Your Guide Through Gallery Weekend Berlin, Across the City

Gallery Weekend Berlin returns from 1 to 3 May 2026, bringing three days of exhibitions, talks and public programmes across the city. With events and exhibitions happening across galleries, independent spaces and the weekend invites audiences to move through Berlin and encounter its visual arts ecosystem in full. [Read on]

It’s not centred on a single venue or district. Its strength lies in how it spreads across neighbourhoods and spaces, encouraging exploration beyond familiar routes. We have mapped out our highlights and more in the ArtRabbit app guide, which allows you to browse events, see what is nearby, and get directions between venues as you move through the week.

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Rodney McMillian: In Other Realms

Los Angeles-based artist Rodney McMillian is known for his multidisciplinary practice. His work often addresses themes of race, labor, and social inequality, drawing attention to overlooked materials and marginalized histories. McMillian frequently uses found objects and transforming them into powerful statements about care, survival, and political resistance. Through his art, he challenges traditional narratives and invites viewers to reflect on the social structures that shape everyday life.

Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas, Haegue Yang - perceptual territories - cut, split, layered

perceptual territories - cut, split, layered features works by Shilpa Gupta, Renata Lucas and Haegue Yang that deconstruct prevailing narratives of reality using historical, political and subjective precedents. Subverting geometry, fragmenting the quotidian and navigating sound through form, the three artists prompt modes of sight and movement that ground a viewer in time and space. Together, they shape resonant encounters that cast the world in new light.

Robert Rehfeldt. Mail Message from my Studio

Maintaining open channels of communication was vital for Rehfeldt, as was his studio practice. Over the course of the 1980s, he produced a number of paintings that show how he worked within and between painterly idioms. Through complex layers of mediation, he found ways to address aspects of wider social conditions in the GDR.

Nida Sinnokrot | Above Ground Below

Rubber-Coated Rocks, initiated in 2001, is presented here in a 2024–26 iteration. Composed of stones, discarded footballs, and other found materials gathered near checkpoints in Palestine, each sculpture binds together elements marked by circulation, impact, and abandonment. The forms recall heads or assemblies of bodies—worn, weathered, and held in tension and suspension — suggesting both vulnerability and persistence. Bound and stabilized, they stand as accumulations of contact: between surface and force, object and memory, play and violence.

Edi Rama. Chysalizing

Edi Rama creates exuberant compositions that embody a symbiosis between art making and politics. At the core of the Albanian Prime Minister’s artistic practice are his vivid stream-of-consciousness drawings, produced during meetings in his office, where free, expressive lines unfold alongside the structural demands of political life. These mindscapes act as a springboard for experimentation: biomorphic blots and amorphous shapes evolve into compositions that resist fixed reference or narrative.

D’après Manet

Under the title D’après Manet, Galerie Michael Haas has brought together works by 51 international artists, the vast majority of which were created specifically for the exhibition. They pay tribute to the legacy of French painter Édouard Manet (1832–1883) by quoting or parodying his paintings and drawings, adapting them in their own distinctive styles and opening up entirely new perspectives for us, the viewers.

Farkhondeh Shahroundi

Farkhondeh Shahroudi (born 1962 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian visual artist and poet who has lived in exile in Germany since 1990, primarily in Berlin. In her interdisciplinary artistic practice, she works with painting, drawing, installation, textiles, photography, video, and performance. The central themes of her work include self-location, language, memory, migration, and cultural translation. She often combines poetic texts with material elements such as fabrics or carpets, creating expansive, multi-layered works. Shahroudi studied painting in Tehran and art and design in Dortmund and is now regarded as one of the most important voices in contemporary art addressing exile and diaspora.

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