The Berlinische Galerie is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and it’s doing so all summer long. Cee Cee readers will already know the BG Summer Festival is in full swing, with workshops, performances, exhibition openings (like the one tonight, 10.07.2025 at 19h), and plenty of festivities. This Sunday, 13.07.2025, the celebrations will reach their peak with the festival’s main event: a full day of art, music, and making. Inside the museum, guided tours led by curators offer fresh perspectives on familiar works, from feminist icon Hannah Höch to the architectural treasures in the collection, and even the museum’s history. Prefer doing over listening? Outside, hands-on activities await. Water painting on asphalt, a pop-up photo studio, textile art under the poetic title “What Does the Dandelion Dream Of?”, plus open woodcut and screen printing workshops.
Between it all are concerts by the KiezChor with beloved 80s and 90s hits, conversations with school students on Berlin’s art history, and a performance by collectif blitzbereit, who pick up on the movements of museumgoers and turn them playfully upside down. The new exhibition opening today will be open and free to all. “Staged Self” presents Marta Astfalck-Vietz’s photographic stagings, blurring role play with the joy of experimentation. In “Hero”, Monira Al Qadiri explores the fossil fuel oil and its geopolitical dimensions, with large-scale murals, videos, and sculptural installations. And outside? Drinks, street food, sunshine, and, of course, birthday cake. Because what’s a party without it? Happy birthday, dear BG!
Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Thi Thuy Nhi Tran
Berlinische Galerie, Alte Jakobstr.124–128, 10969 Berlin–Kreuzberg; Stadtplan
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