Gallery Weekend Berlin: Shows to See in 2021

The culturally rich city of Berlin is crawling with art museums, galleries, and alternative spaces. Notable private collections of international contemporary art include the Boros Collection, consisting of works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson,

Samson Young's practice centres upon an attempt to re-present and re-interpret lost or overlooked events of socio-political and personal significance. Formally trained in philosophy and composition, Young approaches complex questions of identity and

Albert Oehlen is a German artist and former professor at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (2000–2009) now living and working in Switzerland. The artist's contemporary art practice has engaged with a myriad of sources, from the history of Abstract

Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura is known for her paintings and sculptures that address the fluid relationship between man, nature and our cosmic existence. Life Ikemura was born in Tsu, Japan. She studied at Osaka University between 1970 and

Christopher Williams is an American-born conceptual artist currently based in Cologne, Chicago and Los Angeles. While his work has involved video, installation, sculpture and performance, photography has always been at the heart of his practice. It

Geumhyung Jeong is a South Korean choreographer and performance artist known for her manipulation of mechanistic objects and her edgy, sensual staging. Through engaging puppets, mannequins, machines and sex toys in conversations with her own body,

Audiences influence the show from the minute they make the decision to attend and choose a date and time to reserve their seats. Thus I start each performance by saying ‘Shall we do this together?’ to the audience in my mind.

Esther Schipper founded the gallery in 1989 in Cologne. In 1997 the gallery relocated to Berlin. Through more than three decades of continuous exhibition practice, the gallery has established itself as a major force not only in Germany but in an

The long history of momentarily escaping the constraints of a fraught reality by travelling to distant lands in your imagination, through fantasy or dreams, is the subject of L'Invitation au voyage, an exhibition of painting that spans multiple

Cui Jie (崔洁) draws from modernist art and 20 th - and 21 st -century architectural tropes to create layered paintings of utopian (or dystopian) urban scenes that allude to China's recent and rapid urbanisation. Featuring futuristic structures that

Dame Paula Rego is a London-based Portuguese visual artist who is celebrated for her influence on modern figurative painting in Britain and Portugal. Her contemporary paintings and prints convey feminist counter-narratives interlaced with references

In her photographic work, Elisabeth Neudörfl explores social, political and historical topics. Most projects deal with urban and suburban settings and include architecture, traffic, spatial structures and specific incidents. The street is both her

'We cannot only talk about what we see; we also have to talk about what we do not see and what the pictures might imply'. 1 Galerie Barbara Wien presents its fourth solo exhibition with the photographer Elisabeth Neudörfl. The exhibition of

Based in Berlin’s central Tiergarten district, Barbara Wien is an established contemporary art gallery with a focus on conceptual art. Since Barbara Wien opened her namesake gallery in 1988, it has also operated a bookshop, selling artist

Mimesis, the interpretive reproduction of nature, was long considered to be the most important duty of art. Theorists of all epochs, referring back to Aristotle, called upon artists to feel and understand the chaos and order of the natural world in

Sprüth Magers has expanded from its roots in Cologne (Germany) to become an international gallery dedicated to exhibiting the very best in groundbreaking modern and contemporary art. With galleries located in Berlin Mitte, London’s

French artist Christian Boltanski was known for his sprawling installations dealing with time, memory, separation, death, and the traumatic impact of the Holocaust. In addition to thinking of artworks as an invitation for sustained contemplation

Based in Cluj and Berlin, Galeria Plan B is an independent contemporary art gallery that focuses on developing and presenting the work of contemporary Romanian artists. It is also working to shed more light on influential Romanian artists from the

Galeria Plan B is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Navid Nuur opening on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2021. The solo exhibition of Navid Nuur When meanings get marbled is a reflection on time and its relationship to matter.

The photographs of Alvin Baltrop (1948–2004) were virtually unknown during the artist's lifetime. A working-class African American, many of whose photographs are sexually explicit, Baltrop encountered only rejection. In the past decade his work

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art, with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher

Galerie EIGEN + ART represents established and young artists working in a wide range of media such as film/video, photography, installation, painting and sculpture including conceptual art and performance in both locations: Leipzig and Berlin. The

Drawing from his observations and experiences of the contemporary world, Tim Eitel creates figurative paintings and lithographs that capture both fictive and actual moments from daily life. Education and Leipzig Eitel initially studied

Rebecca Horn is a German contemporary artist known for her body-extensions, mechanical sculptures, drawings, performances, films, and installations. These artworks explore the relationship between the human body and its surroundings, political and

As part of this year's Gallery Weekend Berlin, Galerie Thomas Schulte will present a solo exhibition by Rebecca Horn. Alongside Horn's recent works, the gallery will also be showing two of the artist's seminal kinetic installations from the 1990s:

Thomas Schulte reflects on his longstanding collaboration with Rebecca Horn, and the continuing significance of the artist's practice.

Since it was established in 1991, Galerie Thomas Schulte’s ongoing focus has been placed on nurturing, supporting, and sustaining outstanding and inspiring artistic positions in international conceptual art spanning from the 1960’s to

The gallery was founded in 1975 by Elena and Felix Buchmann in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Between 1983 and 1998 the gallery was located in Basel next to the Museum of Contemporary Art; today the gallery is located in Lugano,

British artist Tony Cragg is recognised for his gravity-defying sculptures that explore the relationship between the natural and the artificial. Education Cragg completed his studies at the Wimbledon College of Arts, London (1973) and the Royal

The Buchmann Galerie is delighted to present an exhibition of recent sculptures by Tony Cragg. Tony Cragg stands out as one of the foremost sculptors of our time. His oeuvre testifies to a method of working in which he constantly negotiates with