This week brings not one, not two, but three double openings. Galleries have discovered shrinkflation economics: two artists, one opening, and the same number of wine bottles. Double the selling potential, half the Riesling ratio per artist. Galleries have always thrown anything against the wall to see what sticks, but now they do it two artists at a time. Berlin Science Week has arrived, and HKW has artists and scientists discussing fungal symbiosis. Anyone who is making a living in this art scene knows a thing or two about surviving on mushrooms, very little daylight, and attaching yourself to whoever has funding.

Monday, Nov. 9 marks 37 years since the Wall came down, and the city celebrates as it always does: by opening all gallery shows at the same time on opposite ends of town and giving everyone only a two-hour window to get there. Sophie Calle returns to Berlin for the first time in over 20 years with Is It Better?, a question the whole city has been asking since 1989.
Hamburger Bahnhof turns 30 years old, celebrating next weekend by staying open for 30 hours straight. Finally, an institution that keeps Berlin hours? I don’t know, I definitely feel too old for Berghain but probably too young for Hamburger Bahnhof after-hours.
This is it kids, as 2026 gallops to an end, these are the last few weeks of openings for the year. Bring your bike, your BVG app, and a copy of The Wretched of the Earth for the train.

Last but not least: our annual Artist Edition newsletter is coming up!
Every December we hand the newsletter over to artists. Our annual Artist Edition presents editions, multiples, prints, and small works by Berlin artists, just in time for the holidays and for anyone looking for a gift that isn’t another candle. If you have an edition you’d like us to feature, send us an image, the title, edition size, price, and a short description, along with your name and website or Instagram. This will be a curated newsletter. If you are in, you are in.
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Wed, 4 Nov 18:00–20:00 at Société Double Opening: Tu Hongtao: Stone Standing in the Wind/ Timur Si-Qin: Pristine, Part II 
Nov 5 – Jan 9 
Société
Wielandstraße 26
10707 Berlin

Tu Hongtao, Avian Tremors After Unseen Arrows - Little Bush No.1, 2025-2026 (Detail)

Wed, 4 Nov 19:00 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Kent Chan in conversation with Qu Chang- Screening and talk.

Join artist in residence Kent Chan for an evening of films and performance from his Future Tropics series of work premised upon a fictional future global tropics. Free, no registration required, Language: English.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin

Kent Chan, Solar Orders, 2024, Two-channel video, Courtesy the artist.

Fri, 6 – Sun, 8 Nov 17:00–23:00 at Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
VIDEOAKTION #7
attaque[e]r le visible, the experimental film platform curated by Lawinia Rate, returns with its anti-salon for experimental film and video. It’s a place to show new experiments with moving images informally and without competition, and then argue about them. Three evenings on what the experiment can still do, and how film and video can intervene in the visible.
Raum für drastische Maßnahmen
Oderstraße 34
10247 Berlin

Fri 6 Nov 17h Hamburger Bahnhof Artist Talk: In conversation with Sophie Calle 

The starting point for the conversation is her first solo exhibition in Berlin in more than 20 years. The exhibition brings together six groups of works from the past three decades, spanning photography, text, installation and video. The Detachment (1996), for example, is a series of photographs made in Berlin depicting GDR symbols that were removed after reunification. The expansive installation The Ghosts of Orsay (2022) is based on Calle’s relationship with the former hotel in the Paris railway station Gare d’Orsay (now the Musée d’Orsay) and brings together found objects, photographs and texts.
The exhibition opens on Thu 12 Nov 19h

Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstraße 50
10557 Berlin

Fri Nov 6, 18–21h at Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 77 Frauen unserer Zeit – Book Launch & Video Screening KV_RLP × Alexandra Hopf × DISTANZ Verlag
In 1930 a book called Unsere Zeit in 77 Frauenbildnissen (Our Time in 77 Portraits of Women) set out to capture its era through its women. Alexandra Hopf picks up the idea with 77 reverse glass paintings of role models from the second half of the twentieth century, first shown at the Kunstverein in 2025. The series asks which roles these women embodied, how they staged themselves, and who made it into cultural memory and who was forgotten. The book is out with Distanz Verlag, with a foreword by Rebecca Wilton and an essay by Andreas Prinzing.
The launch also premieres Hopf’s new video Spitting Image (2026, 5:20 min.). It starts from her portrait of punk icon Jordan Mooney, shown in half-profile with a jet of liquid shooting from her mouth, and stretches that moment into extreme slow motion.
Save the date: 26 Nov, 6pm, Alex Schweder, Cryptochrome (sound by Bernd Nobert Würtz)
Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Linienstrasse 45
10119 Berlin

Fri, 6 Nov 18:00–21:00 at Esther Schipper Sara Cwynar: Elephant / Jenny Brosinski: Make A Wish
Another double opening! Galleries have always thrown anything against the wall to see what sticks, but now they do it two at a time.

