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Featuring international contemporary art and artists rooted in Berlin since 2010. Published by Mona Productions.
This week in Berlin, three exhibitions open at C/O Berlin including the first major retrospective of Graciela Iturbide in Berlin, presenting over five decades of work exploring the often intimate relationships between identity, ritual, and society in Mexico.

See the full list of events:
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including C/O Berlin, SKICA Berlin, Ballhaus Ost, and more
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February 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Our top selects for events in Berlin this weekend include:⁠

𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹: ‘𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲𝘀’
Exhibition opening @ Centrum
Friday, Jan. 30; 6–9:30pm⁠

‘𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗼𝗺: 𝗔𝗴𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗼 & 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮’
Performance @ Callie's
Saturday, Jan. 31; 8pm⁠

www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/26/t...
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including transmediale, Callie’s, Deutscher Künstlerbund, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and more
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January 30, 2026 at 9:09 AM
At Galerie im Turm, Jamila Barakat’s ‘Hoffnung أمل’ presents works by the German-Palestinian interdisciplinary artist exploring the search for belonging.

Carolina Sculti discusses home being rooted in the land we share + the universal insistence to rise again:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/27/j...
Review of Jamila Barakat at Galerie im Turm | Berlin Art Link
Carolina Sculti reviews the solo exhibition of Jamila Barakat, entitled ‘Hoffnung أمل’ at Berlin’s Galerie im Turm
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January 27, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Callie’s presents sound performance series ‘The Third Room’ inviting pioneering composers Agnese Menguzzato, Hyunhye Angela Seo, Aida Shirazi, and Mariam Rezaei to present new and in-process works.

Join for the first performance by Agnese Menguzzato January 29—31:
www.callies.berlin/en/program/e...
The Third Room Agnese Menguzzato - Callie's
Callie’s is a non-profit experimental institution founded for the purpose of fostering creativity, cultural exchange, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
www.callies.berlin
January 27, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Schirin Kretschmann’s ‘TEN BY ONE’ is on display at PEAC Museum for a further 2 weeks until February 8.

Among the most extensive of the artist's career, the exhibition questions the characteristics of given situations and spaces, and what leads to their definition:
www.peac.digital/en/tenbyone
PEAC - Ten by One
Das PEAC Museum versteht sich so als ein lebendiger Ort der kulturellen Bildung und Teilhabe, an dem Kunst anschaulich, handlungs- und erlebnisorientiert vermittelt wird. Denn Veränderung ist allgegen...
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January 26, 2026 at 11:46 AM
In Berlin this week, the premiere of ‘MoonJar’ takes the stage at HAU2, inspired by ancient creation myths and the materiality of clay.

See the full list of events:
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including transmediale, Callie’s, Deutscher Künstlerbund, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, and more
www.berlinartlink.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Tragicomic dance solo ‘Did4luv’ by Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey invites its audience to take a closer look at “love” in the context of labor.

As part of Wellness, Carolina Sculti discusses reinvention and the pressure to capital-E Entertain:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/23/d...
Review of ‘Did4luv’ at Tanztage Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Carolina Sculti reviews Dominique McDougal and Carro Sharkey’s performance, ‘Did4luv’ at Sophiensaele’s Tanztage
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January 23, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Myriam Jacob-Allard is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work is steeped in matrilineal storytelling. Eve Rogers visits Jacob-Allard in her studio + reflects on the maternal tendency to resist waste + bodies borrowing movements from each other:
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Studio Visit with Myriam Jacob-Allard | Berlin Art Link
Eve Rogers visits Canadian artist Myriam Jacob-Allard in her studio at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Kreuzberg, Berlin
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January 23, 2026 at 10:32 AM
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊 transforms Tramway’s vast exhibition hall into a cosmology shaped by ancestral mythologies, Daoism + multispecies kinship.

Adela Lovric interviews Song on the oral basis of world-building processes + how family is everything to the artist:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/20/r...
Interview with Rae-Yen Song | Berlin Art Link
Rae-Yen Song discusses their solo exhibition at Glasgow’s Tramway in an interview with Adela Lovric
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January 20, 2026 at 2:17 PM
ChertLüdde presents ‘At the limits of the city,’ a show by David Horvitz engaging with LA's borders and how they are enforced.

Faye Campbell discusses the show as a transcription of California + the sometimes uncanny connection to those outside of ourselves:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/19/d...
Review of David Horvitz at ChertLüdde | Berlin Art Link
Faye Campbell reviews the solo exhibition of David Horvitz, entitled ‘At the limits of the city,’ at ChertLüdde
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January 20, 2026 at 10:37 AM
In Berlin this week, projects seek to understand the human form in different states of existence.

See the full list of events:
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including LAS, Forecast Platform, AdK, Klemm’s, Sophiensæle, and more
www.berlinartlink.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 PM
‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’ is an evolving series of audiovisual experiences by interdisciplinary artist and DJ Natalia Escobar + Studio 1111. On January 22 at 8pm at Studio IIII, the 2nd ed. presents performance artist Jao Moon and Venezuelan musician Argenis Brito:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/16/n...
Preview of ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’ at Studio 1111 | Berlin Art Link
Eve Rogers previews the artist and DJ night ‘GÓTIKO TROPIKAL’ presented by Natalia Escobar at Studio 1111
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January 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Guggenheim Bilbao’s show ‘Arts of the Earth’ presents 6+ decades of soil-based art, positioning health and sustainability as communal, ongoing processes.

