INDEX Berlin

30/05/2025

🚶‍♀️TOURS: 5 Suggestions for an Exhibition Stroll this Weekend⁠
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🟢 Sun Yitian: Romantic Room
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
‚Born 1991 in Zheijang, Sun Yitian’s paintings explore her personal history, intertwined with cultural and societal changes in China, through the country’s image worlds, as well as by how Western culture has been depicted in Chinese everyday life. 
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🟢 ⁠Bombois by Anholt: Catherine Anholt, Tom Anholt, Sara Anstis, Emmanuel Bornstein, Ian Davis , Thomas Delaroziere, Andriu Deplazes, Louis Fratino, Georgina Gratrix, Hortensia Mi Kafchin, Ryan Mosley, Minyoung Kim, Simphiwe Ndzube, Magdalena Shummer-Fangor, Esther Pearl Watson
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
Camille Bombois is one of the most storied unknowns of French art in the 20th century. For this exhibition Tom Anholt decided to invite other artists, friends and admired ones, to revisit Bombois – and to create a conversation between Bombois holdings of Galerie Judin and contemporary responses.
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🟢 Thomas Struth
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
⁠Thomas Struth’s work is characterised by his long-term and careful pursuit of themes that revolve, in various guises, around the relationship between people and their environment. His photographs capture today’s society through images of cultural spaces, as well as the natural world, portraiture and places of industrial and technological innovation.

🟢 Marina Adams: The Art of Living Slowly
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⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
A subtle nod to examine the speed and direction of our internet present. She considers how slowing down can offer another sense of time and space, opening room for clarity, and like deep breathing can bring an expansion of heart and a gain in empathy.

🟢 Lotta Antonsson: Principles of Uncertainty
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⏰ Saturday 11–6pm⁠
Antonsson is loosely inspired by the scientific concept that there are inherent limits to what can be known and measured. The very act of observing changes what is observed – leading to reflections on how our perceptions shape our reality. Her current work reflects this tension.

26/05/2025

WEEKLY PORTRAIT: SOPHIA GREIFF

Sophia Greiff is a curator and co-head of programming at C/O Berlin where she curated the exhibitions Daido Moriama . Retrospective (2023), Mary Ellen Mark . Encounters (2023), Laia Abril . On R**e (2024), Tyler Mitchell . Wish This Was Real (2024) and most recently Sam Youkilis . Under The Sun (2025). She is currently curating a comprehensive exhibition by film and media artist Julian Rosefeldt, which opened on May 23, 2025 and will be on view at C/O Berlin until September 16.

Previously, she was a graduate research assistant in the Visual Journalism and Documentary Photography program at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She co-edited image/con/text: Documentary Practices Between Journalism, Art and Activism (Reimer, 2020) and Images in Conflict/Bilder im Konflikt (Jonas, 2018). For many years, Greiff co-curated the Fotodoks Festival for Contemporary Documentary Photography. As a Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Foundation scholar, she worked at Munich Stadtmuseum, Museum Folkwang in Essen, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others. A current doctoral candidate at Folkwang University of the Arts, she is examining research-based photobooks.

📸 Sophia Greiff, © C/O Berlin Foundation, David von Becker.

28/03/2025

🚶‍♀️TOURS: 5 Suggestions for an Exhibition Stroll this Weekend⁠
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⁠How about a stroll along some of the galleries and museums this weekend? Our website offers a useful tool to plan your route from one exhibition to the next. Simply click on ‚Tourplan‘ and drag and drop the exhibitions into the pop-up window.⁠ We have compiled a few exhibitions for you: ⁠
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1️⃣ Rhea Myers: The Fractionalized Phallus⁠
📍 Galerie Nagel Draxler⁠
⏰ Saturday 12–6pm⁠
Myers‘ exhibition presents new works that use blockchain and cryptography to explore identity, ownership, and self-determination. From gender-challenging NFTs to generative art inspired by cypherpunk ideals, the exhibition critiques societal power structures and their resulting anxieties.⁠
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2️⃣ Lauren Coullard: Uncanny Valley⁠
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⏰ Saturday 12–6pm⁠
Lauren Coullard’s new solo exhibition features recent paintings that blend medieval and manga imagery, further exploring portraiture and collage. Her third solo show with the gallery spans the main space and includes a large-scale wallpaper installation in the shop window.⁠
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3️⃣ Jonas Höschl: Point of no return⁠
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⏰ Saturday 12–6pm⁠
Höschl’s installation centers on the Suzuki, inspired by its display in the RAF exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte Stuttgart. The backside features a video collage of motorcycle parts, operating instructions, a repair manual, and documentary footage of the crime, murder weapon, and scene.⁠
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4️⃣ Simon Mullan: chronos⁠
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⏰ Saturday 12–6pm⁠
Mullan revisits his archive with a large-scale video installation of 25 screens, offering an immersive experience that explores his past through fragmented images. The display features never-before-seen works recorded on MiniDV between 2004 and 2014, capturing raw moments from his formative years.⁠
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5️⃣ Eric Meier: Völkerfreundschaft ⁠
📍 Almstadt/ Rosa-Luxemburg-Str⁠ ⁠
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⏰ 24/7⁠
Eric Meier explores the unfinished, processual, and political, reflecting dystopian GDR elements and utopian future visions through provisional forms. Fused glass sculptures and concrete elements highlight the limbo between past and future.

