableaux.
Fasanenstraße 30, 10719 Berlin
Galerie Bastian, Wim Wenders, China I, 2019, 2025. © Wenders Images, Courtesy Galerie Bastian.
Wim Wenders, whose iconic films like Paris, Texas and The American Friend redefined cinematic storytelling with their poetic slowness, now returns with Perfect Days—a luminous meditation on time, space, and the quiet rhythms of everyday life. His photography, spanning Chinese megacities to vast rural landscapes, captures stillness with the weight of unseen narratives, where humans flicker like passing thoughts and urban moments hold their breath. In contrast, his forest series evokes a mystical calm, channeling the deep, ancestral hush where Goethe once wrote, and where light becomes a memory before it disappears.
Taylorstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Image Courtesy of Awen.
Awen invites you to Momento by Gabriella Furno, with guest artists Osman Özel and Yağmur Kural, for Gallery Weekend Berlin.
An exploration of movement, emotion, and identity through painting, sculpture, and photography. Join us high above Berlin. Following Gallery Weekend, on view until July 31st by appointment.
Strausberger Platz 19, 10243 Berlin
Monica Bonvicini. "Hard Nosed", 2025, Steel. Image Courtesy of the artist and Capitain Petzel.
Capitain Petzel — Monica Bonvicini
At Capitain Petzel, Monica Bonvicini takes over the gallery’s striking modernist building with a bold, sculptural intervention. Known for her politically charged installations that dissect gender, architecture, and control, Bonvicini’s work often plays with materiality and scale. Her presentation promises to be both physically commanding and intellectually provocative. The gallery’s dramatic space amplifies her critique with industrial elegance.
Karl-Marx-Allee 45, 10178 Berlin
Zuzanna Czebatul. "All the Charm of a Rotting Gum", 2025. Image Courtesy of DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM.
DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM — Zuzanna Czebatul
Zuzanna Czebatul presents a new body of work at DITTRICH & SCHLECHTRIEM that investigates cultural heritage and ornamental power structures. With her signature blend of monumental forms and pop sensibilities, Czebatul explores themes of authority and artifice. Her layered use of materials and references invites viewers to look beyond surface and shine. A dynamic show that resonates with Berlin’s complex architectural past.
Linienstr. 23, 10178 Berlin
Thomas Bayrle. "Pianta Robusta V", 2024, acrylic and FineArt print on linen. Image Courtesy of the artist and neugerriemschneider.
neugerriemschneider — Thomas Bayrle, Olafur Eliasson & Group Show
neugerriemschneider offers a compelling trio of presentations this year. Legendary German artist Thomas Bayrle exhibits his iconic visual repetitions that bridge Pop, technology, and spiritual symbolism. Olafur Eliasson brings his immersive, sensory-driven installations that continue his exploration of light, perception, and ecological awareness. Complementing these two heavyweights is the group show advective motion, nebulous currents, which gathers international voices in a meditation on movement, flow, and environmental interconnectedness. A tour-de-force exhibition across mediums and ideas.
Linienstr. 155, 10178 Berlin
Phung-Tien Phan. "Kartoffel", 2023, Installation View. Image Courtesy of the artist and Schiefe Zähne.
Schiefe Zähne — Phung-Tien Phan
At Schiefe Zähne, Phung-Tien Phan offers an intimate and witty look at identity, domesticity, and cultural hybridity. Her practice spans video, sculpture, and found objects, often blurring the boundaries between personal narrative and broader social commentary. With subtle humor and keen observation, Phan’s work creates a space of quiet introspection amid the weekend’s sensory overload. A gem tucked into Berlin’s independent scene.
Potsdamer Str. 103, 10785 Berlin
Image Courtesy of the artist and Heidi Gallery.
Heidi gallery presents a new exhibition featuring Benjamin Lallier, whose work delves into themes of interiority and psychological space. Through a blend of mediums, Lallier explores the complexities of the human psyche, inviting viewers into immersive environments that challenge perceptions of self and space. This exhibition continues Heidi’s commitment to showcasing artists who engage with contemporary narratives through diverse media.
Kurfürstenstraße 145, 10785 Berlin
Marianna Simnett. "Leda Was a Swan", 2024, Video Still. Image Courtesy of Marianna Simnett and Société.
Société — Marianna Simnett & What are you looking for? (Group Show)
Marianna Simnett’s second solo exhibition at Société, Charades, explores the fluid boundaries between self and society through theatrical, mythological, and taboo-challenging works in video, painting, and sculpture. Central to the show is Leda Was a Swan, a video reimagining the Greek myth in which Zeus appears not as a dominating god but as a puppet manipulated by Leda herself—blurring roles of power, desire, and agency with the help of AI-generated animation. Across the exhibition, ornamental sculptures parody relics of femininity and devotion, turning objects like the merkin into symbols of both protection and exposure, concealment and spectacle. Throughout, Simnett interrogates the performativity of power, using masquerade and ritual to reveal how identity can be both armor and artifice in an age of social manipulation and theatrical politics.
Wielandstraße 26, 10707 Berlin
Image Courtesy of Donna Hunch.
Soho House Berlin, Francesco Gioacchini & New Art Collection
Marking 15 years at the heart of Berlin’s creative scene, Soho House unveils a reimagined art collection featuring 75 works exclusively by artists born or trained in the city—juxtaposing early favourites like Damien Hirst’s Shark with new additions from Olafur Eliasson, Donna Huanca, and rising local voices. Curated by Jack Lazenby, the collection spans conceptual photography, sculpture, and immersive installations, reflecting the raw energy and layered complexity of Berlin’s contemporary art landscape. As part of Gallery Weekend Berlin, a new atrium installation by Francesco Gioacchini—Aside from us, in collaboration with Porsche—invites members and visitors into a surreal meditation on memory, place, and urban transformation.
Torstraße 1, 10119 Berlin, Soho House Berlin
Lotta Antonsson. "Ali", 2024. Image Courtesy of the artist and Dorothée Nilsson Gallery.
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery — Lotta Antonsson
Dorothée Nilsson Gallery presents Principles of Uncertainty, a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Lotta Antonsson. Her collages and installations challenge the male gaze and explore themes of identity and objectification. This exhibition continues Antonsson’s exploration of the ephemeral nature of images and the narratives they construct. Drawing loosely from the scientific notion that knowledge and measurement have inherent limits, Antonsson explores the metaphysical tension between presence and perception—both on a personal and collective level, particularly in relation to women.
Potsdamer Straße 65, 10785 Berlin
Opening Hours:
2 May: 6-9pm, 3 May: 11am-7pm, 4 May: 11am-6pm
Image Courtesy of Lennart Brede.
Torstraße 86, Kristina Supernova
Kristina Supernova is a Berlin-based artist whose evocative works—ranging from oil portraits to conceptual text pieces—trace the shifting edges of identity and perception. Merging classical technique with a sharp contemporary lens, she constructs visual narratives that are as psychologically rich. Her latest body of work, The Archetypes, continues her exploration of myth, persona, and the fluid architecture of the self.
Torstraße 86, 10119 Berlin, BOLD Berlin