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From the 1970s to the 21st century: this summer we get to revisit three women’s boundary-pushing work in film.

The new exhibition at Potsdam’s Museum Barberini displays more than 90 abstract paintings, collage, prints and sculptures by the auction record-setting German artist. Through Oct 21.

Taking over the entirety of the Hamburger Bahnhof space, this vast exhibition consists of over 150 works taken from the Nationalgalerie’s inventory. Through Aug 26.

Is the plot at the northern end of Tempelhof supposed to be an art exhibition or some sort of urban recycling dump? Spoiler: nuture Mini ART Golf is a bit of both. And you get to play mini golf around its 18 sculptures made from “reused materials”.

Known in Berlin for his neon-light installation in the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery, and outside the art world for inspiring Drake’s 2015 Hotline Bling video, American light artist James Turrell presents a commissioned installation at the Jewish Museum.

Located in the 1960s-built Schinkel Pavilion, this selection of later “sack form” works by the French-American grand dame of 20th-century art Louise Bourgeois includes pieces produced from 2003 until her death at 98 in 2010.

Behind Peres Project’s red-tinted windows a community of oversized humanoid plaster-cast figures by British artist Ackroyd are sprawled, reclining and lounging across the floor.

Three Berlin exhibitions chronicle the peril and prosperity that befell the city during the interwar era.

An ongoing exhibition pits Chagall postcards and tea towels against some of the modernist titan’s originals.

On the 100th anniversary of Penn’s birth, this exhibition of 240 works at C/O is drawn from a major retrospective at New York’s Metropolitan Museum.

Spread over two floors of the converted brewery that is the KINDL are over 30 works by Swiss artist pair Onorato and Krebs.

New Zealander and Berlin-based artist Frater presents a 40-minute film made up of 330 photographic stills, taken by himself, Georgina Steytler and Scott Rogers. Catch it at Oracle before May 12.

INTERVIEW. Berlin-based German multi-media artist Christian Jankowski on why he’s elevating art from China’s biggest copy village to the auction house at Grisebach. Catch it through May 12.

Gallery Weekend returns Apr 27-29, with 46 galleries hosting some of the year’s biggest openings. Here are our top seven picks.

Photographers find beauty in industrial architecture and landscapes across three Berlin exhibitions.

Turkish artist Nilbar Güreş on using humour and fabric to craft her own political language. Her two exhibitions at Galerie Tanja Wagner and the Schwules Museum end Apr 13 and 15 respectively.

Black’s second solo exhibition at Capitain Petzel is on through Apr 14.

At the Museum for Communication, Hermann Vaske’s Why Are You Creative? offers an existential quick fix for the arty set.

The creations of Gianni Versace are on show in Berlin at a flashy new exhibition.

Labelled a feminist artist at a time when “feminism” was still a dirty word, Ellen Cantor is known for autobiographical narratives expressed through fictional female protagonists. Catch her exhibition through Mar 24.

The founding father of British Pop Art spent a year living and working in Berlin in the mid-1970s, giving the Berlinische Galerie an excuse for this colourful spotlight. It’s on through May 28.

A filmmaker who has worked with Spike Lee, John Akomfrah and Solange Knowles, Arthur Jafa moved into art fairly recently. Catch his new work at the Julia Stoschek Collection through Nov 25.

This month, check out the CTM exhibition (Uncanny Valleys of a Possible Future) minus the queues for the hug machine. Get hugged through Apr 2 at Kunsthaus Bethanien.

INTERVIEW! Right after the final swing of her mechanised flogger at the Berlinische Galerie, Monica Bonvicini’s provocative work comes to König Galerie’s chapel starting Mar 3.

This month sees an infusion of fresh blood into Berlin’s dusty old institutions, starting with Rimini Protokoll’s Top Secret International (Staat 1) on Mar 1.

Three painting exhibitions this month incorporate tech with a 1990s vibe, achieving vastly different results. Corinne Wasmuht’s at König Galerie ends February 25, so read on and then don’t miss!

Ancient gadgetry is the best part of Martin-Gropius-Bau’s library-like new exhibition, “Jews, Christians and Muslims”, on through Mar 4.

This month, curator Patricia Kamp presents Indian artist Bharti Kher’s first solo exhibition in Germany at Museum Frieder Burda, on through Feb 17.

Starting this Feb 3 (through Dec 16!), American artist Krishnamurthy opens up the creative process to the public in Schöneberg.

INTERVIEW! Ahmet Öğüt on the seriousness of his miniature buildings in his exhibition Hotel Résistance, on at KOW through Jan 28.

For this exhibition at Berlin’s premier space for Polish art, the 72-year-old conceptual artist presents a thoughtful selection of works from the last five decades. It’s on through Feb 10.

Like the offspring of Edward Snowden and Banksy, Italian artist Paolo Cirio’s own “performative hacks” mine internet data to create critical works at the intersection of privacy, copyright, democracy and finance. This hack is on through Feb 17.

This month is your last chance to see Thinking in Extremes, the extensive exhibition at AdK that catalogues the relationship between philosopher Walter Benjamin and playwright Bertolt Brecht.

The southwestern suburb still has a lot to offer a museum-going day tripper – but for how long? Your last chance to check out the Ethnological Museum down there before it’s all in Mitte is Jan 14.

The American model, actress and (first and foremost) artists’s exhibition at Schinkel Klause has wide ranging appeal with its references of everything from Cookie Monster to expressionist strokes. Through Jan 21.

Looking for Berlin’s most underground museum? Head to the Samurai Art Museum in Zehlendorf to see a collection that will only increase your Japanese yearnings.

British artist Ed Atkins on combining video, opera costumes and tears in “Old Food”, his largest exhibition to date, on through Jan 7 at Martin-Gropius-Bau.

The Berlin-based conceptual artist brings her latest series of works to Kreuzberg, but its jumbled structure feels thrown together, and fails to do its venue justice.

The Kiel-born visual artist and Turner Prize winner shows off her latest abstract yet ingenious oil paintings in this head-turning solo exhibition.

The IBB Prize winner brings the fruits of his two year journey through South America to Kreuzberg, sharing his desolate landscapes and profound portraits through film, photography and text.

Freshly arrived from the Tate Modern, the first major retrospective of Fahrelnissa Zeid highlights her role as a pioneering Turkish modernist who challenged a Eurocentric male-dominated art world. On at Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle through Mar 25.

Plaid plastic bags, non-native plants, falafel… The migration conversation dominates December’s recommended exhibitions. Here’s our art editor’s take.

Preis der Nationalgalerie finalist Sol Calero talks about the politics of representation and creating art out of a strip mall.

“Only dead fish follow the stream,” reads the exhibition text for THEY. Spotlighting mainly Berlin-based artists who flow against the “tide” of gender and sexual norms, it’s a fine survey of local talent.

Catch Geoffrey Farmer’s solo-exhibition, “The Care With Which the Rain Is Wrong”, at Schinkelklause, which offers insights into humankind through his meticulous collection of images, objects and sounds. Through Nov 12.

Contemporary artists have their say on the centennial in Israeli exhibition The Kids Want Communism. Catch it before it’s over Nov 12.

INTERVIEW! Curator Julian Cox on bringing Message to the Future, a major retrospective on firebrand American photographer Danny Lyon, to C/O.

This year’s four Preis der Nationalgalerie finalists exhibit side by side at Hamburger Bahnhof. They’ll be coming together for an artist talk on Oct 12 (19:00, in English) before the prize is awarded on October 20.

Jeanne Mammen captured the women of Weimar Berlin better that anyone, observing life from the peephole of her Charlottenburg studio. See her work at the Berlinische Galerie starting October 5.

A multi-venue retrospective of the late German filmmaker is on at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Arsenal, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Silent Green Kulturquartier through Jan 28.

On view through Jan 14 in Berlin: expressionist visions of Wenzel Hablik.

INTERVIEW! What do Edward Snowden and Pink Floyd have in common? Japanese collective SAZAE bot explore the Snowden leaks through internet culture in their performance at the finissage of Signals on Sep 26, 18:00 at Diamondpaper.

INTERVIEW! The art megastar and curator of the second Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (Sep 14-17) invited us for a chat about his most personal project and a rare tour of his art studio/start-up factory…

Danish-Icelandic megastar Olafur Eliasson is putting on the second Festival of Future Nows at Hamburger Bahnhof (Sep 14-17). We asked him six questions ahead of his 100-artist strong Art Week splash.

The fairs, the films, the festivals… this year’s Art Week (Sep 13-17) is the most expansive yet. Here are our highlights.

An exhibition and a book are bringing the Snowden files back to Berlin. As part of the Signals (Sep 12-26, Diamondpaper), American surveillance researcher Light presents his “Snowden Archive-in-a-Box” in a hands-on workshop (Sep 13).

Online mag Berliner Gazette brings up the Snowden files, and what we really know of them, in exhibition Signals (Sep 12-26) at Diamondpaper and a book launch for “A Field Guide to the Snowden Files” (Sep 11) at Walther König.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt takes Berliners on a mind-boggling trip through Cosmism in the conference and exhibition Art Without Death, Aug 31-Oct 3.

At the Museum of European Cultures, a 350-year-old weaving tells the story of the Reformation.

