{"title": "Hella De Santarossa \"Ins Offene\" – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Beyond Reality", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/reunification"], "description": "The exhibition „Ins Offene – Bilder der Wendezeit in Berlin“ presents photographs and paintings by Hella De Santarossa, who since the fall of the Wall in 1989 has approached the changing city of Berlin in a new way. Born in Düsseldorf in 1949, the artist was a defining figure of the Junge Wilde in the 1980s and has since combined photography and painting into a distinctive visual language. She photographs buildings, unfinished structures and construction sites, including the „Löwenbauten“ such as the Reichstag, the Federal Chancellery and the new buildings at Potsdamer Platz, and reworks the enlarged images in expressive, multi-layered layers of colour on canvas or paper. Her works preserve a moment in which Berlin is in transition, between the end of the old and the still open beginning of the new.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene-bilder-der-wendezeit-in-berli-34283/", "official_url": "https://www.klausmemmert-atelier.com/hella-de-santarossa-ins-offene/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e6121ce5292890b1d2c3066e94151622149ad4f0a209f55d9012567df45305a6-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-11T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Beyond Reality", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Thomas Billhardt: Die Augen weit offen", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Fotografiska Berlin", "address": "Oranienburger Straße 54, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://shop.fotografiska.com/de/products/berlin-alexanderplatz-1958-2022", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/postwar"], "description": "The exhibition Thomas Billhardt – Die Augen weit offen at Fotografiska Berlin presents the photographic work of a major German postwar documentary photographer. Curated by Claire Ducresson-Boët together with the CAMERA WORK Gallery, it gathers key series spanning several decades, with a focus on the years 1959 to 1972, from Berlin street scenes to dispatches from Vietnam and pictures from Cuba. Thomas Billhardt (1937–2025) used the camera as an instrument of radical curiosity, capturing unposed moments of everyday life and the vitality pulsing beneath rigid structures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-billhardt-die-augen-weit-offen-11850/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b778504a3efbf5b73ef0955e759ace04f7ce24433280328217eb3ac31158b5ee-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Sophie Calle. Is It Better?“", "start": "2026-11-12T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "Der Eintritt ist frei. Keine Anmeldung erforderlich.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "Hamburger Bahnhof invites you to the opening of the exhibition \"Sophie Calle. Is It Better?\". After more than 20 years, Sophie Calle returns to the capital for her first solo exhibition in Berlin. The show presents \"The Detachment\", the first series of works she realized in Berlin in 1996, addressing the removal of GDR monuments. For the museum's 30th anniversary she has created a new work on the Palast der Republik and the Berlin Palace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/eroffnung-der-ausstellung-sophie-calle-is-it-better-32521/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/eroeffnung-der-ausstellung-sophie-calle-is-it-better-2026-11-12-190000-163149/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4aae05ed582499106ed20e397632882d797397ff5839bb23bce84e2c6ef5d7e4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Skater & Rollbrettfahrer vor und nach dem Mauerfall", "start": "2026-06-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-04-04T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Museum in der Kulturbrauerei", "address": "Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/gdr", "sport/skateboarding"], "description": "A temporary exhibition at the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei about the skateboarding scene in East and West Germany before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is presented by the Haus der Geschichte (hdg), which runs the museum. It shows photographs by Stern photographer Harald Schmitt and scene photographers Thomas Kalak and Helge Tscharn, along with skateboards, clothing and objects from West Germany and the GDR, including the East German board \"Germina Speeder\". A look at today's scene, with skateparks and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, rounds it off.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/skater-rollbrettfahrer-vor-und-nach-dem-mauerfall-2671/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/museum-in-der-kulturbrauerei/ausstellungen/skater-rollbrettfahrer-vor-und-nach-dem-mauerfall", "image": "https://noky.io/images/435495a49dff69a7ae7e18beb0d67c5227f2ec3323b42dcfd83059049d87ef94-600.webp"}, {"title": "Im Rhythmus der Großstadt – 100 Jahre Fotografie und Presse in Berlin", "start": "2026-06-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stabi Kulturwerk", "address": "Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin"], "description": "\"Im Rhythmus der Großstadt – 100 Jahre Fotografie und Presse in Berlin\" is a photography exhibition at the Stabi Kulturwerk. Curated by Miriam Zlobinski with Christina Stehr, it combines historic pictures from the bpk photo archive, newspapers from the collections of the Berlin State Library and work by photographers of the OSTKREUZ agency. From the 1920s to today it traces how photography reshaped the Berlin press, from the historic newspaper district with up to 147 daily papers and the beginnings of illustrated journalism to censorship, propaganda and the separate press landscapes of East and West Berlin. Themes such as politics, sport, city life and crime reflect the social values and conflicts of their times.