Featured Events in Berlin in September 2025 (May Updated)

Musikfest Berlin is a three-week festival dedicated to exploring the full breadth of the orchestral experience. From beloved symphonic classics by Beethoven and Mozart to rare, forgotten works and bold new compositions, Musikfest brings together an incredible diversity of music. The event is a collaborative effort between the Berliner Festspiele and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation, ensuring that the festival meets the highest artistic standards. With around 40 concerts, showcasing 160 works from over 80 composers, Musikfest Berlin presents a broad selection of classical and contemporary music. Performances take place in some of Berlin's most iconic concert venues, including the grand Philharmonie and the Konzerthaus Berlin.

The Berlin Biennale for contemporary art takes place every two years at different locations in Berlin. Since its first edition in 1998, the Berlin Biennale has made it its mission to create space for renowned curators with experimental exhibition and event programs and to present bold artistic and political positions independent of the interests of the art market. The Berlin Biennale explores international artistic developments of the present that make the hidden and unknown tangible. Each edition brings together artists, theorists and interested parties from various areas of society, thus opening up a dialogue with the city's residents. The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art takes place from 14 June to 14 September 2025 and is curated by Zasha Colah. Valentina Viviani is assistant curator.

The International Spy Museum is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. While James Bond is a fictional character, he embodies the spirit of many real spies in this museum. These men and women, from around the world, were inspired by over six decades of the Bond film franchise and its enduring cultural influence. Bond In Motion is a celebration of six decades of 007 vehicles. The exhibition features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation. Props, models scale and clips from the films are also on show alongside cars, motorcycles, submarines, and more from the Q Branch garage.

Hosted in the iconic Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Klára Hosnedlová's exhibition blends sculpture, performance and mixed media to create a uniquely sensory experience. Running from 25 April to 26 October 2025, this art showcase invites visitors to engage with history, reflect on the present and dream of the future.

The Berlinische Galerie has devoted over 1000 square metres to presenting its collection. Waiting to be discovered among the roughly 250 works on show are paintings, prints, photographs, architecture and archive materials rarely or never displayed before. Walking around this exhibition is like time travel and takes visitors through Berlin in 17 chapters: the Kaiser’s era, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, the new beginnings after 1945, Cold War in the divided city, and the counter-cultures and unconventional lifestyles that evolved in East and West under the shadow of the Wall. In East Berlin, an alternative art community developed from the late 1970s. In West Berlin from the late 1970s, aggressive art by the “Neue Wilden” placed the divided city back in the international limelight.

LAS Art Foundation is pleased to present Pollinator Pathmaker, a living artwork and participatory project conceived by artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg. This impactful initiative in interspecies art uses algorithmic technology to generate planting schemes for gardens, computed to support the greatest diversity of pollinating insects possible. It signals a shift toward the post-anthropocentric thinking necessary to face the current climate and biodiversity crises, and toward the non-human aesthetics and experimental formats that pave the way. Ambitious and future-minded, it is exemplary of how art can act as a driver for change, and offer new perspectives on our shared planet. Growing in the forecourt of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS- commissioned garden will be the first edition outside of the UK. LAS has committed to amplifying Pollinator Pathmaker’s impact by undertaking an extensive public campaign, which calls upon local communities, hobby gardeners and activists to get involved in pollinator protection by planting their own version of the artwork – what the artist refers to as DIY Editions – via Ginsberg’s free online tool: www.pollinator.art. Responding to the alarming decline in pollinator populations in recent decades, Ginsberg has worked with horticulturalists, pollinator experts and an AI scientist to devise an algorithmic tool that designs bespoke gardens for pollinating insects. Supported by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, the LAS Edition will be customised for Continental Europe, and will feature more than 7,000 plants of 80 different varieties, planted over a 722-square-metre plot.

Marking twenty years since artist, writer and performer Vaginal Davis made Berlin her home, Gropius Bau presents the first comprehensive solo exhibition of her work in Germany. In her expansive oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets Black counter-culture and resistance meets desire. Vaginal Davis: Fabelhaftes Produkt features large-scale installations, paintings, video and film works, zines, writing, music and performances, offering an overview of Davis’ practice and artistic collaborations. In the exhibition, the Berlin-based art collective CHEAP presents the installation Choose Mutation, with photographs by Annette Frick. Fabelhaftes Produkt invites you into the universe of Vaginal Davis, populated by literary heroines, mythical figures and real icons.

YOKO ONO: DREAM TOGETHER at Neue Nationalgalerie is an exhibition featuring works from across Ono’s groundbreaking career. The exhibition invites viewers to move beyond passive observation and engage in active participation – both physically and mentally. Often beginning on an individual level, these actions evolve into broader collective efforts, demonstrating the transformative power of communal actions in working toward peace and imagining a different world. The works invite collective actions of repair, healing, cleaning, mending, wishing, imagining, and dreaming. Before entering the exhibition, visitors are invited to engage in a moment of self-reflection through Cleaning Piece (1996). Piles of local river stones are arranged, prompting visitors to reflect on their joys and sorrows. This is followed with instructions to fold paper cranes for peace, gradually filling the exhibition space. In Mend Piece (1966), visitors take part in an act of repair, piecing together broken ceramic cups and “mending with wisdom and love.” The exhibitions central installation, Play It By Trust (1966/1991), features a large chess table where up to 20 players can simultaneously engage in the nearly impossible act of playing with all white chess pieces, challenging them to “play as long as you remember where all your pieces are.”

