Baby, it’s Gallery Weekend (01.–03.05.2026). The FOMO is real, and we’re not the only ones feeling it. Here’s our selection from the official programme (if you’re here for Sellerie Weekend, scroll down further). Let’s start in Mitte, as tradition demands. At Anton Janizewski, “Dead End” by Jiyoon Chung is not light viewing. The works grapple with fear and control within the current tightening of security politics. Next door at BQ, Philipp Gufler calls for a fragmentary search for traces of the painter Paul Hoecker (1854–1910). “Imitations of Paul” engages with the artist’s biography (whose career came to an abrupt end after his homosexuality was made public) through media such as textiles and ceramics, and through drag-inspired methods of appropriation and transformation. Monty Richthofen at Dittrich & Schlechtriem is simply driving his work across the city as a performance. “Hard 2 4get” brings Richthofen’s scribbly tag works from canvas back into the urban space — a full-circle moment for his approachable spray-painted claims. The tagged transport fleet route can be viewed on the gallery’s website. On Leipziger Straße, we encounter “Brutes des nuits” at Sweetwater: large-format screen prints by artist Hanna Stiegeler. The motif, the bed she shares with her child, is captured in the pixelated resolution of her baby monitor.
Next door at Klemm’s, Colombian artist Juan Pablo Echeverri is shown. Across grids, portraits and selfies, the works continue to challenge fixed ideas of taste even after the artist’s death. Stereotypes are pushed so far that it’s often hard to tell where humour ends and seriousness begins — a productive kind of discomfort for the weekend ahead. At Carlier | Gebauer, conceptual artist Nida Sinnokrot presents “Rubber-Coated Rocks”, placing them in the space as relics suspended between violence and play. Alongside them, “Water Witness” unites ceramic vessels and irrigation valves arranged upright — speaking of storage, flow, and everything in between. We keep moving with a small detour to Ebensperger, where Göksu Kunak performs “Remains”. Bodybuilders, karate and grappling fighters, a pole dancer, acrobats, and growlers fill the space with bodies, fragments of text and drawings. The schedule is available here. Onward to Schöneberg: at Galerie Judin in the former petrol station, things turn melancholic in two tones. Adam Lupton paints in red and blue — domestic scenes, often self-portraits seen from above, plenty of brick (it fits). There’s an immediate sense of familiarity in his work: snapshots of an endless, unproductive self-check-in. At Isabella Bortolozzi, we encounter Adam Gordon, a painter and bodybuilder. Need I say more? The first images remain deliberately open, but intrigue is guaranteed. From Schöneberg, head straight toward Fasanenstraße or take a detour to Moabit, to Alexander Levy, where Anne Duk Hee Jordan transforms the gallery into a kind of multisensory spaceship of color and reflective surfaces (at least if the teasers are to be believed). Finally, Fasanenstraße, inevitable as ever. Galerie Buchholz presents Yuji Agematsu’s “Zips”, miniature sculptures made from rubbish collected on walks. Encased in cellophane cigarette wrappers, 366 of these zips are shown in the first part of the exhibition, followed by a second chapter in June 2026. Last stop: Société with Wynnie Mynerva, whose show revolves around love and the absence of it. Mynerva expands beyond conventional ideas of romantic love, building her paintings and videos around the desire to connect with others. It’s the same every year: too much to see and one gallery (at least) we regret having missed out on. Between intimacy and intervention, prosecco and cigarettes, small talk and the next taxi — see you this weekend.
Text: Inga Krumme / Credits: Yuji Agematsu, Zip: 01-01-2024–12-31-2024, 2024 (Detail), Photo: Reggie Shiobara, Courtesy of Yuji Agematsu and Galerie Buchholz; Monty Richthofen, HARD 2 4GET, 2026, Foto: Lukas Städler, Courtesy Dittrich & Schlechtriem; Adam Lupton, Atlas, 2025. Oil on canvas, Courtesy: the artist and Galerie Judin; Jiyoon Chung, Hyperreal, 1.0, 2026, Courtesy of the artist and Anton Janizewski, Copyright Brian Kure; Nida Sinnokrot, exhibition view at Expand Extract Repent Repeat, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, 2018, Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid, Photo: Trevor Good; Nida Sinnokrot, Rubber-coated rocks, All-Stars (7), 2022, Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid, Photo: Trevor Good; Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Fiona, 2023, installation view, I will always weather with you, The Bass, Miami Beach, Photo: Zaire Aranguren, courtesy of the artist and alexander levy; Hanna Stiegeler, Study for Brutes des nuits, 2026, Courtesy of the artist and Sweetwater
Gallery Weekend Berlin
01.–03.05.2026. Find the full program here.
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