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WAYS OF SEEING… AND HEARING AND DANCING — HAMBURGER BAHNHOF OPENS ITS DOORS FOR A FREE WEEKEND OF CULTURE
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WAYS OF SEEING… AND HEARING AND DANCING — HAMBURGER BAHNHOF OPENS ITS DOORS FOR A FREE WEEKEND OF CULTURE

One of the stranger things on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart is a Peugeot 205 parked inside a giant glazed orange vitrine. It’s an artwork – conceived by artist Rirkrit Tiravanija in 2010 and the car he drove when he lived in Berlin. But the runabout turned readymade is far from the only thing pulling focus at the museum for contemporary art this weekend: starting tomorrow (12.06), a special program of exhibitions, workshops, talks and performances will mark the return of the annual – and free! – Open House event (12-14.06.2026). At the center is A Thousand Times Berlin, an exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of Hamburger Bahnhof with 70 works – including the car – that trace Berlin’s art scene since 1989. Beyond the artworks, there’s a whole lot to see and hear: concerts by the BVG Orchestra (13 & 14.06, 12h), backstage tours for a look at life running a large municipal museum (multiple daily), and a cyanotype workshop where you can get creative with the color blue. As for art chat, highlights include a talk with Prix Marcel Duchamp winner Saâdane Afif on Saturday (13.06) at 14h. Incidentally, tomorrow (12.06) also marks the return of the Berlin Beats electronic music series with an open-air set from London-born, Berlin-based DJ Kikelomo(until 22h). That plus all the usual exhibitions on view across the museum will provide plenty to entice.    

Text: Benji Haughton / Credit: Exhibition view „Tausendmal Berlin. Sammlung Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart”, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, 12.06.2026: Rirkrit Tiravanija, untitled 2010 (all the days on the autobahn), 2010 © Courtesy of the artist / Photos: Jacopo La Forgia

Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr.50-51, 10557 Berlin–Moabit; map
Open House (12–14.06.2026) offers free entry all weekend – check out the program here.

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MUSEUMSMEILEMITTE: A WALK THROUGH PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE
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MUSEUMSMEILEMITTE: A WALK THROUGH PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE

In the middle of Berlin, art, science, and nature are only a few minutes apart. With the first neighborhood festival of MuseumsMeileMitte on 13.06.2026, Futurium, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Naturkunde, and the Museum of Medical History are making that proximity tangible. Together, they invite you to embark on a journey of discovery with family, friends, or people you might meet from the neighborhood. The four institutions are part of the newly founded MuseumsMeileMitte initiative. Each of them is different in its own way, but shares a common goal: to make knowledge and culture accessible and to bring people into conversation with one another. That is also what the first neighborhood festival at Futurium is all about. Since Futurium opened in 2019, the institution has been exploring the question “How do we want to live?” And it’s precisely this question that runs through the free program. At the neighborhood quiz “Um die Hecke gedacht”, put your knowledge to the test. If you’d rather get hands-on, develop sustainable products from old mobile phone parts in the Urban Mining workshop, or build new worlds together in the game “Just Add People”. The workshop “Bewegende Nachrichten” sounds particularly exciting. Here, write letters around questions such as: Where do our perspectives differ? What still connects us? Afterward, the messages travel from museum to museum, carrying your thoughts through the neighborhood.

Delve even deeper into Futurium’s themes and choose between three guided tours: “Discovering and Shaping the Future” explores how we might live tomorrow, while “Futures Literacy and the Oceans of Tomorrow” takes you on an interactive journey through possible futures for our oceans. Of course, it’s also worth making a detour to the other venues along MuseumsMeileMitte. At Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Naturkunde, and the Museum of Medical History, more exhibitions await you, also free of charge. To round off the day, the 25-member brass band “Fanfare Gertrude” will bring French street music to Futurium’s forecourt. Perhaps the best thing about this neighborhood festival is that no one has to think about the future alone. Instead, people discuss, play, build, and discover together. And along the way, you might not only encounter new ideas, but also meet new people from the neighborhood.

Text: Isabelle Marten / Photos: David von Becker, Stefanie Loos

MuseumsMeileMitte 13.06.2026

Futurium, Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Hamburger Bahnhof, Invalidenstr.50, 10557 Berlin–Mitte; map
Museum für Naturkunde, Invalidenstr.43, 10115 Berlin–Mitte; map
Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map

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WHAT REMAINS AFTER BORDERS SHIFT: GERMAN-POLISH PERSPECTIVES IN “OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE”
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WHAT REMAINS AFTER BORDERS SHIFT: GERMAN-POLISH PERSPECTIVES IN “OSTGEBIETE / ZIEMIE ZACHODNIE”

“Ziemie Zachodnie” translates from Polish as “Western Territories”. In Poland, these areas are often referred to as “Ziemie Odzyskane”, or “Recovered Territories”. Both terms refer to the western territories of Poland after 1945 and, in relation to Germany, to the former eastern territories. An exhibition at the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation showcases photographs by artists engaging with this region, whose history still resonates today. The exhibition opens with a vernissage on 28.05.2026. These are regions that carry meaning for both countries. The exhibition observes appropriation and parting, estrangement and gradual familiarity, without setting the perspectives against one another. Marking the 35th anniversary of the German-Polish Neighborhood Treaty, it looks less at diplomatic gestures than at what has been inscribed into biographies, memories, landscapes and buildings. From a Polish perspective, the Ziemie Zachodnie were places of a difficult new beginning: many of those arriving there had been displaced from the east and carried the experience of German occupation with them, while entering cities and regions shaped by German history.