INTERVIEW! Berlin-based Kurdish Iraqi conceptual Hiwa K confronts capitalism and Kurdish existentialism in “Don’t Shrink Me to the Size of a Bullet” at KW. Catch it before it ends August 13.

On display at Berlinische Galerie from Jul 26-Aug 21, John Bock’s German feature film premiere evokes a kind of disgust that stays stuck in your throat.

INTERVIEW! Berlin-based artist (and not the mayor) Michael Müller blurs the line between art and fashion with his new exhibition Teil 18. Die Welt gibt es nicht! at Galerie Thomas Schulte. Catch it before it ends Jun 24!

From URL to IRL – a host of exhibitions this month focus on our ever-evolving relationship with technology.

INTERVIEW: Aykan Safoğlu and Emre Busse examine the Turkish-German connection through a LGBTQ lens in ğ – the soft g, on through May 29 at the Schwules Museum.

Gallery Weekend (Fri, Apr 28 to Sun, Apr 30) is back with a mind-boggling array of openings to choose from. Make sure to add these tips to your itinerary.

INTERVIEW! Fudakowski pairs up two art and comedy antiheroes, Lee Lozano and Andy Kaufman respectively, in “Double Standards”, her new show at ChertLüdde. The show is on Apr 28-Jun 17. Don’t miss!

Here are three exhibitions to hop to this spring before the mania really ensues with next month’s Gallery Weekend. Berlinische Galerie, Galerie Bastian and the Georg Kolbe Museum are all calling…

INTERVIEW! American artist and self-designated preserver of queer culture Dean Sameshima on why his show 647(a) serves both as nostalgia and a cautionary tale. It opens Mar 10 at Peres Projects.

London-based artist Navine G. Khan-Dossos talks about printers, abstraction, and breaking down propaganda in her solo Command: Print. Catch it before it ends Feb 10 at Nome Gallery.

INTERVIEW! Hyped video artist Omer Fast has installed a high-profile, seven-film show (complete with its own Ausländerbehörde) on the top floor of the Martin-Gropius-Bau (on through Mar 12). We asked him about process, politics, and porn.

Spring may still feel far away, but Berlin’s art spaces have already come out of hibernation with three high-profile reopenings. Our art editor gives runs down the changes and new exhibitions at Daadgalerie, KW and Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

Dutch 36-year-old Krist Gruijthuijsen has taken over Mitte’s modern art institution KW as director. We asked him about his “make or break” philosophy, being a fresh face on the scene and the Benelux presence in Berlin.

INTERVIEW! Schleime, winner of this year’s Hannah Höch Prize for lifetime achievement, on fleeing East Berlin, starting all over again and creating free art in a free world. Don’t miss her exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie, on through Apr 24.

The Akademie der Künste overwhelms us with death and despair in Uncertain States, but there may be hope for humanity yet. It’s on through January 15.

Take a look at this month’s new art exhibits, leading you from an immersive reflection on waiting at the Ausländerbehörde to a medieval moral compass which works by way of illustrating its exact opposite.

“The English Years” celebrates the work of the over shadowed Bauhaus photographer. See some of the photographs that Walter Gropius stole and more at her retro at the Bauhaus-Archiv, on through Feb 27.

INTERVIEW! British artist Hannah Perry’s hypnotic installation 100 Problems at Contemporary Fine Arts takes on gender formation, relationships and vicious cycles with video, spoken monologue and music. It’s on through Dec 17.

End your November with art presented by the Akademie der Künste. Camaro Stiftung hosts 150 years of the Association of Berlin Women Artists, while AdK’s Uncertain States has a number events, including “A World Not Ours” on Nov 17.

INTERVIEW! Dickersbach has shaken up the art publishing scene with Prōtocollum, an annual publication that includes artists from all around the world and empowers them to become their own curators. The third issue is out this month.

Berlin-based photographer Christian Vagt visited Greece’s notorious Softex refugee camp for his latest exhibition, on at Somos from Nov 1-12.

High-profile digital detective Constant Dullaart wages war with Facebook in Synthesising the Preferred Inputs. Read our interview with him and then catch it at Future Gallery in Schöneberg before it ends Oct 15.

Shiota returns to Berlin with an installation of red thread that begs to be instagrammed. On through Nov 12 Sun at Blain|Southern.

Clues to a mystery that is perhaps non-existent… Meisenberg’s installation uses video projection, secret recordings, and oddly shaped canvases to create an exhibit that leaves you scratching your head. Through Oct 19 at Wentrup.

INTERVIEW! Meet the Laeitia Duveau, the girl breaking the internet with her online art platform Curated By Girls and get a load of her aesthetic IRL Oct 8-9 at Blender & Co in Neukölln.

Dietmar Eckell returns to Berlin with another installation in his long-term photography project Restwert. The latest chapter documents abandoned sites and ways of being in a series of never before seen prints. On through Oct 9 Gallery Erstererster.

INTERVIEW! Refugees… in space! Halil Altindere is hitting Berlin Art Week with a jarring dystopian proposal: send them to Mars. Check out “Space Refugee” opening at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein on Sep 14.

Don’t let the screens and AI fool you – this edition of the Berlin Biennale draws warmth from the most surprising of places.

Through efforts from King Felipe VI of Spain and President Joachim Gauck, the exhibition El Siglo de Oro brings the biggest show of Spanish art outside Spain to Berlin. Check out Spanish Golden Age at the Gemäldegalerie through Oct 30.

Berlin Art Week is upon us (Sep 13-18) but how do you handle it all? Fret not, whether you’re a snob, a trend-chaser or a hipster, here’s what to see and do at Berlin’s six-day exhibition extravaganza.

Mathilde ter Hejne and company create a feminist utopia at Körnerpark for the exhibition, “Sweat, Blood and Tears – Assembling Past and Future” on through Sep 4.

Tanz im August kicks off tomorrow (Aug 11), and we’ve got a list of the up-and-comers you need to catch in movement.

Without time for much reflection after Gallery Weekend, the Berlin Biennale is already here. What do art aficionados expect to see? More importantly, what do they want to see? You can judge the citywide installations yourself starting Jun 4.

The NYC-based collective brings its irony-infused, post-internet-dominated approach to the Berlin Biennale, kicking off Jun 4.

INTERVIEW. Whatever you do, don’t call it music! Legendary Japanese experimental noise foursome Marginal Consort break their rule of only performing once a year and treat Berlin with a special concert on Jun 6 at St. Elisabeth Kirche. But why?

INTERVIEW! Copy, paste, voilà! Post-internet artist Petra Cortright makes “digital paintings” with Photoshop. She’s gone from selling JPEGs to exhibitions at Frieze London. Catch the young artist’s Berlin exhibition at Société before it ends May 27.

INTERVIEW. Winged bodies enveloped in ecstasy, anguish or some exhilarating mix between: Gérard Rancinan and Caroline Gaudriault’s “The Destiny of Men” looks at extremes of emotion through dark and polished photographs at Urban Spree May 13-29.

INTERVIEW! Get a fix of feminist art before it’s gone on April 17. Leiko Ikemura celebrates female protagonists through various mediums in her solo exhibition “…And Suddenly the Wind Turns” at Haus am Waldsee.

INTERVIEW! Hamid Sulaiman might have fled his home in Syria, but he’s not done with the war and the revolution. You can see the original sheets from his graphic novel “Freedom Hospital” at Galerie Crone from Apr 9-Jun 18.

Surveillance, paranoia and big data… HKW’s newest exhibition deals with topics Berliners know and love, but may not understand. From Julian Assange’s office to a fake Apple store, Amanda Ribas Tugwell unpacks it for you. On through May 9.

INTERVIEW! Hamilton collaborates with fellow London-based artist (and life partner) Nicholas Byrne to fill the Schinkel Pavillon with inflatable sculptures in Love IV: Cold Shower on through Apr 10.

Photographer Seiichi Furuya’s exhibition “Gravitation” at Thomas Fischer Gallery charts some morbid territory, asking the question: Are we ever truly free from the loss of a loved one? Explore for yourself through April 2.

You don’t have to wait until Gallery Weekend in April to see some great art. We’ve got a list of six for March to tide you over.

Pakistani American playwright Ayad Akhtar’s phenomenally-written “Disgraced” hits Theater am Kurfürstendamm starting Mar 2. How did the Pulitzer prize-winning play pan out on stage in City West? Does it go off with a bang or is it disgraceful?

INTERVIEW! After making quite a splash at the ABC art fair last autumn, Touliatou experiments with formulas in her solo exhibition Can You Wash The Water, on at DUVE. Catch her latest exhibition before it closes Sat, Feb 26.

In Anette Rose’s “Captured Motion”, numerous videos of busy machines in a textile factory fill walls with hypnotising choreographed movements at Haus am Lützowplatz.

In a shudderingly explicit new exhibition, Berlin hosts 100 works created in the ghettos and camps of WWII Europe. It’s art that survived the Holocaust – even if the artists didn’t. Discover the beauty formed in an era of darkness, through Apr 3.

Japan’s “Chikei” cannot be translated into English, though it roughly means landforms, and the source of life. Check out Norihiko Dan’s architectural installations at Architektur Galerie through Feb 27 to see just how Chikei Berlin can get.

