{"title": "It was never really that good", "start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Soft Power", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A solo exhibition of two video installations by Basma al-Sharif at soft power. The title comes from a deliberate mistranslation of a line from Nino Ferrer's hit song Le Sud (1975), turning the song's melancholy over a lost paradise into a refusal of nostalgic forgetting. The works show how integration policy and neo-colonial promises of progress act as tools of ideological assimilation that make belonging conditional. The exhibition runs from 14.11. to 19.12.2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/it-was-never-really-that-good-23127/", "official_url": "https://softpower.world/de/projekt/it-was-never-really-that-good/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4941b1422e52437f23fdda4d2770027a908eb289870b8894a4207052af25753f-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Soft Power", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Artists Film International (AFI) 2026: A Kind of Power", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Neuer Berliner Kunstverein", "address": "Chausseestraße 128-129, 10115 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/media-art/video-art", "film/experimental"], "description": "This screening in the exhibition space of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein shows a selection of video works from 'A Kind of Power', the Artists Film International programme. The annual programme is organised by Forma in London and curated together with 12 international art organisations that present it worldwide. The 19th edition brings together artists and partner organisations from four continents and examines how power structures shape both the act of seeing and the conditions under which we are seen. The works examine the politics of perception at a time when images spread instantly across borders and surveillance increasingly shapes everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/artists-film-international-afi-2026-a-kind-of-power-2582/", "official_url": "https://www.nbk.org/de/diskurs/artists-film-international-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d68c7df2c53abcd6848daf14adf14ea8ac920d6bdd8f273fa9295b814b28ece-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads: Humanity as Practice", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "€10 / reduced €7", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice is an exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Berlin edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, staged in Germany for the first time. It was conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung together with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza, with Alya Sebti curating the Berlin edition. More than thirty international artists contribute installations, performances, sound works, storytelling and spatial interventions, departing from a poem by the Brazilian writer Conceição Evaristo. The works approach listening and humanity as a living practice, engaging with the political and colonial inheritances of modernity as well as with care, interdependence, animal and plant life, memory and spirit.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/not-all-travellers-walk-roads-humanity-as-practice-3145/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung. Lesung mit Tania Arcimovich, Karima Shabrang und Fariba Vafi", "start": "2026-11-12T18:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Schloss Schönhausen", "address": "Tschaikowskistraße 1, 13156 Berlin", "price": "15 €, ermäßigt 12 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/nazi-era", "literature/poetry"], "description": "A reading titled \"Exiltexte: Kunst, Macht, Erinnerung\" at Schloss Schönhausen. The writers in exile Tania Arcimovich (Belarus), Karima Shabrang (Afghanistan) and Fariba Vafi (Iran) read texts born from a literary engagement with the palace and its history during the Nazi era, drawing on their own experiences of exile and political pressure, in their original languages. Actress Melika Foroutan presents the German translations, and cellist Basilius Alawad accompanies the evening with music. The event is inspired by the Weiter Schreiben interventions and ends with a reception.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/exiltexte-kunst-macht-erinnerung-lesung-mit-tania-arcimovich-12534/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bac59a00fc6e07b1c6b537c7dae5d24dad5e3004a3463316b846a6b01b1aecb4-600.webp"}, {"title": "Shilpa Gupta", "start": "2026-03-27T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "16 EUR, reduced 8 EUR (Hamburger Bahnhof incl. special exhibitions)", "price_from": "16.00", "price_to": "16.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An exhibition titled Shilpa Gupta at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart. It presents works that question language, borders and structures of power, in direct dialogue with Joseph Beuys and the Marx collection.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/shilpa-gupta-15273/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=87684", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6d51b171c2723f0d1fa5adc3dd520c77b6c0aaa7094f011a2b9d0ba11df1f26f-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nicht alle Reisenden folgen Wegen – Humanität als Praxis", "start": "2026-09-12T12:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", "address": "John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin", "price": "10€ / ermäßigt 7€", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/colonialism"], "description": "Nicht alle Reisenden folgen Wegen – Humanität als Praxis is an exhibition at Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Berlin Edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. The biennial was conceived by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with a curatorial team, the Berlin Edition is curated by Alya Sebti, and it forms part of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo's travelling exhibitions programme. Works by more than 30 international artists in installations, performances, sound pieces, narratives and spatial interventions explore humanity as a living practice of listening, care and resistance to dehumanisation and colonial legacies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/nicht-alle-reisenden-folgen-wegen-humanitat-als-praxis-8323/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5417cffb32cb4ebd398a5b5e077fdf740423cfb3894e6127c5cb12fdd3a6eaec-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fresh A.I.R. #11 Scholarship Exhibition – Opening", "start": "2026-11-13T19:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Urban Nation", "address": "Bülowstraße 7, 10783 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/street-art"], "description": "Opening celebration of the final Fresh A.I.R. scholarship exhibition at the URBAN NATION Project Space in Schöneberg. The show is presented by the Fresh A.I.R. scholarship programme of the Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, curated by Janine Arndt. Under the title „FUTURE VISIONS: Artistic Approaches to Peace“, eight scholarship holders of the eleventh cohort and the second recipient of The Martha Cooper Scholarship for documentary photography present their work. The nine artists ask how a peaceful future can be imagined while the foundations of our coexistence come under pressure.