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/im-rhythmus-der-grostadt-100-jahre-fotografie-und-presse-in-12620/", "official_url": "https://stabi.berlin", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4425cf28406b498403ba7edece7a7db13dca89e8e76ec4160370d8927eef4d25-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ruin and Rush: Berlin 1910–1930", "start": "2026-04-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T23:59:00+01:00", "place": "Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.berlin.de/en/tickets/exhibitions/ruin-and-rush-berlin-1910-1930-41669289-2895-461d-ae9e-4d4264ab495d/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism", "history/weimar-republic"], "description": "The exhibition “Ruin and Rush: Berlin 1910–1930” presents around 35 works from the Neue Nationalgalerie's collection of Classical Modernism that address the Berlin of the 1910s and 1920s, shown on the museum's collection floor. It is curated by Uta Caspary and Irina Hiebert Grun, research assistants at the Neue Nationalgalerie, with curatorial assistance from Noor van Rooijen. In three sections, it explores the dynamism of the growing metropolis in architecture, traffic and nightlife, the social misery that shaped everyday life, and different facets of urban women with their desire for freedom, self-determination and queer life. Artists featured include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Hannah Höch, George Grosz and Lotte Laserstein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ruin-and-rush-berlin-19101930-22065/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/065f909cc561b4dfe599a5b213f7c6350013e0d910080be2a3fbe596b595ecab-1200.webp"}, {"title": "ElternZEITgeschichte", "start": "2026-11-02T14:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Museum in der Kulturbrauerei", "address": "Knaackstraße 97, 10435 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "„ElternZEITgeschichte“ is a guided tour for parents with babies and toddlers through a current photo exhibition at the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei. The Haus der Geschichte Foundation invites visitors to discover „Skater & Rollbrettfahrer vor und nach dem Mauerfall“, with pictures by „Stern“ photographer Harald Schmitt as well as skate-scene photographers Thomas Kalak and Helge Tscharn. The roughly 45-minute tours reveal the stories behind the photographs and objects documenting the everyday life and spirit of skateboarders in East and West. Admission is free and no registration is required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/elternzeitgeschichte-12383/", "official_url": "https://www.hdg.de/museum-in-der-kulturbrauerei/veranstaltungen/elternzeitgeschichte-0211", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b8cbda4ee39005239818beb20b7ab58613a6552ce78f9574496a3b82ab2eec62-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ungebremste Selbstbewegungen. Kunst mit Fotografie in der DDR", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt regulär 4 € / ermäßigt 3 €, Kombiticket 6 € / ermäßigt 3 €", "price_from": "4.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "The exhibition \"Ungebremste Selbstbewegungen. Kunst mit Fotografie in der DDR\" presents artistic positions that emerged in the 1980s through the collaboration of artists from different disciplines. It is devoted to a \"other photography of the GDR\", a \"photography from below\", which was often published in privately produced photo portfolios and semi-legal magazines. At its core are works that do not point journalistically or documentarily to a depicted reality, but rather reflect their own conditions and define themselves through the idea rather than outward form. The concept was developed by Christoph Tannert as external curator; represented artists include Claus Bach, Tina Bara, Klaus Elle, Thomas Florschuetz, Cornelia Schleime and Gabriele Stötzer.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ungebremste-selbstbewegungen-kunst-mit-fotografie-in-der-ddr-29819/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Alltag in der DDR – Straßenfotografien aus den 70er Jahren", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Stiftung Reinbeckhallen", "address": "Reinbeckstraße 11 12459 Berlin", "price": "8 € (ermäßigt 5 €)", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "8.