Contributions from Bulgaria, Turkey, Croatia and more in Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut’s “Von hier zu mir” produce a show full of life, colour, memory and most importantly distortion. Warm up to a bit of the Balkans this winter through Feb 12.

Instead of one main exhibition, this year Transmediale presents “Conversation Piece”, a series of events, installations and conversations, Feb 3-7 at HKW. We’ve navigated the “infinite scroll” of the programme to find this year’s must-sees for you.

HIGHLIGHTS: The art world’s winter hibernation is over and Berlin’s got it going on. From the misogynist feminism of Carol Rama to anti-traditional Japanese minimalism from Koji Enokura, here are six shows to check out this month.

INTERVIEW! Galerie Buchholz transforms into an imagined home in Lucy McKenzie ’s “Inspired by an Atlas of Leprosy”, on through January 23.

INTERVIEW! Last year, his art was exhibited all over town. Now hotshot artist Michael Müller’s first institutional solo exhibition is the talk of the Berlin art scene. Catch the UdK professor’s “Wer Spricht” at KW before it closes January 24.

INTERVIEW: Davide Quayola’s “Iconographies” (through Mar 5 at NOME) is the buzzed-about exhibition at this year’s Transmediale Vorspiel. The Italian artist uses custom software to put a spin on renowned works from throughout history.

David Bowie, Nick Cave, Tom Waits… even The Slits are not neglected among Corbijn’s portraits of famed musicians. His pair of exhibitions – Hollands Deep and 1-2-3-4, at C/O Berlin through Jan 31 – make for a captivating retrospective.

INTERVIEW: The 27-year-old artist pulls no punches in addressing migration: both the current refugee crisis and her own migration from Vietnam to Berlin, in Emotion Refuge, at Micky Schubert through Jan 18.

Have you met Jonny yet? If not, it’s time to in Insitu’s first of four character-based exhibtions, this one on through Dec 19. Exploring the not-so-distant past’s portrayals of strong femininity, “Jonny” is here to examine past and present.

An exceptionally magnetic person and intense and raw artist, Brian Claflin left an indelible mark on Berlin before his tragic death in 2014. Now his first posthumous exhibition, The Five Senses, at SomoS is making his mark felt once more.

INTERVIEW. The quarterly publication Texte zur Kunst celebrates 25 years of leading the art publication world in theory and debate. Read our interview with the co-founder and the editor-in-chief.

December, despite what you think, is pretty hot – for art. From masters to newbies, we’ve got six art shows for you to check out before they end. Read our picks here.

The exhibition at Berlinische Galerie is a rare beast: a retrospective that offers insight into the artist’s development, contextualising Beckmann’s work with that of his contemporaries. Runs Nov 20 through Feb 15.

INTERVIEW! The eponymous centrepiece of Mariechen Danz’s Womb Tomb is a body with exposed organs, eternally incomplete. We spoke with the artist about her work dealing with the human body; see it for yourself at Galerie Tanja Wagner opening Nov 20.

INTERVIEW: UK artist Tom Anholt’s solo exhibition History Boy (exploring histories both personal and artistic) is still on display through Nov 21, so don’t delay! Read our interview, then head on over to Eigen + Art Lab and check it out.

Haven’t seen Slavs and Tatars’ playful yet hyper-critical work yet? This month offers two chances, but one is only through Nov 14 at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, so catch it now. Read our interview with one of the collective’s anonymous members first.

Legendary photographer Cindy Sherman has many fans, but perhaps none quite so fanatical as Thomas Olbricht. His 65-piece personal collection is on display right now, offering a rare chance to experience a broad spectrum of Sherman’s work.

Part vintage stationery shop, part creative research lab, Inkwell, laden with old-timey office supplies, is an object-interface through which we can access the pre-digital workspace – only available for your perusal through October 15.

The ever-disturbing, never-predictable Paul McCarthy returns to Berlin – in the form of a lifeless, naked body at the Schinkel Pavillon. We reviewed his hotly anticipated new exhibition, on through November 22.

With another instalment of Berlin Art Week, we’re wondering why Berliner Liste is once again excluded from the program. Official or not, we staked it the city’s oldest art fair. And it was worth the look.

Hurry! Today and tomorrow German photographer Dietmar Eckell presents his photo collection on lost objects abandoned in the wild.

A explosion of exhibitions is set to make up Berlin Art Week Sep 15-20. Not sure about which events to attend? We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to help you navigate the performances, openings and parties.

How do we “play” social media? Why is Facebook like a comic book? Graphic novelist Gabriel S. Moses explains it all at the Disruption Network Lab event A Game Of You, at Bethanien from Aug 8-9.

Artist-choreographer Tino Sehgal is showing in his home city for the first time. You can witness (and participate in) his weirdly affecting dance-based “social sculptures” at the Martin-Gropius-Bau through August 8.

Berlin finally pays homage to the work of Jean Arp, one of the most important figures of 20th-century art. Dive headfirst into dadaism at the Georg Kolbe museum through Oct 11.

The Berlinische Galerie is back after a near-year-long absence. With four different exhibitions in its newly renovated space, gallery director Thomas Köhler and co. are once again attracting the attention of modern art connoisseurs.

With plastic bag swimming pools and heart-monitoring chandeliers, the Bernheimer Contemporary gathers artists to explore ideas of environmental and social responsibility in a spirited new exhibition in Residenz Monbijou. Through Aug 29.

A woman is a work of art, quite literally in the case of American installation artist Donna Huanca. She creates spiritual terrains with clothing, plastic, canvas, makeup and living females. Her show Muscle Memory opens at Peres Projects on June 27.

Depicting the female form amid ornate surroundings, and raising questions about how his abstract subjects exist through time, Israeli artist Tal R’s tea-tinged exhibition “The Oolong” at Contemporary Fine Arts ends Jun 6. Catch it now!

The apes are loose at HKW in their Ape Culture exhibition! And where would ape culture be without The Planet of the Apes? Interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco channels Dr. Zira for a live lecture on predatory humans on Jul 2.

INTERVIEW. Legendary director Greenaway and Dutch theatre and visual artist Boddeke recreate the sacrifice of Isaac in “Obedience”, a massive multi-media installation at the Jewish Museum opening May 23.

Poet and New Zealand expat Sandra Sarala’s newest book, “Looking for Lago di Lecco” (Lake of Licks), like her, is unconventional. In the form of handmade postcards, single-poem editions and more, the first editions come out on Thu, May 14 at CdPV.

Private collections aren’t usually must-sees, but Klaus Staeck was more than just a collector – he was a catalyst. “Kunst für alle” at AdK documents and catalogues the interplay between art and politics from the early 1960s through the present day.

INTERVIEW. Gimmicky or great? The multisensory exhibition Van Gogh Alive attracts atypical gallery audiences with music, video, and immersive installations at the Alte Münze. The preview is on from May 14 and full opening May 21.

The swarm of exhibition openings envelops the city this weekend (May 1-3) and in order to navigate the occupation, art editor Fridey Mickel knows exactly where you need to go.

Turning boring household objects into compelling, alien works of art is Vienna-based artist Federico Vecchi’s specialty. Among all the Gallery Weekend madness, don’t miss Vecchi at Art Von Frei starting May 1.

The upcoming Gallery Weekend (May 1-3) will be a whirlwind of art must-sees. Start it off early with Israeli conceptual artist Amir Fattal’s new exhibition “Mesopotopography” at AJL Gallery, opening Apr 30.

Famous production designer Sir Ken Adam designed the iconic sets for films like Dr Strangelove and Goldfinger. A retrospective at the Deutsche Kinemathek covers his life and work, including his Berlin childhood. See it before it closes May 17.

INTERVIEW. Malian artist Abdoulaye Konaté shows a different side of his textile-based art at Blain Southern, working in a liminal space between African traditions and Western academicism. See his show before it closes Sat Apr 18.

“Devour: Social Cannibalism, Political Redefinition and Architecture” is a vast multimedia exhibition exploring post-communist and postcolonial architecture from Brazil to South Africa to Romania. See it at the Freies Museum before it closes Apr 12.

INTERVIEW. Sexy sex! Berlin’s notorious for its pairing of sex with art and on Fri, Mar 27, artist Avi Berg shares his contribution at Sprechsaal with four other like-minded artists in “Sex Macht Gut”. It kicks off with a pole dance.

INTERVIEW. NY-based artist Cory Arcangel wants to preserve the disappearing artefacts of the early internet. He brings his nostalgic brand of net-influenced art to Galerie Max Hetzler for their group show Open Source, opening Mar 12.

Looking for an outdoors-y hangout spot that’s not super expensive or overrun with tourists? Try venturing outside the Ringbahn to Marzahn’s Alte Börse. As of Mon, Mar 16, it’s now open till 10pm on weeknights and midnight on weekends.

Ann Veronica Janssens works mostly with light, creating stunning, uniquely immersive exhibition experiences which force viewers to question their own perceptions. On March 6 she opens a new exhibition at Esther Schipper Gallery.

Working with media ranging from paint and plaster to Yum Yum noodles and a bathtub installation catalogue, Vera Kox’s art focuses on change and duality. See her show with Manor Grunewald at Dune Gallery before it ends Feb 20.

Berlin’s most esoteric festival of arts, Transmediale, returns to Berlin, with a task to “Capture All”. Catch it at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Jan 28-Feb 1.