For many Germans, the former eastern territories are tied to flight, expulsion and the memory of lost homelands, as well as family histories whose retelling can still be painful. Streetscapes, everyday objects and building facades become carriers of memory, subtle yet unmistakable. Ten photographic positions from Poland and Germany approach the subject from different perspectives and with different methods. On view are works by Karolina Gembara, Annette Hauschild, Thomas Meyer, Katarzyna Mirczak, Filip Piotrowicz, Natalia Poniatowska, Linn Schröder, Ina Schoenenburg, Wojtek Sienkiewicz and Heinrich Völkel. Whether through family stories or urban traces, they all ask questions about origin, identity and belonging.

Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Filip Piotrowicz, Heinrich Völkel, Linn Schröder / Credit: Ostkreuz

Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation, Stresemannstr.90, 10963 Berlin-Kreuzberg; map

Ostgebiete / Ziemie Zachodnie. German-Polish Perspectives 29.05.2026 until 17.01.2027. Opening on 28.05.2026.

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FROM CARAVAGGIO TO PRAUNHEIM — QUEER FILM HISTORY AT THE DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK
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FROM CARAVAGGIO TO PRAUNHEIM — QUEER FILM HISTORY AT THE DEUTSCHE KINEMATHEK

The Deutsche Kinemathek‘s new location has opened, along with its first exhibition, Inventing Queer Cinema, which tells the stories of, about and behind queer cinema. The exhibition highlights films and the people who have shaped this part of cinema since the 1970s. At the center of queer film history (and queer film stories) are individuals who resist normative expectations. Queer cinema has developed its own independent and resistant visual language, pushing back against norms. What challenges came with this? What concerns, what successes? Drawing on key films from recent decades, and especially on the people who shaped them, the Kinemathek has created a dense exhibition that shows what queer cinema means for society, but also for Berlin, as a place of queer subculture with an international community. A new feature at the new location is the “Treasure Chamber”, where items from the collection of the Salzgeber film distributor are exhibited. Every Thursday, admission to the Kinemathek is free and accompanied by a public program of events.

In the small on-site studio cinema, the film program changes weekly. This weekend (16.05.2026), it features queer history by Rosa von Praunheim: It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971). In June, Paris Was a Woman (1996) follows for all Gertrude Stein fans, later the pastel-gay dreamscape of Pink Narcissus (1971), and then Renaissance camp overload Caravaggio (1986) — to name a few. It’s an exhibition that explores how queer film history and Berlin’s urban history are intertwined. And it’s a good reason to go to the cinema again.

Text: Inga Krumme / Photos: Jonas Walter, Presse Salzgeber, Veruschka von Lehndorff

Deutsche Kinemathek, Mauerstr.79, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
Inventing Queer Cinema until 13.09.2026. Find the full program here.

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TIRAILLEURS AT HKW — ART, FILMS AND CONVERSATIONS SHINE A LIGHT ON THE AFRICAN SOLDIERS WHO FREED EUROPE
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TIRAILLEURS AT HKW — ART, FILMS AND CONVERSATIONS SHINE A LIGHT ON THE AFRICAN SOLDIERS WHO FREED EUROPE

This Friday (08.05.2026) marks the anniversary of the end of Nazi rule in Europe, when Germany formally surrendered to the Allied forces. Historians usually tell a story of how Soviet, American and British forces defeated the Nazis, but this narrative misses a crucial part: the colonial troops from Africa who took part in the liberation. An exhibition called Tirailleurs (“riflemen”) at HKW seeks to correct this blind spot, with artworks, films, archives and new research that makes visible the role African soldiers played in defeating Nazi Germany. Works by more than thirty international artists are on show in the HKW’s halls, which you can explore yourself or on an exhibition tour for expert context and introductions to exhibition themes. Meanwhile, HKW’s Safi Faye Hall is hosting a walk-in cinema, screening films like Indigènes (“Days of Glory”), a 2006 drama about North African soldiers in the French army who are recruited as equals but end up facing discrimination. You can also hear from the artists themselves in a series of talks with the likes of interdisciplinary artist Halida Boughriet (“How to Perform the Archive through Photography”) and Juan-Pedro Fabra Guemberena (“How to Turn Public Spaces into Anti-War Sites”). The Conversations on Art series opens up these discussions to broader questions, such as how exhibition architecture and the year an artwork was made change how it’s understood. You can drop into these sessions on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays for open conversations with mediators and reflections on the themes of the art on show. Entry to the exhibition is free of charge on Mondays.

Text: Benji Haughton / Credits: Pascale Marthine Tayou, Colorful Stones (2025–2026), series from 16 flags. Courtesy Pascale Marthine Tayou and Galleria Continua. Exterior View Tirailleurs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2026. Photo: Hanna Wiedemann/HKW; Daniel Lind-Ramos, Re-inventario de la desmemoria(2026), Courtesy Daniel Lind-Ramos and The Ranch. Exhibition view Tirailleurs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2026. Photo: Mathias Völzke/HKW; Nadia Kaabi-Linke, Into the Fading Lines (2026). Courtesy Atelier Nadia Kaabi-Linke. Exhibition View Tirailleurs, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 2026. Photo: Mathias Völzke/HKW

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin–Tiergarten; map

Tirailleurs runs until 14.06.2026 – find the full program here.

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