Through Sept. 18, the Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art presents a lively program across multiple city venues, showcasing new works by roughly 50 local, established and emerging artists. The festival features talks, performances, guided tours and social events that invite visitors to engage with current artistic practices and conversations.
At the Berlinische Galerie, the centenary of Dadaism is explored in the exhibition DADA Africa: Dialogue with the Foreign (Aug. 5–Nov. 7). Approximately 120 works from German and international collections are shown across five thematic sections, tracing the movement’s revolutionary aesthetics and its global resonances.
On Aug. 27, the annual Long Night of Museums offers one ticket granting access to a shuttle service and about 100 participating museums across the city. Museums remain open from 6 p.m. Saturday until 2 a.m. Sunday, and the program is enhanced by music, theater and culinary events that animate museum spaces well into the night.
The 5th Berlin Art Week (Sept. 13–18) marks the start of the fall season with a concentrated program of art fairs, exhibitions, lectures, film screenings and guided tours. The week gathers galleries, institutions and art professionals for a broad public-facing presentation of contemporary art and related events.
From Sept. 23 through Feb. 12, 2017, the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – will present Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Hieroglyphics. This focused show brings together 18 works from the museum’s collection, spanning key moments in Kirchner’s production and examining his interest in signs and pictorial language, described in the exhibition as “hieroglyphs as signs of expression.”
Near the end of the year, collector Désiré Feuerle plans to open his private collection of Chinese design alongside international and contemporary Southeast Asian art in a converted World War II telecommunications bunker. The space, renovated by British architect John Pawson, will present the collection in a distinctive architectural setting. A preview of the collection will be included during the Berlin Biennale.