Galerie Aurel Scheibler decided to invite Galerie Nierendorf, which occupied his gallery’s space from 1933-1938, back into its old home, rehanging works which had most likely hung on those same walls 80 years ago. Catch before it goes on Jan 31.

Post-internet genius or “nerd art bro”? Through January 10, visit Yves Scherer’s Emma Watson-based exhibition “Closer” at Galerie Guido W. Baudach and decide for yourself.

Thirty-one-year-old Brazilian painter Lucas Arruda is about to make it big – by making it small. Check out his tiny creations before the exhibition at Veneklasen/Werner ends on Sat, Jan 10.

Dec 5 sees the opening of Superposition at Sexauer Gallery, featuring Berlin artist Caroline Kryzecki and her new mystical ballpoint pen-on-paper creations. Here, curatorial it-girl Tina Sauerländer takes us deeper under the surface of the art.

Céline Poulin works exclusively with art in communal areas and outdoor artistic practice, and with Berlin’s abundance of transformable spaces, she has something new to present Berliners at her workshop on Nov 27 at DAZ.

INTERVIEW. The city cult institution Gob Squad invites you to “Be Part of Something Bigger” at the group’s weekend-long 20-year anniversary extravaganza, happening November 20-22 at HAU. Don’t miss!

INTERVIEW. New Leipzig School artist David Schnell brings a show of remarkable new oil-on-canvas works to Eigen + Art. His new exhibition makes one realise the past is only a preface to what he has yet to come. Catch it before it ends on Oct 18.

The British-born wall-scrawler paints clear pictures and they’re getting doubly clear as he pairs off street artists from all over the world at Urban Spree’s DUBL TRUBL, on through Oct 26.

The question “street art or vandalism?” is a well-worn one, but today still provokes a response. From Sep 18, Urban Spree hosts street crew Dubl Trubl, illustrating this fine line by pairing up artists for a mash-up of artistic urbanity.

INTERVIEW. With Berlin’s Art Week arriving next week, Alex Duve delivers young hotshot Chris Succo ahead of the chaos. The hotshot gallerist has an eye for the next big thing. The exhibition opens on Sep 12.

Berlin Art Week is on Sep 16-21, with the three big fairs – Positions, ABC and Berliner Liste – starting the 18th. But it’s not what it used to be. Camille Moreno explores the loss of our Kunstherbst.

INTERVIEW: Re Rebaudengo’s obsession for art is on display at Me Collectors Room, but it’s her penchant for bling that is particularly dazzling, with pieces dating back to the 1930s. There’s only a little over a month before it ends on Sep 21.

On Thu, Aug 7, Berghain’s Halle opens its doors to the public to celebrate 10 years of its infamous sister space. Nine artists including Carsten Nicolai, Norbert Bisky and the gatekeeper himself Sven Marquardt exhibit works from a decade of dance.

Get ready for Project Space Festival, a month-long extravaganza exhibiting the treasures of the indie, underground art scene in Berlin. Throughout August, 30 different spaces give a new platform to the under-appreciated artists of the city.

Art collective ZERO co-founder and prolific 86-year-old installation artist and professor Otto Piene sadly passed away Thursday, the first day of his exhibition “More Sky”. Don’t miss the legend’s last living contribution at Neue Nationalgalerie.

INTERVIEW. The phenomenon that is Dolly Parton takes exhibition form at Bikini Berlin’s 25hours Hotel, going on through July 21. While there may be a claim to kitsch about the country icon, eight Finnish artists show the 9-to-5er as transcendental.

Compared to other art centres around the world, Berlin’s painting scene seems to still be boys’ club. Fridey Mickel takes stock of the situation in light of Corinne Wasmuht’s new exhibition at AdK starting on Fri, Jul 4.

INTERVIEW. Influential abstract expressionist Phillip Guston, long considered a master in America, finally exhibits in Berlin, posthumously. Gallerist Aurel Scheibler discusses the painter before the exhibition ends Jun 28.

INTERVIEW. Debuting June 13 at Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin-based artist, performer and curator Andrés Galeano presents an exhibition of found photography that transcends without trying to be funny. But you may find humour nonetheless.

Artist and curator Jonny Star appeared on the art scene last spring full of fresh ideas from NYC with artwork using tactile and visual elements ranging from stuffed animals to softcore porn. Her next show opens June 14 at the art space Montagehalle.

Opening Jun 7, Artists Cameron Tauschke, from Australia, and Sam Melser, from New Zealand, used David Bowie’s melancholic song “Subterraneans” as a launching pad for their upcoming collaborative exhibition. Go down and check it out.

The DMY International Design Festival Berlin has taken form at Tempelhof. Designers from around the world shape a vision of the future for curious onlookers. Feast your eyes on our photo gallery. DMY continues through June 1.

Since 1998 the Berlin Biennale, the near cult-level art fair, has surfaced biannually with new curators, themes, and locations, on the heels of Documenta as one of Germany’s most important art events. It kicks off May 8 and runs through Aug 8.

Berlin has long been a celebrated centre of graffiti, but its arguably most pervasive medium – the sticker – is also amongst its most underrated. Oliver Baudach is changing that with his Friedrichshain-based Hatch Sticker Museum.

One of Berlin’s most promising photographers, Sascha Weidner passed away last weekend at age 38. We spoke to him one year ago.

INTERVIEW: Next week Bowie-mania in Berlin comes to a head with the opening of mammoth exhibition “David Bowie Is…” at Martin-Gropius-Bau on May 20. What can you expect to see? Curator Victoria Broackes knows.

With its 10 different art installations, made only for taking cool photos, Olympus Photography Playground is a Berlin Instagrammer’s wet dream. Visit the interactive exhibition for free before May 25 at the Opernwerkstätten.

Celebrating a decade of existence, this year’s 72-hour, city-wide orgy of consecutive art parties and exhibition vernissages is bursting at the seams, with many unofficial events joining in. Overdose on the Berlin art scene May 2-4, all for free!

Fridey Mickel details her visit to the home of German businessman and art collector Heiner Wemhöner, whose impressive collection (or at least a portion of it) is surveyed in a special exhibition at Osram Höfe. Catch it before it ends on Sat.

Ai Weiwei’s ‘Evidence’ at the Martin-Gropius-Bau is now officially open! Whether or not he actually comes to Berlin is yet to be seen, his presence can be felt all over the exhibition. Here’s what to expect.

Evidence, a massive solo exhibition by Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, comes to the Martin-Gropius-Bau with a vernissage on Apr 2 and general opening Apr 3. There’s no shortage of hype… but who exactly are we talking about?

The Akademie der Künste plays host to a breathtaking retrospective of contemporary sculpture from iconic twentieth century artists: foregrounded in the exhibition is an enthralling intersection of photography, sculpture and movement. Through Apr 21.

In #Visual Noise, Sauerländer pairs artists Diana Artus and Ornella Fieres to explore the threshold between analogue and digital photography. Catch the exhibition at Lage Egal before it ends on Mar 21.

Cowen brings his timeless photography to Veneklasen/Werner opening Feb 24 and running through Mar 8.

With his trademark dry sense of humour, Ukranian-born artist Alexej Meschtschanow curates the group exhibition I Just Came To Say Hello at Klemm’s, dealing with egocentricity and psychology in the artistic temperament. It runs through Mar 2.

Schuldt’s disturbing oil paintings are part of highball Berlin gallery Eigen+Art’s Take Five blitz exhibition series this week. Catch the work of our February artist to watch there only from Feb 18-22.

With a 45-year career as a press photographer for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung behind her, and a multi-award-winning oeuvre to show for it, Klemm is no ordinary photojournalist. Don’t miss her retrospective at Martin-Gropius-Bau through Mar 9.

Opening February 6 is a month-long solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers by none-other than John Waters! Better known for his transgressive cult films and trademark inventiveness, Waters drives the knife even deeper with his visual artwork.

INTERVIEW. Working with such varied talents as Michael Winslow and Blixa Bargeld, sound artist Uriarte’s works this time with a typewriter. New Blain Southern show Analog features him among seven others sound artists through Feb 1.

Hungry freaks and gory disco skulls, the ambassadors of a city and a subculture, peer out of vibrantly coloured posters. Through symbolic illustration, the Greek-German artist creates faces that tell stories. He’s January’s artist to watch.

Everything closed for Weihnachtspause but you still hunger for art? Check out Finnish queen of painting Marianna Uutinen, our December artist to watch. Her joint exhibition with Anselm Reyle is open over the holidays (aside from Dec 24-26).

INTERVIEW. Through the entire month of December, KW pays tribute to Berlin artist, actor, author and filmmaker Christoph Schlingensief with a full posthumous retrospective, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers and Susanne Pfeffer.

Before shelling out your last €50 at Urban Outfitters for that special something for that special someone, think about buying them some posters, prints or paraphernalia at one of these indie art shops.

INTERVIEW. Sat, Nov 30 sees the opening of Philippe Rahm’s “Constructed Atmospheres” at Architektur Galerie. The Swiss architect rethinks architecture with meteorology in mind.

Picassophile? The legendary Spanish painter’s artwork is now showcased at two simultaneous exhibitions not to be missed. Soak up the master’s multifarious work and celebrate his 132nd birthday at two different museums.