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fresh-air-11-scholarship-exhibition-opening-104584/", "official_url": "https://urban-nation.com/2026/10/fresh-a-i-r-11-scholarship-exhibition/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/831a19f0930b3ee4267de955e39ce926e3596db89c4d2038c9365a7bae891e6f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch", "start": "2026-11-13T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Flutgraben e.V.", "address": "Am Flutgraben 3, 12435 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/spoken-word"], "description": "\"Back to the Future: IMAGINE! x Kunst, Poesie, Gespräch\" is an openly designed evening that combines spoken word, an artist conversation and collective thinking. At its centre are tensions, contradictions and the space between apparent opposites. Behind the evening are Meriem Mohamed, an interdisciplinary artist and creative strategist whose practice is shaped by decolonial perspectives, and Glacier, an independent artist, musician, psychological counsellor and systemic thinker who moderates the conversation. Using the Know Thyself calendar as an example, it shows how a different view of time, memory and inherited orders can be translated into a personal practice and lived in everyday life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/back-to-the-future-imagine-x-kunst-poesie-gesprach-96864/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c7c7194f94e18c0d052ed221d5f988deaa411306333266c2a8946b1bc9320c6e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Verbindende Fäden", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-28T18:00:00+01:00", "place": "Forschungscampus Dahlem", "address": "Berlin", "price": "10,00 EUR, ermäßigt 5,00 EUR (Kunstgewerbemuseum)", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/textile-art", "history/afghanistan", "society/migration"], "description": "„Verbindende Fäden. Gestickte Narrative aus Afghanistan und der Diaspora“ is a special exhibition of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin shown in the basement of the Forschungscampus Dahlem research campus in Berlin. It is curated by Dr. Melanie Krebs, a curator at the Ethnological Museum, and Azita Ibrahimi, an artist and art historian from Herat, Afghanistan. Embroidered textiles, textile objects and told life stories are examined as carriers of knowledge and collective memory in Afghan diaspora contexts. The show looks at how patterns, colours and techniques record migration, exile and the passing on of knowledge between generations of women, and is thematically linked to the Muslim Cultural Week 2026. [idee-butik.de](https://idee-butik.de/verbindende-faden-in-berlin-stickkunst-ab-26-september-what-residents-need-to-know/) [museumsportal-berlin.de](https://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/eroeffnung-der-ausstellung-verbindende-faeden-gestickte-narrative-aus-afghanistan-und-der-diaspora/)", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/verbindende-faden-15908/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=90205", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e5cbb0745ffb243b7f78c1da2f65e57fd52a4b50786f4652ac117d028f53204-600.webp"}, {"title": "Sediment", "start": "2026-10-16T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Bärenzwinger", "address": "Rungestraße 30, 10179 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/installation", "history/archives"], "description": "Sediment is an exhibition by Qusay Awad at the Bärenzwinger, a municipal gallery in Berlin. Qusay Awad is a Berlin-based architect and multidisciplinary artist born in As-Suwayda, Syria, who traces the material, social, and historical layers that have settled at the Bärenzwinger over time through archival research and close study of the site. The project brings together site-specific structures, sound, 3D reconstructions, and archival material, viewing architecture as a living archive that continuously accumulates new meanings and relationships. The curators are Alin Daghestani and Hannah van der Est.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sediment-11694/", "official_url": "https://baerenzwinger.berlin/ausstellungen/kuenstlerisches-forschungsprojekt/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8796b2615df87c813a60e0d632bf978470e02bbe6c92ae3f0459db806dc53ad6-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Image Is a Public Menace", "start": "2026-09-11T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Nagel Draxler", "address": "Weydingerstraße 2/4, 10178 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "religion"], "description": "The Image Is a Public Menace is a solo exhibition at Galerie Nagel Draxler in Berlin. It comes from Abdulnasser Gharem, one of the most influential contemporary artists in the Gulf region, and gathers three new projects: Aniconism 2026, The Unscored Goal 2026 and The Image is a Public Menace (Neon), 2026. Aniconism — the practice or belief of avoiding visual representation of divine beings, sacred figures or living creatures — runs through the show, alongside questions of how history is pictured and who holds the authority to represent it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/the-image-is-a-public-menace-11933/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a08908f7b8ea0e8efd3aa1161e75d3d4bcddfa414a5273f4cc7b678b7ce489e1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sophie Calle: Is It Better?", "start": "2026-11-13T11:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-05-02T11:00:00+02:00", "place": "Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart", "address": "Invalidenstraße 50-51, 10557 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art"], "description": "\"Is It Better?\" is an exhibition by Sophie Calle presenting six bodies of work from the past three decades, spanning photography, text, installation and video. The French conceptual artist's show opens during the Hamburger Bahnhof's anniversary weekend and brings together works made in Berlin alongside pieces referring to the building's history as a railway station. It is complemented by a new work created especially for the collection to mark the 30th anniversary.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/sophie-calle-is-it-better-22075/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=87691", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e57bd0d68718b0c03415dadcfb9d30d6866293416eb393d4c7c9b0a23fd44f74-2000.webp"}]}