{"title": "Räume der Sehnsucht – Surrealismus und magischer Realismus der Kunst in der DDR", "start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank", "address": "Kaiserdamm 105, 14057 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/surrealism", "history/gdr"], "description": "\"Räume der Sehnsucht – Surrealismus und magischer Realismus der Kunst in der DDR\" is an exhibition about surrealism and magical realism in art from the German Democratic Republic. It is organised by the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank together with its Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank, showing around 50 loans and works from the Kunstsammlung Neubrandenburg plus pieces by Werner Tübke, Clemens Gröszer, Willi Sitte, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Annette Krisper-Bešlić, Wolfgang Peuker, Hubertus Giebe and Peter Sylvester on loan from the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank. The works explore space constructions of the Pittura Metafisica, dreamlike scenes, grotesque landscapes and enigmatic creatures that carry European surrealism forward. Serving no political purpose, they form an artistic refuge in another reality where hope, doubt, resistance and resignation become central themes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/raume-der-sehnsucht-surrealismus-und-magischer-realismus-der-9367/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-25T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank", "address": "Kaiserdamm 105, 14057 Berlin", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Überraschende Begegnung", "start": "2026-11-01T15:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg", "address": "Schloßstraße 70, 14059 Berlin", "price": "6 €, zzgl. Eintritt", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/modernism"], "description": "A guided tour through the exhibition „Wechselwirkung“ at the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin invite visitors to experience the collection in a new light. New juxtapositions of works by Hans Bellmer, Hannah Höch, Dorothea Tanning, Jean Dubuffet and many others reveal new aspects of Surrealism. The tour also explores the interplay between photographs by Kai Bornhöft and still lifes by the painter Frank Tornow.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/uberraschende-begegnung-10776/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ab00329b44a97600e683998d174030465e1db44a15942deceaaea2de3b541e0b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Träumen: Annemirl Bauer und Bärbel Bohley im Dialog mit Christian Borchert, Jürgen Graetz, Barbara Klemm und Elske Rosenfeld", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie im Turm", "address": "1, 10243 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/gdr", "art"], "description": "An exhibition that brings the GDR artists and political activists Annemirl Bauer and Bärbel Bohley together in dialogue with Christian Borchert, Jürgen Graetz, Barbara Klemm and Elske Rosenfeld. It is staged by the Galerie im Turm with the ifa as the final show of the six-part series Publik Machen: Zu Arbeit und Wirken des Zentrums für Kunstausstellungen der DDR. Works from the estates of the two artists, who openly challenged the repressive GDR system, are shown alongside photographs of them in their personal and artistic surroundings. Curated by Sandra Teitge and Susanne Weiß (ifa), the exhibition uses the Galerie im Turm itself as a starting point, a venue that excluded both women during their lifetimes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/traumen-annemirl-bauer-und-barbel-bohley-im-dialog-mit-chris-11944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/007561ae4ae71c1f927779b53a8532090629770c60e8e98034a124c084b2bd64-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dear Spaces,", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kulturhaus \"alte feuerwache\" Friedrichshain", "address": "Marchlewskistr. 6 10243 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Dear Spaces,\" is a group exhibition of large-format works and smaller works on paper by three artists, shown in the Projektraum of the Alte Feuerwache in Friedrichshain. It brings together Detel Aurand, Nicole Wendel and Saskia Wendland, curated by Katherina Perlongo. The works approach moments that elude naming and take Etel Adnan's text \"Die Stille verschieben\" as their thematic reference. Each artist unfolds her own space with three large works, which enter into dialogue across the niches of the hall.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/dear-spaces-72762/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/848edb7acc761af2430b86eb44f86ed05661c287c12f3d4f411e853ff339507a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Explosive Zukünfte. Kunst zwischen Utopie und Unbehagen", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunsthalle Berlin-Weißensee", "address": "Gustav-Adolf-Straße 140, 13086 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "“Explosive Zukünfte. Kunst zwischen Utopie und Unbehagen” is an exhibition of artistic positions by current and former teachers of the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. Curated by Angelika Richter, it shows works by Kyun-Hwa Choi-ahoi, Alice Creischer, Mariechen Danz, Friederike Feldmann, Else Gabriel, Pia Linz, Inge Mahn, Antje Majewski with Natis Hertes, Nanne Meyer, Marina Naprushkina, Christine Perthen, Tyyne Claudia Pollmann, Karin Sander, Lerato Shadi and Astrid Stricker. The exhibition celebrates the steadfastness of artistic positions amid social instability and invites visitors to make the contradictory energy of emotions visible as utopian potential, between vision and doubt, enthusiasm and unease.