Joanne Grüne-Yanoff’s mixed-media exhibition “Instructions for Flight” uses body language mixed with contradictory written statements bringing the most sensitive parts of being to light. Through Nov 30 at Galerie Helga Maria Bischoff.

Former head of Ballhaus Naunynstr. Shermin Langhoff has taken full control of Maxim Gorki Theater. While the leaves fall around us, the theatre’s opening event starting Nov 9, Herbstsalon, promises to be a flurry of autumnal artistic excitement.

Italian painter Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku brings canvases as large and wide as his name to Berlin, exhibiting solo here for the first time. “Faces and Cities” opens at De Freo Gallery on Nov 9 and is not to be missed.

INTERVIEW. With much post-1945 historical focus on the Cold War and Eastern Bloc, Africa’s position in the world order is unfortunately often overlooked. In After Year Zero, HKW and Anselm Franke explore the continent from a new perspective.

Khaled Hafez presents his first Berlin exhibition. Hafez’s sarcastic, subversive work places pop culture next to Pharaohs, vividly contrasting East and West in a modern menagerie of mixed media. Running through Oct 19 at Galerie Naimah Schütte.

Aanant & Zoo present the second part of their annually curated exhibition of curated guest artists. Go get your mind blown by works from artists like Elena Bajo, Geerten Verheu and Martin Bothe, all throbbing with life. The trip ends on Oct 19.

TONIGHT! Berlin Art Week is in full swing and Fridey Mickel has compiled a guide to make sense of the sensory overload. Read on and take your pick of her picks as the art world takes over (Sep 17-22).

Art Week is upon us and its sheer breadth might seem crushing. Roey Heifetz, an artist exhibiting at Preview through the Israeli Embassy, has been making impressions in Berlin for a year now, and is one of many reasons to wade through the art sea.

Artforum might be no more than a memory, but starting this week, on Sep 18, three Berlin art fairs will carry the torch as the official kick-off to the second annual BERLIN ART WEEK (Sep 17-22). Fridey Mickel has the lowdown.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE! A new exhibition by French photographer Ruben Brulat, whose work explores the connection between the nude human body and grand landscapes of natural elements, is on display now at Urban Spree through Sep 22.

Artistic partners in work (and life) Römer + Römer will debut their newest exhibition, Sambódromo, depicting scenes from Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, on Sep 7 at Galerie Michael Schultz.

INTERVIEW. Before his first solo exhibition on Sep 7 at Esther Schipper, composer and conductor-turned-artist Ari Benjamin Meyers talks about combining art and music, and why his experimental work is no different than Justin Bieber – except better.

INTERVIEW. With technically complex paintings that articulate light and colour as clearly as an LCD screen, Jung’s appreciation for contemporary technology is obvious. His exhibition at Exile opens Sep 6.

INTERVIEW. Lauded sculptor (Sir) Anish Kapoor’s first solo show in the city explores changing states through his imposing, emotive works and use of crimson. See deep red on the entire ground floor of the Martin-Gropius Bau, running until Nov 24.

INTERVIEW. French-Algerian artist Kader Attia meditates on repair, culture, colonialism and impermanence through a decade’s worth of objects presented in five acts in his first solo exhibition in Germany, running though Aug 25 at KW.

Straight out of Computerwelt to the art world! Po-faced electronic pioneers Kraftwerk are offering a look at their distinctive take on 3D – visitors to Sprüth Magers can see eight of their charmingly creaky concert videos for free until Aug 31.

Musician and artist Toby Goodshank’s first solo exhibition is a colourful riot of mad-eyed pop culture references with a distinctly sinister feel – don’t miss the closing this evening!

Still bearing the name of its original Mitte address, this hard-working gallery has put itself squarely on the art map over its eight years, with bold exhibitions offering artists considerable creative freedom. This month: Argentinian Nicolás Robbio.

Claudia Chaseling’s small but powerful mixed media sketches bring fresh colour to gallery/shop hybrid The Storefront Collection for the summer months.

Messages from Reality, Volume 2, an exhibition celebrating Estonian art giants Enno Hallek, Andres Tolts and Leonhard Lapin, is a colourful shot in the arm. See Pop Art in a bright new light before it closes on July 13.

Kunst Werke Institute for Contemporary Art welcomes new head curator Ellen Blumenstein with a grand “Relaunch”, restoring the humanness of the earlier eras of KW. Check out the breath of fresh air on display now through Aug 25.

INTERVIEW. Artist and art-networker Thomas Eller, through his past positions at ArtNet, Temporary Kunsthalle and foremost as an artist, has collected lots of experience (not to mention contacts) from the Berlin art landscape.

Since its inception in 1993, Atelierhaus Mengerzeile in Treptow has thrived outside of the Berlin studio programme, receiving citywide acclaim and welcoming artists from all over the world. Celebrate 20 years with them on Sat, Jun 29.

Hansa Wißkirchen started his exhibition series “Salon Hansa” 20 years ago, curating elegant guerrilla exhibitions with self-educated artists. Now he has initiated a new, similar exhibition programme in Berlin with P.O.P. club owner Cornelius Opper.

Much-plugged Greek-born artist Despina Stokou’s rather misguided first solo show is high on hype but low on real impact. Catch it and decide for yourself before it closes on June 22.

Intrigued by the critical scorn directed at curators Christoph Tannert and Sven Drühl’s latest project, Fridey Mickel interviewed Tannert about Berlin.Status[2] to hear both a defence of the exhibition and a broadside against lazy art journalism.

Artist and shop owner Yvette Mattern’s The Storefront Collection offers young, hip would-be collectors a chance to take home art from the not-so-unknown players in the art world. Even if you can’t afford anything, the shop is worth a look.

LAST CHANCE. Pharmaceutical giant Bayer boasts a sparkling collection of modern art – is it enough to shine up their less-than-gleaming image? Check out this roll-call of artistic innovation and decide for yourself before June 9.

El Segundo, opening May 31, at Urban Spree explores Berlin’s myths and reinvention as libertine playground. A cosmopolitan yet rustic, edgy yet quaint, den of dregs. A take-the-best-and-leave-the-rest stance of predisposed, supervised street culture.

The infamous former manager of SO36 and founder of Sehr Gut magazine would have become a sexagenarian in February. The Hamburger Bahnhof hosts an ample collection of the legend’s paintings, photos and sculptures through August 18.

INTERVIEW: Carsten Nicolai was only a pup of 18 when he had his first exhibition at Eigen + Art 30 years ago. The incomparable visual and sound artist rang in the gallery’s 30th anniversary with a brand new exhibition, ending this Sat, May 18.

INTERVIEW. Andreas Koch may have shut down his art space Koch + Kesslau in 2004, and for good reasons, but the Berlin artist continues to have a full palette. The newest issue of his art magazine “von Hundert” came out in mid-April.

Berlin might be the IT start-up capital of the world right now, but half a century ago, the original nerds hung out in Silicon Valley. HKW’s newest exhibition, The Whole Earth, opening Apr 26, traces tech history from California to Berlin.

With over 300 different exhibitions, talks and parties Gallery Weekend (Apr 24-28) might seem daunting. Lucky for you, Exberliner’s art editor brings you her picks of what not to miss from both the big names and newcomers to the Berlin art scene.

How can we disrupt the played-out tendencies and expectations of our western neoliberal society? Curator Stephan Köhler offers insight on his group show »Riss« at Hengesbach Gallery. Move fast to catch the tail-end of the show, ending April 20.

INTERVIEW: Back in Feb 2012 we spoke to Ivo Wessel and Olaf Stüber, affable creators of Video Art at Midnight, offering a special platform to experience video art in a unique, unparalleled setting. Don’t miss the next VAM night on April 12.

Curator Norma Mangione allowed the artists in the lengthily titled exhibition to play dream date with one another by selecting one of the other participating artists’ works to go with their own. See how they coupled at Chert through Apr 13.

This isn’t the first time the (not so) Young British Artist and Turner Prize winner Douglas Gordon has played with knives: in 1993 he made 24-Hour Psycho. Now Sharpening Fantasy shows new visual-audio elements until April 28 at Blain|Southern.

Joining the ranks of artists such as Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso, Ina Weber exhibits in Haus am Waldsee. Don’t miss her excellent show, “hier” through Apr 1, where she explores urban landscapes with a personal and innovative approach.

One of Berlin’s most important galleries has moved house from gallery-exhausted Mitte to Kreuzberg, where the scene is slightly fresher. Italian painter Bernard Piffaretti’s solo show christens the new space. It reopens on Sat, Mar 16.

Fridey Mickel looks into what happens when galleries meet gastronomy. At Gartenstudio (Kreuzberg), Kantine (Mitte) and Zagreus Projekt (Mitte) people are in for heady concepts as well as heavy bellies.

Renaissance man and wordsmith Yaneq hosts a birthday bash celebrating a decade of merging visual art with club beats, video, performance, and poetry. Celebrate the decennial of the Party Arty project on Thu, Mar 14 at Prince Charles.

Hungry / Hungry, the current exhibition at Galerie Jochen Hempel and ending this Fri (Feb 22), puts the chaos of the world into perspective. The mixed-media buffet is one of the best of the year, so catch it before the table is cleared.