This special exhibition, presented in the staircase hall of the Neues Museum, offers a dialogue on the meaning of time, mortality and the connection between past and present. Contemporary art meets historical space, refers to ancient models and offers a modern adaptation of the classical reception of the myth of the Dioscuri, who walk eternally between death and life.

Petrit Halilaj will present his first major institutional solo exhibition in Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof. In addition to drawings, sculptures, and installations, new site-specific works will be showcased. At the heart of the exhibition is the artist’s first opera, which explores the potential of collective dreaming to bring forth emancipatory worlds. The exhibition will be the second solo show to be held in the Rieckhallen, which reopened in 2024, and will open during Berlin Art Week.

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The exhibition is aimed at gamers of all ages, but also at visitors who have little experience with computer games. The fact that computer games have developed into a leading medium is no longer a daring thesis. The social and aesthetic significance of the interactive and multimedia medium can no longer be overlooked. The computer game has freed itself from its origins as a laboratory experiment and toy and has become "the" medium of digital society, somewhere between pop culture, entertainment and art. With the opening of the exhibition »The World of Games« in the fall of 1997, the ZKM was one of the first art institutions worldwide to give video game culture a permanent public platform in an art context. Since then, the ZKM has repeatedly reshaped the presentation of games in a series of different exhibitions.

Already 2,000 years ago, the emperors of China had portraits of loyal officials and generals made in order to display them in their palaces. This presentation features depictions of meritorious officers that the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795) had commissioned for their display in the hall of fame Ziguangge to demonstrate his power and legitimacy. In the 20th century they became spoils of war not one but two times. Located adjacent to the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Ziguangge is a two-storey pavilion. During the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736 – 1795), the building was a venue for military rituals and banquets and housed paintings with battle scenes of the imperial military campaigns and portraits of meritorious officers.

For many visitors to Berlin, touring the city’s Museumsinsel (Museum Island) is an essential part of their itinerary. After opening in 1830, the then-Royal Museum quickly became a major attraction. However, the experience of visiting a museum was very different at that time. The special exhibition on the Altes Museum’s upper floor provides fascinating insights into the museum’s beginnings. It shows a selection of antiquities displayed in its first permanent exhibition in 1830.

Egal, ob du davon träumst, auf der Bühne zu stehen, Theaterstücke selbst zu erschaffen oder einfach nur deine kreative Seite ausleben möchtest, bist du hier genau richtig. Durch eine Vielzahl von Übungen und Spielen lernst du die Grundlagen des Schauspielens, Improvisierens, der Charakterentwicklung und Stückentwicklung kennen. Mo von 17:30 – 19:00 Uhr | 14 – 27 Jahre alt EG – Saal (Raum 002+003) *Das Angebot findet an Feiertagen und während der Schulferien nicht statt ----- Whether you dream of standing on stage, creating your own plays, or simply want to explore your creative side, you’re in the right place. Through a variety of exercises and games, you'll learn the basics of acting, improvisation, character development, and playwriting. Mondays 17:00 – 19:00 h| 14 – 27 years old Groundfloor – Saal (Room 002+003) Registration by: info@weinmeisterhaus.de *The workshop does not take place during school holidays. Information Source: Weinmeisterhaus Jugendkulturzentrum | eventbrite

Throughout the week, the festival showcases bothBerlin-based and international artists, bringing works to traditional art spaces as well as open-air and public spaces. From thought-provoking installations to discussions about pressing social issues, Berlin Art Week offers a window into the ever-evolving world of art and its connection to society.

Art Week - After Art Night will take place in Berlin at The Pub, located at Rochstraße 14, 10178 Berlin. The event will run from September 10th to September 11th, 2025. Attendees can enjoy a variety of artistic displays and activities during this time, all at no cost. Don't miss this opportunity to immerse yourself in the vibrant art scene of Berlin during Art Week - After Art Night.

The ilb has attracted literary enthusiasts for over 20 years. It offers an impressive variety of styles and genres, from prose and poetry to graphic novels and children's literature. The goal of the festival is to bring literature from all corners of the world to Berlin, providing a platform for both established and emerging voices. Each year, the programme unfolds around a unique theme, thoughtfully curated to engage audiences with fresh insights and voices from across the globe. Internationally acclaimed authors and rising stars present their works in the original languages, with actors delivering German translations, making each reading a rich cultural exchange.

Neema's first headline show in Berlin! Doors 8pm Show 830pm. complimentary meet and greet after the show Information Source: The Estupid Group Inc. | eventbrite