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/explosive-zukunfte-kunst-zwischen-utopie-und-unbehagen-14646/", "official_url": "https://kh-berlin.de/kalender/835.html", "image": ""}, {"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/tickets/ausstellungen/ruin-und-rausch-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": "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": "4.00", "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": "Richard Oelze – Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Brockstedt", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/surrealism"], "description": "Richard Oelze – Zwischen Traum und Wirklichkeit is an exhibition of oil paintings and drawings by the painter Richard Oelze at Galerie Brockstedt in Berlin-Charlottenburg. The gallery has been working closely with the artist since the 1970s and is presenting a museum-quality retrospective of works from 1935 to 1970. Oelze was born in 1900, trained at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, and in Paris came into contact with the international Surrealist movement around André Breton as well as Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst, who became one of the greatest admirers of his work. His enigmatic visual worlds oscillate between Surrealism and New Objectivity, and among his best-known works is \"Expectation\" (1935/36).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/richard-oelze-zwischen-traum-und-wirklichkeit-15319/", "official_url": "https://www.brockstedt.com/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4835f23b3f69faf367272a94ff464615e3aec443b748111e5f0bff5eab91c07a-600.webp"}, {"title": "Susan Hiller – Bad Dreams", "start": "2026-10-17T11:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-10T19:00:00+01:00", "place": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art", "address": "Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/tarotkarten-lesen", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/conceptual-art", "religion/spirituality"], "description": "Bad Dreams is the first survey exhibition of British artist Susan Hiller's work in Berlin. Shown at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, it looks back on five decades in which Hiller explored dreams, trance states, hallucinations, spirituality, altered states of consciousness and encounters with the beyond. Ghostly images appear alongside children's wallpapers and toy kitchens, holy water and voices recounting UFO sightings and near-death experiences. At its heart is the question of how personal and collective imaginaries are shaped by images, objects, mass media and popular culture, and how we give form to things we cannot fully explain.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/susan-hiller-bad-dreams-88/", "official_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/ausstellungen/susan-hiller-bad-dreams", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20b0cfcd5df4e389d83c2cca6525a71862d0962cfb65c138138352a8bd29cf43-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Realitäten zwischen Blickwinkel und Phantasie", "start": "2026-08-28T02:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-10-31T01:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt", "address": "Bat-Yam-Platz 1, 12353 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of colorful paintings by Carola Andreas in the foyer of Gemeinschaftshaus Gropiusstadt. The works convey a deep love of nature and invite visitors to relive captured moments. Playing with color, shape and light, the paintings reward closer attention and offer a space to dwell in one's own dreams. The artist is present in person on selected days.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/realitaten-zwischen-blickwinkel-und-phantasie-3066/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9d317de453a6057dc8fe38c8bb9fd0d54b65807719e1346e72443aaced42b62c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Zerreißprobe. Kunst zwischen Politik und Gesellschaft", "start": "2023-11-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-04-25T00:00:00+02:00", "place": "Neue Nationalgalerie", "address": "Potsdamer Straße 50, 10785 Berlin", "price": "16 EUR, reduced 8 EUR (admission incl. special exhibitions)", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/postwar-germany"], "description": "Zerreißprobe is a collection display at the Neue Nationalgalerie, a Berlin museum of modern art, covering art from 1945 to the year 2000. It is presented by the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and curated by Joachim Jäger, Maike Steinkamp and Marta Smolińska. Fourteen chapters explore themes such as realism and abstraction, feminism, identity, and nature and ecology, set against war, division and the fall of the Wall. It shows paintings, objects, photographs and video works by artists including Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramović, Rebecca Horn and Andy Warhol.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/zerreiprobe-kunst-zwischen-politik-und-gesellschaft-11921/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=78089", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d673b655c2ed8273976658604cef7e46e242b908e59fa8e5604e7f9a183f7665-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Geteilte Ansichten. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x Sammlung KiCo. Teil II: Willst du mit mir gehen?", "start": "2026-10-17T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-21T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Mathias Güntner", "address": "Knesebeckstraße 90, 10623 Berlin", "price": "Adults 10 €, reduced 6 €, under 18 free", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://kunsthallebielefeld.ticketfritz.de/Event/Detail?Event=3428", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Geteilte Ansichten. Kunsthalle Bielefeld x Sammlung KiCo. Teil II: Willst du mit mir gehen?\" is a group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. It is organised by the Kunsthalle Bielefeld together with the KiCo Collection, bringing works from both holdings into dialogue with one another. The focus lies on painting, space and abstraction from Classical Modernism to the present day, spanning German Expressionism and the US-American avant-garde of the 1960s as well as younger contemporary positions. More than forty artists take part, among them Maria Lassnig, Nevin Aladağ, Katharina Grosse, Sigmar Polke and Robert Delaunay.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/geteilte-ansichten-kunsthalle-bielefeld-x-sammlung-kico-teil-11911/", "official_url": "https://kunsthalle-bielefeld.de/programm/ausstellungen/geteilte-ansichten-kunsthalle-bielefeld-x-sammlung-kico/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/704786a3235a3e60ae8ce789992b6867388ae520cf6539da10c0dcbbb0e69ac5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Wechselwirkung", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg", "address": "Schloßstraße 70, 14059 Berlin", "price": "10,00 EUR, ermäßigt 5,00 EUR", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "Wechselwirkung is a special exhibition at the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg. It is staged by the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and sets photographs by Kai Bornhöft against still lifes by the painter Frank Tornow. Surrealist works by artists such as Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy complement these pairings, whose surprising encounters are meant to sharpen perception and take thought in unexpected directions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/wechselwirkung-15326/", "official_url": "http://www.smb.museum/ausstellungen/detail.html?tx_smb_pi1%5BexhibitionSmartId%5D=90130", "image": "https://noky.io/images/27273c94ca9474d861e1772d60efbfda983e457502bcce96256c16b7a97c1813-600.webp"}, {"title": "Vietnam. Kunst. DDR. Reclaiming Solidarity", "start": "2026-09-09T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank", "address": "Kaiserdamm 105, 14057 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "history/gdr", "society/migration"], "description": "Vietnam. Kunst. DDR. Reclaiming Solidarity is an exhibition presenting selected works from the GDR and from the present day. Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank devotes it to the motif of international solidarity in the artistic exchange between Vietnam and the GDR, a political guiding idea that during the Vietnam War drew wide expressions of solidarity in the GDR and stimulated varied artistic production. At the same time the exhibition looks at the living realities of Vietnamese contract workers and at how contemporary artists deal with them critically. Works from the Kunstsammlung der Berliner Volksbank place the exhibited pieces in the wider context of socialist image production and open space for discourse on power relations, one-sided projections, cultural attributions and individual scope for action.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/vietnam-kunst-ddr-reclaiming-solidarity-9365/", "official_url": "https://kunstforum.berlin/ausstellung/vietnam-kunst-ddr-reclaiming-solidarity/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d66fed1c740e877c2aaddfbc61066e07315f409491386ff912c3dc954e321bf7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Führung: Einblicke in die Ausstellungen", "start": "2026-10-31T16:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "KW Institute for Contemporary Art", "address": "Auguststraße 69, 10117 Berlin", "price": "Teilnahme in Ausstellungsticket inbegriffen", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "A guided tour offers insights into the current exhibitions. Experienced art mediators lead visitors through Bad Dreams by Susan Hiller and OUSSSEAN by KOO JEONG A. Bad Dreams is the first survey exhibition of Hiller's work in Berlin, while OUSSSEAN is KOO's first major solo exhibition in Germany. Both exhibitions deal with perception, worlds of imagination and forces beyond the visible.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/fuhrung-einblicke-in-die-ausstellungen-16636/", "official_url": "https://www.kw-berlin.de/de/veranstaltungen/einblicke-in-die-ausstellungen-susan-hiller-koo-jeong-a-de", "image": "https://noky.io/images/46d0aadd4419d9f782aa9029606ea57bc6cc53138c8e836fb5aa720911bd7832-600.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": "6.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.smb.museum/ticketshop", "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": "Projections Onto the East", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Schinkelpavillon", "address": "", "price": "6 € / 4 € (reduced)", "price_from": "6.00", "price_to": "6.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/group-exhibition", "history/gdr"], "description": "Projections Onto the East is a group exhibition of historical and contemporary artworks, including new productions made for the project, at Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin. It is a project by the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with the Schinkel Pavillon, conceived by Fabian Bechtle and Leon Kahane. Artists on view include Helmar Lerski, Maria Lisogorskaya, Xavier Robles de Medina, Maya Schweizer, Andrzej Steinbach and Gabriele Stötzer. The exhibition addresses the ideological attributions attached to the terms “East” and “West”, tracing lines of conflict from GDR memory politics and antisemitism to postsocialist transformations and current geopolitical tensions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/projections-onto-the-east-17664/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ed3cf24e9ea73cd8bc783d4dd6653ca6dd613010486da4894865d36a975e4ef-2000.webp"}]}