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Art © Achraf Touloub Art 10/09/2026 – 31/10/2026 Achraf Touloub - Pleiades Art 10/09/2026 – 31/10/2026 Galeria Plan B is pleased to present “Pleiades,” Achraf Touloub’s (born 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco) fifth solo exhibition at the gallery, as part of Berlin Art Week 2026. Read more Location Galeria Plan B Strausberger Platz 1 10243 Berlin Time 18:00 pm – 22:00 pm
Art © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Art 10/09/2026 A Divided Life: Art and Migration in Berlin. Art 10/09/2026 The new special exhibition at the Ephraim-Palais will open with a performance by the creators and a DJ set. Read more Free of charge International City of music Contemporary Art Location Museum Ephraim-Palais | Stadtmuseum Berlin Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin Time 18:00 pm https://www.berlin.museum/veranstaltungen/eroeffnung-geteiltes-leben
Art © Harald Hentrich Art 10/09/2026 – 17/10/2026 Erotic Art Art 10/09/2026 – 17/10/2026 What can erotic art achieve today? In an age of sensory overload—but also of prohibition—visual art can both reveal and withhold, depict and conceal, and capture moments on the threshold. Read more Location Galerie Hentrich & Shrivastava Fasanenstr. 29 10719 Time 18:00 pm – 22:00 pm https://www.galeriehentrich.de/
Theatre © Promo Theatre 10/09/2026 + 9 additional dates Krug. Zerbrochen! Theatre 10/09/2026 + 9 additional dates “The Broken Jug” by Heinrich von Kleist is both a comedy and a courtroom drama. It is about nothing less than the uncovering of a crime – which the judge himself committed. Read more Location Theater Strahl Martin-Luther-Straße 77 10825 Berlin Time 18:00 pm https://www.theater-strahl.de/programm/krug-zerbrochen/ Buy tickets
Photography © Foto: MKKoen Verlag Photography 10/09/2026 Panel Discussion and Book Presentation: “Don’t Forget Me! The Last Women of the East” Photography 10/09/2026 In her portrait series “Don’t Forget Me! The Last Women of the East,” created in the Mahler class at the renowned Ostkreuz School of Photography, photographer Isabel Kittler addresses the moving and pressing question: “What remains of the women who were born… Read more History of the GDR Free of charge Location Wolfdietrich-Schnurre-Bibliothek Bizetstraße 41 13088 Berlin Time 18:00 pm https://www.berlin.de/land/kalender/index.php?detail=279994&ls=0&c=409
Guided Tours © SPSG / Nicole Romberg Guided Tours 10/09/2026 Power, Passion, Morality: Messages in the Upper Gallery Guided Tours 10/09/2026 Masterpieces of the Italian Baroque by Guido Reni, Artemisia Gentileschi, and Luca Giordano in the Upper Gallery of the Neues Palais depict dramatic scenes of unbridled passions and power dynamics marked by violence. Read more Guided tours of the museum Location Neues Palais Am Neuen Palais 14469 Potsdam Time 18:00 pm https://www.spsg.de/aktuelles/veranstaltung/macht-leidenschaft-moral-botschaften-in-der-oberen-galerie/ Buy tickets
Dance & Performance © visitBerlin Dance & Performance 10/09/2026 Sunville Performance Dance & Performance 10/09/2026 Together with singer and composer Sofia Jernberg, Fiston Mwanza Mujila performs excerpts from the libretto of Sunville as part of the International Literature Festival Berlin at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The performance is improvised, spontaneous and… Read more Location Haus der Berliner Festspiele Schaperstraße 24 10719 Berlin Time 18:00 pm Buy tickets
Art © © Michael Bodycomb Art 10/09/2026 – 05/03/2027 Introduction – Maurizio Cattelan (in English) Art 10/09/2026 – 05/03/2027 Who is Maurizio Cattelan? How does he challenge reality? What defines the aesthetic of “comic existentialism”? Why is it considered a radical reinvention of the concept of art? Read more Guided tours of the museum International Contemporary Art Location Neue Nationalgalerie Potsdamer Straße 50 10785 Berlin Time 18:30 pm https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=161871 Buy tickets
Nightlife © Eavo Nightlife 10/09/2026 + 3 additional dates Clever & Curious Charlottenburg! - Kneipenquiz Nightlife 10/09/2026 + 3 additional dates Read more Location Art Stalker Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße 67 10627 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://art-stalker.reservix.de/p/reservix/group/518555 Buy tickets
Lectures & Readings © visitberlin, Foto Wolfgang Scholvien Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates “Contemporary witnesses in conversation” – escape helper Burkhart Veige Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates The Berliner Unterwelten e.V. is always good for creative innovations: One of the most successful escape helpers, Burkhart Veigel, reports in a lecture and subsequent conversation about his activities on the Berlin Wall, in which he was able to help around 800… Read more Berlin wall History of the GDR Events on the Cold War Location Berliner Unterwelten e.V. Brunnenstraße 142 10115 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.berliner-unterwelten.de/neuigkeiten/zeitzeugen-im-gespraech-fluchthelfer-burkhart-veigel.html Buy tickets
Concerts © Ulf Drechsel Concerts 10/09/2026 Grünauer Green Hour #4 Concerts 10/09/2026 The Grünauer Jazz Bar has become the Grünauer GREEN HOUR. An open bar for when you just want to get out of the house. Chat, have a glass of wine, listen to music. TODAY WITH YOUR MUSIC! Bring along a record or CD from your personal collection that’s very… Read more City of music Location KulturTribüne Grünau Regattastraße 191 12527 Berlin Time 19:00 pm – 21:00 pm https://ortsverein-gruenau.de
