Berlin Art: What Exhibitions Are on Now?
Berlin’s vibrant art scene continues to captivate audiences in April 2026, showcasing a rich tapestry of exhibitions across its world-class museums, private galleries, and unique underground art spaces. From thought-provoking solo presentations to extensive retrospectives, the city offers a compelling cultural experience for every art enthusiast.
Closing Soon: Don’t Miss These Exhibitions
Several notable exhibitions are drawing to a close in mid-April, offering a last chance to experience their unique perspectives:
- Yalda Afsah: PAN at CCA Berlin, concluding on April 11. Afsah’s solo presentation delves into Bulgarian spiritual practice through film, providing an intimate yet physically removed insight into Paneurhythmy.
- Jim Lambie: High Voltage at Konrad Fischer Galerie, ending on April 18. The Turner Prize winner’s site-specific installations, featuring technicoloured vinyl tape patterns and chrome wall works, evoke a rhythmic and psychedelic aesthetic inspired by his musical background.
- Mary Katharine Tramontana: Do not write poems likening his body to god at about_bookshop, running from April 10-18. This book launch and photography exhibition celebrates Tramontana’s second poetry collection, accompanied by original photography, with opening and closing events featuring readings, drinks, and music.
- Vielstimmig III – Chorfestival at Humboldt Forum, on April 18 and 19. Nine Berlin choirs will perform pop-up concerts throughout the Humboldt Forum, presenting a diverse repertoire spanning Arabic, African, and Latin American music, and mixing classical, jazz, queer, and feminist ensembles.
- Neuköllner Kunstpreis 2026 at Galerie im Saalbau, closing on April 19. This exhibition showcases works by the four Neukölln-based artists awarded the 10th Neukölln Art Prize, including the first prize winner Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi, whose installation addresses non-binary gender identities.
- Gregory Nachmanovitch: Self Portrait with Pets at Number 1 Main Road, concluding on April 19. Nachmanovitch offers a glimpse into his 3D-modelled world, reflecting adolescent memories through print, sculpture, and drawing, alongside his 2022 video work ‘The Captive’.
- A Paradise on Earth – To My Dearest Foot Skin at Studio Galerie Nord, running until April 26. This unconventional exhibition explores Western shame surrounding feet, featuring public foot spa treatments and live electronic music played on a laundry hanger. Performances are scheduled for April 10 and 25.
Extended Engagements: Exhibitions Through May and June
Art enthusiasts have more time to explore a range of captivating exhibitions extending into May and June:
- Annika Kahrs: OFF SCORE at Hamburger Bahnhof, until May 3. Kahrs’ solo presentation bridges art and music through video, sound installations, and live performances, exploring music as a tool for social engagement and artistic experimentation.
- Giulia Andreani: Sabotage at Hamburger Bahnhof, until May 3. Andreani’s monochromatic blueish-grey paintings on canvas piece together forgotten histories from archival photographs, exhibited alongside works from state museums to encourage new associations with the present.
- Mark Leckey, Enter Thru Medieval Wounds at Julia Stoschek Foundation, until May 3. Leckey’s extensive solo exhibition features iconic works like ‘Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore’ and ‘Cinema-in-the-Round’, examining how media shapes perception, memory, and desire.
- Possibilities of an Island – Thinking in Images from Gerstenberg to Scharf at Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, until May 3. This exhibition explores the intensely personal Scharf family collection, spanning Surrealism and fantastical art from Goya to Hannah Höch, tracing art as refuge and escape.
- DISSOLUTIONS Sequence I: Johannes Büttner, Catherina Cramer at Kunstraum Mitte, until May 6. This joint presentation features Büttner’s video installations on statehood and counterworlds, alongside Cramer’s installations considering the body within a capitalist system.
- Klara Lidén: Kunstwerke at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, until May 10. Lidén’s first institutional survey in Berlin showcases her works spanning sculpture, installation, and video, interrogating the politics of public versus private space through found objects and performances.
- Ahu Dural: Malplaquetstraße 33 – Jugend einer Monteurin at Galerie Wedding, until May 10. Dural’s solo exhibition presents sculptures made from industrial materials in conversation with photographs and found objects, drawing from personal stories of female solidarity among migrant women in Berlin’s electrical industry.
- Memory Is a Strange Bell at n.b.k. (until May 3) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien (until May 17). These simultaneous exhibitions showcase works by the 14 artists who won Berlin Senate’s 2025 visual arts working stipend, offering a platform to important players in Berlin’s current art scene.
- Edith Tudor-Hart: Crossing Lines at f³ – freiraum für fotografie, until May 17. This exhibition features the journalistic social critique photography of Edith Tudor-Hart, a Soviet spy recruiter whose work captured children, protests, and workers in 1908s London.
- Cornelia Parker – Stolen Thunder (A Storm Gathering) at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, until May 24. Parker’s installation features a lightbulb at the center of the space, which is gradually filled with a growing storm of thunder and lightning, created from archival recordings.
- Gianna Surangkanjanajai & Rey Akdogan at Haus am Waldsee, until May 25. Surangkanjanajai’s conceptual sculptures explore the potential of motion, while Akdogan’s
