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Street Festivals & Fairs

© Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Foto: Jan Frontzek

5/10/2018 – 5/13/2018

150 YEARS BIESDORF PALACE

Built in 1868, Biesdorf Castle celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2018. Renovated and completed around its long missing upper floor, Biesdorf Castle has been a lively and attractive place of local art and culture since February 2018.
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Schloss Biesdorf

15:30 pm
Art

© visitBerlin, Foto: Martin Gentischer

4/05/2018 – 4/06/2023

Admission to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin will now be free from 4 to 8pm on the first Thursday of every month

Starting 5 April 2018, admission to the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin will be free from 4 to 8pm on the first Thursday of every month.
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- Contemporary Art
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart

16:00 pm
Art

© visitBerlin, Foto: Sönke Schneidewind

9/13/2017 – 8/30/2018

Alfredo Jaar

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- Contemporary Art
- Berlin Art Week
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k.
Art

© Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Foto: Jan Frontzek

5/10/2018 – 6/15/2018

Ankommen (Arriving)

Opening exhibition of the Biesdorf Palace Gallery
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Schloss Biesdorf

15:00 pm
Photography

© Arno Fischer (1927-2011) Abendkleider | Modelle: Modeinstitut der DDR | ‚Sibylle‘, Heft 4, 1974 vintage, print 29 x 39 cm, Galerie Berinson, Berlin

3/15/2018 – 7/06/2018

Arno Fischer: „Selling dreams“ – fashion photography for ‘Sibylle’

Galerie Berinson will be exhibiting about 60 vintage prints from the 1960s and 70s by Arno Fischer (1927-2011) taken for the famous GDR women’s magazine Sibylle. Arno Fischer (born in Berlin in 1927), was one of the most important photographers in the GDR and…
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- Contemporary Art
- Berlin's neighbourhoods
Galerie Berinson

11:00 am
Architecture & Design

© erloschen

5/29/2015 – 12/31/2099

Art in Berlin 1880–1980

The presentation from our collection is a multi-facetted tour through the art of Berlin from 1880 to 1980. It ranges from paintings of the late 19th century, when the Kaiser reigned and tastes were largely determined by the moneyed classes, via Expressionism…
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Berlinische Galerie - Ausstellung

15:00 pm – 16:00 pm

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Lecture

© Berlinische Galerie, Foto: Nina Straßgütl

9/22/2018

Art Talk in DGS: Loredana Nemes

Experience art deaf: In dialogue about the exhibition "Loredana Nemes. Photographs 2008-2017" An art discussion with the artist and art mediator Veronika Kranzpiller invites to a joint dialogue in German Sign Language (DGS) about the work of the photographer…
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- Contemporary Art
Berlinische Galerie - Ausstellung

16:00 pm – 17:00 pm

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Festivals

© Kulturprojekte Berlin, Foto: Antje Schröder

9/26/2018 – 9/30/2018

Berlin Art Week

The Berlin Art Week, as the umbrella brand of the Berlin art enterprise, unites important trade fairs, exhibitions, discussions and events in a citywide program. For a couple of days art lovers from all over the world gather in Berlin.
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- Contemporary Art
- Berlin Art Week
Berlin Art Week - verschiedene Orte
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Festivals & Markets

© Promo

4/27/2018 – 4/29/2018

Berlin Gallery Weekend

Berlin galleries open their exhibitions on this art weekend. Contemporary positions of established artists, as well as promising newcomers will be presented.
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- Contemporary Art
- Culture
Diverse Veranstaltungsorte/ miscellaneous venues in Berlin

18:00 pm
Art

© Abbildung „CI_Tapedrawing_Detail": Callum Innes, Detail aus „Untitled“, 2017 © the artist/ Loock Galerie, courtesy Loock Galerie, Berlin

4/27/2018 – 6/02/2018

Callum Innes. Tape

For his new series, shown for the first time at Loock, Callum Innes turned his tools into his material. The adhesive tape, usually an aid for delimiting planes in the painting, is no longer just used temporarily and then removed; rather, it constructs the…
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- Contemporary Art
Loock Galerie