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/street-photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "The exhibition \"Alltag in der DDR – Straßenfotografien aus den 70er Jahren\" presents street photographs of everyday life in East Berlin in the early 1970s, shown as snapshots, reportages and picture stories. The Stiftung Reinbeckhallen Collection for Contemporary Art is behind the show, exhibiting the series presented by Klaus Greiner fifty years ago in their original conception, supplemented by previously unpublished photographs. The material goes back to a 1976 exhibition of the Cultural Federation of the GDR featuring work by non-professional photographers, mentored and curated by the photographer and university teacher Arno Fischer. The images show people and the surroundings in which they lived.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alltag-in-der-ddr-straenfotografien-aus-den-70er-jahren-15334/", "official_url": "https://stiftung-reinbeckhallen.de/programm/alltag-in-der-ddr-strassenfotografien-aus-den-70er-jahren/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31fc367ff2740f8b03ac09442dcef74742aeef44352c08fad3550243ba34a74f-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/documentary-photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "“Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land” is an exhibition of color photographs of the former Berlin Wall strip, taken between 2017 and 2024. The photographer Thomas Meyer, a member of the agency OSTKREUZ, spent eight years, across different seasons, tracing where the division of the city is still visible and perceptible today. His pictures, made in digital medium format, show places that once made history, the disappearance of the Wall, and the overlapping layers of history and present. In doing so, the exhibition also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-34536/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-31T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berliner Mauer (Dokumentationszentrum)", "address": "Bernauer Straße 111, 13355 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography", "history/berlin-wall"], "description": "This special exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial shows photographs under the title “Thomas Meyer: Mauer Land - Bilder vom ehemaligen Mauerstreifen in Berlin, 2017–2024”. It is the work of Thomas Meyer, a photographer living in Berlin and a member of the OSTKREUZ agency, who from 2017 to 2024 looked for traces of the city's division and photographed along the former strip of the Wall in different seasons. His medium-format digital colour images show places that once made history as well as the Wall's disappearance, with layers of past and present overlapping. Through this he also documents Berlin's urban development.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/thomas-meyer-mauer-land-bilder-vom-ehemaligen-mauerstreifen-15279/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/gedenkstaette-berliner-mauer/besuch/ausstellungen/thomas-meyer-mauer-land", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f0b48f708930153ab5e76104f114e6a30ed90086dda2014d7c53119b0bf34048-600.webp"}, {"title": "Ute Mahler | Derselbe Himmel - Modefotografie", "start": "2026-09-01T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Pankow", "address": "Breite Straße 8 13187 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/fashion-photography", "history/gdr"], "description": "Ute Mahler: \"Derselbe Himmel\" is a fashion photography exhibition at Galerie Pankow in the Berlin district of Pankow. It gathers every series Mahler produced for Sibylle, the East German magazine for fashion and culture, in the 1980s, alongside a photo essay that appeared in the FAZ magazine in 2020. Mahler, born in Berka in 1949 and a co-founder of the OSTKREUZ photographers' agency, lets fashion images and portraits flow together, with women and their place in society as the recurring subject.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ute-mahler-derselbe-himmel-modefotografie-15772/", "official_url": "https://www.berlin.de/kunst-und-kultur-pankow/einrichtungen/galerie-pankow/archiv/2026/artikel.1701253.php", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0dfff793e687dd78b39ab1cb4a489792e752ec2516b6f9dc35bb87d15c1eb4c8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Umbruch 1989/90 und die deutsche Einheit: Gemischte Gefühle?", "start": "2026-11-08T11:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "East Side Gallery", "address": "", "price": "kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/berlin-bike-berliner-mauertour-mit-dem-fahrrad#/experience/BTM00020101074869526", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/street-art", "history/gdr"], "description": "A spotlight guided tour at the East Side Gallery presenting some of the more than one hundred artworks painted on the Berlin Wall in 1990. They tell of hope and joy, but also of worries and unsettling experiences in the period of upheaval 1989/90. The tour looks at how the artists, more than 35 years after the fall of the Wall, view German unity: what would they paint on the wall today, and are the messages still relevant? It takes place as part of Berlin Freedom Week 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuhle-20156/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-berliner-mauer.de/de/east-side-gallery/besuch/programm/umbruch-198990-und-die-deutsche-einheit-gemischte-gefuehle-0?date=2026-11-08T11%3A00%3A00%2B0100", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d85c4d00aab736be0800091f9d1ee42f74a3ab1b181d9ae3f0d39d409f17285a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Former East / Former West", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Lichtblick", "address": "Kastanienallee 