Wed, Sept 10, 18h at Ufferhallen Opening of A Hidden Well
Registration is required for the performances by Murat Adash and Shade Théret as well as for the walk by Jasmine Parsley.
Under the title A Hidden Well, n.b.k. presents an exhibition and event project in cooperation with Uferhallen e.V., transforming the immediate neighborhood of the Uferhallen and Uferstudios – a key hub of Berlin’s art and cultural production – into a setting for site-specific interventions. Invited artists bring diverse perspectives as they respond to and question the stories, architecture, and imagery that continue to shape the Gesundbrunnen district today.
Artists: Murat Adash, Maximiliane Baumgartner, Tony Cokes, Judith Hopf, Aykan Safoğlu, Shade Théret, Leyla Yenirce, among others
Curators: Feben Amara, Susanne Mierzwiak

Introduction during the opening : Dr. Alexander Leinemann, Art Historian 
Artist Talk: Sunday, September 14, 2 p.m.

Jenny Michel combines objects, drawings, photographs and texts in a variety of media to create complex series of works whose differentiated textual background meets an equally multi-layered material level. The works are based on a process of palimpsesting information. In a non-linear layering, arranging, collaging and decollaging of signs and texts, the works grow together to form a modular, labyrinthine overall structure. In their series-like linking, they reflect the artist's widely networked, highly analytical approach. Oscillating between science and fiction, Jenny Michel ironizes the claim to absoluteness of scientific thought and thus also exposes ideal concepts as an ambivalent phenomenon of striking social relevance.

BERLIN ART WEEK opening times:

September 11, 12 – 7 p.m. 
September 12, 12 – 9 p.m.
September 13 & 14, 12 – 6 p.m.

This exhibition was specifically conceived for the art association’s spaces and, with one exception, features only works created since late 2024. In reference to works by Otto Dix (1891–1969), the artist aims to intertwine our present with the political and social phenomena of the Weimar Republic a hundred years ago. The parallels are numerous and often unsettling: we find ourselves once again in a period of major upheaval, marked by economic and political crises, the resurgence of right-wing populist forces, and a growing threat of war in Europe. Ruprecht von Kaufmann paints our society on the brink of a new era.

Thu, 11 Sep 18-21h at Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz Am Platz – The SteDi Collection Meets Artists from the Square
A tribute curated by Frank Hauschildt @ihrarmenirren

Volksbühne and galleries, concept stores and Babylon, the Kunstverein and the artists who live there: Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz is an exception in Berlin – almost everything is different. The exhibition brings together works from the SteDi Collection alongside pieces by local actors from the square, who now encounter each other here in the Plattenbau.

Friday Sept 12, 18-22h @Between Bridges Opening Sofia Reyes- Alucinación
Between Bridges is honoured to present Alucinación, a solo exhibition by Bogotá-based artist Sofía Reyes. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in Europe and opens as part of the Featured program of Berlin Art Week.
Alucinación by Sofía Reyes is a collage, a visual essay composed out of fragments that speak to and about the banality of events. In her own words: “This exhibition feels like many things at once, a portrait, a document, a test, a love letter, a diagnosis, a cry for help.” Reyes’ work is often created from an expanded understanding of what a self-portrait is. In Alucinación she explores the idea of individual identity being constructed through a fleeting, unstoppable stream of data, images, thoughts – all deprived of any moral or ethical mediation or consideration. Although this may sound as a cynical or nihilistic approach to reality, it is more about a particular expression of innocence: deprived of cuteness, and closer to what we could call a cold tenderness.

A group exhibition co-curated by Art Maison Marios x Prazzle Arts, presented by BBA Gallery
“To be contemporary is, in some sense, to be out of time.” — Giorgio Agamben

The phrase “artist of our time” carries both weight and risk. It presumes a consensus on what our time is, who defines it, who represents it, and whose work is allowed to shape it. In a global art landscape still reckoning with historical erasure and structural exclusion, Artistes de Temps turns the phrase into a provocation: What does it mean to champion the living radically, unapologetically, and without delay? Artistes de Temps runs in parallel with the launch of Culture Kaleidoscope: 100 Artists of Our Time, a new annual art book initiated by Prazzle. Together, the exhibition and publication function not as documentation but as intervention. They ask: Who gets seen? Who gets supported? Who gets remembered? These artists don’t beg for entry into the dominant canon. They build parallel timelines where ancestral memory, radical imagination, and speculative futures converge. They preserve not ashes, but fire.

Hölzl’s multidisciplinary practice is defined by a sensitive yet critical engagement with the systems and materials that shape modern life. Fusing sculptural engineering with ephemerality, he explores the entangled lifecycles of aviation, energy, and ecological consciousness. At the core of PROPEL are three types of propellers—each a meditation on movement, innovation, collapse, and transformation—recalling the forms of both seed and bomb, origin and end.

This new body of work invites viewers into Jones’s vivid inner world, where everyday encounters with people and nature—hovering between the real and the surreal—are reframed through photography, digital innovation, art-historical reverence, and personal transformation under the radiance of the sun. Helios Garden reflects the artist’s ongoing explorations of life, community, travel, and human connection. 