Elephant, a project by Sara Cwynar, on the occasion of the artist's residency at the American Academy in Berlin. On view will be new videos, photographs and a drawing

Brosinski, born in Celle, finished her Meisterschüler studies at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin in 2012.
On view until 19 Dec 2026
Esther Schipper
Potsdamer Straße 81E
10785 Berlin

Fri, 6 Nov 18:00–21:00 at Galerie Barbara Thumm: Anna Jung Seo: Drunken Boat / Peter Bonde: New Paintings (keep on keeping on)

Another double opening. At this rate, by December we’ll be getting four artists per bottle of Berliner.

ANNA JUNG SEO‘s new paintings in Drunken Boat present us with intimately drawn scenes and observations, dimly and dramatically lit, whether by moonlight or the glow of a midnight lamp. 

For the second time, danish painter Peter Bonde presents his latest works in the exhibition New Paintings (Keep on Keeping on), at Galerie Barbara Thumm. Returning to the gallery, the artist will present pieces from 2025 and 2026.
On view 7 Nov – 19 Dec 
Galerie Barbara Thumm
Markgrafenstraße 68
10969 Berlin

Fri, 6 Nov 18:00–21:00 at Mountains Solo show Opening: I. S. Kalter
On view 7 Nov – 12 Dec 2026
Mountains
Weydingerstraße 6
10178 Berlin

Fri, 6 Nov 18:00–22:00 at Galerie KungerKiez EINTOPF: THE BLEED
Like an Eintopf, everything goes into the pot. The collective behind Let it Bleed brings painting, illustration, street art, collage, risograph, screen printing and pixel art to the neighbourhood gallery in Alt-Treptow. It’s a show of individual works and of the network that has grown around them over the years. Free admission.
On view until 27 Nov 2026, Thu–Sun 3–7pm
Galerie KungerKiez
Karl-Kunger-Straße 15
12435 Berlin

Fri, 6 Nov 19:00–22:00 at Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst Opening: SOLACE – Yuki Jungesblut and Hanna Mattes
A space to pause, to carry on, to begin anew. Taking the English word solace as its starting point, Jungesblut and Mattes have built a staged space of photographs, videos, texts and drawings that approach consolation from personal and abstract angles, always in dialogue with nature. Some works are still in progress and will keep changing during the show, the way solace does. It doesn’t erase loss, but it changes our relationship to it. It rarely arrives as a grand moment, more as a slowing down that has to be found and renewed again and again through small rituals and gestures. 

Axel Obiger is an artist-run gallery and has been doing in-dialog shows since its inception. 
Special events: Conversation and Soup, Thu 26 Nov, 6–9pm; Finissage, Sat 5 Dec, from 5pm
On view 7 Nov – 5 Dec 2026
Axel Obiger – Raum für zeitgenössische Kunst
Brunnenstr. 29
10119 Berlin

Sat, 7 Nov 14:30–16:00 at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
TOUCHING BOUNDARIES: What Drives Art and Science Collaboration
Panel with Špela Petrič, Marcus Maeder, Miha Turšič, Matthias Rillig, Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz
More and more labs are inviting artists in, but the artist isn’t there to illustrate the research or do outreach. The artist is a researcher too. Art Laboratory Berlin brings together a bio artist with a PhD in biochemistry, a composer with a PhD in environmental systems science, the Space Lab lead from Waag in Amsterdam and the FU Berlin plant ecologist who wrote “Ten simple rules for hosting artists in a scientific lab.” Together they look at where the two kinds of research meet, where they clash, and who gets to wonder in the first place. Part of Berlin Science Week, in the Safi Faye Saal. Free entry, registration via pretix.
HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin

Sat, 7 Nov 17:00 & 19:00 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien Rachel Monosov with Rachell Bo Clark, Cami Brogaard and Victor Dumont
A performance as part of the exhibition The Flag Bearers, on view until 15 Nov.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Kottbusser Straße 10
10999 Berlin
Performance by Rachel Monosov with Rachell Bo Clark, Cami Brogaard and Victor Dumont, photo: Galya Feierman

Sat, 7 Nov 18:00 at transmediale studio Amanda E. Metzger, Laura Benech, Zeno Gries: Emergent Conditions – Artist Talk

How much agency does an artist retain when working with generative systems and trained models? What happens when the process itself becomes as significant as the result?