18:00 pm
Market

© visitBerlin, Foto: Jan Frontzek

6/16/2018 + 3 additional dates

ComicInvasionBerlin 2018

ComicInvasionBerlin, the Berlin Comic Festival for comic artists, publishers and fans from Berlin and everywhere. COMICINVASIONBERLIN, Berlin's big comic strip festival, will take place for the seventh time on the weekends 16/17 and 23/24 June 2018.
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- Contemporary Art
Diverse Veranstaltungsorte/ miscellaneous venues in Berlin

10:00 am
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Classical Music

© Tim Deussen

5/25/2018

Contemporary music with Matthias Pintscher and the Karajan Academy

Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement (– vor der Erstarrung) brings to mind Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, who wakes up one morning as a beetle, lying on his back, unable to turn over without help: the piece is characterised by the “unsuccessful” attempts to create…
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Berliner Philharmonie – Kammermusiksaal

20:00 pm

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Art

© The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC.,Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.

4/20/2018 – 7/22/2018

Covered in Time and History

Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) represents one of the most outstanding artistic positions of the 1970s and 1980s. From 20 April to 22 July 2018, Martin-Gropius-Bau will present her multi-layered film work, which has been recently restored and digitised, the result of…
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- Film
- Contemporary Art
Martin-Gropius-Bau

10:00 am

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Exhibitions

© Foto: Jürgen Pleuser, 2015

7/01/2017 – 8/23/2019

Culture Meets Nature – The Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin's Green Museum Quarter

he Kunsthaus Dahlem is an exhibition venue displaying outstanding examples of post-war German modernism (1945-1961). It is located in the former atelier of the sculptor Arno Breker. The adjacent garden is home to sculptures by Bernhard Heiliger, who lived and…
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- Green City
- Contemporary Art
Kunsthaus Dahlem
Photography

© Cyrill Lachauer

11/03/2017 – 4/30/2018

Cyrill Lachauer

Cyrill Lachauer (*1979 in Rosenheim) is a reader of tracks. His works derive from lengthy journeys around United States backcountry, so much in the public eye of late, and back to his own roots in Upper Bavaria and Berlin. The gaps, quotations and seemingly…
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Berlinische Galerie - Ausstellung

14:00 pm – 15:00 pm

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Photography

© Dietrich Oltmanns (*1956), Zyklus Berlin Panoramen, ohne Titel, ca. 1993, Copyright Dietrich Oltmanns

3/16/2018 – 6/08/2018

Dietrich Oltmanns. Photographs 1985–2000

Dietrich Oltmanns (*1956) dedicated himself to photography unexpectedly after studying cybernetics and spending two years in the industry. As an autodidact, he tried to make his own way in the world of images. He found his way then and has been developing it…
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Collection Regard

14:00 pm
Exhibitions

© Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur

4/27/2018 – 5/27/2018

Exhibition "Тьма & Licht"

You close your eyes- darkness. Open them- light. It seems that everything in the world is easy. Everything is divided. There is light, and there is darkness, there is night, and there is day, white and black, noise and silence.
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Russisches Haus der Wissenschaft und Kultur

10:00 am
Art

© Bezirksamt Marzahn-Hellersdorf von Berlin, Fachbereich Kultur, Foto: Jan Frontzek

11/24/2018 – 1/06/2019

Exhibition of the artist initiative Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Artist initiative Marzahn-Hellersdorf
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Ausstellungszentrum Pyramide
Art

© Foto: Dirk Pauwels

4/27/2018 – 6/24/2018

Floating Utopias

Since the first hot-air balloon was launched in 1783, inflatable objects have lent wings to artistic visions and social utopias.
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- Free of charge
- Contemporary Art
General Public c/o nGbK

12:00 pm
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Art

© Sammlung Hoffmann

4/28/2018 + 29 additional dates

Guided Tour through the Hoffmann Collection

A private art collection opens its doors. On two floors of a former factory building in the Sophie-Gips-Höfen, art is quite private: the Hoffmann couple lived and worked together here in the midst of their 40 years of work.
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Sammlung Hoffmann

11:00 am