An exhibition exploring the concept uses works touching on elements of typography, drawing, reduced colour palette, black line on white backdrop, and calligraphy. Opening Feb 15 at Gallery Christian Ehrentraut.

Bid farewell to Berlin’s Deutsche Guggenheim, leaving us on Feb 17. The final exhibition currently on is a spectacular panorama of works by 20th-century art legends.

INTERVIEW! Newton museum curator Matthias Harder talks the shadowed side of Helmut and shedding new light on the work of the legendary fashion photographer. ‘World Without Men/Archive de Nuit” runs through May 19.

INTERVIEW! Jeremy Shaw is the artist behind the ubiquitous “Christiane F.” posters around the city in 2011, and is now featured in the KW’s “One on One” exhibition. Catch it before it closes its doors on Jan 20.

INTERVIEW. One of four recent finalists in the revered Deutsche Börse Prize, Rinko Kawauchi’s photographs are now on display at the C/O Gallery.

INTERVIEW: Artist Tue Greenfort on his exhibition ERDGLAS and the contradictions of being climate conscious and winning a prize from a gas company.

Looking inwards from the other side of the wall, this collection of photographs has had crowds pouring through the Berlinisches Gallery’s doors for weeks. Here’s our review.

V_Museum simultaneously shows in a single space the work of six young artists standing for the sheer and inspiring diversity of the Moscow off-art scene in an “interactive” exhibition at Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Catch it before it ends, Dec 9.

INTERVIEW: curator Susanne Pfeffer. One on One is more about the spectator’s interaction with the art than simply the art itself. While logistically complicated, nothing like it has been done before. It opens at KW Institute on Sun, Nov 18.

INTERVIEW: Katja Novitskova. Her sculptural forms use imagery and motifs from the natural world to create a comparison to the way humans have chosen to ensconce themselves within design and aesthetics. Her show opens on Sat, Nov 17 at Kraupa-Tuskany.

Nazi bomb shelter, GDR warehouse, techno club, and since Christian and Karen Boros purchased the Mitte heritage-listed bunker in 2003, one the most intriguing sites to experience contemporary art. We take a peek inside.

INTERVIEW: Aude Pariset. Not to be missed, one of the brightest lights of her generation talks to us about her multifarious practice on display in her solo show. The exhibition ends Oct 6, so catch it before the light goes out.

Berlin holds one of the best collections of African art in the world but truth is, it is all stolen property. The excuse? The education and protection of world culture.

Valerie Smith’s swansong, an ambitious HKW re-vamp, has just has one week left on the clock but there’s still time to catch it. In case you’re undecided, let us persuade you.

The big art bang is upon us! From September 11-16, Berlin’s art scene explodes with fairs, fêtes and even food. Where to go? Exberliner knows!

Queer performance-art collective NowMomentNow have organised a classic high tea with a twist for your delectation. Forget your manners and indulge in a satisfying mix of Foodgasm, photography and live performance.

There’s only one month left of summer, so if you haven’t seen the two mosted talked exhibitions of the season, it’s time to make your dates. Photography is the medium of choice. Read our review of Diane Arbus here.

There’s only one month left of summer, so if you haven’t seen the two mosted talked exhibitions of the season, it’s time to make your dates. Photography is the medium of choice. Read our review of Larry Clark here.

INTERVIEW. Scottish street artist Robert Montgomery confronts advertising with poetry. His newest works, which went on display in Berlin earlier this month, are at once touching, poignant and not at all ironic.

Escape to the outside world, via the single wing of an aeroplane: this summarises the latest exhibition on display by Slovak artist Roman Ondák called Do Not Walk Outside This Area. Today’s the last day to catch the exhibition, so catch if you can.

The multiform investigation agency S.A.V.E. hits 48 Stunden Neukölln at the bar Heroes for the weekend. Artists Ambra Pittoni and Paul-Flavien Enriquez-Sarano turn the investigator lamp on other artists.

INTERVIEW. In the wake of what many saw as a bloated, rhetoric-laden, excessively-political affair, artist Cecile B. Evans is staging an intervention, shedding a new light onto the central themes of this year’s Berlin Biennale.

INTERVIEW. Young Berlin-based French artist Adrien Missika’s first solo show in Germany, The Sun Is Late, illuminates themes of light, time and perception at Galerie Crone. Catch the sun before it goes down on June 16.

Mitten im Walde is a tiny handicraft heaven full of handmade furniture, design objects in clothes. A step up from all the other Berlin indie arts-and-crafty indie shops, they offers an assortment of beautiful goods to buy – or even rent!

INTERVIEW. As part of Gallery Weekend at Isabella Bortolozzi, English artist Ed Atkins and Berlin-based Brit Juliette Blightman believe in magic.

The 7th Berlin Biennale not only comments on politics – it provides a platform for political action and collective participation. The time has come to roll up your sleeves and get involved.

Frank Horvat’s ‘A Trip Through A Mind’ takes on a new form of exhibition; perhaps the true star of it is the iPad. Lean back into a comfy chair and experience a trip through Horvat’s mind. Through Apr 29.

INTERVIEW. Polish artist Artur Żmijewski on curating Berlin’s seventh Biennale: a regular at major exhibitions and biennials the world over, Żmijewski is known for ruffling feathers.

Elsa Quarsell comes to Bassy Club on April 25, for the raucous signing party of her new book, The Domestic Burlesque – a glossy coffee-table composition of burlesquers. The party brings the book to life!

INTERVIEW. The former Lounge Lizard exhibits in Berlin’s Martin Martens gallery and gives us a glimpse at his lesser known craft, painting, through Apr 29. Don’t miss!

INTERVIEW. Feminist figurehead Judy Chicago is best known for her work “The Dinner Party” which visually provided a place at the table for pussy. Check out the feminist icon at the huge Pacific Standard Time exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau.

Pictoplasma curator Thaler knows what makes characters more than cartoons. The colorful character fest hits Berlin April 11-15.

Proving simplicity is key Ikeda’s db runs through April 9. Don’t miss your last chance to enter his sculptural, experiential and utterly immersive world this long weekend.

Keep A Breast immortalises your breasts in plaster and turns them into art in the name of breast cancer awareness. Boys, don’t be shy! You’re invited too.

Exhibiting nine international artists and throwing up the buzzword ‘globalisation’ as a creative starting point, be sure to catch this intriguing collection at the Deutsche Guggenheim before April 9.

Downtown low-budget shock king Nick Zedd on why his movies aren’t pretty. Showing at the KW Institute through Apr 9 as part of You Killed Me First, the Cinema of Transgression.

So far the fine-dining experience has yet to be truly evaluated, but, morbid fetishism aside, the Jüdische Mädchenschule offers stylish homage to the Jews of present with its art space, cuisine, and historical theme.

INTERVIEW. King of clipart and master of the Mariah Carey mash-up, the Berlin-based Austrian artist prepares for his first Berlin solo show now on at Tanya Leighton,

A new exhibit called Avoid, Control, Accept, Transfer featuring work by multimedia intellectuals AIDS-3D kicks off today at the fledgling Kraupa Tuskany Gallery. Don’t miss it!

Influential digital artist Lialina on this year’s Transmediale and why the internet is not a “neutral object machine”. Part of the ‘in/compatible’ symposium program from Feb.

Berlin’s most exciting digital media fest starts today and ends Feb 5. So check it out! What started as a DIY festival showcasing electronic media work is now one of the most important happenings in the city.

INTERVIEW. Eldowy documented the stark, dark, honest side of GDR Berlin. With two exhibitions a city’s more complete portrait is pieced together.

Famed photo gallery C/O presents Eldowy’s provocative and harrowing portrayal of life in the GDR. Don’t miss your opportunity to see the iconic photographer’s gritty shots from behind the Wall.

From the iconic to the offensive, one of two highlights at C/O gallery right now is Ron Galella’s portrayal of what lies behind the glamour of the celebrity lifestyle in glorious black and white. Skip OK! mag, this is the real deal.

INTERVIEW. Every hour during her 30-day hikes, American Mirra would pause and make an ink rubbing, leaving the creation of her work to the chance.

As the Euro crisis sees the continent fall into deeper self-reflection, this anthropological gem, re-opening after two and a half years of renovations, fosters intra-continental understanding.

Berlin has never lacked for either aspiring artists or people willing to take their clothes off for money. But this winter you can bring these two things together in a creative social setting at a couple of live drawing workshops.

Two shows proving oil still has a pulse in the city are drawing to a close – right before the holidays. Get your last bit of art-voyeurism in before the city culturally quiets down.

As the Crow Flies’ opening on Dec 16 at Mother Drucker Gallery is an opportunity to take some of that giant Berlin street art and more home in the form of silkscreen prints. Don’t miss out!

INTERVIEW: French artist Juliette Bonneviot. The 28-year-old’s internet-inspired exhibition is currently on display at Circus Gallery. It ends Dec 17, so don’t miss it.

INTERVIEW: Polish artist Mirosław Bałka. His exhibition Fragment, a selection of video works taken from footage of journeys to concentration and death camps, is on display at Akademie der Künste.

Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters is the collection of bloodlines across the globe in a meticulous construction of narratives of family feuds, disorder and absence.

An exhibition in Martin-Gropius-Bau goes some way toward penetrating the myth of the man who helped design Beijing’s National Stadium and publicly criticised China’s ruling Communist party in the same breath.