In this artist talk, Amanda E. Metzger, Laura Benech and Zeno Gries share insights into their works and current research, moving beyond the finished piece to discuss process and method.
A talk in the last days of the show, which is on view until 8 Nov.
transmediale studio
Gerichtstraße 35
13347 Berlin
Zeno Gries, Gravity Will Take Us All, 2026, film still

Sun, 8 Nov 14:00–18:30 at anorak Fanon: Image, Praxis & Theory – Part 1
Programmed by Philip Rizk, this two-part programme of screenings and conversations rereads Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) through film. It follows the launch of Majliss Fanon at the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, where the book’s Arabic translation was published in 1963. Part 1 screens Haile Gerima’s monumental Harvest: 3000 Years (Ethiopia, 1976, 150 min.), the story of a peasant family on a wealthy landowner’s farm, set in motion by a teenage son and daughter and the local “madman.” It’s followed by a conversation between Rizk and Elena Vogman on Fanon’s chapters on national consciousness and on colonial war and mental disorders. Homework: read the book. Films with English subtitles, conversations in English, food by the anorak bakery.
Doors 2pm, screening at 2:30pm

Part II is coming up on Wed, 11 Nov 18:00–22:00
anorak
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44
12099 Berlin

Haile Gerima ምርት “፫ሺህ ዓመት Harvest: 3000 Years, 1974 (film still)

Wed, 11 Nov 18:00–22:00 at anorak Fanon: Image, Praxis & Theory – Part 2
Tewfik Saleh’s The Dupes (Syria, 1972, 107 min.), adapted from Ghassan Kanafani’s novella Men in the Sun, follows three Palestinian refugees from three generations trying to get from Iraq to Kuwait in the 1950s. The film was restored in 2023 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna. Afterwards, Philip Rizk and Hanna al-Taher discuss Fanon’s chapters “On Violence” and “On National Culture.” In collaboration with Chromatic Wednesdays.
Doors 6pm, screening at 6:30pm
anorak
Gottlieb-Dunkel-Str. 43/44
12099 Berlin

Fri, 13 Nov 18:00–21:00 at Galerie Georg Nothelfer Opening: Oliver Thie – The Little Things That Run The World
For Oliver Thie (b. 1983), drawing isn’t a way of depicting things but a way of understanding them. Through long-term collaborations with scientists, he sets out on expeditions into the overlooked, holding the trace of the hand up against the instruments of modern science. The title comes from E.O. Wilson’s 1987 essay, which tu rned ecology’s attention to the inconspicuous microworld. For the first time, three of Thie’s central bodies of work are shown together, ranging from microscopic detail to tropical ecosystems to the deep time of geological archives. It amounts to a graphic homage to the smallest inhabitants of the biosphere at a time when they’re disappearing fast.
Artist Talk: Sat 28 Nov, 2pm
On view 14 Nov 2026 – 9 Jan 2027 (winter break 23 Dec – 2 Jan)
Galerie Georg Nothelfer
Corneliusstr. 3
10787 Berlin

Fri, 13 – Sun, 15 Nov at Hamburger Bahnhof 30 Years, 30 Hours
Hamburger Bahnhof opened on 3 November 1996 and is throwing itself a birthday weekend. It starts with an international conference on how contemporary collection museums can prepare for the future, and Sophie Calle’s big exhibition opens alongside it. Then, from Saturday 11am to Sunday 6pm, the museum stays open for 30 hours straight with free admission. Expect nighttime exhibition tours, a vinyl listening night, films, pyjama tours, an endless guided tour, and Lina Lapelytė’s performers dancing through the night in the Historic Hall from 10pm to 1am. 
Hamburger Bahnhof
Invalidenstraße 50
10557 Berlin

on view until Nov 14  at SCOTTY  Auf dem Karussell (On the Carousel)
with Şifa Girinci, Rezzan Gümgüm, Inga Harutyunyan, Eunsun Ko, Friedrich Kuhn, Lilli Kuschel, Sophia Muriel, Sharon Paz, Natascha Ungeheuer, Sümer Sayın
curated by Sigrun Drapatz and Şehnaz Layıkel Prange
The exhibition addresses the power of the past: how it shapes, blurs, and sometimes even erases our sense of being. It also explores the narrative—the story we tell about ourselves—that shapes, overwrites, relativizes, and transforms our memories. The artistic works created for this exhibition attempt to confront this dizzying subject. The exhibition takes place both indoors and outdoors. The indoor space features artists who grew up in countries other than Germany. The outdoor presentation showcases artists who grew up in Kreuzberg or moved there at a young age.
Closing event: 14 Nov 2026
SCOTTY
Oranienstr. 46
10969 Berlin