Lectures & Readings © © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, Foto: Johannes Berger Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 E hoʻi ka Nani: On Beauty & Return Lectures & Readings 10/09/2026 Objects Talk Back is a project about the possibilities of literature to open up new stories and relations through museum archives. International writers are invited to explore collections at the Humboldt Forum, to select an object, and write about it however… Read more Literature Location Humboldt Forum Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin Time 19:00 pm – 20:30 pm https://www.humboldtforum.org/de/programm/termin/literatur/e-hoi-ka-nani-von-schoenheit-rueckkehr-164224/ Buy tickets
Art © courtesy the artist, KAB Inc. / Takeshi Asano Art 10/09/2026 Opening of the Exhibition “Ryuichi Sakamoto. seeing sound, hearing time” Art 10/09/2026 The Hamburger Bahnhof invites you to the opening of the exhibition “Ryuichi Sakamoto. seeing sound, hearing time.” Read more Berlin Art Week Free of charge Contemporary Art Location Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin Invalidenstraße 50-51 10557 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/?tx_smb_pi1%5Bsmart_id%5D=161025
Art © Abb. Rainer Splitt, Farbguß schwarzblau, 2025, Sammlung Staatliches Museum Schwerin. Foto: SSGK-MV / Abb. Quentin Lefranc, Monolith 1-5, 2025, Papier, Zement. Foto: Q.Lefranc Art 10/09/2026 – 16/10/2026 Quentin Lefranc / Rainer Splitt - Embodying Space Art 10/09/2026 – 16/10/2026 The Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art Gallery presents a joint exhibition by French sculptor Quentin Lefranc and German painter Rainer Splitt. For many years, both artists have been intensively exploring concrete and minimalist artistic concepts, each… Read more Location Galerie Gilla Lörcher Grolmanstr. 28 10623 Berlin Time 19:00 pm
Films © visitBerlin Films 10/09/2026 The Katyn Massacre | Katyń Films 10/09/2026 On April 3, 1940, and in the weeks that followed, a horrific war crime took place: the Katyn Massacre. Thousands of Polish officers, intellectuals, and government officials were murdered by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD, in the forests near Katyn and at… Read more Film events in Berlin Free of charge History of National Socialism Location Topographie des Terrors Niederkirchnerstraße 8 10963 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.topographie.de/veranstaltungen
Theatre © Vahid Amanpour Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates The Blizzard Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Vladimir Sorokin’s The Blizzard is a ‘road novel’ of the most fantastical kind, with a country doctor and his coachman travelling through a fairy-tale, post-apocalyptic Russia, racing to vaccinate the population against a mysterious plague that turns the… Read more City of music Location Komische Oper Berlin: Schillertheater - Großer Saal Bismarckstraße 110 10625 Berlin Time 19:00 pm https://www.komische-oper-berlin.de/spielplan/a-z/der-schneesturm/ Buy tickets
Theatre © Galli Theater Berlin Theatre 10/09/2026 + 1 additional date Belladonna Theatre 10/09/2026 + 1 additional date Against her mother's wishes, she takes the correspondence course "Act at home", and instead of helping around the house, she prefers to practice for her acting career. Read more Location Galli Theater Berlin Oranienburger Str. 32 / Heckmannhöfe 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.eventim.de/artist/galli-theater-berlin/belladonna-galli-theater-berlin-2482285/?affiliate=VB1 Buy tickets
Theatre © Philip Frowein, 2025 Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Call me Paris Theatre 10/09/2026 + 2 additional dates Los Angeles, 2004: Paris Hilton, the heiress to the multi-million-dollar Hilton hotel empire, is on a meteoric rise from noughties It girl to reality TV star and first ever influencer. Read more Around Kurfürstendamm Location Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Kurfürstendamm 153 10709 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.schaubuehne.de/de/produktionen/call-me-paris.html Buy tickets
Panel discussion © Fabian Schellhorn Panel discussion 10/09/2026 Christian Kracht & Katie Kitamura Panel discussion 10/09/2026 What happens when two of the most compelling voices in contemporary literature come together? Katie Kitamura and Christian Kracht, who are both thoroughly familiar with each other’s work, discuss the art of writing as well as colonialism and fascism—themes… Read more International Literature Location Haus der Berliner Festspiele - Großer Saal Schaperstr. 24 10719 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.eventim.de/noapp/event/21895551/?affiliate=VB1&utm_source=VB1&utm_medium=dp&utm_campaign=berlintourismus Buy tickets
Concerts © Elisabeth Arend Concerts 10/09/2026 IF I COULD MAKE A WISH Concerts 10/09/2026 A lively, deeply personal musical journey through time with Elisabeth Arend and Victor Nicoara (piano), exploring the chansons and cabaret songs of the 20th century. Read more City of music Location Theater im Palais Am Festungsgraben 1 10117 Berlin Time 19:30 pm https://www.theater-im-palais.de/event/wenn-ich-mir-was-wuenschen-duerfte/ Buy tickets
Musical © Berliner Stage Company Musical 10/09/2026 + 5 additional dates DREAMLAND Musical 10/09/2026 + 5 additional dates Area 51, a military zone with the highest security classification…until now! This myth-shrouded site in the middle of the Nevada desert is opening its gates as an amusement park, and Boulder City Science College has the honor of being the first to visit… Read more International City of music Location Atze Musiktheater Luxemburger Straße 20 13353 Berlin Time 19:30 pm
