KGB Art Week

The focus of KGB Art Week is 38 exhibitions and accompanying events across Berlin’s 34 municipal galleries. More than 200 participating artists present paintings, graphic art, photography, sculpture, video, installations, and sound and performance art.

The exhibitions cover topics including the rebellious power of art and artistic fieldwork. The event program offers KGB Sounds, where art meets music, KGB Young with workshops for young people, and KGB Tours, taking visitors different routes through the city’s galleries.

The KGB Art Week support program offers a range of event formats that offer an introduction to the art worlds in Berlin’s districts.

Highlights include the KGB Tours on September 4, which this year feature a bus tour, five bike tours, and a walking tour. The tours each take a different route through the city districts. The program includes visits to exhibitions at several municipal galleries as well as exclusive guided tours and presentations by gallery directors, curators, and/or artists. Anyone interested in participating in one of the tours can register at mail@kgberlin.net by August 28th.

KGB Young connects KGB Art Week with children, young people, and families and — starting this year — school groups through a special workshop program. From September 2–10, young people can try out various art making techniques such as collage, silkscreen printing, video, performance, and much more with the guidance of professional artists. Gallery visits to view related exhibitions form the basis of the workshop activities. This year KGB Young also has several inclusive offerings. Participants are kindly requested to register, further details can be found at the following link: www.kgberlin.net

The close of KGB Art Week will be celebrated with KGB Sounds on September 11. Out the front of Galerie im Körnerpark, art meets music with four bands and a DJ program — all artists equally at home in music and art — providing an impressive music experience.
The four Ukrainian jazz musicians of Zukor fuse elements of hip hop, groove, and fusion.
Marco Montiel-Soto experiments with sound and noise recordings of train, birds, animals, bells, planes, and lectures from his own vinyl collection.
Inspired by various journeys, collaborations, and master teachers, Andi.Andean creates electronic soundscapes that combine afro, techno, downtempo, and dub to awaken the desire to dance.
Unconventional influences of coldwave, post-punk, darkwave, and electronic music are brought to the stage by All Frames Crack.
And finally, Perera Elsewhere serves up a DJ set of base-heavy sounds of global and experimental club music.


KGB Sounds is part of the Kultursommerfestival Berlin 2022.

A detailed KGB Art Week 2022 program can be found at: http://www.kgberlin.net/

KULTURSOMMERFESTIVALS BERLIN 2022 program partner

With kind support of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Municipal Galleries Exhibition Fund.