07/03/2025

🚶‍♀️TOURS: 4 Suggestions for an Exhibition Stroll this Weekend⁠
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⁠No plans for the weekend yet? How about a stroll along some of the galleries and museums? Our website offers a useful tool to plan your route from one exhibition to the next. In order to create a tour, simply click on ‚Tourplan‘ and drag and drop the exhibitions into the pop-up window.⁠
We have also compiled a few exhibitions for you below. ⁠
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1️⃣ Sung Tieu: 1992, 2025
📍 KW Institute for Contemporary Art⁠
⏰ Saturday 11am–7pm⁠
Coming of Age. Age of Coming. Of Coming Age marks the first institutional solo exhibition by artist Matt Copson (b. 1992, UK). His hybrid practice draws on pop culture, myths, ancient philosophy, and medieval folklore, exploring existential questions and contemporary subjectivity.⁠
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2️⃣ jb & dv: James Benning, Danh Vo⁠
📍 neugerriemschneider (Linienstrasse)⁠
⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
The long-time friendship between James Benning and Danh Vo, cultivated around a mutual exploration of histories through details and relics, physically manifests, for the first time, in jb & dv at neugerriemschneider. ⁠
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3️⃣ Clamour: Cerith Wyn Evans, Kitty Kraus, Jonathan Okoronkwo⁠
📍 Galerie Neu⁠
⏰ Saturday 11am–6pm⁠
A group exhibition featuring new works by artists Cerith Wyn Evans, Kitty Kraus, Jonathan Okoronkwo.⁠
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4️⃣ Caught in a Landslide: Özlem Altın, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins, Stephanie Comilang, Kristina Paustian, Babette Semmer, Jasmin Werner⁠
📍 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein⁠
⏰ Saturday 12–6pm⁠
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05/09/2024

Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society
Collection of the Nationalgalerie 1945 – 2000

On view until September 28, 2025


The art of the second half of the twentieth century is characterised by great contradictions and an enormous variety of media and artistic strategies. At the same time, scarcely any other age has been so marked by division and turmoil, and also by renewal. In light of this, the Neue Nationalgalerie has chosen the title ‚Extreme Tension. Art between Politics and Society‘ for the upcoming presentation of its postwar collection. It shows 163 works by 143 artists.

Image: Cornelia Schleime: Selbstinszenierung „Ich halte doch nicht die Luft an“, Hüpstedt 1982, Reprint 2016, Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper, 42 x 29.7 cm, Edition of 6+2AP © The artist and Courtesy Galerie Judin, Berlin / Foto: Bernd Hiepe.

03/09/2024

30/05/2024

Project Space Festival


Taking place June 1 until June 30, 2024

Project Space Festival gathers the events of 30 self-organized art spaces in Berlin in a comprehensive program from 1-30 June. Revisiting the roots of resilience from the past two decades to the present, the festival follows the artistic and curatorial practices at self-organized art spaces throughout the history of Berlin.

3. Day 5 will be hosted by the Gimp. The exhibition „Public Space for Sale“ by Willem de Haan examines the increasing pressure on public space.
 

Image: Willem de Haan, Highrise Campsite, IJsselbiënnale 2023 / Photo: the artist

5. Tina Coupé will present the groupshow From Dusk Withdrawn in their karaoke car on Day 14, parked in a sandy area of Berlin. 

7. Vinyl-terror & -horror will perform a live turntable concert against the backdrop of Anne-Mette Schultz‘s installation at die Raum on Day 4.
 

9. diffrakt presents a program of short films, curated by Nora Wölfling with works by LuYang, Lawrence Lek. SuYu Hsin, Vvzela Kook and Tang Han on Day 24.

Image: LuYang, The Self, 2020  .space

6x6 Project 
ACUD Galerie 
alpha nova & galerie futura 
BETON Berlin 
Co-Making Matters 
COUNCIL+ .plus
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel 
die raum 
diffrakt .space
DOOM SPA 
gr_und 
GROTTO .berlin
Kleine Humboldt 
Mehringplatz 20 
Neun Kelche 
NEW FEARS 
Pickle Bar .berlin
SAP Space .berlin
Scherben .scherben ,
SCHNEEEULE 
Solaris 
SPOILER .zone
Spor Klübü 
stay hungry 
the Gimp 
The Watch .wachturm
Tina Coupé 
TROPEZ 
TURBA 
When You’re Calmer