On view until Feb 14 at Schloss Biesdorf Opening: Overwrite! On behalf of things, species and voices that disappear. Mexico City and Berlin in Resonance
Performance: Victor del Oral, Lesen in Rotation
with Eckhard Böttger, Susanne Britz, Manfred Butzmann, Angelica Chio, Sandra Contreras, Anselmo Fox, Nathalie Grenzhaeuser, Arturo Hernández Alcázar, Günter Horn, Klaus-Dieter Kerwitz, Sophie Natuschke, Victor del Oral, Charlotte E. Pauly, Gert Pötzschig, Michael Rohrbeck, Joachim Scholz, Anita Stöhr Weber, Mario de Vega, Michael Zschocher
curated by Susanne Britz and Arturo Hernández Alcázar
Nine contemporary artists from Mexico City and Berlin look at social and ecological change, with selected works from the Museum Utopie und Alltag / Kunstarchiv Beeskow in the mix. To overwrite can mean to erase or impose, but it can also mean to listen and rewrite. The show starts from the long, tangled exchange between the two cities. Mexico took in German exiles under the Nazi regime, while Nazi ideas found admirers in Mexico’s conservative circles. The venue is part of the story too. Siemens laid one of the first submarine cables between Europe and the Americas, and the show asks what that kind of progress overwrote along the way.
On view 12 Oct 2026 – 14 Feb 2027
Schloss Biesdorf
Alt-Biesdorf 55
12683 Berlin

On view until Nov 7 Frontrose presents: Minor Ruptures
Curated by Lina Louisa Krämer and Dr. Luisa Seipp Minor Ruptures is a multidisciplinary exhibition bringing together works by Rebecca Ackroyd, Benjamin Lallier and Sofia Defino Leiby. Through sculpture, painting and collage, the exhibition explores subtle moments of rupture and reassembly through which bodies, objects, images and memories become unstable, displaced and continuously transformed.
Rather than understanding rupture as an act of destruction, Minor Ruptures considers it as a productive condition. A moment in which existing forms, meanings and relationships are unsettled and opened up to new possibilities. Things detach from their original contexts, change function or enter unexpected connections. The exhibition focuses on these small interventions and shifts – moments in which established structures begin to loosen and new constellations can emerge.
until November 7
Frontrose
Rosegarden

Potsdamer Straße 98a

10785 Berlin

CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS Berlin-based Artistic Research in Science and Technology- With Helena Nikonole, Julius Holtz, Margherita Pevere, Marcus Maeder
Performance by Margherita Pevere at the opening night
In 2025 and 2026, Art Laboratory Berlin is realizing CHRYSALIS. ARTISTS IN LABS, a project supported by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin, that facilitates interdisciplinary exchange between art and science in Berlin research laboratories. In collaboration with researchers from a range of Berlin universities and research institutions, new works have been developed through laboratory residencies and are presented in the group exhibition alongside materials from the artistic and scientific research.
Helena Nikonole’s (@helenanikonole) new installation SonoMetagenomics brings research in bioacoustics and speculative evolution into dialogue with metagenomic soil ecology, asking how microbial life responds when its environment is transformed through sound.
until 29 Nov 2026

Art Laboratory Berlin

Prinzenallee 34

13359 Berlin

On Landscape: Between Escapism and Disenchantment @Haus am Lützowplatz
with Alkan Avcıoğlu, Jessica Auer, Julius von Bismarck, Sven Drühl, Ornella Fieres, Philipp Fürhofer, Noémie Goudal, Beate Gütschow, Simone Haack, Michelle Jezierski, Friedrich Kunath, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Mike Strauch, Troika and others
This group show looks at landscape today, caught between a longing for escape and a sober reckoning with a damaged world. Ornella Fieres, one of the artists in the show, gives her "ON AI" lecture here on Thursday.
until 3 Jan 2027
Haus am Lützowplatz
Lützowplatz 9 
10785 Berlin

Bpigs annual Artist Edition newsletter is coming up!
Every December, we hand the newsletter over to artists. Our annual Artist Edition presents editions, multiples, prints, and small works by Berlin artists, just in time for the holidays and for anyone looking for a gift that isn’t another candle. If you have an edition you’d like us to feature, send us an image, the title, edition size, price, and a short description, along with your name and website or Instagram. This will be a curated newsletter. If you are in, you are in.
Deadline: Mon, 30 Nov
Send to: info@bpigs.com