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Venice Art Biennale: Francis is the first Pope to visit the exhibitionThe head of the Church visits the Vatican Pavilion on the Venetian island of Giudecca and warns against the commercialization of art. News

Repressed stories of violence: the artist Sung Tieu oncontract workers in the GDRShe is one of Berlin's most exciting artists and took us on a tour of the ruins of a GDR contract workers' hostel - where she herself grew up. Berlin

Cornelia SchleimeCornelia Schleime is showing 21 new paintings at the 20th Gallery Weekend. "Counter-realities", says the artist, "so as not to go crazy with the ugly truth". Culture

Gallery Weekend Berlin: Spring art market celebrates its 20th birthday, everyone isinvitedClass instead of mass is the motto of Berlin's dealers in this anniversary year. This weekend, the beautiful stroll to art starts again. Berlin

Art exhibition in Berlin: For freedom and against "Cancel Culture"This weekend, the Musikbrauerei is hosting an art exhibition in which the participating artists stand up for freedom in all its forms. Berlin

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Political quake after AKW papers: Why are the Tagesschau andheute-Journal not reporting?Politics

Corinna Harfouch: We shoot from our tanks at everyone who is not in our camp.our campculture

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You shouldn't miss these exhibitions at the 20th Gallery Weekend Berlinmiss!For the 20th Berlin Gallery Weekend, the city's 55 most important art dealers are showing their best-of until Sunday. Here are our eleven favorites. Berlin

Gallery Weekend: "The quality of art in Berlin is at the top level ofNew York or London"Shortly before Gallery Weekend Berlin, the new director Antonia Ruder explains which route you should take during the art weekend. An interview. Berlin

Naked, with bobbed heads and in men's clothing: Modigliani's women at the BarberiniThe Barberini in Potsdam is hosting a retrospective of the most tender women's painter of early modernism: Amedeo Modigliani, an Italian from Paris in Potsdam. The review. Culture

Berlin gallery owner Daniel Marzona: His profession was the conceptual and minimalistminimalismThe Berlin gallery owner Daniel Marzona died unexpectedly at the age of 55. He dedicated his life to art. An obituary. Culture

From Wednesday: artist combines chemistry and body at Hamburger BahnhofFrom Wednesday, artist Alexandra Pirici will be showing a new installation at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof - including music and performance. Culture

Trust and power: museums are society's secret powerhousesCulture

The Venice Lions have been awarded: The Biennale honors indigenous artistsCulture

Tolerance zones that are no longer completely sealed: Does Marzahn need suchexhibitions?Districts

Best ofAnti-Semitism accusations, eviction lawsuit: Neukölln cultural center Oyoun fights against Joe Chialo

This is how Oyoun fights against Joe Chialo: "In a democracy, this must be possible".be possible"The Neukölln cultural center Oyoun should have been gone long ago. But Louna Sbou and Nina Martin are ignoring the eviction notice. Here they explain why. Berlin

So much to do, so little time: why spring in Berlin makes me restlessrestlessThe city has changed, the sadness has disappeared from people's faces. But the change of season also brings up something else in me. A column. Berlin

Ukraine expert Melnyk: The Russians know the Germans far better than the other way roundthe other way aroundUkraine researcher Lyudmyla Melnyk on the situation at the front, domestic political problems and scenarios that could lead to peace. An interview. International

Restaurant Irma La Douce: In the church of the parareligious asparagus cultNew ideas for the white spear vegetable: while asparagus is being rolled into cooked ham everywhere, Irma La Douce has other, more delicious ideas for the white spears. Panorama

The Deutsches Theater delivers colorful novel adaptations in a double packJan-Christoph Gockel condenses the "Schimmelreiter" sequel by Andrea Paluch and Robert Habeck into a picture pops. Bastian Kraft peppers Shaw's "Pygmalion" onto the catwalk. Culture

Aha, class society! "The Marriage of Figaro" at the Komische OperRussian director Kirill Serebrennikov brings Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" into the present day in a shirt-sleeved manner. You can laugh, but what was the theme again? Culture

Mathias Enard, winner of the Prix Goncourt and the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding, has written a novel about memory and violence. Culture

Cannabis consumption is legal, but how do pubs and restaurants deal with it?Whether a joint can be smoked in a bar depends on the owner's wishes. We asked restaurateurs how they deal with their domiciliary rights. Berlin

Dance of Death and outer space in the German pavilion: What is the 60th Venice Biennale like?Venice Biennale?In Venice, everything revolves around the themes of migration and flight, with a focus on artists from the global South: a gloomy exhibition for a challenging present. Culture

The major exhibition by Caspar David Friedrich in Berlin: Like a goodpop songThe highlight of this year's Berlin art year is finally opening. Can the painter's first exhibition in the capital live up to expectations? Culture

Photo experiment: Historical and modern views of Berlin - all in onepictureWith the "Doubleday" experiment, Michael Wesely becomes an urban archaeologist and illusionist. The Museum of Photography in Charlottenburg is showing his double exposures. Berlin