77, 10435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/naza/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/reunification"], "description": "A documentary based on hundreds of street interviews conducted in Berlin two years after reunification, showing what it meant to be German at that particular point in history. The New York artist Shelly Silver questions the notion of a shared language by focusing on shifting definitions of political and economic terms such as democracy, freedom, capitalism and socialism, and of words describing nations and identities such as nationality, Germany, history, foreigner and home. She explores the tension between the public and the private, the narrative and the documentary, and the relationship between subject and object of contemplation. Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern and the Centre Pompidou.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/former-east-former-west-9413/", "official_url": "https://lichtblick-kino.org/former-east-former-west/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4028d731bd9108dfb1c3260ecf594c4de98ab8cd86c08b949f38e6fe66a16f0e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ruin und Rausch. Gesichter Berlins 1910-1930", "start": "2026-10-31T12:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturforum, Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "", "price": "6 € (plus admission)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "22.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.smb.museum/#/tickets/time?museum_id=26&exhibition_id=2462&group=day&lang=de", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting/modernism", "history/weimar-republic"], "description": "A public guided tour of the exhibition „Ruin und Rausch. Gesichter Berlins 1910-1930“ at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Staged by the Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and curated by Uta Caspary and Irina Hiebert Grun, this special exhibition brings together around 35 works that picture Berlin in the 1910s and 1920s, the decades of the First World War and the Weimar Republic. It traces the contradictions of that era, glamour and misery, excess and poverty, alongside new images of women in the fast-growing metropolis, with paintings and sculptures by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Hannah Höch and Lotte Laserstein.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ruin-und-rausch-gesichter-berlins-1910-1930-10707/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail/ruin-und-rausch/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1018dacd8c7756ea6744783dd1b2c64f2d9150fe95897005999966be7cabf8cc-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Studio – Im Glanz der Berliner Nacht 1910–1930", "start": "2026-11-05T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Kulturforum, Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/creative-writing"], "description": "The Open Studio is a drop-in workshop at the Neue Nationalgalerie with no registration required, and you can join at any time. Together with artists and mediators from different disciplines, this edition is all about creative writing: under the title „Schreib dir dein Berlin“, participants explore how people experienced the metropolis of Berlin in the 1910s to 1930s, expressing their own experience of the city in notes, collages and fragments, inspired by images and texts from around 1920. The programme is part of the series „Volkswagen Group Art4All“ and is aimed at teenagers and families. It takes place at the mediation table in the ground-floor hall and admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/open-studio-im-glanz-der-berliner-nacht-19101930-10919/", "official_url": "https://www.smb.museum/veranstaltungen/detail/open-studio-im-glanz-der-berliner-nacht-1910-1930-2026-11-05-160000-162875/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aec93bc6a1d58059b4d40a7d01b4b6a652afb70c8f75495718d528c39d81a835-2000.webp"}, {"title": "'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' im Kraftwerk", "start": "2026-10-03T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kraftwerk Berlin", "address": "Köpenicker Str. 70 10179 Berlin", "price": "gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/reunification", "music/club-culture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Tanzflächen der Wiedervereinigung' at Kraftwerk shows the social upheaval surrounding the fall of the Wall as seen by club, subcultural and youth culture in Berlin and eastern Germany. More than 30 stories and contributions from private and institutional archives, personal memories and artistic positions create a many-voiced picture of a time between new departures and loss, fresh freedoms, conflict and radical change. The contributions lead from Berlin clubs to eastern German cities and rural areas, and from pre-1989 youth and subcultures to the open spaces of the post-reunification years. Visitors can experience the former cult club and the extraordinary industrial building.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/tanzflachen-der-wiedervereinigung-im-kraftwerk-2524/", "official_url": "https://tanzflaechen-der-wiedervereinigung.de/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/565b41755486a48f6081dcb468ed4e81f6c4c02aa701b773076842284f036828-600.webp"}]}