For Wellness, Chris Erik Thomas discusses inherited ancestral wisdom + the scars of extractive activity:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/16/a...
Review ‘Arts of the Earth’ at Guggenheim Bilbao | Berlin Art Link
Chris Erik Thomas reviews the group exhibition ‘Arts of the Earth’ at Guggenheim Bilbao as part of our featured topic ‘Wellness’
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January 16, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s exhibition ‘Wilding’ presents works made in the 1980s to those she was still making in the months before her passing in January 2025.

Adela Lovric discusses the importance of Indigenous approaches to environmental stewardship:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/09/j...
Review Jaune Quick-to-See Smith at Fruitmarket | Berlin Art Link
Adela Lovric reviews Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s first posthumous exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket
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January 13, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Rhythm and its place as a cultural force is prominent in events across Berlin this week, such as in the exhibition ‘Rhythm and Soul – Contemporary Brazilian Art’ at 68projects by KORNFELD.

See the full list of events:
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including 68projects by KORNFELD, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Sophiensæle, and more
www.berlinartlink.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The STRABAG ART Award 2026 is open for submissions to artists from Germany, Austria, and Slovenia up to 40 years old in the fields of painting + drawing.⁠ A main prize of €16,000 and four recognition prizes of €8,000 will be awarded.

Apply by January 26:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/12/o...
STRABAG ART Award Open Call | Berlin Art Link
Open Call for the STRABAG ART Award , an international art promotion prize supporting artists up to 40 years of age in the fields of painting and drawing.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
Introducing our new feature topic for January + February, Wellness. ⁠

Entering a new year, the time of resolutions, we revisit Wellness, namely as it pervades the various spheres we inhabit daily.

Read the full Letter from the Editor by Alison Hugill:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/09/l...
Letter from the Editor: Wellness | Berlin Art Link
Editor-in-Chief Alison Hugill previews the new featured topic, ‘Wellness,’ discussing several contributions to the theme
www.berlinartlink.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
n.b.k presents Moyra Davey’s first major survey in Germany, comprising 30+ years of the artist’s lens-based media works, rooted in referential modes of creation.

Olivia Noss writes on human tendencies to nest + subtle reminders of life's fleeting pleasures:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/09/m...
Review of Moyra Davey at n.b.k. | Berlin Art Link
Olivia Noss reviews the survey exhibition of Moyra Davey at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
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January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Our top events in Berlin this weekend incl.:⁠

𝗔𝗿𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗸𝗶: ‘𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗱 | 𝗗𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱’
Opening at Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung
Fri, Jan. 9; 7–9pm

𝗗𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗸 𝗟𝗲𝗷𝗺𝗮𝗻: ‘𝗣𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲’
Opening at St. Matthäus-Kirche
Fri, Jan. 9; 7pm

See the full list of events:
www.berlinartlink.com/2026/01/05/t...
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Sophiensæle, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, KW, and more
www.berlinartlink.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Marking 15 years of Soy Capitán, exhibition ‘The Power of Small Things’ presents 17 artists working on a small-scale.

Eva Szwarc writes on the exhibition, discussing artwork as a gift or invitation and looking more slowly and deeply in our age of immediacy:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/12/26/t...
Review of Group Show at Soy Capitán | Berlin Art Link
Eva Szwarc reviews the anniversary group exhibition ‘The Power of Small Things’ at Soy Capitán
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January 6, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Tirana Art Weekend launched last year as the first public initiative of the Albanian Visual Arts Network.

Adela Lovric writes on the 2025 edition, discussing experiments in autonomy and how artists engage with the country’s unresolved history:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/12/23/t...
Review of Tirana Art Weekend 2025 | Berlin Art Link
Adela Lovric reviews the second Tirana Art Weekend, presented by Albanian Visual Arts Network
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January 6, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Opening up to the new year, events in Berlin are rooted in yearning for springtime and Romanticism this week.

See the full list of events:
This week’s art openings and events in Berlin | Berlin Art Link
Berlin Art Link shares our favorite picks for art openings in Berlin, including Sophiensæle, Alfred Ehrhardt Stiftung, KW, and more
www.berlinartlink.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Eve Arnold’s retrospective ‘Capturing Compassion’ at f³ showcases the artist’s career as one of the first women photographers to join Magnum Photos agency. Olivia Noss discusses vulnerability and Arnold’s sensitivity that granted her trust from her subjects:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/12/19/e...
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December 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
‘Whispers on the Horizon,’ the 2025 edition of the Taipei Biennial, is curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath and situates yearning at its conceptual core. Faye discusses the voyeuristic tendencies of exhibition-goers + cultural memory:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/12/16/t...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The Minna Tarkka Lecture program explores how art, media and tech reshape democratic life inspired by the legacy of media art pioneer Minna Tarkka.

Adela Lovric writes on infrastructures that enable social imagination + speculative rehearsal:
www.berlinartlink.com/2025/12/15/m...
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December 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM