{"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": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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the series presented by Klaus Greiner fifty years ago in their original conception, supplemented by previously unpublished photographs.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": "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": "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": "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": "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": ""}, {"title": "Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960", "start": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-17T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gropius-Bau", "address": "Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin", "price": "15 € / ermäßigt 10 €", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/tickets/gropius-bau-berlin-ticket-fuer-alle-ausstellungen#/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary", "society/migration"], "description": "Kreuzberg: Kunst und Migration seit 1960 is a group exhibition at Gropius Bau in Berlin's Kreuzberg district. It is curated by Gürsoy Doğtaş and Patrizia Dander, together with Sonja Borstner and Elena Franziska Setzer, and funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation. Around 130 works address the core experiences of guest workers and later generations, with rarely shown historical artworks meeting pieces created specifically for the exhibition. They explore migration, exile, the housing crisis, racism and exclusion, as well as resistance, empowerment, solidarity and community.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/kreuzberg-kunst-und-migration-seit-1960-65/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/314d2c2448b9e82e2f755c3c7c1055291f957d2170ec10a0c163290af3816e42-1200.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": "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": "Just Be Yourself - Künstlerische Portraits", "start": "2026-10-10T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-28T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "World in a room", "address": "Brunhildstraße 7, 10829 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "Just Be Yourself - Künstlerische Portraits is an exhibition of artistic portraits. It brings together the artists Anna Aicher, Feriel Bendjama, Ebba Dangschat, Klaus W. Eisenlohr, Sara Graetz, Sibylle Hoffmann, Levent Karaoğlu, Robert Klages, Stéphane Lelarge, Annina Lingens, Shirin Moaiyeri, Bigi Möhrle, Jewgeni Roppel, Oded Wagenstein, Marie Zbikowska and Doro Zinn. The focus is not on a perfect photographic representation, but rather on the creative interpretation of a personality. The images tell stories, evoke emotions and allow people to be perceived in a deeper, different way, with each portrait becoming a unique work with its own statement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/just-be-yourself-kunstlerische-portraits-12736/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e2244116d5e3b4e602bcec707f662918c0ec3456c4f456b161bf4bf3f8457b0e-600.webp"}, {"title": "Go Clara Go", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "Willy-Brandt-Haus", "address": "Wilhelmstr. 140 10963 Berlin", "price": "Eintritt frei | Ausweis erforderlich", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.visitberlin.de/de/events-ticket-tipps-berlin", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history/gdr"], "description": "The Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus presents the documentary “Go Clara Go” about the artists’ group Clara Mosch, who together with the cooperatively run Galerie Oben proved from the 1970s onward that art in the GDR could be free. The film was made by director Sylvie Kürsten, who traces the creative energy of this legendary GDR parallel world on the edge of the Saxon Erzgebirge together with its protagonists of the time. Her documentary “Go Clara Go: die Kunst des kreativen Widerstands” reveals an extraordinary chapter of East German art history, one that attracted many fans but also Stasi informers. After the screening there will be a panel discussion with the director and Gunnar Barthel, the former head of the Galerie Oben.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/go-clara-go-24472/", "official_url": "https://www.fkwbh.de/veranstaltung/go-clara-go", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0512b0c299e3a1483d4a047695c3f962475a8fb36265890567a44ffd1aa25f50-600.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": "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": "Alle Räder stehen still... Arbeit in der Kunst", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Ochsenstall", "address": "Alt-Britz 81, 12359 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["society/labour", "art"], "description": "The exhibition „Alle Räder stehen still... Arbeit in der Kunst“ presents mainly artistic works dealing with the depiction of work, from the founding era of industrialisation to the present. It is curated by Ulrike Dornis, Rebekka Liebmann and Dr. Martin Steffens. Featured artists include Käthe Kollwitz, Rosa Loy, Philipp Franck and Friedrich Overbeck. The show examines the transformation of the working world, alienation, changing professions and the working world 4.0, with (post-)socialist ideas of work meeting investigations of today's working conditions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/alle-rader-stehen-still-arbeit-in-der-kunst-57937/", "official_url": "https://schloss-gutshof-britz.de/schloss-britz/ausstellungen/alle-raeder-stehen-still", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a4df044b21c3dfbb01f02a750c229af56e4e0dca94f45b0ab60af6fdee07a793-1200.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung", "start": "2026-10-15T10:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-01-06T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Gedenkstätte Berlin-Hohenschönhausen", "address": "", "price": "Eintritt kostenfrei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography", "history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "\"Staatssicherheitsinhaftierung\" is a special exhibition showing 100 portrait photographs of former political prisoners of the German Democratic Republic's state security service. The pictures are the work of photographer André Wagenzik, who portrayed one hundred people persecuted for wanting freedom and for their political beliefs, recalling the importance of liberty, democracy and the rule of law.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/staatssicherheitsinhaftierung-15897/", "official_url": "https://www.stiftung-hsh.de/ihr-besuch/ausstellungen/staatssicherheitsinhaftierung", "image": "https://noky.io/images/904fdae80ee629d88cd1cce3bdeb0225967f63fee3dcfd4c6d16b726b6877382-600.webp"}, {"title": "AUSSTELLUNG: CORRESPONDENCE – Roger Ballen · Johnny Miller · René Groebli · Thomas Hoepker · Yasuhiro Ogawa", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Galerie Buchkunst Berlin", "address": "Oranienburger Str. 27 10117 Berlin", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "The photo exhibition CORRESPONDENCE opens with a vernissage at Galerie Buchkunst Berlin, where Johnny Miller will be present and sign his new book Unequal Scenes. It brings together five photographers who have shaped the gallery: Roger Ballen, Johnny Miller, René Groebli, Thomas Hoepker and Yasuhiro Ogawa. The title describes the relationships that arose between the gallery and the artists, between the artists and their works, and between the audience and the images themselves. The show includes works from Das Auge der Liebe, Unequal Scenes, Salt Works and Tales of the Islands, as well as pictures of Muhammad Ali and September 11, 2001.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/berlin/events/ausstellung-correspondence-roger-ballen-johnny-miller-rene-g-67838/", "official_url": "https://www.buchkunst-berlin.de/ausstellung-correspondence-roger-ballen-johnny-miller-rene-groebli-thomas-hoepker-yasuhiro-ogawa-05-11-19-12-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/374db458eed1b2f5ef1276a9de91fb613b8f75798b8689238638f4ef8b7ca759-2000.webp"}]}