In her exhibition Okay at Galerie Helga Maria Bischoff, American Joanne Grüne-Yanoff takes meaning-saturated animal-derived materials and constructs a playful series of beautiful objects around them.

Interview: Tomás Saraceno. Cloud Cities at Hamburger Bahnhof is Saraceno’s ongoing investigation of a possible future, or futures. The exhibition is monumental and personal at the same time.

With two solo exhibitions and one group show, you’ll be seeing a lot of Thomas Scheibitz in Berlin this fall. We asked Scheibitz about his process and his recent work.

Head to the Martin-Gropius-Bau and you will see why Katsushika Hokusai is rated among the world’s most important artists.The exhibition of the master’s work ends Oct 24. Go!

In a city saturated with its own history of political terror, the 10th anniversary of September 11 saw major Berlin art spaces C/O and KW revisiting images of terror to explore our cultivated mistrust of an image-mediated reality.

Sep 19-23 is Social Media Week all over the world. What has Berlin contributed to our constant digital update-ification of the world? Artconnect Berlin!

As art fair week hits Berlin with four fairs in five days, the scenester of the bunch is always going to be PREVIEW BERLIN (Sep 9-11), the “emerging” art fair, now in its seventh year. Annabel Brady-Brown gives you a walkthrough.

Festival overload continues! In the wake of the Art Forum fiasco, Berlin’s other art fairs scramble to pick up the pieces, pull in the dough and help redefine the city’s cultural (and commercial) moment.

In the beginning of May, Christophe Knoch started the Mica Moca Project Berlin, an experimental, multi-platform cultural programme in the kind of ramschackle digs that Berliners love so much, in an old safe factory.

Five years on, the Heidestraße Gallery Mile has become a high point of the Berlin art scene. Although big names have come and gone the independent compound continues to thrive.

Interview: Amir Fattal. The Israeli-born visual artist brought art to Tape Club four years ago. In January he brought it to Funkhaus. We talked with Fattal about his vision for Berlin’s art scene.

Fashion is an industry that assigns ‘genius’ status to its style gods, and the cult of Helmut Newton proves that this tendency extends to fashion photography. The latest Newton sermon comes in the form of Helmut Newton Polaroids.

Interview: curator of the Helmut Newton Foundation, Dr. Matthias Harder. Helmut Newton Polaroids offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of one of the most influential fashion photographers of the 20th century.

Maik and Joep met 14 years ago in the (literally) underground club Berlin-Tokyo. In June 2001, they transformed Dutch artist Koen Delaere Maik’s 90sqm club space at Ostkreuz into an art exhibit, and Autocenter was born.

Interview: Majla Zeneli. In 2009 she found herself living in Moabit. Four months later she opened a studio for Mezzotint printing and now she’s bringing artists to her gallery and making Moabit a major part of Berlin’s art scene.

Berlin’s very own English-language, art-centric social network is set to launch in the middle of next month. Has the time of stumbling the dark internet alleyways between Craigslist and Kleinanzeigen finally come to an end?

Leaving France for life among the dirty, squat-punk streets of Friedrichshain, Anef lives the Berlin dream.

In October 2010, Berlin’s mayor announced a project to showcase the city’s artistic production. Five young curators explored Berlin’s art world and developed a program. The end result is the exhibition based in Berlin.

In April Galerie Kai Dikhas opened, becoming the first permanent address for contemporary Roma and Sinti art in Germany, and perhaps the world. The exhibition ends June 19. Don’t miss it!

Whether you’re nostalgic for long Sunday afternoons spent at grandma’s or just want a cheap, fun way to get some new jewellery, Perlerei can help. It’s the place to go for beads, clasps, strings and all the other baubles.

Interview: Mike Steiner. Before the modern-day artist enclave explosion in the former East, Steiner opened an artist hotel in the West, followed by his Studiogalerie where avant-gardists played with video.

The first show at Blain|Southern, the new gallery from Haunch of Venison founders Harry Blain and Graham Southern, comes in the form of Turning the Seventh Corner by Tim Noble and Sue Webster.

Interview: Sue Webster. Turning the Seventh Corner features influential artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster and inaugerates the former Haunch of Venison head honchos’ new gallery: Blain|Southern.

Interview: Esther Schipper. What’s behind the decision to relocate from Mitte to Schöneberg Ufer? Is it the end of an era or a new beginning? For Schipper, it’s all history.

The seventh edition of Gallery Weekend consumes the Berlin art world this weekend, boasting more galleries than ever showing off the best they have to offer.

MoMA comes to Berlin, presenting over 300 works on paper in pencil, watercolor, charcoal, acrylic, body fluids, soot, oil paint, plant extracts, ink and spray paint.

Jochen Kienzle’s show is centred on photographer Josef Kramhöller, cast as a Kafkaesque avatar of himself.

Pictoplasma Festival is coming: Mitte gets hi-jacked for a week for an unmissable celebration of illustration, animation, sculpture, music and loads more.

INTERVIEW: Rebecca Saunders. One of the composers to watch in Berlin’s vibrant contemporary music scene, Saunders blends dense clusters of sound for her musical and architectural collage, chroma.

Interview: actress Margarita Broich. The photographic work of Broich is the focus of When the Curtain Falls, opening March 18. Broich’s photographs capture actors in the moments just after performing.

When it comes to the art world women seem to deploy more influence than power, as taste-shapers at home and key players on the international field. Part of our BERLIN’S TOP CHICKS package from THE BERLINER FRAU issue.

Come inside the graffiti covered walls of Berlin’s most famous Kunsthaus (or tourist trap) with four of Tacheles’ long-term residents.

LATEST NEWS! On Apr 16 there will be a demonstration by Tacheles e.V. in front of Tacheles at 15:00 called Die Mauer Muss Weg against a new wall erected in Berlin, this one only in Mitte.

Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s The Art of Flying is an attempt to explore perhaps the most common subject of a wistful afternoon’s childhood fantasy: the dream of flight.

A publication by women and for women, or at least by and for women who are queer-leftist-artist-feminists. The latest issue has playful food-fetishists, interviews, and new takes on menstruation.

The Bob Mizer EXILE show, and re-opening exhibition, is a research project as much as an art exhibition, the first attempt to comprehensively identify the artistic vision Mizer captured beneath the California sun.

Gerhard Kassner’s Berlinale Portraits 2003-2010, on display and updated daily at the Hotel Bogota, reveals larger than life personalities sans the façade – the result of only brief encounters.

The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition at C/O Berlin displays images of drooping penises, erect flowers, children and leatherboys but in classical form as only Mapplethorpe knew how.

Interview: Stephen Kovats. The transmediale artistic director is packing up his laptop following this year’s fest after five years at the helm. Digital suicide and WikiLeaks are on the radar for his last year.

Masks, strange noises, dancers and crazed interior designers. An eclectic clique collaborate for Neurospasta, Dis-play’s showcase of digital artists from the Canary Islands.

Taking in establishment figures and emerging artists alike, the third edition of Berlin-Paris sets out to have it all ways. But is the ego stroking necessary?

Interview: Klaus Staeck. An anti-establishment man working in the context of the art establishment, Staeck is using his influence to pay homage to his old friend, Sigmar Polke. We spoke Staeck about the man and his art.

Street art recognition comes to the proper streets this year, everyone loves treating Damien Hirst like the Ed Hardy of art and people go crazy for Kahlo. And that’s only some of the best.

A chat with… Björn Dahlem. Dahlem’s exhibition, Die Theorie des Himmels III – Focus Imaginarius, explores the fertile gaps in the rational terms of reason. He explains his role as creator and where religion fits in for him.

HoV was the docking station for London-school major-league commercial artists… until it closed with the Yoko Ono show last month. What happened?

“I find it exciting to make two entities clash.” Berlin-based, Dutch-born artist Willem De Rooij discusses his latest exhibition, a project that took four years to realize.

Goldin’s exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie is a foray into decadent 1980s that so many of us mourn without ever having tasted. The 80 selected photographs are now on display.

Pony Pedro’s new gallery space seeks to give silk-screen printing a more prominent role in the city’s art scene, giving Berliners a chance to view the medium somewhere warm and accessible to commercial buyers.

As the Berlin Year of Science comes to an end, the immense Weltwissen exhibition attempts to track 300 years of scientific progress and asks, “Where are we now?”

Eleven sculptures unearthed while digging out the new U5 station in front of the Rotes Rathaus tell the story of thousands of pieces of ‘degenerate art’, purged by the Nazis in the 1930s and ’40s. They’re now on display at the Neues Museum.

A meeting with gods? Through Reindeer urine? Carsten Höller’s grand exhibition posing as a science project, stimulates all human senses – for those lucky enough to afford it.

Try to contain your jealousy, girls – Soto hits all the right notes, bringing together men’s wear from a worldly mix of fashion brands. From now on, Berlin boys have no excuse not to sharpen up their act.

Goldrausch’s program for female artists goes beyond traditional art education, opening Berlin’s art scene to women from all over the world.

Hitler and the Germans: Nation and Crime suggests that the man who ruined a certain type of moustache was not some charismatic monster but a manmade villain – the product of immense popular support.