My Body Is Not Your Temple' – a solo exhibition by South African artist Pierre le Riche.

This will be the gallery's second solo presentation of le Riche's vivid, evocative, and intimate textile works, continuing his deeply personal exploration of queer identities and belonging.
The show features a powerful new series of wall textiles that continue le Riche’s deeply personal exploration of queer identity and themes of belonging, visibility, and vulnerability. Following on from his 2024 solo exhibition In Four Places At Once, My Body Is Not Your Temple deepens le Riche’s inquiry into the body as a site of identity and contradiction. Themes of gender and sexuality remain central to le Riche’s practice. 

Group Exhibition with Dana Engfer, Christoph Kilian, Lucy König, Gabriele Künne, Taiyoh Mori, Enrico Niemann, Miriam Salamander, Fiene Scharp. Curated by Cassandra Mehlhorn
The group exhibition „This is the place you told me about“ brings together ten artistic practices that touch the theme of vulnerability. In multi-perspective and multi-disciplinary ways they capture the moment when the inside and outside meet and visualize it in a reduced and gentle language.

Artist Talk and Tour: Saturday, Sept 13, 2025, 4 pm 
Artist Talk and Tour: Saturday, Sept 27, 2025, 4 pm
Finissage on October 11, 2025, 6 - 10 pm

The exhibition GLOBAL FASCISMS critically examines the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms. A key aim is to understand fascism not only as a historical phenomenon, but also as an ongoing global threat that transcends its historically confined definition, manifesting in diverse political, cultural, and social contexts today.

Artists: aaajiao, Pio Abad & Frances Wadsworth Jones, Jane Alexander, Matthew Barney, Vikrant Bhise, Michaël Borremans, Carl-von-Ossietzky-Gemeinschaftsschule with Alexandre Decoupigny and Claire Fristot, Shu Lea Cheang, Hou Chun-Ming, Eli Cortiñas, Andrew Esiebo, Niklas Goldbach, Hao Jingban, Daniel Hernández-Salazar, Hannah Höch, Karolina Jabłońska, Radu Jude & Adrian Cioflâncă, Yoonsuk Jung, Gülsün Karamustafa, Martin Kippenberger, Josh Kline, Firenze Lai, Daniel Lannes, Maria Lassnig, Franz Lehmkuhl, Lawrence Lemaoana, Carlos Leppe, Anna Maria Maiolino, Sliman Mansour, Ciprian Mureşan, Nguyễn Tân Hoàng, Mussunda N’zombo, Pınar Öğrenci, Mimi Ọnụọha, Raking Leaves, Robin Rhode, Glauber Rocha, Roee Rosen, Julia Scher, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Mithu Sen, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Maree Sheehan, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Sunwoo Hoon, Fuyuhiko Takata, Grace Dorothée Tong, Top lista nadrealista & Nadreality Show, Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor (with Ilinca Manolache)

Commissioned by Pickle Bar as part of the performance series 'She-Wailers'
Limited capacity, registration required at https://picklebar.berlin/

Set to take place at a municipal court, Selin Davasse's performance Corpus Iuris Artis: III. The Appeal plays out at an imagined Court of Appeals where the constitutionality of the laws prescribed by "Codex Iuris Artis—Statutes for Speculative and Situated Ethics in the Art World" and the fairness of past trials will once again be argued. A part of the Corpus Iuris Artis cycle, Davasse's performance is presented within the framework of Pickle Bar's performance series She-Wailers.

Corpus Iuris Artis: III. The Appeal is presented by Pickle Bar as part of Berlin Art Week Featured 2025, in cooperation with soft power's presentation of Davasse's solo exhibition Corpus Iuris Artis: II. The Hearing.

Sat & Sun 13 & 14 September workshop 
@lucila.kenny @wirwirberlin
What happens when foraged plant inks interact with riso printing?
April Gertler and Lucila Kenny invite you to a two day workshop to encounter materials and methods in a variety of new ways to make new images blending chemistry, technique and intuition.
There will be multiple parts to the 2 day workshop :
- a walk in Neukölln, foraging for seasonal colour and make plant inks.
- introduction to Riso printing 
- collage with both natural and printed materials while exploring plant inks 
- make a one page double sided zine in an edition of 12 which will interconnect these two different methods of using colour and image
Date: September 13 & 14 (Sat & Sun)
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Location: WIRWIR, Stuttgarter Str. 56, 12059 Berlin-Neukölln
Price: € 120 (materials and lunch included)
Group: max. 7
Link www.lucilakenny.com

Thursday, 20 November – Sunday, 23 November 2025

The Social Life of Film is an annual congress which brings together independent screening initiatives to further the communal potential of the moving image. While different in their approaches, the initiatives generally share two values: A desire to facilitate moving image practices typically excluded from commercial platforms and state funded institutions; and a belief that the community and conversation surrounding a screening can be as important as the film itself.

We are looking for volunteers to help realise this year's edition of The Social Life of Film throughout August–November. From setting up the venue and welcoming guests to hosting meals and tech assistance, you can find an overview of tasks and more on the programme

Interested in joining? Email us at sociallifeoffilm@gmail.com with:
– roles you're interested in
– your availability (approx.)
–  relevant experience you'd like to share