Berliner Kunstherbst. Top shows to see this autumn

With Berlin Art Week starting on 15 September as a city-wide event, the prelude to the collaborative project Stadt/Bild which is facilitated by four of Berlin’s leading institutions, not one but three art fairs, many of the galleries and project spaces staging major openings, and a rich programme of award ceremonies, performances, screenings and talks, Berlin is certainly the place to be this autumn. To help you navigate the art scene, we have listed our highlights for this year’s Berliner Kunstherbst.

Camille Henrot. The Pale Fox
5 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015
König Galerie ST. AGNES

After displays in London, Copenhagen, Paris, and Münster, the internationally acclaimed exhibition The Pale Fox by French artist Camille Henrot has come to Berlin. The Pale Fox articulates our efforts to make sense of the world through the objects that surround us. The artist has arranged more than 400 photographs, ink drawings, found objects, bronze and ceramic sculptures, digital images, charts, books and artifacts following different cultural, philosophical and biological principles.

Paul McCarthy
12 Sep 2015 – 22 Nov 2015
Schinkel Pavillon

Schinkel Pavillon will be showing a solo show by American artist and provocateur Paul McCarthy. The exhibition is oriented around themes of waking and sleeping, life and death, presence and illusion.

Stadt/Bild. The Image of the CIty
16 Sep 2015 – 8 Nov 2015
Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Nationalgalerie. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Hamburger Bahnhof

Stadt/Bild is a collaborative project between four of Berlin’s leading art institutions - Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, and Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - presenting a total of four thematically related and coinciding exhibitions addressing social, aesthetic, and cultural aspects relating to the city.

Cindy Sherman – Works from the Olbricht Collection
16 Sep 2015 – 10 Apr 2016
me Collectors Room

Featuring 65 photographs by Cindy Sherman, including works from almost all periods of her career, the collection provides a remarkable overview of the artist's entire body of work.

abc art berlin contemporary
17 Sep 2015 – 20 Sep 2015
at Station Berlin

Focusing on artistic practice, abc art berlin contemporary has invited galleries to realise a single position of contemporary art within the framework of the fair. Rather than presenting their particular programmes, the galleries present themselves in their capacities as the producers of select artists.

Wim Wenders. Time Capsules. By the side of the road
17 Sep 2015 – 14 Nov 2015
Blain | Southern

Time Capsules. By the side of the road is Wim Wender’s first exhibition in his hometown in over half a decade. Bringing together images of Germany and America – the two countries that have most influenced the artist throughout his career - the exhibition explores the relationship between memory and photography.

Hito Steyerl. Left To Our Own Devices
17 Sep 2015 – 1 Nov 2015
KOW

German artist Hito Steyerl returns to Germany with Left To Our Own Devices. KOW Berlin will be showing five video installation from the years 2012 to 2014 exploring the relationship between technology and contemporary culture.

Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel
17 Sep 2015 – 21 Oct 2015
Sprüth Magers Berlin

Sprüth Magers Berlin is bringing an exciting all female ensemble of prominent artists representing a variety of mediums.

POSITIONS BERLIN
17 Sep 2015 – 20 Sep 2015
Arena Berlin

78 exhibitors from 16 countries will be presenting new artistic positions. Bringing a new fair format, the organisers are opting for relevance and a large spectrum of artworks. The fair is accompanied by a supporting programme of exhibitions, a curated film programme, artist talks, performances, and much more.

Alicja Kwade. Monologue from 11th floor
19 Sep 2015 – 22 Nov 2015
Haus am Waldsee

For more than a decade Alicja Kwade has probed questions of astrophysics and philosophy in her sculptural work. Employing simple means, she seeks to uncover several layers of reality.

Abjects
19 Sep 2015 – 24 Oct 2015
IMPORT Projects

A group show featuring new works by Eloise Bonneviot, Emily Jones, Paul Kneale, Yuri Pattison and Andrew Norman Wilson. Reflecting on abjections, the works in this exhibition interrogate our contemporary technologically mediated experience.

Images

1 Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle. XENOPOLIS. Laurence Bonvin, from the series “Blikkiesdorp”, 2009, © Courtesy the artist

2 Berlinische Galerie. BRANDLHUBER+ HERTWECK, MAYFRIED. THE DIALOGIC CITY : BERLIN WIRD BERLIN. Brandlhuber+ Hertweck, Mayfried, Dialogic City 3, 2014, © Dialogic City

3 Paul Kneale, SEO and CO, tank. tv, London, 2014, © Courtesy the artist

4 Time Capsules. By the side of the road. Wim Wenders’ recent photographs is at Blain|Southern Berlin from 17 Sept – 14 Nov 2015. Image Courtesy of Wim Wenders and Blain|Southern