Models can be much more than design tools – they can be political statements, nostalgic mementoes or just plain art. Dan Borden talks about the REALSTADT exhibition taking place at the new Kraftwerk Mitte venue.

Lebensborn – an insidious Nazi scheme to preserve Aryan blood by aiding or forcing desired couplings. Kriegskinder is the photographic work of Einar Bangsund and Fantom e.V.: showing these Lebensbornkinder as they are today.

Deutsche Guggenheim’s Color Fields exhibition brightens the Berlin winter. But does it say anything?

Akademie der Künste’s South American excursion feels like idealized commercialism, but the works are beautiful.

Did Dimitri Hegemann just save Berlin’s art scene? Was its structure crumbling? Kraftwerk Mitte opens its doors with Realstadt, an architectural exhibition of German cities over the past 50 years.

Interview: Billy Childish on being Childish. The English artist, punk rocker and prolific novelist explains that “any decent artist either lives outside England or is a weirdo”.

A chat with… THOMAS STRUTH. The versatile, famed German photographer goes to the far sides of the planet to bring something to his newest exhibition in Berlin.

Berlin has been compared to New York in the 1970s and 1980s, but do we really want Mitte to become the SoHo of the 2000s? MMX’s last show questions the identity of the art scene.

The world’s first soil-less state touches earth for the first time at the First NSK Citizen’s Congress at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

The six-week European Month of Photography festival pastes Berlin’s topography into a city-wide ‘scrapbook’. From its hub at Berlinische Galerie, exhibitions radiate out into 100 venues of various kinds.

Reassembling the fashion industry production line, Berning and Di Battista give a look at the industry through art – but inside out.

© Gwenneth Boelens: Remnant, Klemm’s, Berlin.“The atmosphere at Art Forum is relaxed but concentrated. Professional people do not seem to be in such a rush, the way they maybe are at other fairs. A lot of things happen around the fair, too: you have the opportunity to bring people to the galleries, and to organize…

© Carl Smith“Because Kunstsalon allows unrepresented artists to participate, it has a certain vibrancy and home-grown feel to it that attracts a lot of people who are interested in art but are not necessarily part of the ‘art scene’. For an artist like myself (I have works ranging in price from €50-€5000), being there in…

October is art month all over. At Berlin’s six art fairs international collectors collide with the young art producers. Here’s our guide to what’s what.

© Károly Keserü, Patrick Heide Gallery“Preview brings together an exciting mix of young galleries with consistently strong programming. It is also a size that is easier to digest and to enjoy than the larger fairs. Preview is also a fair that is always up for ‘thinking outside the box’.” Patrick Heide, Patrick Heide Gallery, London.…

© Anna & Bernhard Blume, Buchmann Galerie“ABC has an interesting format that is somehow more precise than an art fair; you can also buy the works, which makes it interesting for us. It is also connected to the Gallery Weekend, which we also do and like very much.” Erik Herkrath, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin. Exhibiting work…

When October 7 (18-23:00), October 8-9 (13-23:00), October 10 (13-18:00)Where Station-Berlin, Halle 5, Luckenwalder Straße 4-6, Kreuzberg, U-Bhf Gleisdreieck, Tel 0157 7388 1151How much €8Background In 2009, Marco Schwalbe – street-artist and owner of Berlin-Munich mural gallery Intoxicated Demons – launched Stroke, the first art fair devoted to urban art.In a nutshell Painting, advertising graphics,…

The directors of the art fair that really captures what Berlin is about, Preview Berlin, sat down with us for a chat about how they keep it so fresh!

Now in year five, Preview Berlin will be holding its ‘cutting edge’ ground Tempelhof’s Hangar 2… with a new conceptual space and first-time exhibitors from postcommunist art scenes.

INTERVIEW: Yoko Ono’s solo show opened last month at Haunch of Venison with a polysemous title, Das Gift (the poison), and a bullet hole in shattered glass.

ON NOW! Arab or Jewish? Israeli photographer/video artist Dor Guez’s ID card says “Jewish”, but his family history is not as straightforward. With his solo exhibition Al Lydd, he paints a counter-narrative of Palestinian culture.

IN PICTURES! In the 1920s, a generation of women took charge of the freedoms offered between two world wars. Breslauer’s photographs mastered the emergent style, “Neues Sehen”.

After a short and chaotic life, Berlin’s Temporäre Kunsthalle died of natural causes on August 31. We assess the TKH’s ephemeral existence… and its legacy.

OUR PICK: MMX is going art-mad this month, with 44 artists/performers. It’s a sort of revolving door policy: one artist leaves each week, but only after curating a replacement show.

IN PICTURES! A child of Palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon in the wake of the 1948 war, Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis winner Mona Hatoum’s most striking work riffs on scattered identity.

“I‘ll come back to the Museum of American Art when I find out where it is,” wrote one visitor in MoAA’s guest book. Geographically, it’s at No. 91 Frankfurter Allee, but getting in isn’t so straightforward…

Sadly Ján Mančuška died in Prague at the age of 39 after struggling with illness for a long time. Sam Williams had a chat with him last summer regarding his 2010 Berlin exhibition.

OUR PICK: Olafur Eliasson’s show comprises a city-wide web of installations: at Martin-Gropius-Bau, there are rooms of coloured “fog”, a hall of mirrors and an electrical storm performed by a dancing hosepipe.

OUR PICK: A lot has changed since 1947, when the world’s foremost photo agency was founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson. C|O sums up 60 years of photojournalism’s biggest names.

DON’T MISS: Performance artist Brisley has always sought out the hidden or discarded – the homeless, food, excrement. He’s winding down his first German show in 20 years.

LAST CHANCE! The spine-tingling, prize-winning images in Willy-Brandt-Haus’ exhibition do more than illustrate news stories: they turn photojournalism into fine art.

Art’s most radical experiment comes to Berlin: bid (with services!) on unnamed, uncaptioned, unauthored and unpriced works… that may or may not be by somebody famous.

From Jan Christensen’s alcoholic balancing act to Richard Wilson’s 1000°C steel box – not to mention the Biennale – there’s plenty in town to get art enthusiasts hot and bothered.

Ninety-eight-year-old French artist Louise Bourgeois died in New York on May 31, as some of her work was being shown at Berlin’s Double Sexus exhibition – billed as the “last exhibition led by the artist herself”.

LAST CHANCE! British multimedia artist Mathew Hale came to Berlin before the hype hit – 10 years ago – with his partner, the visual artist Tacita Dean. A local show proves his art is still as unfathomable as ever.

NOW SHOWING: As she hopped from New York to London to Amsterdam, from Minimalism to Radical Figuration, painter Jo Baer has always searched for new ways to “‘do the right thing’”. Now she’s on to “fusion art”…

OUR PICK: The Ismaili Muslims’ spiritual leader is displaying 200 pieces from his private collection – one of the world’s oldest and most valuable collections of Islamic art – for the first time ever.

No self-respecting comic retrospective – let alone a Jewish one – could do without the work of Art Spielgelman, author of “Maus”: the Jewish Museum’s includes a few original prints. But isn’t Spiegelman more than a ‘Jewish artist’?

Just like 18th century group portraits (the original ‘conversation pieces’), Johnen Galerie’s show engages a diverse collection of artists in a series of dynamic exchanges.

On Linienstraße in Mitte, once a hive of cutting-edge artistic activity, trendy galleries have displaced the squats and affordable housing. But slick rooms don’t guarantee better art: that’s why MMX is so refreshing.

At the Neue Nationalgalerie, Mies van der Rohe’s sober, minimalistic entrance hall has been transformed by an ornate carpet and a golden chandelier – the epitome of what the Bauhaus crew couldn’t stand.

Born in Berlin in 1936, Vera Mercer was a trained dancer before she moved on to photography, Paris and the Nouveau Réalistes. Now, Mercer creates extraordinary still lifes of food – and she is returning to the city of her birth for a retrospective.

Mixing traditional media like charcoal and oils with spray paint, scraps of porn found on the street and South African tabloid headlines, Emil Holmer’s Dead Letters paintings are a series of neon horror stories.

From Marx to the Modernists and beyond, utopia was something to strive for – a goal that could be incorporated into everyday life. Here in Berlin (some would say a utopia in its own right), Deutsche Guggenheim has taken up the subject.

When he was little, Bertrand Gadenne always knew he wanted to be an artist. As an adult, he has moved from medium to medium – from painting to slides and, later, videos.

The Belgian artist/filmmaker Nicolas Provost grew up under the influence of Serge Gainsbourg, his cousin (a local rock star) and French cinema. His work glides from nostalgic found footage to cutting edge experimental filmmaking.

In his complex, engaging and very often funny works, the Berlin-based 2006 Turner Prize nominee Phil Collins (not to be confused with the former member of the band Genesis) balances heightened social engagement with playfulness.

Honor Harger started her career as an artist and curator on the airwaves in her native New Zealand, with the experimental broadcasting project Radioqualia.

The Chilean artist Lucia Rojas Egaña works in many capacities: as a documentary-maker, video artist, creative collaborator and collector of trash. She is based in Barcelona and recently completed a residency at Kreuzberg’s GlogauAIR.

By taking photos and transforming them into models made from cardboard and paper, the German artist Thomas Demand translates two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional ones. Then he brings the models back to their original state by photographing them.