New Berlin Dorotheum boss Joëlle Romba: "Today we collect for lifestyle reasons.lifestyle reasonsJoëlle Romba has been working for the Viennese auction house Dorotheum in Berlin since January. Here she talks about collectors in Berlin and East Germany, bidding wars and her own collection. Berlin

Berlin: Excursion into the future with the Akademie der KünsteAt the end of the Meerapfel/Röggla management team's term of office, the academy brings together the various disciplines to imagine utopias. Exhibitions in Berlin

Boycotting the Venice Biennale? The Israel pavilion remains closedArtist Ruth Patir closes the pavilion in order to bring about a ceasefire in Gaza. Will the world's oldest art exhibition become a boycott biennale? Politics

The silver sky of the Mark Brandenburg: Impressionists in Neuhardenberg

Only celebrated in old age: On the death of the artist Faith RinggoldMuseum of Modern Art

Otto Nagel: The famous Berlin painter in a portrait of his granddaughter

The business of Berlin's street art: how much can it becommercialized?Berlin

Florian Illies: The motto "be Berlin" didn't work for Caspar David Friedrich.workedNevertheless, he would not have become Germany's most popular painter without Berlin. Says bestselling author Florian Illies in an interview. The exhibition of the year opens this week! Berlin

Criticism of Berlin's "Golden" Twenties: 100 years ago, the New ObjectivityObjectivity showed the "dance on the volcano"

Museum Neukölln: An installation commemorates the genocide of theOvaherero and NamaBuried memories: Isabel Tueumuna Katjavivi confronts colonial and decolonial perspectives.. Fischer Neukölln

Art from 100 euros: Affordable Art Fair in BerlinDo you have to be rich to buy a work of art? Not necessarily. At the fair for affordable art, paintings and more are available for as little as 100 euros. Treptow-Köpenick

Museum Hamburger Bahnhof: With Beuys' basalt boulders at the mouth of a river made ofFelt and soundIn the Kleihues Hall of the Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, the Beuys collection from the Marx Donation has been rearranged, and the young Israeli Naama Tsabar "sets" this sight to music. Berlin

Now on show in Berlin-Mitte: Herta Günther, the cool observer fromDresdenIn Berlin-Mitte we meet the unforgettable Dresden painter Herta Günther and the quirky Berlin original illustrator and animal lover Arno Mohr. East Germany

Helene Hegemann in an interview: "I think Berlin is the center of the free world".free world"Helene Hegemann has a new literary show. We spoke to her about the three most beautiful things in life: Reading, writing, snogging. And the Volksbühne. And the AfD. Literature

Jorinde Voigt: Probably Berlin's most enigmatic artist in theLiebermann studioPariser Platz

Coffee, cake and poetry: Bärenzwinger in Mitte launches neighborhood meetingCenter

Smac Gallery: four-handed painting is now also possible in Berlin-MittePoland

Berlin pop stars Peggy Gou and Ólafur Elíasson join forces:Peggy Gou, the world's most successful Berlin pop musician, threw a party in Berlin's Trauma Bar for the world premiere of her new single. What's going on? Music

Marius Babias from n.b.k.: "We don't want to be politically instrumentalized".instrumentalized"What to do when exhibitions are canceled for political reasons? The mood in the cultural sector is highly nervous, but the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) is finding solutions. Debate

A lively dead woman: Painting from Berlin travels through Germany and toEastern EuropeWith "Dissonance - Platform Germany (2)", young painting from Berlin travels first to Kiel and later to Bucharest. The rumors of the death of painting were greatly exaggerated. Berlin

Instagram illusionist Hugo Suissas transforms reality into artHe creates images that captivate the viewer. Photo artist Hugo Suissas travels the world with an alert eye. He has also been to Berlin. By Sophie-Marie Schulz Berlin

Berlin HKW director Bonaventure Ndikung heads the largest art show in thesouthern hemisphereBonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung has been appointed Chief Curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennial 2025. Culture

Nefertiti: a world star in a glass box for 100 yearsOn April 1, 1924, the enchanting Egyptian became the absolute museum favorite of Berliners. Berlin

The Berlin artist Ólafur Elíasson: From the dawn to the blue hour ofRomanticismThe Berlin-based artist-engineer Ólafur Elíasson created the new east choir windows for Greifswald Cathedral as "Moving Light". And thus honors the great son of the Hanseatic city: Caspar David Friedric... Berlin

A journey into the art scene of the GDR: shared art can also be art

Berlin artist Achim Freyer turns 90: Ageless in the maelstrom of painting andstageBerlin

Venice Biennale: Why Russia is giving Bolivia its pavilionRussia

Also a builder of Berlin landmarks: On the death of Richard Serra, thegreat iron bender of the art worldHis steel sculptures can be found in many cities around the world. Now the co-designer of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has died at the age of 85. Berlin

Sex work at the Gay Museum Berlin: Open your legs and your eyesFrom ancient times to the present day: prostitution has a long and very exciting history. A team of curators made up exclusively of sex workers has now reappraised it in Berlin. By Sophie-Marie Schulz Berlin

Berlin in front and the Baltic Sea behind: the subtly subversive art of OskarManigkThe artist Oskar Manigk will soon be celebrating his 90th birthday. He will also receive the Egmont Schaefer Prize for Drawing at Galerie Parterre. Berlin

Who has the Berlin "Mona Lisa"?Apart from Nefertiti, which Berlin museum treasures can compete with Leonardo's "Mona Lisa"? We have asked. Krenzlin Berlin

Art in the egg house: It smells of the pastArtists explored the dilapidated GDR leisure park and brought it back to life to the sound of birdsong. A tour of the listed building. Exhibitions in Berlin

How to rip off Westerners with East German money: Sandra Hüller with German comedycomedy back in theatersIn "Zwei zu eins", a historically authenticated story is told about millions of East German money in storage. Max Riemelt, Ronald Zehrfeld and Ursula Werner also star. Cinema & Streaming

Everything in butter: Sebastian Hosu and his painting on the edge of thethe representableColor magic and figures stretched hard into space: the "Starcatcher" by the Romanian Leipzig artist-by-choice in Berlin. Berlin

Wulf Herzogenrath on his eightieth birthday: He knows them all, the great artists of this worldof this worldBerlin

Pilecki Institute: Women's suffrage existed earlier in Poland than in GermanyEurope

Today at the Neue Nationalgalerie: artists with a live showPankow

Rediscovered: The lost original from Jürgen Wittdorf's GDR cycleThe popular graphic series "Youth and Sport" by Berlin artist Jürgen Wittdorf is once again complete. Thanks to a surprising find, the series can now be exhibited together in Friedrichshain. Berlin

Explosions of form and color in Charlottenburg: the work of Israeli dance pioneerdance pioneer Noa EshkolThe Georg-Kolbe-Museum in Berlin is showing a retrospective of the Israeli artist Noa Eshkol, which can also be seen as a commentary on the war in Gaza. Districts

Tree nursery Kulturforum: Film about living and treesThe green installation at the Kulturforum starts its spring program with the short film "Wood for the Trees". Facebook

New work by Banksy? Graffito causes an uproar in LondonIs it a real Banksy that appeared overnight on the wall of a house in London? One expert is certain: the painting fulfills all the typical characteristics of the famous anonymous artist. London

Pankow: Artspring Festival is looking for films and videosThis year's festival has launched an open call for film and video contributions that deal with the topic of "W_nde(n)". Berlin

Star photographer Annie Leibovitz portrays people around the world for Ikea - includingin BerlinAnnie Leibovitz has photographed people at home for the furniture store Ikea. One picture was taken in Berlin and tells us a lot about the city and the world we live in. Berlin

Example Leipzig: Art on buildings from the GDR is in demand againIn the GDR, public buildings were always decorated with works of art. In the meantime, awareness of this art has grown again, not only in Saxony. Berlin

Ulrich Baehr's picture cycle "Visiting Russian living rooms": A cruel fairy tale?fairy tale?Politics

The Forecast Festival at Radialsystem: Flight is a trauma that is inheritedis inheritedBerlin

Van Gogh, Merkel, Morrissey: Berlin artist Knetkowski brings masterpieces to lifemasterpieces to life with play doughExhibitions in Berlin

Annual exhibition of the Berlin Chamber of Architects: The best built in Berlinbuilt in BerlinThe 25th annual exhibition of the Berlin Chamber of Architects "da! Architecture in and from Berlin" is the city's unofficial building exhibition. Hoffmann Berlin

Ostkreuz photographer: Sebastian Wells explores the connection betweennationalism and identityPhotographer Sebastian Wells is exhibiting a long-standing project at Haus am Kleistpark in Berlin. In "Typ/Traube/Tross", he traces national images of meaning and illusion. By Sophie-Marie Schulz Berlin

Schöner Saustall: Europe's young planners show their visions for BerlinWhat could the Berlin of the future look like? Architects, engineers and artists provide some radical answers. Hoffmann Berlin

Akademie der Künste: Simone Fattal receives the Grand Art Prize Berlin 2024Monday is the day again: the Akademie der Künste in Berlin-Mitte is awarding its annual art prize. These people will be honored. Berlin

provokes with brutal imagesMeat consumption and factory farming - vegan Carolin Günther turns these topics into art. Her exhibition in Weißensee disturbs and inspires. Leister Berlin

Exhibition "Black in Berlin": Photographer Yero Adugna Eticha fights againstracismPhotographer Yero Adugna Eticha wants to make black communities more visible through his pictures. His portraits show strength above all. Berlin

The Ukrainian artist Lada Nakonechna: Exploding clouds over adevastated landLada Nakonechna calls her pictures "Under the Earth" and she knows that art is not a weapon that defeats the criminal Putin. But she shows the grimace of war. Berlin

Creator of manga series "Dragon Ball": Akira Toriyama is deadManga

Art guerrilla: A tank barrier next to the Neue NationalgalerieBerlin

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